Alain Cuny
Acting
1908-07-12 · Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
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
Emmanuelle in Ontario
2025 · Movie
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
2006 · Movie
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
2003 · Movie
La famiglia Ricordi
1995 · Series
Dear Antonioni
1995 · Movie
The Return of Casanova
1992 · Movie
The Annunciation of Marie
1991 · Movie
Sweet War, Farewell
1991 · Movie
Les chevaliers de la table ronde
1990 · Movie
Film sur Georges Perec
1990 · Movie
Histoire(s) du cinéma
1989 · Series
Camille Claudel
1988 · Movie
Umi e, See You
1988 · Movie
La coscienza di Zeno
1988 · Series
Van Gogh à Paris, repérages
1988 · Movie
Lucky Ravi
1987 · Movie
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
1987 · Movie
The Distant Land
1987 · Movie
Detective
1985 · Movie
Buio nella Valle
1984 · Movie
The Basileus Quartet
1983 · Movie
Fellini nel cestino
1983 · Movie
Deuil en 24 heures
1982 · Series
Time Masters
1982 · Movie
Colomba
1982 · Series
The Games of Countess Dolingen
1981 · Movie
Le Journal
1979 · Series
Roberte
1979 · Movie
Christ Stopped at Eboli
1979 · Movie
The Song of Roland
1978 · Movie
I prosseneti
1976 · Movie
Illustrious Corpses
1976 · Movie
Irene, Irene
1975 · Movie
E il Casanova di Fellini?
1975 · Movie
Two in the Amsterdam Rain
1975 · Movie
Antigone
1974 · Movie
Emmanuelle
1974 · Movie
Le Roman de Renart
1974 · Series
Don't Touch the White Woman!
1974 · Movie
La rosa rossa
1973 · Movie
Valparaiso, Valparaiso
1973 · Movie
La divine comédie
1973 · Movie
The Master and Margarita
1972 · Movie
La Légende du siècle
1972 · Movie
The Audience
1972 · Movie
Midi trente
1972 · Series
The Big Black Sow
1971 · Movie
Samedi soir
1971 · Series
Ciao, Federico!
1970 · Movie
Many Wars Ago
1970 · Movie
Satyricon
1969 · Movie
Safari 5000
1969 · Movie
The Milky Way
1969 · Movie
La forêt noire
1968 · Movie
Mission of Fear
1965 · Movie
Corruption
1963 · Movie
Banana Peel
1963 · Movie
Cross of the Living
1962 · Movie
Scano Boa
1961 · Movie
La Dolce Vita
1960 · Movie
The Lovers
1958 · Movie
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1956 · Movie
Cinépanorama
1956 · Series
The Vanquished
1953 · Movie
Mina de Vanghel
1953 · Movie
The Lady Without Camelias
1953 · Movie
Les Crimes de l'amour
1953 · Movie
The Solitary Conquerors
1952 · Movie
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
1952 · Movie
The Forbidden Christ
1951 · Movie
Solita de Cordoue
1946 · Movie
The Phantom Baron
1943 · Movie
The Devil's Envoys
1942 · Movie
Stormy Waters
1941 · Movie
Madame Sans-Gêne
1941 · Movie
My Crimes After Mein Kampf
1940 · Movie