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