Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1908-07-12
Day of Death
1994-05-16
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). 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.
Filmography (65)
Emmanuelle in Ontario
2025
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
2006
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
2003
Dear Antonioni
1995
The Return of Casanova
1992
The Annunciation of Marie
1991
Sweet War, Farewell
1991
Les chevaliers de la table ronde
1990
Film sur Georges Perec
1990
Camille Claudel
1988
Umi e, See You
1988Van Gogh à Paris, repérages
1988Lucky Ravi
1987
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
1987
