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Alain Cuny

Alain Cuny

Actor · Born 1908-07-12 · Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France

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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.

Movies & TV Shows

  1. La Dolce Vita (1960) — Steiner
  2. Emmanuelle (1974) — Mario
  3. Satyricon (1969) — Lica
  4. Time Masters (1982) — Xul (voice)
  5. The Milky Way (1969) — Man with cape
  6. Camille Claudel (1988) — Louis-Prosper Claudel
  7. Many Wars Ago (1970) — Gen. Leone
  8. The Lovers (1958) — Henri Tournier
  9. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956) — Claude Frollo
  10. Illustrious Corpses (1976) — Judge Rasto
  11. Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979) — Barone Nicola Rotunno
  12. Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987) — El Viudo Xius
  13. The Devil's Envoys (1942) — Gilles, a Minstrel
  14. Stormy Waters (1941) — Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)
  15. The Lady Without Camelias (1953) — Lodi
  16. Detective (1985) — Old Mafioso
  17. Don't Touch the White Woman! (1974) — Sitting Bull
  18. The Audience (1972) — teologa Belga
  19. The Return of Casanova (1992) — Marquis
  20. The Master and Margarita (1972) — Profesor Woland & Satana
  21. Fellini: I'm a Born Liar (2003) — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  22. Corruption (1963) — Leonardo Mattioli
  23. Banana Peel (1963) — Hervé Bontemps
  24. Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute (2006) — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  25. The Forbidden Christ (1951) — Antonio
  26. The Phantom Baron (1943) — Hervé
  27. Sweet War, Farewell (1991) — Vecchio Crimen
  28. The Games of Countess Dolingen (1981)
  29. Ciao, Federico! (1970) — Self (uncredited)
  30. The Song of Roland (1978) — Turpin/der Mönch
  31. I prosseneti (1976) — Il conte Davide
  32. Valparaiso, Valparaiso (1973) — Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt
  33. The Annunciation of Marie (1991) — Anne Vercors
  34. Roberte (1979) — La voix du pur esprit
  35. Histoire(s) du cinéma (1989) — Self
  36. Safari 5000 (1969)
  37. My Crimes After Mein Kampf (1940) — Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)
  38. Two in the Amsterdam Rain (1975)
  39. The Basileus Quartet (1983) — Mario Cantone
  40. Cross of the Living (1962) — Baron Von Eggerth

Directed

  1. The Annunciation of Marie (1991) — Director