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 Details
Movies (43)
Emmanuelle in Ontario
as Mario (archival footage)
2025
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2003
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1998
Dear Antonioni
as Self
1995
The Return of Casanova
as Marquis
1992
The Annunciation of Marie
as Anne Vercors
1991
Sweet War, Farewell
as Vecchio Crimen
1991
Les chevaliers de la table ronde
as Merlin
1990
Film sur Georges Perec
as Self
1990
Camille Claudel
as Louis-Prosper Claudel
1988
Umi e, See You
as Don Macine
1988
Zeno's Conscience
as Alfio Cosini sr.
1988
Van Gogh à Paris, repérages
as Lecteur des textes d'Artaud
1988
Lucky Ravi
as Plantation Owner
1987
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
as El Viudo Xius
1987
The Distant Land
as Aigner
1987
Detective
as Old Mafioso
1985
Buio nella Valle
as Luigi
1984
The Basileus Quartet
as Mario Cantone
1983
Fellini nel cestino
as Self
1983
Time Masters
as Xul (voice)
1982
The Games of Countess Dolingen
1981
Roberte
as La voix du pur esprit
1979
Christ Stopped at Eboli
as Barone Nicola Rotunno
1979
The Song of Roland
as Turpin/der Mönch
1978
I prosseneti
as Il conte Davide
1976
Illustrious Corpses
as Judge Rasto
1976
Irene, Irene
as Guido
1975
E il Casanova di Fellini?
as Self
1975
Two in the Amsterdam Rain
1975
Antigone
as Le Coryphée
1974
Emmanuelle
as Mario
1974
Don't Touch the White Woman!
as Sitting Bull
1974
La rosa rossa
as Count Paolo Balzeri
1973
Valparaiso, Valparaiso
as Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt
1973
La divine comédie
as Virgile
1973
The Master and Margarita
as Profesor Woland & Satana
1972
La Légende du siècle
as Self
1972
The Audience
as teologa Belga
1972
The Big Black Sow
as Il Padre di Enrico
1971
Ciao, Federico!
as Self (uncredited)
1970
Many Wars Ago
as Gen. Leone
1970
Satyricon
as Lica
1969
