
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