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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
July 12, 1908
Place of Birth:
Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
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Alain Cuny
Biography
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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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Fellini: I'm a Born Liar | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1998 | Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute | Self |
| 1995 | Dear Antonioni | Self |
| 1992 | The Return of Casanova | Marquis |
| 1991 | Sweet War, Farewell | Vecchio Crimen |
| 1991 | The Annunciation of Marie | Anne Vercors |
| 1990 | Film sur Georges Perec | Self |
| 1990 | Les chevaliers de la table ronde | Merlin |
| 1988 | Camille Claudel | Louis-Prosper Claudel |
| 1988 | Van Gogh à Paris, repérages | Lecteur des textes d'Artaud |
| 1988 | Zeno's Conscience | Alfio Cosini sr. |
| 1988 | To the Sea, See You | Don Macine |
| 1987 | Chronicle of a Death Foretold | El Viudo Xius |
| 1987 | The Distant Land | Aigner |
| 1987 | Lucky Ravi | Plantation Owner |
| 1985 | Detective | Old Mafioso |
| 1984 | Buio nella Valle | Luigi |
| 1983 | Fellini nel cestino | Self |
| 1983 | The Basileus Quartet | Mario Cantone |
| 1982 | Time Masters | Xul (voice) |
| 1979 | Christ Stopped at Eboli | Barone Nicola Rotunno |
| 1979 | Roberte | La voix du pur esprit |
| 1978 | The Song of Roland | Turpin/der Mönch |
| 1976 | Illustrious Corpses | Judge Rasto |
| 1976 | I prosseneti | Il conte Davide |
| 1975 | Two in the Amsterdam Rain | |
| 1975 | Irene, Irene | Guido |
| 1975 | E il Casanova di Fellini? | Self |
| 1974 | Emmanuelle | Mario |
| 1974 | Don't Touch the White Woman! | Sitting Bull |
| 1974 | Antigone | Le Coryphée |
| 1973 | Valparaiso, Valparaiso | Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt |
| 1973 | La rosa rossa | Count Paolo Balzeri |
| 1973 | La divine comédie | Virgile |
| 1972 | The Master and Margarita | Profesor Woland & Satana |
| 1972 | The Audience | teologa Belga |
| 1972 | La Légende du siècle | Self |
| 1971 | The Big Black Sow | Il Padre di Enrico |
| 1970 | Many Wars Ago... | Gen. Leone |
| 1970 | Ciao, Federico! | Self (uncredited) |
| 1969 | The Milky Way | Man with cape |
| 1969 | Safari 5000 | |
| 1969 | Satyricon | Lica |
| 1968 | La forêt noire | Hans Richter |
| 1965 | Mission of Fear | Jean de Brébeuf |
| 1963 | Banana Peel | Hervé Bontemps |
| 1963 | Corruption | Leonardo Mattioli |
| 1962 | Cross of the Living | baron von Eggerth |
| 1961 | Scano Boa | Cavarzan |
| 1960 | La Dolce Vita | Steiner |
| 1958 | The Lovers | Henri Tournier |
| 1956 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Claude Frollo |
| 1953 | The Lady Without Camelias | Lodi |
| 1953 | Les Crimes de l'amour | Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel') |
| 1953 | Mina de Vanghel | Mr. de Larçay |
| 1952 | Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi | Bueno |
| 1952 | The Solitary Conquerors | Pascal Giroud |
| 1951 | The Forbidden Christ | Antonio |
| 1946 | Solita de Cordoue | Pierre Desluc |
| 1943 | The Phantom Baron | Hervé |
| 1942 | The Devil's Envoys | Gilles, a Minstrel |
| 1941 | Stormy Waters | Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Madame Sans-Gêne | Roustan |
| 1940 | My Crimes After Mein Kampf | Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag) |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | La famiglia Ricordi | |
| 1989 | Histoire(s) du cinéma | Self |
| 1982 | Deuil en 24 heures | Le colonel Carvin |
| 1979 | Le Journal | Wilchaint |
| 1974 | Le Roman de Renart | Ysengrin (voice) |
| 1972 | Midi trente | Self |
| 1971 | Samedi soir | Self |
| 1956 | Cinépanorama | Self |