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