
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

Detective (1985)
as Old Mafioso

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956)
as Claude Frollo

Stormy Waters (1941)
as Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)

Time Masters (1982)
as Xul (voice)

Satyricon (1969)
as Lica

Banana Peel (1963)
as Hervé Bontemps
Van Gogh à Paris, repérages (1988)
as Lecteur des textes d'Artaud

The Devil's Envoys (1942)
as Gilles, a Minstrel

Camille Claudel (1988)
as Louis-Prosper Claudel

Dear Antonioni (1995)
as Self

Film sur Georges Perec (1990)
as Self

Scano Boa (1961)
as Cavarzan

The Return of Casanova (1992)
as Marquis

Don't Touch the White Woman! (1974)
as Sitting Bull

The Milky Way (1969)
as Man with cape

Buio nella Valle (1984)
as Luigi

Antigone (1974)
as Le Coryphée

The Phantom Baron (1943)
as Hervé

Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987)
as El Viudo Xius

The Lovers (1958)
as Henri Tournier

Many Wars Ago (1970)
as Gen. Leone

Emmanuelle in Ontario (2025)
as Mario (archival footage)

The Song of Roland (1978)
as Turpin/der Mönch

The Lady Without Camelias (1953)
as Lodi

The Audience (1972)
as teologa Belga

Illustrious Corpses (1976)
as Judge Rasto

The Master and Margarita (1972)
as Profesor Woland & Satana

Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)
as Barone Nicola Rotunno

La forêt noire (1968)
as Hans Richter

My Crimes After Mein Kampf (1940)
as Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)

The Forbidden Christ (1951)
as Antonio

The Solitary Conquerors (1952)
as Pascal Giroud

Corruption (1963)
as Leonardo Mattioli

La rosa rossa (1973)
as Count Paolo Balzeri

La divine comédie (1973)
as Virgile

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute (2006)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lucky Ravi (1987)
as Plantation Owner

I prosseneti (1976)
as Il conte Davide

Umi e, See You (1988)
as Don Macine
Fellini nel cestino (1983)
as Self

The Big Black Sow (1971)
as Il Padre di Enrico

The Distant Land (1987)
as Aigner

The Games of Countess Dolingen (1981)
Actor

Roberte (1979)
as La voix du pur esprit

Fellini: I'm a Born Liar (2003)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ciao, Federico! (1970)
as Self (uncredited)

Valparaiso, Valparaiso (1973)
as Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt

Sweet War, Farewell (1991)
as Vecchio Crimen

Cross of the Living (1962)
as Baron Von Eggerth

Madame Sans-Gêne (1941)
as Roustan

The Annunciation of Marie (1991)
as Anne Vercors

Safari 5000 (1969)
Actor

Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi (1952)
as Bueno

The Basileus Quartet (1983)
as Mario Cantone

La Légende du siècle (1972)
as Self

E il Casanova di Fellini? (1975)
as Self

Les Crimes de l'amour (1953)
as Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')

Two in the Amsterdam Rain (1975)
Actor

Irene, Irene (1975)
as Guido

Mina de Vanghel (1953)
as Mr. de Larçay

Solita de Cordoue (1946)
as Pierre Desluc

Les chevaliers de la table ronde (1990)
as Merlin

Mission of Fear (1965)
as Jean de Brébeuf





