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