Alain Cuny

Personal Info

Birthday

July 12, 1908

Day of Death

1994-05-16

(85 years old)

Place of Birth

Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France

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).

Known For

La Dolce Vita

Emmanuelle

Le Roman de Renart

Time Masters

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Satyricon

Camille Claudel

The Milky Way

Filmography

2003
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1998
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
as Self
1995
Dear Antonioni
as Self
1992
The Return of Casanova
as Marquis
1991
The Annunciation of Marie
as Anne Vercors
Sweet War, Farewell
as Vecchio Crimen
1990
Les chevaliers de la table ronde
as Merlin
Film sur Georges Perec
as Self
1988
Camille Claudel
as Louis-Prosper Claudel
To the Sea, See You
as Don Macine
Zeno's Conscience
as Alfio Cosini sr.
Van Gogh à Paris, repérages
as Lecteur des textes d'Artaud
1987
Lucky Ravi
as Plantation Owner
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
as El Viudo Xius
The Distant Land
as Aigner
1985
Detective
as Old Mafioso
1984
Buio nella Valle
as Luigi
1983
The Basileus Quartet
as Mario Cantone
Fellini nel cestino
as Self
1982
Time Masters
as Xul (voice)
1979
Roberte
as La voix du pur esprit
Christ Stopped at Eboli
as Barone Nicola Rotunno
1978
The Song of Roland
as Turpin/der Mönch
1976
I prosseneti
as Il conte Davide
Illustrious Corpses
as Judge Rasto
1975
Irene, Irene
as Guido
E il Casanova di Fellini?
as Self
1974
Antigone
as Le Coryphée
Emmanuelle
as Mario
Don't Touch the White Woman!
as Sitting Bull
1973
La rosa rossa
as Count Paolo Balzeri
Valparaiso, Valparaiso
as Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt
La divine comédie
as Virgile
1972
The Master and Margarita
as Profesor Woland & Satana
La Légende du siècle
as Self
The Audience
as teologa Belga
1971
The Big Black Sow
as Il Padre di Enrico
1970
Ciao, Federico!
as Self (uncredited)
Many Wars Ago
as Gen. Leone
1969
Satyricon
as Lica
The Milky Way
as Man with cape
1968
La forêt noire
as Hans Richter
1965
Mission of Fear
as Jean de Brébeuf
1963
Corruption
as Leonardo Mattioli
Banana Peel
as Hervé Bontemps
1962
Cross of the Living
as baron von Eggerth
1961
Scano Boa
as Cavarzan
1960
La Dolce Vita
as Steiner
1958
The Lovers
as Henri Tournier
1956
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Claude Frollo
1953
Mina de Vanghel
as Mr. de Larçay
The Lady Without Camelias
as Lodi
Les Crimes de l'amour
as Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')
1952
The Solitary Conquerors
as Pascal Giroud
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
as Bueno
1951
The Forbidden Christ
as Antonio
1946
Solita de Cordoue
as Pierre Desluc
1943
The Phantom Baron
as Hervé
1942
The Devil's Envoys
as Gilles, a Minstrel
1941
Stormy Waters
as Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)
Madame Sans-Gêne
as Roustan
1940
My Crimes After Mein Kampf
as Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)