Alain Cuny
Acting
- Born:
- 1908-07-12
- Died:
- 1994-05-16
- Place of birth:
- Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
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.
Known For
Filmography
Emmanuelle in Ontario
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
La famiglia Ricordi
Dear Antonioni
The Return of Casanova
The Annunciation of Marie
Sweet War, Farewell
Les chevaliers de la table ronde
Film sur Georges Perec
Camille Claudel
Umi e, See You
Histoire(s) du cinéma
La coscienza di Zeno
Van Gogh à Paris, repérages
Lucky Ravi
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
The Distant Land
Detective
Buio nella Valle
The Basileus Quartet
Fellini nel cestino
Deuil en 24 heures
Time Masters
Colomba
The Games of Countess Dolingen
Le Journal
Roberte
Christ Stopped at Eboli
The Song of Roland
The Recourse to the Method
I prosseneti
Illustrious Corpses
Irene, Irene
E il Casanova di Fellini?
Two in the Amsterdam Rain
Antigone
Emmanuelle
Le Roman de Renart
Don't Touch the White Woman!
La rosa rossa
Valparaiso, Valparaiso
La divine comédie
The Master and Margarita
La Légende du siècle
The Audience
Midi trente
The Big Black Sow
Samedi soir
Ciao, Federico!
Many Wars Ago
Satyricon
Safari 5000
The Milky Way
La forêt noire
Mission of Fear
Corruption
Banana Peel
Cross of the Living
Scano Boa