Alain Cuny
Actor
- Born
- July 12, 1908 · Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
- Died
- May 16, 1994 (age 85)
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
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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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Known for
La Dolce Vita
February 5, 1960
Emmanuelle
June 25, 1974
Satyricon
September 18, 1969
Time Masters
March 24, 1982
The Milky Way
February 28, 1969
Camille Claudel
December 7, 1988
Many Wars Ago
September 17, 1970
The Lovers
November 5, 1958
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
December 19, 1956
Illustrious Corpses
February 12, 1976
Christ Stopped at Eboli
February 23, 1979
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
May 8, 1987
Acting65
- 2025Emmanuelle in Ontario as Mario (archival footage)
- 2006Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2003Fellini: I'm a Born Liar as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 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
- 1988