About

Known credits:
70
Birthday:
1908-07-12
Place of birth:
Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
Website:
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Alain Cuny

Overview

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

Acting
2003 Fellini: I'm a Born Liar Actor Self (archive footage) (uncredited) 59
Average
1998 Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute Actor Self 59
Average
1995 Dear Antonioni Actor Self N/A
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1992 The Return of Casanova Actor Marquis 58
Average
1991 The Annunciation of Marie Actor Anne Vercors 59
Average
1991 Sweet War, Farewell Actor Vecchio Crimen 59
Average
1990 Les chevaliers de la table ronde Actor Merlin N/A
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1990 Film sur Georges Perec Actor Self N/A
N/A
1989 Histoire(s) du cinéma Actor Self 67
Fair
1988 Camille Claudel Actor Louis-Prosper Claudel 60
Fair
1988 Zeno's Conscience Actor Alfio Cosini sr. 59
Average
1988 Van Gogh à Paris, repérages Actor Lecteur des textes d'Artaud N/A
N/A
1987 Lucky Ravi Actor Plantation Owner N/A
N/A
1987 Chronicle of a Death Foretold Actor El Viudo Xius 60
Fair
1987 The Distant Land Actor Aigner 59
Average
1985 Detective Actor Old Mafioso 58
Average
1984 Buio nella Valle Actor Luigi N/A
N/A
1983 The Basileus Quartet Actor Mario Cantone 58
Average
1983 Fellini nel cestino Actor Self 59
Average
1982 Deuil en 24 heures Actor Le colonel Carvin 70
Good
1982 Time Masters Actor Xul (voice) 62
Fair
1979 Le Journal Actor Wilchaint N/A
N/A
1979 Roberte Actor La voix du pur esprit 58
Average
1979 Christ Stopped at Eboli Actor Barone Nicola Rotunno 60
Fair
1978 The Song of Roland Actor Turpin/der Mönch 59
Average
1976 I prosseneti Actor Il conte Davide 58
Average
1976 Illustrious Corpses Actor Judge Rasto 60
Fair
1975 Irene, Irene Actor Guido N/A
N/A
1975 E il Casanova di Fellini? Actor Self N/A
N/A
1975 Two in the Amsterdam Rain Actor 59
Average
1974 Antigone Actor Le Coryphée N/A
N/A
1974 Emmanuelle Actor Mario 59
Average
1974 Le Roman de Renart Actor Ysengrin (voice) 59
Average
1974 Le Roman de Renart Actor Ysengrin (voice) 70
Good
1974 Don't Touch the White Woman! Actor Sitting Bull 58
Average
1973 La rosa rossa Actor Count Paolo Balzeri 59
Average
1973 Valparaiso, Valparaiso Actor Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt 58
Average
1973 La divine comédie Actor Virgile N/A
N/A
1972 The Master and Margarita Actor Profesor Woland & Satana 58
Average
1972 The Audience Actor teologa Belga 59
Average
1971 The Big Black Sow Actor Il Padre di Enrico N/A
N/A
1970 Ciao, Federico! Actor Self (uncredited) 59
Average
1970 Many Wars Ago Actor Gen. Leone 62
Fair
1969 Fellini Satyricon Actor Lica 62
Fair
1969 Safari 5000 Actor 59
Average
1969 The Milky Way Actor Man with cape 61
Fair
1968 La forêt noire Actor Hans Richter 59
Average
1965 Mission of Fear Actor Jean de Brébeuf N/A
N/A
1963 Corruption Actor Leonardo Mattioli 59
Average
1963 Banana Peel Actor Hervé Bontemps 58
Average
1962 Cross of the Living Actor baron von Eggerth 59
Average
1961 Scano Boa Actor Cavarzan N/A
N/A
1960 La Dolce Vita Actor Steiner 76
Good
1958 The Lovers Actor Henri Tournier 60
Fair
1956 The Hunchback of Notre Dame Actor Claude Frollo 60
Fair
1953 Mina de Vanghel Actor Mr. de Larçay N/A
N/A
1953 The Lady Without Camelias Actor Lodi 59
Average
1953 Les Crimes de l'amour Actor Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel') 59
Average
1952 The Solitary Conquerors Actor Pascal Giroud N/A
N/A
1952 Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi Actor Bueno 59
Average
1951 The Forbidden Christ Actor Antonio 59
Average
1946 Solita de Cordoue Actor Pierre Desluc N/A
N/A
1943 The Phantom Baron Actor Hervé 59
Average
1942 The Devil's Envoys Actor Gilles, a Minstrel 60
Fair
1941 Stormy Waters Actor Un matelot du « Mirva » (non crédité) 59
Average
1941 Madame Sans-Gêne Actor Roustan 58
Average
1940 My Crimes After Mein Kampf Actor Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag) 59
Average

Directing
1991 The Annunciation of Marie Directing Director 59
Average
1953 The Vanquished Directing Second Assistant Director 59
Average

Writing
1991 The Annunciation of Marie Writing Screenplay 59
Average