Alain Cuny
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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
Credits
Emmanuelle (1974)
as Mario
La Dolce Vita (1960)
as Steiner
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956)
as Claude Frollo
Time Masters (1982)
as Xul (voice)
Satyricon (1969)
as Lica
Stormy Waters (1941)
as Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)
Detective (1985)
as Old Mafioso
The Milky Way (1969)
as Man with cape
Film sur Georges Perec (1990)
as Self
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987)
as El Viudo Xius
The Devil's Envoys (1942)
as Gilles, a Minstrel
Don't Touch the White Woman! (1974)
as Sitting Bull
Camille Claudel (1988)
as Louis-Prosper Claudel
Valparaiso, Valparaiso (1973)
as Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt
The Master and Margarita (1972)
as Profesor Woland & Satana
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar (2003)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)
as Barone Nicola Rotunno
Illustrious Corpses (1976)
as Judge Rasto
Scano Boa (1961)
as Cavarzan
The Return of Casanova (1992)
as Marquis
The Games of Countess Dolingen (1981)
Actor
The Lovers (1958)
as Henri Tournier
The Lady Without Camelias (1953)
as Lodi
Cross of the Living (1962)
as Baron Von Eggerth
The Song of Roland (1978)
as Turpin/der Mönch
Dear Antonioni (1995)
as Self
Antigone (1974)
as Le Coryphée
The Big Black Sow (1971)
as Il Padre di Enrico
Banana Peel (1963)
as Hervé Bontemps
Corruption (1963)
as Leonardo Mattioli
Many Wars Ago (1970)
as Gen. Leone
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute (2006)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Buio nella Valle (1984)
as Luigi
E il Casanova di Fellini? (1975)
as Self
Lucky Ravi (1987)
as Plantation Owner
Mission of Fear (1965)
as Jean de Brébeuf
The Forbidden Christ (1951)
as Antonio
The Annunciation of Marie (1991)
as Anne Vercors
Ciao, Federico! (1970)
as Self (uncredited)
My Crimes After Mein Kampf (1940)
as Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)
Safari 5000 (1969)
Actor
The Audience (1972)
as teologa Belga
The Phantom Baron (1943)
as Hervé
La Légende du siècle (1972)
as Self
Umi e, See You (1988)
as Don Macine
I prosseneti (1976)
as Il conte Davide
Sweet War, Farewell (1991)
as Vecchio Crimen
Les Crimes de l'amour (1953)
as Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')
Emmanuelle in Ontario (2025)
as Mario (archival footage)
Two in the Amsterdam Rain (1975)
Actor
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi (1952)
as Bueno
Fellini nel cestino (1983)
as Self
Les chevaliers de la table ronde (1990)
as Merlin
The Basileus Quartet (1983)
as Mario Cantone
La rosa rossa (1973)
as Count Paolo Balzeri
Van Gogh à Paris, repérages (1988)
as Lecteur des textes d'Artaud
La forêt noire (1968)
as Hans Richter
Irene, Irene (1975)
as Guido
Mina de Vanghel (1953)
as Mr. de Larçay
The Solitary Conquerors (1952)
as Pascal Giroud
Madame Sans-Gêne (1941)
as Roustan
The Distant Land (1987)
as Aigner
Roberte (1979)
as La voix du pur esprit
La divine comédie (1973)
as Virgile
Solita de Cordoue (1946)
as Pierre Desluc