Alain Cuny
Birthdate
July 12, 1908 (115 years old)
Place of Birth
Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
Date of Death
May 16, 1994
Known For
Acting
Details
Birthdate
July 12, 1908 (115 years old)
Place of Birth
Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
Date of Death
May 16, 1994
Known For
Acting
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.
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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.
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Alain Cuny's LGBTQ+ Titles
Fellini Satyricon
Lica
Acting (69)
2003
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1998
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute as Self
1995
Dear Antonioni as Self
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
1990
Film sur Georges Perec as Self
1989
Histoire(s) du cinéma as Self (8 episodes)
1988
Camille Claudel as Louis-Prosper Claudel
1988
Zeno's Conscience as Alfio Cosini sr.
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
1983
The Basileus Quartet as Mario Cantone
1983
Fellini nel cestino as Self
1982
Deuil en 24 heures as Le colonel Carvin (4 episodes)
1982
The Masters of Time as Xul (voice)
1979
Le Journal as Wilchaint (6 episodes)
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
E il Casanova di Fellini? as Self
1975
Two in the Amsterdam Rain
1974
Antigone as Le Coryphée
1974
Emmanuelle as Mario
1974
Le Roman de Renart as Ysengrin (voice)
1974
Le Roman de Renart as Ysengrin (voice) (18 episodes)
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
1972
Midi trente as Self (1 episode)
1971
The Big Black Sow as Il Padre di Enrico
1971
Samedi soir as Self (1 episode)
1970
Ciao, Federico! as Self (uncredited)
1970
Many Wars Ago as Gen. Leone
1969
Fellini Satyricon as Lica
1969
Safari 5000
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
1956
Cinépanorama as Self (1 episode)
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 » (non crédité)
1941
Madame Sans-Gêne as Roustan
1940
My Crimes After Mein Kampf as Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)
Directing (2)
1991
The Annunciation of Marie
• Director
1953
The Vanquished
• Second Assistant Director
Writing (1)
1991
The Annunciation of Marie
• Screenplay