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Personal Info

Birth date

1908-07-12 (117 Years)

Day of death

1994-05-16

Gender

Male

Known for

Acting

Place of birth

Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France

Also known as

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Alain Cuny

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 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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Filmography

Acting

2003Fellini: I'm a Born Liar as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1998Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute as Self

1995La famiglia Ricordi (4 Episodes) as Unknown

1995Dear Antonioni as Self

1992The Return of Casanova as Marquis

1991The Annunciation of Marie as Anne Vercors

1991Sweet War, Farewell as Vecchio Crimen

1990Les chevaliers de la table ronde as Merlin

1990Film sur Georges Perec as Self

1989Histoire(s) du cinéma (8 Episodes) as Self

1988Camille Claudel as Louis-Prosper Claudel

1988To the Sea, See You as Don Macine

1988Zeno's Conscience as Alfio Cosini sr.

1988Van Gogh à Paris, repérages as Lecteur des textes d'Artaud

1987Lucky Ravi as Plantation Owner

1987Chronicle of a Death Foretold as El Viudo Xius

1987The Distant Land as Aigner

1985Detective as Old Mafioso

1984Buio nella Valle as Luigi

1983The Basileus Quartet as Mario Cantone

1983Fellini nel cestino as Self

1982Deuil en 24 heures (4 Episodes) as Le colonel Carvin

1982Time Masters as Xul (voice)

1979Le Journal (6 Episodes) as Wilchaint

1979Roberte as La voix du pur esprit

1979Christ Stopped at Eboli as Barone Nicola Rotunno

1978The Song of Roland as Turpin/der Mönch

1976I prosseneti as Il conte Davide

1976Illustrious Corpses as Judge Rasto

1975Irene, Irene as Guido

1975E il Casanova di Fellini? as Self

1975Two in the Amsterdam Rain as Unknown

1974Antigone as Le Coryphée

1974Emmanuelle as Mario

1974Le Roman de Renart (15 Episodes) as Ysengrin (voice)

1974Don't Touch the White Woman! as Sitting Bull

1973La rosa rossa as Count Paolo Balzeri

1973Valparaiso, Valparaiso as Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt

1973La divine comédie as Virgile

1972The Master and Margarita as Profesor Woland & Satana

1972La Légende du siècle as Self

1972The Audience as teologa Belga

1972Midi trente (1 Episode) as Self

1971The Big Black Sow as Il Padre di Enrico

1971Samedi soir (1 Episode) as Self

1970Ciao, Federico! as Self (uncredited)

1970Many Wars Ago as Gen. Leone

1969Satyricon as Lica

1969Safari 5000 as Unknown

1969The Milky Way as Man with cape

1968La forêt noire as Hans Richter

1965Mission of Fear as Jean de Brébeuf

1963Corruption as Leonardo Mattioli

1963Banana Peel as Hervé Bontemps

1962Cross of the Living as baron von Eggerth

1961Scano Boa as Cavarzan

1960La Dolce Vita as Steiner

1958The Lovers as Henri Tournier

1956The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Claude Frollo

1956Cinépanorama (1 Episode) as Self

1953Mina de Vanghel as Mr. de Larçay

1953The Lady Without Camelias as Lodi

1953Les Crimes de l'amour as Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')

1952The Solitary Conquerors as Pascal Giroud

1952Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi as Bueno

1951The Forbidden Christ as Antonio

1946Solita de Cordoue as Pierre Desluc

1943The Phantom Baron as Hervé

1942The Devil's Envoys as Gilles, a Minstrel

1941Stormy Waters as Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)

1941Madame Sans-Gêne as Roustan

1940My Crimes After Mein Kampf as Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)

Directing

1991The Annunciation of Marie ... Director

1953The Vanquished ... Second Assistant Director

Writing

1991The Annunciation of Marie ... Screenplay