Alain Cuny
58 movies · 6 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jul 12, 1908
- Died
- May 16, 1994 (age 85)
- Place of birth
- Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
- Also known as
- René Xavier Marie 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
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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.
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Known for
Alain Cuny: movies and TV shows
Acting (63)
- 2025 Emmanuelle in Ontario
as Mario (archival footage)
- 1995
- 1992 The Return of Casanova
as Marquis
- 1991 The Annunciation of Marie
as Anne Vercors
- 1991 Sweet War, Farewell
as Vecchio Crimen
- 1990 Les chevaliers de la table ronde
as Merlin
- 1988 Camille Claudel
as Louis-Prosper Claudel
- 1988 Umi e, See You
as Don Macine
- 1988
- 1988 Van Gogh à Paris, repérages
as Lecteur des textes d'Artaud
- 1987 Lucky Ravi
as Plantation Owner
- 1987 Chronicle of a Death Foretold
as El Viudo Xius
- 1987 The Distant Land
as Aigner
- 1985 Detective
as Old Mafioso
- 1984 Buio nella Valle
as Luigi
- 1983 The Basileus Quartet
as Mario Cantone
- 1982
- 1982 Time Masters
as Xul (voice)
- 1982
- 1981
- 1979
- 1979 Roberte
as La voix du pur esprit
- 1979 Christ Stopped at Eboli
as Barone Nicola Rotunno
- 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
- 1975
- 1974 Antigone
as Le Coryphée
- 1974 Emmanuelle
as Mario
- 1974
- 1974 Don't Touch the White Woman!
as Sitting Bull
- 1973 La rosa rossa
as Count Paolo Balzeri
- 1973 Valparaiso, Valparaiso
as Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt
- 1973 La divine comédie
as Virgile
- 1972 The Master and Margarita
as Profesor Woland & Satana
- 1972 The Audience
as teologa Belga
- 1971 The Big Black Sow
as Il Padre di Enrico
- 1970 Many Wars Ago
as Gen. Leone
- 1969 Satyricon
as Lica
- 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 The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Claude Frollo
- 1953 Mina de Vanghel
as Mr. de Larçay
- 1953 The Lady Without Camelias
as Lodi
- 1953 Les Crimes de l'amour
as Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')
- 1952 The Solitary Conquerors
as Pascal Giroud
- 1952 Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
as Bueno
- 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)
- 1941 Madame Sans-Gêne
as Roustan
- 1940 My Crimes After Mein Kampf
as Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)
Behind the camera (2)
- 1991 The Annunciation of Marie
Director, Screenplay
- 1953 The Vanquished
Second Assistant Director
Talk shows and appearances (12)
- 2006
- 2003
- 1995
- 1990
- 1988 Histoire(s) du cinéma
8 episodes
- 1983
- 1975
- 1972
- 1972 Midi trente
1 episode
- 1971 Samedi soir
1 episode
- 1970
- 1956 Cinépanorama
1 episode