Alain Cuny
ActingBiography
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.
Movies
(65 total)
La Dolce Vita
as Steiner
Emmanuelle
as Mario
Satyricon
as Lica
The Milky Way
as Man with cape
Time Masters
as Xul (voice)
Camille Claudel
as Louis-Prosper Claudel
Many Wars Ago
as Gen. Leone
The Lovers
as Henri Tournier
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Claude Frollo
Illustrious Corpses
as Judge Rasto
Christ Stopped at Eboli
as Barone Nicola Rotunno
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
as El Viudo Xius
The Devil's Envoys
as Gilles, a Minstrel
Stormy Waters
as Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)
Detective
as Old Mafioso
Don't Touch the White Woman!
as Sitting Bull
The Audience
as teologa Belga
The Return of Casanova
as Marquis
The Master and Margarita
as Profesor Woland & Satana
TV Shows
(9 total)
Histoire(s) du cinéma
as Self
Deuil en 24 heures
as Le colonel Carvin
Cinépanorama
as Self
Le Roman de Renart
as Ysengrin (voice)
Le Journal
as Wilchaint
La coscienza di Zeno
as Alfio Cosini sr.