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