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.
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Emmanuelle in Ontario | Mario (archival footage) | 2025-09-25 |
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Fellini: Je suis un grand menteur | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2003-04-02 |
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Histoire(s) du cinéma 3a : la monnaie de l'absolu | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1998-11-01 |
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Caro Antonioni | Self | 1995-01-01 |
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Le retour de Casanova | Marquis | 1992-05-12 |
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L'Annonce faite à Marie | Anne Vercors | 1991-12-18 |
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Uova di garofano | Vecchio Crimen | 1991-09-11 |
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Film sur Georges Perec | Self | 1990-01-01 |
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Les chevaliers de la table ronde | Merlin | 1990-11-07 |
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Camille Claudel | Louis-Prosper Claudel | 1988-12-07 |
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海へ 〜See you〜 | Don Macine | 1988-05-18 |
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Van Gogh à Paris, repérages | Lecteur des textes d'Artaud | 1988-01-01 |
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La coscienza di Zeno | Alfio Cosini sr. | 1988-04-14 |
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Das weite Land | Aigner | 1987-01-01 |
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Lucky Ravi | Plantation Owner | 1987-05-16 |
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Cronaca di una morte annunciata | El Viudo Xius | 1987-05-08 |
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Détective | Old Mafioso | 1985-08-23 |
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Buio nella Valle | Luigi | 1984-09-20 |
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Fellini nel cestino | Self | 1983-01-01 |
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Il quartetto Basileus | Mario Cantone | 1983-01-30 |
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Les maîtres du temps | Xul (voice) | 1982-03-24 |
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Les Jeux de la Comtesse Dolingen de Gratz | 1981-09-01 | |
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Cristo si è fermato a Eboli | Barone Nicola Rotunno | 1979-02-23 |
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Roberte | La voix du pur esprit | 1979-03-14 |
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La Chanson de Roland | Turpin/der Mönch | 1978-10-04 |
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I prosseneti | Il conte Davide | 1976-04-28 |
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Cadaveri eccellenti | Judge Rasto | 1976-02-12 |
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E il Casanova di Fellini? | Self | 1975-05-06 |
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Irene, Irene | Guido | 1975-06-02 |
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雨のアムステルダム | 1975-03-20 | |
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Antigone | Le Coryphée | 1974-12-21 |
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Emmanuelle | Mario | 1974-06-25 |
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Touche pas à la femme blanche | Sitting Bull | 1974-01-23 |
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La rosa rossa | Count Paolo Balzeri | 1973-07-01 |
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La divine comédie | Virgile | 1973-01-01 |
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Valparaiso, Valparaiso | Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt | 1973-03-31 |
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Il maestro e Margherita | Profesor Woland & Satana | 1972-07-15 |
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L'udienza | teologa Belga | 1972-03-31 |
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La Légende du siècle | Self | 1972-06-04 |
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La grande scrofa nera | Il Padre di Enrico | 1971-04-13 |
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Ciao, Federico! | Self (uncredited) | 1970-10-28 |
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Uomini contro | Gen. Leone | 1970-09-17 |
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La Voie lactée | Man with cape | 1969-02-28 |
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栄光への5000キロ | 1969-07-19 | |
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Fellini – satyricon | Lica | 1969-09-18 |
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La forêt noire | Hans Richter | 1968-02-06 |
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Astataïon ou Le festin des morts | Jean de Brébeuf | 1965-05-20 |
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Peau de banane | Hervé Bontemps | 1963-01-18 |
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La corruzione | Leonardo Mattioli | 1963-11-22 |
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La Croix des vivants | Baron Von Eggerth | 1962-07-25 |
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Scano Boa | Cavarzan | 1961-01-09 |
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La dolce vita | Steiner | 1960-02-05 |
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Les Amants | Henri Tournier | 1958-11-05 |
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Notre-Dame de Paris | Claude Frollo | 1956-12-19 |
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Mina de Vanghel | Mr. de Larçay | 1953-03-06 |
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La signora senza camelie | Lodi | 1953-02-27 |
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Les Crimes de l'amour | Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel') | 1953-01-02 |
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Les Conquérants solitaires | Pascal Giroud | 1952-10-08 |
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Camicie rosse | Bueno | 1952-08-15 |
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Il Cristo proibito | Antonio | 1951-06-08 |
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Solita de Cordoue | Pierre Desluc | 1946-04-24 |
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Le Baron fantôme | Hervé | 1943-06-16 |
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Les Visiteurs du soir | Gilles, a Minstrel | 1942-12-05 |
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Madame Sans-Gêne | Roustan | 1941-10-07 |
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Remorques | Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited) | 1941-11-27 |
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Après Mein Kampf, mes crimes | Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag) | 1940-03-09 |