Alain Cuny
Acting • Born 1908-07-12 – Died 1994-05-16
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
74 credits
Film sur Georges Perec
Movie • 1990
Self
The Lovers
Movie • 1958
Henri Tournier
Camille Claudel
Movie • 1988
Louis-Prosper Claudel
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Movie • 1956
Claude Frollo
Sweet War, Farewell
Movie • 1991
Vecchio Crimen
Emmanuelle
Movie • 1974
Mario
The Milky Way
Movie • 1969
Man with cape
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Movie • 1979
Barone Nicola Rotunno
Illustrious Corpses
Movie • 1976
Judge Rasto
The Devil's Envoys
Movie • 1942
Gilles, a Minstrel
The Phantom Baron
Movie • 1943
Hervé
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
Movie • 1998
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Master and Margarita
Movie • 1972
Profesor Woland & Satana
Detective
Movie • 1985
Old Mafioso
Don't Touch the White Woman!
Movie • 1974
Sitting Bull
Banana Peel
Movie • 1963
Hervé Bontemps
Stormy Waters
Movie • 1941
Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)
Solita de Cordoue
Movie • 1946
Pierre Desluc
The Lady Without Camelias
Movie • 1953
Lodi
Many Wars Ago
Movie • 1970
Gen. Leone
La forêt noire
Movie • 1968
Hans Richter
Corruption
Movie • 1963
Leonardo Mattioli
My Crimes After Mein Kampf
Movie • 1940
Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Movie • 1987
El Viudo Xius
Fellini nel cestino
Movie • 1983
Self
Two in the Amsterdam Rain
Movie • 1975
I prosseneti
Movie • 1976
Il conte Davide
Les Crimes de l'amour
Movie • 1953
Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')
Ciao, Federico!
Movie • 1970
Self (uncredited)
Safari 5000
Movie • 1969
Valparaiso, Valparaiso
Movie • 1973
Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
Movie • 1952
Bueno
The Basileus Quartet
Movie • 1983
Mario Cantone
Van Gogh à Paris, repérages
Movie • 1988
Lecteur des textes d'Artaud
The Annunciation of Marie
Movie • 1991
Anne Vercors
Time Masters
Movie • 1982
Xul (voice)
The Forbidden Christ
Movie • 1951
Antonio
Buio nella Valle
Movie • 1984
Luigi
Satyricon
Movie • 1969
Lica
The Song of Roland
Movie • 1978
Turpin/der Mönch
Madame Sans-Gêne
Movie • 1941
Roustan
Irene, Irene
Movie • 1975
Guido
Mission of Fear
Movie • 1965
Jean de Brébeuf
The Audience
Movie • 1972
teologa Belga
Dear Antonioni
Movie • 1995
Self
The Big Black Sow
Movie • 1971
Il Padre di Enrico
The Solitary Conquerors
Movie • 1952
Pascal Giroud
Les chevaliers de la table ronde
Movie • 1990
Merlin
La rosa rossa
Movie • 1973
Count Paolo Balzeri
La Dolce Vita
Movie • 1960
Steiner
La divine comédie
Movie • 1973
Virgile
Scano Boa
Movie • 1961
Cavarzan
Cross of the Living
Movie • 1962
Baron Von Eggerth
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Distant Land
Movie • 1987
Aigner
Lucky Ravi
Movie • 1987
Plantation Owner
The Return of Casanova
Movie • 1992
Marquis
Antigone
Movie • 1974
Le Coryphée
Roberte
Movie • 1979
La voix du pur esprit
Mina de Vanghel
Movie • 1953
Mr. de Larçay
E il Casanova di Fellini?
Movie • 1975
Self
La Légende du siècle
Movie • 1972
Self
Umi e, See You
Movie • 1988
Don Macine
Emmanuelle in Ontario
Movie • 2025
Mario (archival footage)
The Games of Countess Dolingen
Movie • 1981
Deuil en 24 heures
TV • 1982
Le colonel Carvin
Le Roman de Renart
TV • 1974
Ysengrin (voice)
Histoire(s) du cinéma
TV • 1989
Self
Midi trente
TV • 1972
Self
Le Journal
TV • 1979
Wilchaint
Cinépanorama
TV • 1956
Self
Samedi soir
TV • 1971
Self
La famiglia Ricordi
TV • 1995
La coscienza di Zeno
TV • 1988
Alfio Cosini sr.