Alain Cuny (12 July 1908 – 16 May 1994) was a French actor.
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.
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Filmography (Movies)
Emmanuelle in Ontario
Character:Mario (archival footage)
Release Date:25/09/2025
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
Character:Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Release Date:02/04/2003
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
Character:Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Release Date:01/11/1998
Dear Antonioni
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1995
The Return of Casanova
Character:Marquis
Release Date:12/05/1992
The Annunciation of Marie
Character:Anne Vercors
Release Date:18/12/1991
Sweet War, Farewell
Character:Vecchio Crimen
Release Date:11/09/1991
Les chevaliers de la table ronde
Character:Merlin
Release Date:07/11/1990
Film sur Georges Perec
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1990
Camille Claudel
Character:Louis-Prosper Claudel
Release Date:07/12/1988
Umi e, See You
Character:Don Macine
Release Date:18/05/1988
Zeno's Conscience
Character:Alfio Cosini sr.
Release Date:14/04/1988
Van Gogh à Paris, repérages
Character:Lecteur des textes d'Artaud
Release Date:01/01/1988
Lucky Ravi
Character:Plantation Owner
Release Date:16/05/1987
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Character:El Viudo Xius
Release Date:08/05/1987
The Distant Land
Character:Aigner
Release Date:01/01/1987
Detective
Character:Old Mafioso
Release Date:23/08/1985
Buio nella Valle
Character:Luigi
Release Date:20/09/1984
The Basileus Quartet
Character:Mario Cantone
Release Date:30/01/1983
Fellini nel cestino
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1983
Time Masters
Character:Xul (voice)
Release Date:24/03/1982
The Games of Countess Dolingen
Character:
Release Date:01/09/1981
Roberte
Character:La voix du pur esprit
Release Date:14/03/1979
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Character:Barone Nicola Rotunno
Release Date:23/02/1979
The Song of Roland
Character:Turpin/der Mönch
Release Date:04/10/1978
I prosseneti
Character:Il conte Davide
Release Date:28/04/1976
Illustrious Corpses
Character:Judge Rasto
Release Date:12/02/1976
Irene, Irene
Character:Guido
Release Date:02/06/1975
E il Casanova di Fellini?
Character:Self
Release Date:06/05/1975
Two in the Amsterdam Rain
Character:
Release Date:20/03/1975
Antigone
Character:Le Coryphée
Release Date:21/12/1974
Emmanuelle
Character:Mario
Release Date:25/06/1974
Don't Touch the White Woman!
Character:Sitting Bull
Release Date:23/01/1974
La rosa rossa
Character:Count Paolo Balzeri
Release Date:01/07/1973
Valparaiso, Valparaiso
Character:Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt
Release Date:31/03/1973
La divine comédie
Character:Virgile
Release Date:01/01/1973
The Master and Margarita
Character:Profesor Woland & Satana
Release Date:15/07/1972
La Légende du siècle
Character:Self
Release Date:04/06/1972
The Audience
Character:teologa Belga
Release Date:31/03/1972
The Big Black Sow
Character:Il Padre di Enrico
Release Date:13/04/1971
Ciao, Federico!
Character:Self (uncredited)
Release Date:28/10/1970
Many Wars Ago
Character:Gen. Leone
Release Date:17/09/1970
Satyricon
Character:Lica
Release Date:18/09/1969
Safari 5000
Character:
Release Date:19/07/1969
The Milky Way
Character:Man with cape
Release Date:28/02/1969
La forêt noire
Character:Hans Richter
Release Date:06/02/1968
Mission of Fear
Character:Jean de Brébeuf
Release Date:20/05/1965
Corruption
Character:Leonardo Mattioli
Release Date:22/11/1963
Banana Peel
Character:Hervé Bontemps
Release Date:18/01/1963
Cross of the Living
Character:Baron Von Eggerth
Release Date:25/07/1962
Scano Boa
Character:Cavarzan
Release Date:09/01/1961
La Dolce Vita
Character:Steiner
Release Date:05/02/1960
The Lovers
Character:Henri Tournier
Release Date:05/11/1958
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Character:Claude Frollo
Release Date:19/12/1956
Mina de Vanghel
Character:Mr. de Larçay
Release Date:06/03/1953
The Lady Without Camelias
Character:Lodi
Release Date:27/02/1953
Les Crimes de l'amour
Character:Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')
Release Date:02/01/1953
The Solitary Conquerors
Character:Pascal Giroud
Release Date:08/10/1952
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
Character:Bueno
Release Date:15/08/1952
The Forbidden Christ
Character:Antonio
Release Date:08/06/1951
Solita de Cordoue
Character:Pierre Desluc
Release Date:24/04/1946
The Phantom Baron
Character:Hervé
Release Date:16/06/1943
The Devil's Envoys
Character:Gilles, a Minstrel
Release Date:05/12/1942
Stormy Waters
Character:Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)
Release Date:27/11/1941
Madame Sans-Gêne
Character:Roustan
Release Date:07/10/1941
My Crimes After Mein Kampf
Character:Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)
Release Date:09/03/1940
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