Alain Cuny
Acting
Born July 12, 1908 · Saint-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.
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Emmanuelle in Ontario
2025
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
2003
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
1998
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
1988
Van Gogh à Paris, repérages
1988
Lucky Ravi
1987
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
1987
The Distant Land
1987
Detective
1985
Buio nella Valle
1984
The Basileus Quartet
1983
Fellini nel cestino
1983
Time Masters
1982
The Games of Countess Dolingen
1981
Roberte
1979
Christ Stopped at Eboli
1979
The Song of Roland
1978
I prosseneti
1976
Illustrious Corpses
1976
Irene, Irene
1975
E il Casanova di Fellini?
1975
Two in the Amsterdam Rain
1975
Antigone
1974
Emmanuelle
1974
Don't Touch the White Woman!
1974
La rosa rossa
1973
Valparaiso, Valparaiso
1973
La divine comédie
1973
The Master and Margarita
1972
La Légende du siècle
1972
The Audience
1972
The Big Black Sow
1971
Ciao, Federico!
1970
Many Wars Ago
1970
Satyricon
1969
Safari 5000
1969
The Milky Way
1969
La forêt noire
1968
Mission of Fear
1965
Corruption
1963
Banana Peel
1963
Cross of the Living
1962
Scano Boa
1961
La Dolce Vita
1960
The Lovers
1958
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1956
Mina de Vanghel
1953
The Lady Without Camelias
1953
Les Crimes de l'amour
1953
The Solitary Conquerors
1952
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
1952
The Forbidden Christ
1951
Solita de Cordoue
1946
The Phantom Baron
1943
The Devil's Envoys
1942
Stormy Waters
1941
Madame Sans-Gêne
1941
My Crimes After Mein Kampf
1940