Alain Cuny
Acting
Born: 1908-07-12 in Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
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
Histoire(s) du cinéma
Self
Midi trente
Self
Cinépanorama
Self
Emmanuelle
Mario
La Dolce Vita
Steiner
Time Masters
Xul (voice)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Claude Frollo
Stormy Waters
Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)
Detective
Old Mafioso
The Milky Way
Man with cape
Satyricon
Lica
Film sur Georges Perec
Self
Scano Boa
Cavarzan
Ciao, Federico!
Self (uncredited)
The Lovers
Henri Tournier
La famiglia Ricordi
Camille Claudel
Louis-Prosper Claudel
Don't Touch the White Woman!
Sitting Bull
Le Roman de Renart
Ysengrin (voice)
Banana Peel
Hervé Bontemps
The Devil's Envoys
Gilles, a Minstrel
Safari 5000
Antigone
Le Coryphée
La coscienza di Zeno
Alfio Cosini sr.
The Games of Countess Dolingen
The Basileus Quartet
Mario Cantone
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
El Viudo Xius
Dear Antonioni
Self
The Master and Margarita
Profesor Woland & Satana
Corruption
Leonardo Mattioli
Illustrious Corpses
Judge Rasto
Many Wars Ago
Gen. Leone
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Barone Nicola Rotunno
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Return of Casanova
Marquis
Colomba
The Forbidden Christ
Antonio