Alain Cuny
Known for: 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.
Filmography
Series
Midi trente
Self
1972
Samedi soir
Self
1971
Series
Cinépanorama
Self
1956
Film
La Dolce Vita
Steiner
1960
Film
Emmanuelle
Mario
1974
Film
Time Masters
Xul (voice)
1982
Film
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Claude Frollo
1956
Film
Satyricon
Lica
1969
Film
The Milky Way
Man with cape
1969
Film
The Devil's Envoys
Gilles, a Minstrel
1942
Film
Stormy Waters
Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)
1941
Film
Detective
Old Mafioso
1985
Film
Camille Claudel
Louis-Prosper Claudel
1988
Film
Film sur Georges Perec
Self
1990
Series
La coscienza di Zeno
Alfio Cosini sr.
1988
Film
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
El Viudo Xius
1987
Series
Le Roman de Renart
Ysengrin (voice)
1974
Series
Histoire(s) du cinéma
Self
1989
Film
Banana Peel
Hervé Bontemps
1963
Film
The Lovers
Henri Tournier
1958
Film
Illustrious Corpses
Judge Rasto
1976
Film
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2003
Film
The Return of Casanova
Marquis
1992
Film
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Barone Nicola Rotunno
1979
Film
Scano Boa
Cavarzan
1961
Film
Many Wars Ago
Gen. Leone
1970
Film
The Games of Countess Dolingen
1981
Film
Corruption
Leonardo Mattioli
1963
Film
I prosseneti
Il conte Davide
1976
Series
La famiglia Ricordi
1995
Fellini nel cestino
Self
1983
Film
Dear Antonioni
Self
1995
Series
Le Journal
Wilchaint
1979
Lucky Ravi
Plantation Owner
1987
Film
Antigone
Le Coryphée
1974
Film
The Master and Margarita
Profesor Woland & Satana
1972
Film
Don't Touch the White Woman!
Sitting Bull
1974
Film
The Basileus Quartet
Mario Cantone
1983
Film
Safari 5000
1969
Film
The Lady Without Camelias
Lodi
1953
Film
The Forbidden Christ
Antonio
1951
Van Gogh à Paris, repérages
Lecteur des textes d'Artaud
1988
Film
La forêt noire
Hans Richter
1968
Series
Deuil en 24 heures
Le colonel Carvin
1982
Film
Buio nella Valle
Luigi
1984
Film
Emmanuelle in Ontario
Mario (archival footage)
2025
Film
The Song of Roland
Turpin/der Mönch
1978
Film
The Audience
teologa Belga
1972
Film
The Big Black Sow
Il Padre di Enrico
1971
Film
Madame Sans-Gêne
Roustan
1941
Film
E il Casanova di Fellini?
Self
1975
Film
The Annunciation of Marie
Anne Vercors
1991
Film
Roberte
La voix du pur esprit
1979
Film
La rosa rossa
Count Paolo Balzeri
1973
Film
Ciao, Federico!
Self (uncredited)
1970
Film
The Phantom Baron
Hervé
1943
Film
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2006
Film
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
Bueno
1952
Film
Sweet War, Farewell
Vecchio Crimen
1991
Film
The Distant Land
Aigner
1987
Film
Umi e, See You
Don Macine
1988
Film
Valparaiso, Valparaiso
Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt
1973
Colomba
1982
Film
My Crimes After Mein Kampf
Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)
1940
Film
The Solitary Conquerors
Pascal Giroud
1952
Film
La Légende du siècle
Self
1972
Film
Les Crimes de l'amour
Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')
1953
Film
La divine comédie
Virgile
1973
Film
Irene, Irene
Guido
1975
Film
Solita de Cordoue
Pierre Desluc
1946
Film
Cross of the Living
Baron Von Eggerth
1962
Film
Two in the Amsterdam Rain
1975
Film
Mina de Vanghel
Mr. de Larçay
1953
Film
Mission of Fear
Jean de Brébeuf
1965
Film
Les chevaliers de la table ronde
Merlin
1990