Alain Cuny
Known for ActingBorn 1908-07-12 — died 1994-05-16Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
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
Emmanuelle
1974 · as Mario
La Dolce Vita
1960 · as Steiner
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1956 · as Claude Frollo
Time Masters
1982 · as Xul (voice)
Camille Claudel
1988 · as Louis-Prosper Claudel
Detective
1985 · as Old Mafioso
Satyricon
1969 · as Lica
Dear Antonioni
1995 · as Self
Stormy Waters
1941 · as Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)
Banana Peel
1963 · as Hervé Bontemps
The Milky Way
1969 · as Man with cape
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
1987 · as El Viudo Xius
The Devil's Envoys
1942 · as Gilles, a Minstrel
Corruption
1963 · as Leonardo Mattioli
The Lovers
1958 · as Henri Tournier
Film sur Georges Perec
1990 · as Self
Lucky Ravi
1987 · as Plantation Owner
Antigone
1974 · as Le Coryphée