Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 12, 1908
Died
May 16, 1994
Place of Birth
Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
Credits
76 titles
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alain Cuny, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Emmanuelle in Ontario
Mario (archival footage)
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
La famiglia Ricordi
Dear Antonioni
Self
The Return of Casanova
Marquis
The Annunciation of Marie
Anne Vercors
Sweet War, Farewell
Vecchio Crimen
Les chevaliers de la table ronde
Merlin
Film sur Georges Perec
Self
Histoire(s) du cinéma
Self
Camille Claudel
Louis-Prosper Claudel
Umi e, See You
Don Macine
La coscienza di Zeno
Alfio Cosini sr.
Van Gogh à Paris, repérages
Lecteur des textes d'Artaud
Lucky Ravi
Plantation Owner
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
El Viudo Xius
The Distant Land
Aigner
Detective
Old Mafioso
Buio nella Valle
Luigi
The Basileus Quartet
Mario Cantone
Fellini nel cestino
Self
Deuil en 24 heures
Le colonel Carvin
Time Masters
Xul (voice)
Colomba
The Games of Countess Dolingen
Le Journal
Wilchaint
Roberte
La voix du pur esprit
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Barone Nicola Rotunno
The Song of Roland
Turpin/der Mönch
I prosseneti
Il conte Davide
Illustrious Corpses
Judge Rasto
Irene, Irene
Guido
E il Casanova di Fellini?
Self
Two in the Amsterdam Rain
Antigone
Le Coryphée
Emmanuelle
Mario
Le Roman de Renart
Ysengrin (voice)
Don't Touch the White Woman!
Sitting Bull
La rosa rossa
Count Paolo Balzeri
Valparaiso, Valparaiso
Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt
La divine comédie
Virgile
The Master and Margarita
Profesor Woland & Satana
La Légende du siècle
Self
The Audience
teologa Belga
Midi trente
Self
The Big Black Sow
Il Padre di Enrico
Samedi soir
Self
Ciao, Federico!
Self (uncredited)
Many Wars Ago
Gen. Leone