Alain Cuny
Known For
Acting
Born
1908-07-12 in Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
Died
1994-05-16
Biography
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.
Most Known For
Cinépanorama
as Self
Midi trente
as Self
Samedi soir
as Self
Emmanuelle
as Mario
Detective
as Old Mafioso
La Dolce Vita
as Steiner
Histoire(s) du cinéma
as Self
Scano Boa
as Cavarzan
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Claude Frollo
Le Roman de Renart
as Ysengrin (voice)
Satyricon
as Lica
Lucky Ravi
as Plantation Owner
Buio nella Valle
as Luigi
Time Masters
as Xul (voice)
Illustrious Corpses
as Judge Rasto
Antigone
as Le Coryphée
Stormy Waters
as Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
as El Viudo Xius
Dear Antonioni
as Self
Camille Claudel
as Louis-Prosper Claudel