Acting · Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France · Born July 12, 1908
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.
MovieEmmanuelle in Ontario
2025
as Mario (archival footage)
MovieHistoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
2006
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieFellini: I'm a Born Liar
2003
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
TVLa famiglia Ricordi
1995
MovieDear Antonioni
1995
as Self
MovieThe Return of Casanova
1992
as Marquis
MovieThe Annunciation of Marie
1991
as Anne Vercors
MovieSweet War, Farewell
1991
as Vecchio Crimen
MovieLes chevaliers de la table ronde
1990
as Merlin
MovieFilm sur Georges Perec
1990
as Self
TVHistoire(s) du cinéma
1989
as Self
MovieCamille Claudel
1988
as Louis-Prosper Claudel
MovieUmi e, See You
1988
as Don Macine
TVLa coscienza di Zeno
1988
as Alfio Cosini sr.
Van Gogh à Paris, repérages
1988
as Lecteur des textes d'Artaud
Lucky Ravi
1987
as Plantation Owner
MovieChronicle of a Death Foretold
1987
as El Viudo Xius
MovieThe Distant Land
1987
as Aigner
MovieDetective
1985
as Old Mafioso
MovieBuio nella Valle
1984
as Luigi
MovieThe Basileus Quartet
1983
as Mario Cantone
Fellini nel cestino
1983
as Self
TVDeuil en 24 heures
1982
as Le colonel Carvin
MovieTime Masters
1982
as Xul (voice)
Colomba
1982
MovieThe Games of Countess Dolingen
1981
TVLe Journal
1979
as Wilchaint
MovieRoberte
1979
as La voix du pur esprit
MovieChrist Stopped at Eboli
1979
as Barone Nicola Rotunno
MovieThe Song of Roland
1978
as Turpin/der Mönch
MovieI prosseneti
1976
as Il conte Davide
MovieIllustrious Corpses
1976
as Judge Rasto
MovieIrene, Irene
1975
as Guido
MovieE il Casanova di Fellini?
1975
as Self
MovieTwo in the Amsterdam Rain
1975
MovieAntigone
1974
as Le Coryphée
MovieEmmanuelle
1974
as Mario
TVLe Roman de Renart
1974
as Ysengrin (voice)
MovieDon't Touch the White Woman!
1974
as Sitting Bull
MovieLa rosa rossa
1973
as Count Paolo Balzeri
MovieValparaiso, Valparaiso
1973
as Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt
MovieLa divine comédie
1973
as Virgile
MovieThe Master and Margarita
1972
as Profesor Woland & Satana
MovieLa Légende du siècle
1972
as Self
MovieThe Audience
1972
as teologa Belga
TVMidi trente
1972
as Self
MovieThe Big Black Sow
1971
as Il Padre di Enrico
Samedi soir
1971
as Self
MovieCiao, Federico!
1970
as Self (uncredited)
MovieMany Wars Ago
1970
as Gen. Leone
MovieSatyricon
1969
as Lica
MovieSafari 5000
1969
MovieThe Milky Way
1969
as Man with cape
MovieLa forêt noire
1968
as Hans Richter
MovieMission of Fear
1965
as Jean de Brébeuf
MovieCorruption
1963
as Leonardo Mattioli
MovieBanana Peel
1963
as Hervé Bontemps
MovieCross of the Living
1962
as Baron Von Eggerth
MovieScano Boa
1961
as Cavarzan
MovieLa Dolce Vita
1960
as Steiner
MovieThe Lovers
1958
as Henri Tournier
MovieThe Hunchback of Notre Dame
1956
as Claude Frollo
TVCinépanorama
1956
as Self
MovieMina de Vanghel
1953
as Mr. de Larçay
MovieThe Lady Without Camelias
1953
as Lodi
MovieLes Crimes de l'amour
1953
as Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')
MovieThe Solitary Conquerors
1952
as Pascal Giroud
MovieRed Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
1952
as Bueno
MovieThe Forbidden Christ
1951
as Antonio
MovieSolita de Cordoue
1946
as Pierre Desluc
MovieThe Phantom Baron
1943
as Hervé
MovieThe Devil's Envoys
1942
as Gilles, a Minstrel
MovieStormy Waters
1941
as Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)
MovieMadame Sans-Gêne
1941
as Roustan
MovieMy Crimes After Mein Kampf
1940
as Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)
