Acting
Alain Cuny
EN, FR, IT, JA cinema · 66 credits
Born
12 July 1908
Died
16 May 1994 (aged 85)
Birthplace
Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
Also known as René Xavier Marie Alain Cuny
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
Filmography
Emmanuelle in Ontario
as Mario (archival footage)
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Return of Casanova
as Marquis
Sweet War, Farewell
as Vecchio Crimen
The Annunciation of Marie
as Anne Vercors, Director, Screenplay
Camille Claudel
as Louis-Prosper Claudel
Van Gogh à Paris, repérages
1988
Van Gogh à Paris, repérages
as Lecteur des textes d'Artaud
Umi e, See You
as Don Macine
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
as El Viudo Xius
The Distant Land
as Aigner
Lucky Ravi
1987
Lucky Ravi
as Plantation Owner
Detective
as Old Mafioso
Buio nella Valle
as Luigi
The Basileus Quartet
as Mario Cantone
Time Masters
as Xul (voice)
Christ Stopped at Eboli
as Barone Nicola Rotunno
Roberte
as La voix du pur esprit
The Song of Roland
as Turpin/der Mönch
Illustrious Corpses
as Judge Rasto
I prosseneti
as Il conte Davide
Irene, Irene
as Guido
Emmanuelle
as Mario
Don't Touch the White Woman!
as Sitting Bull
Antigone
as Le Coryphée
Valparaiso, Valparaiso
as Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt
La rosa rossa
as Count Paolo Balzeri
La divine comédie
as Virgile
The Master and Margarita
as Profesor Woland & Satana
The Audience
as teologa Belga
The Big Black Sow
as Il Padre di Enrico
Many Wars Ago
as Gen. Leone
Ciao, Federico!
as Self (uncredited)
The Milky Way
as Man with cape
Satyricon
as Lica
La forêt noire
as Hans Richter
Mission of Fear
as Jean de Brébeuf
Banana Peel
as Hervé Bontemps
Corruption
as Leonardo Mattioli
Cross of the Living
as Baron Von Eggerth
Scano Boa
as Cavarzan
La Dolce Vita
as Steiner
The Lovers
as Henri Tournier
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Claude Frollo
Les Crimes de l'amour
as Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')
Mina de Vanghel
as Mr. de Larçay
The Vanquished
Second Assistant Director
The Solitary Conquerors
as Pascal Giroud
The Forbidden Christ
as Antonio
Solita de Cordoue
as Pierre Desluc
The Phantom Baron
as Hervé
The Devil's Envoys
as Gilles, a Minstrel
Stormy Waters
as Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)
Madame Sans-Gêne
as Roustan
My Crimes After Mein Kampf
as Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)