Alain Cuny
Born
July 12, 1908
Died
May 16, 1994 (85 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
Alain Cuny (12 July 1908 – 16 May 1994) was a French actor.
He was born René Xavier Marie in Saint-Malo, Brittany, and studied medicine for a while before entering the film industry as a costume and set designer. Cuny started acting in the 1930s. Among his most notable films are Les Visiteurs du soir (1942), by Marcel Carné; Les Amants (The Lovers 1958); La dolce vita (1960) and Satyricon (1969), the later two directed by Federico Fellini. During his life, he befriended women such as Hafida Elalama, and many other models and actresses
Later in his career he had a role in the softcore porn film Emmanuelle (1974). Also in 1974 he played Sitting Bull in the absurdist western Don't Touch the White Woman!. One of his last roles was in Camille Claudel (1988) as Louis-Prosper Claudel, father of the film's heroine. Cuny worked in both France and Italy, and died in 1994 in Paris.
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Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2003
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
Self
1998
La famiglia Ricordi
(4 episodes)
1995
Dear Antonioni
Self
1995
The Return of Casanova
Marquis
1992
The Annunciation of Marie
Anne Vercors
1991
Sweet War, Farewell
Vecchio Crimen
1991
Les chevaliers de la table ronde
Merlin
1990
Film sur Georges Perec
Self
1990
Histoire(s) du cinéma
Self · (8 episodes)
1989
Camille Claudel
Louis-Prosper Claudel
1988
To the Sea, See You
Don Macine
1988
Zeno's Conscience
Alfio Cosini sr.
1988
Van Gogh à Paris, repérages
Lecteur des textes d'Artaud
1988
Lucky Ravi
Plantation Owner
1987
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
El Viudo Xius
1987
The Distant Land
Aigner
1987
Detective
Old Mafioso
1985
Buio nella Valle
Luigi
1984
The Basileus Quartet
Mario Cantone
1983
Fellini nel cestino
Self
1983
Deuil en 24 heures
Le colonel Carvin · (4 episodes)
1982
Time Masters
Xul (voice)
1982
Le Journal
Wilchaint · (6 episodes)
1979
Roberte
La voix du pur esprit
1979
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Barone Nicola Rotunno
1979
The Song of Roland
Turpin/der Mönch
1978
I prosseneti
Il conte Davide
1976
Illustrious Corpses
Judge Rasto
1976
Irene, Irene
Guido
1975
E il Casanova di Fellini?
Self
1975
Two in the Amsterdam Rain
1975
Antigone
Le Coryphée
1974
Emmanuelle
Mario
1974
Le Roman de Renart
Ysengrin (voice) · (15 episodes)
1974
Don't Touch the White Woman!
Sitting Bull
1974
La rosa rossa
Count Paolo Balzeri
1973
Valparaiso, Valparaiso
Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt
1973
La divine comédie
Virgile
1973
The Master and Margarita
Profesor Woland & Satana
1972
La Légende du siècle
Self
1972
The Audience
teologa Belga
1972
Midi trente
Self · (1 episode)
1972
The Big Black Sow
Il Padre di Enrico
1971
Samedi soir
Self · (1 episode)
1971
Ciao, Federico!
Self (uncredited)
1970
Many Wars Ago
Gen. Leone
1970
Satyricon
Lica
1969
Safari 5000
1969
The Milky Way
Man with cape
1969
La forêt noire
Hans Richter
1968
Mission of Fear
Jean de Brébeuf
1965
Corruption
Leonardo Mattioli
1963
Banana Peel
Hervé Bontemps
1963
Cross of the Living
baron von Eggerth
1962
Scano Boa
Cavarzan
1961
La Dolce Vita
Steiner
1960
The Lovers
Henri Tournier
1958
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Claude Frollo
1956
Cinépanorama
Self · (1 episode)
1956
Mina de Vanghel
Mr. de Larçay
1953
The Lady Without Camelias
Lodi
1953
Les Crimes de l'amour
Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')
1953
The Solitary Conquerors
Pascal Giroud
1952
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
Bueno
1952
The Forbidden Christ
Antonio
1951
Solita de Cordoue
Pierre Desluc
1946
The Phantom Baron
Hervé
1943
The Devil's Envoys
Gilles, a Minstrel
1942
Stormy Waters
Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)
1941
Madame Sans-Gêne
Roustan
1941
My Crimes After Mein Kampf
Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)
1940