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