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Acting
Birthday
July 12, 1908
Died
May 16, 1994
Place of Birth
Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
Alain Cuny
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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.
Known For
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Mario (archival footage)
Emmanuelle in Ontario
2025
6.1
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
2003
6.4
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
1998
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La famiglia Ricordi
1995
0.0
Self
Dear Antonioni
1995
6.0
Marquis
The Return of Casanova
1992
5.5
Anne Vercors
The Annunciation of Marie
1991
7.0
Vecchio Crimen
Sweet War, Farewell
1991
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Merlin
Les chevaliers de la table ronde
1990
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Self
Film sur Georges Perec
1990
Credits
Emmanuelle in Ontario
as Mario (archival footage)
2025
0.0
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2003
6.1
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1998
6.4
La famiglia Ricordi
1995
0.0
Dear Antonioni
as Self
1995
0.0
The Return of Casanova
as Marquis
1992
6.0
The Annunciation of Marie
as Anne Vercors
1991
5.5
Sweet War, Farewell
as Vecchio Crimen
1991
7.0
Les chevaliers de la table ronde
as Merlin
1990
0.0
Film sur Georges Perec
as Self
1990
0.0
Histoire(s) du cinéma
as Self
1989
4.9
Camille Claudel
as Louis-Prosper Claudel
1988
6.8
Umi e, See You
as Don Macine
1988
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Zeno's Conscience
as Alfio Cosini sr.
1988
6.2
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Van Gogh à Paris, repérages
as Lecteur des textes d'Artaud
1988
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Lucky Ravi
as Plantation Owner
1987
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
as El Viudo Xius
1987
7.3
The Distant Land
as Aigner
1987
5.0
Detective
as Old Mafioso
1985
5.2
Buio nella Valle
as Luigi
1984
0.0
The Basileus Quartet
as Mario Cantone
1983
1.0
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Fellini nel cestino
as Self
1983
7.5
Deuil en 24 heures
as Le colonel Carvin
1982
7.5
Time Masters
as Xul (voice)
1982
7.2
The Games of Countess Dolingen
1981
2.9
Le Journal
as Wilchaint
1979
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Roberte
as La voix du pur esprit
1979
3.7
Christ Stopped at Eboli
as Barone Nicola Rotunno
1979
7.1
The Song of Roland
as Turpin/der Mönch
1978
4.9
I prosseneti
as Il conte Davide
1976
3.2
Illustrious Corpses
as Judge Rasto
1976
6.8
Irene, Irene
as Guido
1975
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E il Casanova di Fellini?
as Self
1975
0.0
Two in the Amsterdam Rain
1975
7.5
Antigone
as Le Coryphée
1974
0.0
Emmanuelle
as Mario
1974
6.0
Le Roman de Renart
as Ysengrin (voice)
1974
7.0
Don't Touch the White Woman!
as Sitting Bull
1974
5.5
La rosa rossa
as Count Paolo Balzeri
1973
8.0
Valparaiso, Valparaiso
as Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt
1973
3.8
La divine comédie
as Virgile
1973
0.0
The Master and Margarita
as Profesor Woland & Satana
1972
5.1
La Légende du siècle
as Self
1972
0.0
The Audience
as teologa Belga
1972
6.5
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Midi trente
as Self
1972
6.0
The Big Black Sow
as Il Padre di Enrico
1971
0.0
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Samedi soir
as Self
1971
6.0
Ciao, Federico!
as Self (uncredited)
1970
6.8
Many Wars Ago
as Gen. Leone
1970
7.3
Satyricon
as Lica
1969
6.7
Safari 5000
1969
7.3
The Milky Way
as Man with cape
1969
7.0
La forêt noire
as Hans Richter
1968
10.0
Mission of Fear
as Jean de Brébeuf
1965
0.0
Corruption
as Leonardo Mattioli
1963
7.6
Banana Peel
as Hervé Bontemps
1963
5.8
Cross of the Living
as Baron Von Eggerth
1962
5.0
Scano Boa
as Cavarzan
1961
0.0
La Dolce Vita
as Steiner
1960
8.0
The Lovers
as Henri Tournier
1958
6.6
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Claude Frollo
1956
6.7
Cinépanorama
as Self
1956
8.0
Mina de Vanghel
as Mr. de Larçay
1953
0.0
The Lady Without Camelias
as Lodi
1953
6.4
Les Crimes de l'amour
as Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')
1953
6.0
The Solitary Conquerors
as Pascal Giroud
1952
0.0
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
as Bueno
1952
6.0
The Forbidden Christ
as Antonio
1951
6.3
Solita de Cordoue
as Pierre Desluc
1946
0.0
The Phantom Baron
as Hervé
1943
6.1
The Devil's Envoys
as Gilles, a Minstrel
1942
6.8
Stormy Waters
as Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)
1941
6.7
Madame Sans-Gêne
as Roustan
1941
1.0
My Crimes After Mein Kampf
as Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)
1940
3.0