Alain Cuny
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 12, 1908
- Died
- May 16, 1994
- Birthplace
- Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
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.
Filmography
Emmanuelle in Ontario 2025
as Mario (archival footage)
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute 2006
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar 2003
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dear Antonioni 1995
as Self
The Return of Casanova 1992
as Marquis
The Annunciation of Marie 1991
as Anne Vercors, Director, Screenplay
Sweet War, Farewell 1991
as Vecchio Crimen
Les chevaliers de la table ronde 1990
as Merlin
Film sur Georges Perec 1990
as Self
Camille Claudel 1988
as Louis-Prosper Claudel
Umi e, See You 1988
as Don Macine
- Van Gogh à Paris, repérages
Van Gogh à Paris, repérages 1988
as Lecteur des textes d'Artaud
- Lucky Ravi
Lucky Ravi 1987
as Plantation Owner
Chronicle of a Death Foretold 1987
as El Viudo Xius
The Distant Land 1987
as Aigner
Detective 1985
as Old Mafioso
Buio nella Valle 1984
as Luigi
The Basileus Quartet 1983
as Mario Cantone
- Fellini nel cestino
Fellini nel cestino 1983
as Self
Time Masters 1982
as Xul (voice)
The Games of Countess Dolingen 1981
Actor
Roberte 1979
as La voix du pur esprit
Christ Stopped at Eboli 1979
as Barone Nicola Rotunno
The Song of Roland 1978
as Turpin/der Mönch
I prosseneti 1976
as Il conte Davide
Illustrious Corpses 1976
as Judge Rasto
Irene, Irene 1975
as Guido
E il Casanova di Fellini? 1975
as Self
Two in the Amsterdam Rain 1975
Actor
Antigone 1974
as Le Coryphée
Emmanuelle 1974
as Mario
Don't Touch the White Woman! 1974
as Sitting Bull
La rosa rossa 1973
as Count Paolo Balzeri
Valparaiso, Valparaiso 1973
as Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt
La divine comédie 1973
as Virgile
The Master and Margarita 1972
as Profesor Woland & Satana
La Légende du siècle 1972
as Self
The Audience 1972
as teologa Belga
The Big Black Sow 1971
as Il Padre di Enrico
Ciao, Federico! 1970
as Self (uncredited)
Many Wars Ago 1970
as Gen. Leone
Satyricon 1969
as Lica
Safari 5000 1969
Actor
The Milky Way 1969
as Man with cape
La forêt noire 1968
as Hans Richter
Mission of Fear 1965
as Jean de Brébeuf
Corruption 1963
as Leonardo Mattioli
Banana Peel 1963
as Hervé Bontemps
Cross of the Living 1962
as Baron Von Eggerth
Scano Boa 1961
as Cavarzan
La Dolce Vita 1960
as Steiner
The Lovers 1958
as Henri Tournier
The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1956
as Claude Frollo
The Vanquished 1953
Second Assistant Director
Mina de Vanghel 1953
as Mr. de Larçay
The Lady Without Camelias 1953
as Lodi
Les Crimes de l'amour 1953
as Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')
The Solitary Conquerors 1952
as Pascal Giroud
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi 1952
as Bueno
The Forbidden Christ 1951
as Antonio
Solita de Cordoue 1946
as Pierre Desluc
The Phantom Baron 1943
as Hervé
The Devil's Envoys 1942
as Gilles, a Minstrel
Stormy Waters 1941
as Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)
Madame Sans-Gêne 1941
as Roustan
My Crimes After Mein Kampf 1940
as Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)
Credits from TMDB.