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
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Self
as Marquis
as Anne Vercors
as Vecchio Crimen
as Merlin
as Self
as Self
as Louis-Prosper Claudel
as Alfio Cosini sr.
as Lecteur des textes d'Artaud
as Plantation Owner
as El Viudo Xius
as Aigner
as Old Mafioso
as Luigi
as Mario Cantone
as Self
as Xul (voice)
as Le colonel Carvin
as La voix du pur esprit
as Barone Nicola Rotunno
as Wilchaint
as Turpin/der Mönch
as Il conte Davide
as Judge Rasto
as Guido
as Self
as Le Coryphée
as Mario
as Sitting Bull
as Ysengrin (voice)
as Count Paolo Balzeri
as Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt
as Virgile
as Profesor Woland & Satana
as teologa Belga
as Self
as Il Padre di Enrico
as Self
as Self (uncredited)
as Gen. Leone
as Lica
as Man with cape
as Hans Richter
as Jean de Brébeuf
as Leonardo Mattioli
as Hervé Bontemps
as baron von Eggerth
as Cavarzan
as Steiner
as Henri Tournier
as Claude Frollo
as Self
as Mr. de Larçay
as Lodi
as Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')
as Pascal Giroud
as Bueno
as Antonio
as Pierre Desluc
as Hervé
as Gilles, a Minstrel
as Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)
as Roustan
as Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)
Director
as Director
as Second Assistant Director
Writer
as Screenplay