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