Alain Cuny
Born: 1908-07-12 in Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
Died: 1994-05-16
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2025
- Emmanuelle in Ontario as Mario (archival footage)
2006
- Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2003
- Fellini: I'm a Born Liar as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1995
- La famiglia Ricordi
- Dear Antonioni as Self
1992
- The Return of Casanova as Marquis
1991
- The Annunciation of Marie as Anne Vercors
- Sweet War, Farewell as Vecchio Crimen
1990
- Les chevaliers de la table ronde as Merlin
- Film sur Georges Perec as Self
1989
- Histoire(s) du cinéma as Self
1988
- Camille Claudel as Louis-Prosper Claudel
- Umi e, See You as Don Macine
- La coscienza di Zeno as Alfio Cosini sr.
- Van Gogh à Paris, repérages as Lecteur des textes d'Artaud
1987
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold as El Viudo Xius
- The Distant Land as Aigner
- Lucky Ravi as Plantation Owner
1985
- Detective as Old Mafioso
1984
- Buio nella Valle as Luigi
1983
- Fellini nel cestino as Self
- The Basileus Quartet as Mario Cantone
1982
- Time Masters as Xul (voice)
- Deuil en 24 heures as Le colonel Carvin
1979
- Christ Stopped at Eboli as Barone Nicola Rotunno
- Roberte as La voix du pur esprit
- Le Journal as Wilchaint
1978
- The Song of Roland as Turpin/der Mönch
1976
- Illustrious Corpses as Judge Rasto
- I prosseneti as Il conte Davide
1975
- Two in the Amsterdam Rain
- Irene, Irene as Guido
- E il Casanova di Fellini? as Self
1974
- Emmanuelle as Mario
- Don't Touch the White Woman! as Sitting Bull
- Le Roman de Renart as Ysengrin (voice)
- Antigone as Le Coryphée
1973
- Valparaiso, Valparaiso as Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt
- La rosa rossa as Count Paolo Balzeri
- La divine comédie as Virgile
1972
- Midi trente as Self
- The Audience as teologa Belga
- The Master and Margarita as Profesor Woland & Satana
- La Légende du siècle as Self
1971
- Samedi soir as Self
- The Big Black Sow as Il Padre di Enrico
1970
- Many Wars Ago as Gen. Leone
- Ciao, Federico! as Self (uncredited)
1969
- Satyricon as Lica
- The Milky Way as Man with cape
- Safari 5000
1968
- La forêt noire as Hans Richter
1965
- Mission of Fear as Jean de Brébeuf
1963
- Corruption as Leonardo Mattioli
- Banana Peel as Hervé Bontemps
1962
- Cross of the Living as Baron Von Eggerth
1961
- Scano Boa as Cavarzan
1960
- La Dolce Vita as Steiner
1958
- The Lovers as Henri Tournier
1956
- Cinépanorama as Self
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Claude Frollo
1953
- The Vanquished ... (Second Assistant Director)
- The Lady Without Camelias as Lodi
- Mina de Vanghel as Mr. de Larçay
- Les Crimes de l'amour as Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')
1952
- Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi as Bueno
- The Solitary Conquerors as Pascal Giroud
1951
- The Forbidden Christ as Antonio
1946
- Solita de Cordoue as Pierre Desluc
1943
- The Phantom Baron as Hervé
1942
- The Devil's Envoys as Gilles, a Minstrel
1941
- Stormy Waters as Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)
- Madame Sans-Gêne as Roustan
1940
- My Crimes After Mein Kampf as Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)