
Alain Cuny
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.
Personal Info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1908-07-12
Place of Birth
Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
Cast
Film sur Georges Perec
19900.0 / 10
The Lovers
19586.6 / 10
Camille Claudel
19886.8 / 10
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
19566.7 / 10
Sweet War, Farewell
19917.0 / 10
Emmanuelle
19746.0 / 10
The Milky Way
19697.0 / 10
Christ Stopped at Eboli
19797.1 / 10
Illustrious Corpses
19766.8 / 10
The Devil's Envoys
19426.9 / 10
The Phantom Baron
19436.1 / 10
The Master and Margarita
19725.3 / 10
Detective
19855.3 / 10
Don't Touch the White Woman!
19745.5 / 10
Banana Peel
19635.8 / 10
Stormy Waters
19416.9 / 10
Solita de Cordoue
19460.0 / 10
The Lady Without Camelias
19536.6 / 10
Many Wars Ago...
19707.3 / 10
La forêt noire
196810.0 / 10
Corruption
19637.6 / 10
My Crimes After Mein Kampf
19403.0 / 10
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
19877.4 / 10
Fellini nel cestino
19837.5 / 10
Two in the Amsterdam Rain
19757.0 / 10
I prosseneti
19763.4 / 10
Les Crimes de l'amour
19536.0 / 10
Ciao, Federico!
19706.8 / 10
Safari 5000
19697.3 / 10
Valparaiso, Valparaiso
19734.4 / 10
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
19526.0 / 10
The Basileus Quartet
19831.0 / 10
Van Gogh à Paris, repérages
19880.0 / 10
The Annunciation of Marie
19915.5 / 10
Time Masters
19827.3 / 10
The Forbidden Christ
19516.3 / 10
Buio nella Valle
19840.0 / 10
Satyricon
19696.7 / 10
The Song of Roland
19784.8 / 10
Madame Sans-Gêne
19411.0 / 10
Zeno's Conscience
19886.2 / 10
Irene, Irene
19750.0 / 10
Mission of Fear
19650.0 / 10
The Audience
19726.7 / 10
Dear Antonioni
19950.0 / 10
The Big Black Sow
19710.0 / 10
The Solitary Conquerors
19520.0 / 10
Les chevaliers de la table ronde
19900.0 / 10
La rosa rossa
19738.0 / 10
La Dolce Vita
19608.1 / 10
La divine comédie
19730.0 / 10
Scano Boa
19610.0 / 10
Cross of the Living
19625.0 / 10
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
20036.3 / 10
The Distant Land
19875.0 / 10
Lucky Ravi
19870.0 / 10
The Return of Casanova
19926.1 / 10
Antigone
19740.0 / 10
Roberte
19794.2 / 10
Mina de Vanghel
19530.0 / 10
E il Casanova di Fellini?
19750.0 / 10
La Légende du siècle
19720.0 / 10
To the Sea, See You
19880.0 / 10
Crew
The Annunciation of Marie
19915.5 / 10
The Vanquished
19536.4 / 10