- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- July 12, 1908
- Place of Birth
- Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
- Died
- May 16, 1994
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. Description a…
Filmography
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)
tvLa famiglia Ricordi
1995
movieDear Antonioni
1995 · Self
movieThe Return of Casanova
1992 · Marquis
movieThe Annunciation of Marie
1991 · Anne Vercors, Director, Screenplay
movieSweet War, Farewell
1991 · Vecchio Crimen
movieLes chevaliers de la table ronde
1990 · Merlin
movieFilm sur Georges Perec
1990 · Self
tvHistoire(s) du cinéma
1989 · Self
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
movieVan Gogh à Paris, repérages
1988 · Lecteur des textes d'Artaud
Lucky Ravi
movieLucky Ravi
1987 · Plantation Owner
movieChronicle of a Death Foretold
1987 · El Viudo Xius
movieThe Distant Land
1987 · Aigner
movieDetective
1985 · Old Mafioso
movieBuio nella Valle
1984 · Luigi
movieThe Basileus Quartet
1983 · Mario Cantone
Fellini nel cestino
movieFellini nel cestino
1983 · Self
tvDeuil en 24 heures
1982 · Le colonel Carvin
movieTime Masters
1982 · Xul (voice)
Colomba
tvColomba
1982
movieThe Games of Countess Dolingen
1981
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
movieIrene, Irene
1975 · Guido
movieE il Casanova di Fellini?
1975 · Self
movieTwo in the Amsterdam Rain
1975
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
movieLa Légende du siècle
1972 · Self
movieThe Audience
1972 · teologa Belga
tvMidi trente
1972 · Self
movieThe Big Black Sow
1971 · Il Padre di Enrico
Samedi soir
tvSamedi soir
1971 · Self
movieCiao, Federico!
1970 · Self (uncredited)
movieMany Wars Ago
1970 · Gen. Leone
movieSatyricon
1969 · Lica
movieSafari 5000
1969
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
tvCinépanorama
1956 · Self
movieThe Vanquished
1953 · Second Assistant Director
movieMina de Vanghel
1953 · Mr. de Larçay
movieThe Lady Without Camelias
1953 · Lodi
movieLes Crimes de l'amour
1953 · Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')
movieThe Solitary Conquerors
1952 · Pascal Giroud
movieRed Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
1952 · Bueno
movieThe Forbidden Christ
1951 · Antonio
movieSolita de Cordoue
1946 · Pierre Desluc
movieThe Phantom Baron
1943 · Hervé
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)