People
Alain Cuny
- Name: Alain Cuny
- Birthday: 1908-07-12
- Place of birth: Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
- Popularity: 1.302
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... Read More
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| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| Fellini: I'm a Born Liar as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2003-04-02 |
| Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute as Self | 1998-11-01 |
| Dear Antonioni as Self | 1995-01-01 |
| The Return of Casanova as Marquis | 1992-05-12 |
| The Annunciation of Marie as Anne Vercors | 1991-12-18 |
| Sweet War, Farewell as Vecchio Crimen | 1991-09-11 |
| Les chevaliers de la table ronde as Merlin | 1990-11-07 |
| Film sur Georges Perec as Self | 1990-01-01 |
| Camille Claudel as Louis-Prosper Claudel | 1988-12-07 |
| Zeno's Conscience as Alfio Cosini sr. | 1988-04-14 |
| Van Gogh à Paris, repérages as Lecteur des textes d'Artaud | 1988-01-01 |
| Lucky Ravi as Plantation Owner | 1987-05-16 |
| Chronicle of a Death Foretold as El Viudo Xius | 1987-05-08 |
| The Distant Land as Aigner | 1987-01-01 |
| Detective as Old Mafioso | 1985-08-23 |
| Buio nella Valle as Luigi | 1984-09-20 |
| The Basileus Quartet as Mario Cantone | 1983-01-30 |
| Fellini nel cestino as Self | 1983-01-01 |
| Time Masters as Xul (voice) | 1982-03-24 |
| Roberte as La voix du pur esprit | 1979-03-14 |
| Christ Stopped at Eboli as Barone Nicola Rotunno | 1979-02-23 |
| The Song of Roland as Turpin/der Mönch | 1978-10-04 |
| I prosseneti as Il conte Davide | 1976-04-28 |
| Illustrious Corpses as Judge Rasto | 1976-02-12 |
| Irene, Irene as Guido | 1975-06-02 |
| E il Casanova di Fellini? as Self | 1975-05-06 |
| Two in the Amsterdam Rain | 1975-03-20 |
| Antigone as Le Coryphée | 1974-12-21 |
| Emmanuelle as Mario | 1974-06-25 |
| Le Roman de Renart as Ysengrin (voice) | 1974-05-22 |
| Don't Touch the White Woman! as Sitting Bull | 1974-01-23 |
| La rosa rossa as Count Paolo Balzeri | 1973-07-01 |
| Valparaiso, Valparaiso as Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt | 1973-03-31 |
| La divine comédie as Virgile | 1973-01-01 |
| The Master and Margarita as Profesor Woland & Satana | 1972-07-15 |
| The Audience as teologa Belga | 1972-03-31 |
| The Big Black Sow as Il Padre di Enrico | 1971-04-13 |
| Ciao, Federico! as Self (uncredited) | 1970-10-28 |
| Many Wars Ago as Gen. Leone | 1970-09-17 |
| Fellini Satyricon as Lica | 1969-09-18 |
| Safari 5000 | 1969-07-19 |
| The Milky Way as Man with cape | 1969-02-28 |
| La forêt noire as Hans Richter | 1968-02-06 |
| Mission of Fear as Jean de Brébeuf | 1965-05-20 |
| Corruption as Leonardo Mattioli | 1963-11-22 |
| Banana Peel as Hervé Bontemps | 1963-01-18 |
| Cross of the Living as baron von Eggerth | 1962-07-25 |
| Scano Boa as Cavarzan | 1961-01-09 |
| La Dolce Vita as Steiner | 1960-02-05 |
| The Lovers as Henri Tournier | 1958-11-05 |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Claude Frollo | 1956-12-19 |
| Mina de Vanghel as Mr. de Larçay | 1953-03-06 |
| The Lady Without Camelias as Lodi | 1953-02-27 |
| Les Crimes de l'amour as Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel') | 1953-01-02 |
| The Solitary Conquerors as Pascal Giroud | 1952-10-08 |
| Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi as Bueno | 1952-08-15 |
| The Forbidden Christ as Antonio | 1951-06-08 |
| Solita de Cordoue as Pierre Desluc | 1946-04-24 |
| The Phantom Baron as Hervé | 1943-06-16 |
| The Devil's Envoys as Gilles, a Minstrel | 1942-12-05 |
| Stormy Waters as Un matelot du « Mirva » (non crédité) | 1941-11-27 |
| Madame Sans-Gêne as Roustan | 1941-10-07 |
| My Crimes After Mein Kampf as Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag) | 1940-03-09 |
