
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.

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