Alain Cuny

Known for ActingBorn 1908-07-12Died 1994-05-16Saint-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.Read more

Movies & web series

Umi e, See You

Lucky Ravi

E il Casanova di Fellini?

La forêt noire

Scano Boa

The Solitary Conquerors

La famiglia Ricordi

Les chevaliers de la table ronde

Buio nella Valle

Antigone

Mission of Fear

Mina de Vanghel

Solita de Cordoue

Cinépanorama

Two in the Amsterdam Rain

Irene, Irene

La Dolce Vita

Fellini nel cestino

Deuil en 24 heures

La rosa rossa

Corruption

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Sweet War, Farewell

Time Masters

Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi

Many Wars Ago

Christ Stopped at Eboli

Safari 5000

Film sur Georges Perec

La coscienza di Zeno

The Distant Land

Ciao, Federico!

The Milky Way

Le Journal

Le Roman de Renart

The Big Black Sow

Camille Claudel

Illustrious Corpses

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute

Satyricon

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Devil's Envoys

The Audience

Stormy Waters

The Lovers

Fellini: I'm a Born Liar

The Forbidden Christ

Les Crimes de l'amour