Alain Cuny

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1908-07-12

Deathday 1994-05-16 (85 years old)

Place of Birth Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France

Alain Cuny

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.

Known For

Actor

2003
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1995
1992
1991
1991
Sweet War, Farewell

as Vecchio Crimen

1988
Camille Claudel

as Louis-Prosper Claudel

1988
Zeno's Conscience

as Alfio Cosini sr.

1988
Van Gogh à Paris, repérages

as Lecteur des textes d'Artaud

1987
Lucky Ravi

as Plantation Owner

1987
1987
1985
Detective

as Old Mafioso

1984
1983
The Basileus Quartet

as Mario Cantone

1982
Time Masters

as Xul (voice)

1982
Deuil en 24 heures

as Le colonel Carvin

1979
Roberte

as La voix du pur esprit

1979
Christ Stopped at Eboli

as Barone Nicola Rotunno

1979
Le Journal

as Wilchaint

1978
The Song of Roland

as Turpin/der Mönch

1976
I prosseneti

as Il conte Davide

1976
Illustrious Corpses

as Judge Rasto

1975
Irene, Irene

as Guido

1974
Antigone

as Le Coryphée

1974
Emmanuelle

as Mario

1974
1974
Le Roman de Renart

as Ysengrin (voice)

1973
La rosa rossa

as Count Paolo Balzeri

1973
Valparaiso, Valparaiso

as Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt

1973
1972
The Master and Margarita

as Profesor Woland & Satana

1972
The Audience

as teologa Belga

1972
Midi trente

as Self

1971
The Big Black Sow

as Il Padre di Enrico

1971
Samedi soir

as Self

1970
Ciao, Federico!

as Self (uncredited)

1970
Many Wars Ago

as Gen. Leone

1969
1969
The Milky Way

as Man with cape

1968
La forêt noire

as Hans Richter

1965
Mission of Fear

as Jean de Brébeuf

1963
Corruption

as Leonardo Mattioli

1963
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
1956
1953
Mina de Vanghel

as Mr. de Larçay

1953
Les Crimes de l'amour

as Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')

1952
The Solitary Conquerors

as Pascal Giroud

1951
1946
Solita de Cordoue

as Pierre Desluc

1943
1942
The Devil's Envoys

as Gilles, a Minstrel

1941
Stormy Waters

as Un matelot du « Mirva » (non crédité)

1941
1940
My Crimes After Mein Kampf

as Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)

Director

1953
The Vanquished

as Second Assistant Director

Writer

1991