Alain Cuny

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: Acting

Born: Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France, 1908-07-12

Died: 1994-05-16

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1940	My Crimes After Mein Kampf	Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)	30
2	1941	Madame Sans-Gêne	Roustan	10
3	1941	Stormy Waters	Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)	69
4	1942	The Devil's Envoys	Gilles, a Minstrel	69
5	1943	The Phantom Baron	Hervé	61
6	1946	Solita de Cordoue	Pierre Desluc	0
7	1951	The Forbidden Christ	Antonio	63
8	1952	Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi	Bueno	60
9	1952	The Solitary Conquerors	Pascal Giroud	0
10	1953	Les Crimes de l'amour	Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')	60
11	1953	The Lady Without Camelias	Lodi	66
12	1953	Mina de Vanghel	Mr. de Larçay	0
13	1956	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Claude Frollo	67
14	1958	The Lovers	Henri Tournier	66
15	1960	La Dolce Vita	Steiner	81
16	1961	Scano Boa	Cavarzan	0
17	1962	Cross of the Living	baron von Eggerth	50
18	1963	Banana Peel	Hervé Bontemps	58
19	1963	Corruption	Leonardo Mattioli	76
20	1965	Mission of Fear	Jean de Brébeuf	0
21	1968	La forêt noire	Hans Richter	100
22	1969	The Milky Way	Man with cape	70
23	1969	Safari 5000		73
24	1969	Satyricon	Lica	67
25	1970	Many Wars Ago	Gen. Leone	73
26	1970	Ciao, Federico!	Self (uncredited)	68
27	1971	The Big Black Sow	Il Padre di Enrico	0
28	1972	The Audience	teologa Belga	67
29	1972	La Légende du siècle	Self	0
30	1972	The Master and Margarita	Profesor Woland & Satana	53
31	1973	La divine comédie	Virgile	0
32	1973	Valparaiso, Valparaiso	Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt	44
33	1973	La rosa rossa	Count Paolo Balzeri	80
34	1974	Don't Touch the White Woman!	Sitting Bull	55
35	1974	Emmanuelle	Mario	60
36	1974	Antigone	Le Coryphée	0
37	1975	Two in the Amsterdam Rain		75
38	1975	E il Casanova di Fellini?	Self	0
39	1975	Irene, Irene	Guido	0
40	1976	Illustrious Corpses	Judge Rasto	68
41	1976	I prosseneti	Il conte Davide	34
42	1978	The Song of Roland	Turpin/der Mönch	48
43	1979	Christ Stopped at Eboli	Barone Nicola Rotunno	71
44	1979	Roberte	La voix du pur esprit	42
45	1982	Time Masters	Xul (voice)	73
46	1983	Fellini nel cestino	Self	75
47	1983	The Basileus Quartet	Mario Cantone	10
48	1984	Buio nella Valle	Luigi	0
49	1985	Detective	Old Mafioso	53
50	1987	The Distant Land	Aigner	50
51	1987	Chronicle of a Death Foretold	El Viudo Xius	74
52	1987	Lucky Ravi	Plantation Owner	0
53	1988	Van Gogh à Paris, repérages	Lecteur des textes d'Artaud	0
54	1988	Zeno's Conscience	Alfio Cosini sr.	62
55	1988	To the Sea, See You	Don Macine	0
56	1988	Camille Claudel	Louis-Prosper Claudel	68
57	1990	Film sur Georges Perec	Self	0
58	1990	Les chevaliers de la table ronde	Merlin	0
59	1991	Sweet War, Farewell	Vecchio Crimen	70
60	1991	The Annunciation of Marie	Anne Vercors	55
61	1992	The Return of Casanova	Marquis	61
62	1995	Dear Antonioni	Self	0
63	1998	Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute	Self	64
64	2003	Fellini: I'm a Born Liar	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	63

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1956	Cinépanorama	Self	80
2	1971	Samedi soir	Self	60
3	1972	Midi trente	Self	60
4	1974	Le Roman de Renart	Ysengrin (voice)	70
5	1979	Le Journal	Wilchaint	0
6	1982	Deuil en 24 heures	Le colonel Carvin	80
7	1989	Histoire(s) du cinéma	Self	49
8	1995	La famiglia Ricordi		0

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