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Alain Cuny
Actor, Director, Writer, Additional Credits
Died May 16, 1994 (85 years)
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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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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Known For
Filmography
| 2020 | The Truth About La Dolce Vita · as Steiner |
| 2020 | Le fantôme de Laurent Terzieff · as Cast |
| 1992 | The Return of Casanova · as Marquis |
| 1991 | The Annunciation of Marie · as Anne Vercors |
| 1991 | Sweet War, Farewell · as Vecchio Crimen |
| 1988 | Camille Claudel · as Louis-Prosper Claudel |
| 1988 | Umi e · as Special Appearance |
| 1988 | La coscienza di Zeno · as Alfio Cosini Sr. |
| 1987 | Chronicle of a Death Foretold · as El Viudo Xius |
| 1985 | Detective · as Old Mafioso |
| 1984 | The Octopus (TV Series) · as Nicola Antinari |
| 1982 | Il quartetto Basileus · as Mario Cantone |
| 1982 | Deuil en 24 heures (TV Series) · as Le Colonel Carvin |
| 1982 | Time Masters · as Xul (voice) |
| 1981 | The Games of Countess Dolingen · as Cast |
| 1980 | La peau de chagrin · as L'antiquaire |
| 1979 | Le Journal (TV Series) · as Wilchaint |
| 1979 | Roberte · as La Voix Du Pur Esprit |
| 1979 | Christ Stopped at Eboli · as Barone Nicola Rotunno |
| 1978 | I vecchi e i giovani (TV Series) · as Principe Ippolito Laurentano |
| 1978 | The Song of Roland · as Turpin/der Mönch |
| 1978 | The Recourse to the Method · as El Académico |
| 1976 | I prosseneti · as Il Conte Davide |
| 1976 | Illustrious Corpses · as Judge Rasto |
| 1974 | Emmanuelle · as Mario |
| 1974 | Le Roman de Renart (TV Series) · as Ysengrin (voice) |
| 1974 | Don't Touch the White Woman! · as Sitting Bull |
| 1972 | The Master and Margaret · as Profesor Woland & Satana |
| 1972 | L'udienza · as Teologa Belga |
| 1971 | Valparaiso, Valparaiso · as Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt |
| 1970 | Many Wars Ago · as Gen. Leone |
| 1969 | Satyricon · as Lica |
| 1969 | |
| 1969 | The Milky Way · as Man With Cape |
| 1968 | La forêt noire · as Hans Richter |
| 1965 | Astataïon ou Le festin des morts · as Jean De Brébeuf |
| 1963 | La corruzione · as Leonardo Mattioli |
| 1963 | Banana Peel · as Hervé Bontemps |
| 1960 | La Dolce Vita · as Steiner |
| 1958 | The Lovers · as Henri Tournier |
| 1956 | Beau sang · as Le Templier Pierre D'aumont |
| 1956 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame · as Claude Frollo |
| 1953 | Mina de Vanghel · as Mr. De Larçay |
| 1953 | The Lady Without Camelias · as Lodi |
| 1952 | Anita Garibaldi · as Bueno |
| 1951 | The Forbidden Christ · as Antonio |
| 1946 | Solita de Cordoue · as Pierre Desluc |
| 1943 | The Phantom Baron · as Hervé |
| 1942 | The Devil's Envoys · as Gilles, A Minstrel |
| 1941 | Remorques · as Un Matelot Du « Mirva » (non Crédité) |
| 1941 | Madame Sans-Gêne · as Roustan |
| 1940 | My Crimes After Mein Kampf · as Marinus Van Der Lubbe (l'incendiaire Du Reichstag) |