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.
Photos
Movies (66)
Emmanuelle in Ontario
2025 · Mario (archival footage)
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
2006 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
2003 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dear Antonioni
1995 · Self
The Return of Casanova
1992 · Marquis
The Annunciation of Marie
1991 · Anne Vercors, Director, Screenplay
Sweet War, Farewell
1991 · Vecchio Crimen
Les chevaliers de la table ronde
1990 · Merlin
Film sur Georges Perec
1990 · Self
Camille Claudel
1988 · Louis-Prosper Claudel
Umi e, See You
1988 · Don Macine
Van Gogh à Paris, repérages
1988 · Lecteur des textes d'Artaud
Lucky Ravi
1987 · Plantation Owner
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
1987 · El Viudo Xius
The Distant Land
1987 · Aigner
Detective
1985 · Old Mafioso
Buio nella Valle
1984 · Luigi
The Basileus Quartet
1983 · Mario Cantone
Fellini nel cestino
1983 · Self
Time Masters
1982 · Xul (voice)
The Games of Countess Dolingen
1981
Roberte
1979 · La voix du pur esprit
Christ Stopped at Eboli
1979 · Barone Nicola Rotunno
The Song of Roland
1978 · Turpin/der Mönch
I prosseneti
1976 · Il conte Davide
Illustrious Corpses
1976 · Judge Rasto
Irene, Irene
1975 · Guido
E il Casanova di Fellini?
1975 · Self
Two in the Amsterdam Rain
1975
Antigone
1974 · Le Coryphée
Emmanuelle
1974 · Mario
Don't Touch the White Woman!
1974 · Sitting Bull
La rosa rossa
1973 · Count Paolo Balzeri
Valparaiso, Valparaiso
1973 · Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt
La divine comédie
1973 · Virgile
The Master and Margarita
1972 · Profesor Woland & Satana
La Légende du siècle
1972 · Self
The Audience
1972 · teologa Belga
The Big Black Sow
1971 · Il Padre di Enrico
Ciao, Federico!
1970 · Self (uncredited)
Many Wars Ago
1970 · Gen. Leone
Satyricon
1969 · Lica
Safari 5000
1969
The Milky Way
1969 · Man with cape
La forêt noire
1968 · Hans Richter
Mission of Fear
1965 · Jean de Brébeuf
Corruption
1963 · Leonardo Mattioli
Banana Peel
1963 · Hervé Bontemps
Cross of the Living
1962 · Baron Von Eggerth
Scano Boa
1961 · Cavarzan
La Dolce Vita
1960 · Steiner
The Lovers
1958 · Henri Tournier
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1956 · Claude Frollo
The Vanquished
1953 · Second Assistant Director
Mina de Vanghel
1953 · Mr. de Larçay
The Lady Without Camelias
1953 · Lodi
Les Crimes de l'amour
1953 · Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')
The Solitary Conquerors
1952 · Pascal Giroud
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
1952 · Bueno
The Forbidden Christ
1951 · Antonio
Solita de Cordoue
1946 · Pierre Desluc
The Phantom Baron
1943 · Hervé
The Devil's Envoys
1942 · Gilles, a Minstrel
Stormy Waters
1941 · Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)
Madame Sans-Gêne
1941 · Roustan
My Crimes After Mein Kampf
1940 · Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)
TV shows (10)
La famiglia Ricordi
1995
Histoire(s) du cinéma
1988 · Self
La coscienza di Zeno
1988 · Alfio Cosini sr.
Deuil en 24 heures
1982 · Le colonel Carvin
Colomba
1982
Le Journal
1979 · Wilchaint
Le Roman de Renart
1974 · Ysengrin (voice)
Midi trente
1972 · Self
Samedi soir
1971 · Self
Cinépanorama
1956 · Self