Alain Cuny
Actor
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.
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As Director
Filmography
La Dolce Vita
as Steiner 1960
Emmanuelle
as Mario 1974
Satyricon
as Lica 1969
The Milky Way
as Man with cape 1969
Time Masters
as Xul (voice) 1982
Camille Claudel
as Louis-Prosper Claudel 1988
Many Wars Ago
as Gen. Leone 1970
The Lovers
as Henri Tournier 1958
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Claude Frollo 1956
Illustrious Corpses
as Judge Rasto 1976
Christ Stopped at Eboli
as Barone Nicola Rotunno 1979
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
as El Viudo Xius 1987
The Devil's Envoys
as Gilles, a Minstrel 1942
Detective
as Old Mafioso 1985
The Lady Without Camelias
as Lodi 1953
Stormy Waters
as Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited) 1941
Don't Touch the White Woman!
as Sitting Bull 1974