Alain Cuny
Acting
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
Acting75
movieEmmanuelle in Ontario
2025
Mario (archival footage)
movieHistoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
2006
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieFellini: I'm a Born Liar
2003
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieThe Annunciation of Marie
1991
Anne Vercors
movieSweet War, Farewell
1991
Vecchio Crimen
movieCamille Claudel
1988
Louis-Prosper Claudel
movieUmi e, See You
1988
Don Macine
tvLa coscienza di Zeno
1988
Alfio Cosini sr.
Van Gogh à Paris, repérages
1988
Lecteur des textes d'Artaud
Lucky Ravi
1987
Plantation Owner
movieChronicle of a Death Foretold
1987
El Viudo Xius
movieDetective
1985
Old Mafioso
movieThe Basileus Quartet
1983
Mario Cantone
tvDeuil en 24 heures
1982
Le colonel Carvin
movieTime Masters
1982
Xul (voice)
tvLe Journal
1979
Wilchaint
movieRoberte
1979
La voix du pur esprit
movieChrist Stopped at Eboli
1979
Barone Nicola Rotunno
movieThe Song of Roland
1978
Turpin/der Mönch
movieI prosseneti
1976
Il conte Davide
movieIllustrious Corpses
1976
Judge Rasto
movieAntigone
1974
Le Coryphée
movieEmmanuelle
1974
Mario
tvLe Roman de Renart
1974
Ysengrin (voice)
movieDon't Touch the White Woman!
1974
Sitting Bull
movieLa rosa rossa
1973
Count Paolo Balzeri
movieValparaiso, Valparaiso
1973
Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt
movieLa divine comédie
1973
Virgile
movieThe Master and Margarita
1972
Profesor Woland & Satana
movieThe Audience
1972
teologa Belga
movieThe Big Black Sow
1971
Il Padre di Enrico
movieCiao, Federico!
1970
Self (uncredited)
movieMany Wars Ago
1970
Gen. Leone
movieThe Milky Way
1969
Man with cape
movieLa forêt noire
1968
Hans Richter
movieMission of Fear
1965
Jean de Brébeuf
movieCorruption
1963
Leonardo Mattioli
movieBanana Peel
1963
Hervé Bontemps
movieCross of the Living
1962
Baron Von Eggerth
movieScano Boa
1961
Cavarzan
movieLa Dolce Vita
1960
Steiner
movieThe Lovers
1958
Henri Tournier
movieThe Hunchback of Notre Dame
1956
Claude Frollo
movieMina de Vanghel
1953
Mr. de Larçay
movieLes Crimes de l'amour
1953
Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')
movieThe Solitary Conquerors
1952
Pascal Giroud
movieSolita de Cordoue
1946
Pierre Desluc
movieThe Devil's Envoys
1942
Gilles, a Minstrel
movieStormy Waters
1941
Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)
movieMadame Sans-Gêne
1941
Roustan
movieMy Crimes After Mein Kampf
1940
Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)
Directing2
movieThe Vanquished
1953
Second Assistant Director
Writing1
movieThe Annunciation of Marie
1991
Screenplay