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

Cinépanorama

Emmanuelle

La Dolce Vita

Corruption

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Satyricon

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Time Masters

All Movies (65)

• Emmanuelle in Ontario2025 · as Mario (archival footage)
• Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute2006 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Fellini: I'm a Born Liar2003 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Dear Antonioni1995 · as Self
• The Return of Casanova1992 · as Marquis
• The Annunciation of Marie1991 · as Anne Vercors
• Sweet War, Farewell1991 · as Vecchio Crimen
• Les chevaliers de la table ronde1990 · as Merlin
• Film sur Georges Perec1990 · as Self
• Camille Claudel1988 · as Louis-Prosper Claudel
• Umi e, See You1988 · as Don Macine
• Van Gogh à Paris, repérages1988 · as Lecteur des textes d'Artaud
• Lucky Ravi1987 · as Plantation Owner
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold1987 · as El Viudo Xius
• The Distant Land1987 · as Aigner
• Detective1985 · as Old Mafioso
• Buio nella Valle1984 · as Luigi
• The Basileus Quartet1983 · as Mario Cantone
• Fellini nel cestino1983 · as Self
• Time Masters1982 · as Xul (voice)
• The Games of Countess Dolingen1981
• Roberte1979 · as La voix du pur esprit
• Christ Stopped at Eboli1979 · as Barone Nicola Rotunno
• The Song of Roland1978 · as Turpin/der Mönch
• I prosseneti1976 · as Il conte Davide
• Illustrious Corpses1976 · as Judge Rasto
• Irene, Irene1975 · as Guido
• E il Casanova di Fellini?1975 · as Self
• Two in the Amsterdam Rain1975
• Antigone1974 · as Le Coryphée
• Emmanuelle1974 · as Mario
• Don't Touch the White Woman!1974 · as Sitting Bull
• La rosa rossa1973 · as Count Paolo Balzeri
• Valparaiso, Valparaiso1973 · as Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt
• La divine comédie1973 · as Virgile
• The Master and Margarita1972 · as Profesor Woland & Satana
• La Légende du siècle1972 · as Self
• The Audience1972 · as teologa Belga
• The Big Black Sow1971 · as Il Padre di Enrico
• Ciao, Federico!1970 · as Self (uncredited)
• Many Wars Ago1970 · as Gen. Leone
• Satyricon1969 · as Lica
• Safari 50001969
• The Milky Way1969 · as Man with cape
• La forêt noire1968 · as Hans Richter
• Mission of Fear1965 · as Jean de Brébeuf
• Corruption1963 · as Leonardo Mattioli
• Banana Peel1963 · as Hervé Bontemps
• Cross of the Living1962 · as Baron Von Eggerth
• Scano Boa1961 · as Cavarzan
• La Dolce Vita1960 · as Steiner
• The Lovers1958 · as Henri Tournier
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame1956 · as Claude Frollo
• Mina de Vanghel1953 · as Mr. de Larçay
• The Lady Without Camelias1953 · as Lodi
• Les Crimes de l'amour1953 · as Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')
• The Solitary Conquerors1952 · as Pascal Giroud
• Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi1952 · as Bueno
• The Forbidden Christ1951 · as Antonio
• Solita de Cordoue1946 · as Pierre Desluc
• The Phantom Baron1943 · as Hervé
• The Devil's Envoys1942 · as Gilles, a Minstrel
• Stormy Waters1941 · as Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)
• Madame Sans-Gêne1941 · as Roustan
• My Crimes After Mein Kampf1940 · as Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)

All TV Shows (9)

• La famiglia Ricordi1995
• Histoire(s) du cinéma1989 · as Self
• La coscienza di Zeno1988 · as Alfio Cosini sr.
• Deuil en 24 heures1982 · as Le colonel Carvin
• Le Journal1979 · as Wilchaint
• Le Roman de Renart1974 · as Ysengrin (voice)
• Midi trente1972 · as Self
• Samedi soir1971 · as Self
• Cinépanorama1956 · as Self