Alain Cuny

Acting

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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Fullname:

Alain Cuny

Date of Birth:

1908-07-12

Country:

Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France

Media of

Alain Cuny

Photos (21)

Filmography of

Alain Cuny

Found 62 movies in total

Fellini: I'm a Born Liar

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

... 2003

... 1995

... 1992

... 1991

Sweet War, Farewell

Vecchio Crimen

... 1991

... 1990

Camille Claudel

Louis-Prosper Claudel

... 1988

Zeno's Conscience

Alfio Cosini sr.

... 1988

Van Gogh à Paris, repérages

Lecteur des textes d'Artaud

... 1988

Lucky Ravi

Plantation Owner

... 1987

... 1987

... 1987

Detective

Old Mafioso

... 1985

The Basileus Quartet

Mario Cantone

... 1983

... 1983

The Masters of Time

Xul (voice)

... 1982

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

Antigone

Le Coryphée

... 1974

Emmanuelle

Mario

... 1974

Le Roman de Renart

Ysengrin (voice)

... 1974

... 1974

La rosa rossa

Count Paolo Balzeri

... 1973

Valparaiso, Valparaiso

Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt

... 1973

... 1973

The Master and Margarita

Profesor Woland & Satana

... 1972

The Audience

teologa Belga

... 1972

The Big Black Sow

Il Padre di Enrico

... 1971

Ciao, Federico!

Self (uncredited)

... 1970

Many Wars Ago

Gen. Leone

... 1970

... 1969

... 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

... 1956

Mina de Vanghel

Mr. de Larçay

... 1953

Les Crimes de l'amour

Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')

... 1953

The Solitary Conquerors

Pascal Giroud

... 1952

... 1951

Solita de Cordoue

Pierre Desluc

... 1946

... 1943

The Devil's Envoys

Gilles, a Minstrel

... 1942

Stormy Waters

Un matelot du « Mirva » (non crédité)

... 1941

... 1941

My Crimes After Mein Kampf

Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)

... 1940