Alain Cuny

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1908-07-12 (86 years old)

Deathday

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 Sitti...

Acting

1958

The Lovers

as Henri Tournier

1988

Camille Claudel

as Louis-Prosper Claudel

1956

1991

Sweet War, Farewell

as Vecchio Crimen

1974

Emmanuelle

as Mario

1969

The Milky Way

as Man with cape

1979

Christ Stopped at Eboli

as Barone Nicola Rotunno

1976

Illustrious Corpses

as Judge Rasto

1942

The Devil's Envoys

as Gilles, a Minstrel

1943

1972

The Master and Margarita

as Profesor Woland & Satana

1985

Detective

as Old Mafioso

1974

1963

Banana Peel

as Hervé Bontemps

1941

Stormy Waters

as Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)

1946

Solita de Cordoue

as Pierre Desluc

1970

Many Wars Ago

as Gen. Leone

1968

La forêt noire

as Hans Richter

1963

Corruption

as Leonardo Mattioli

1940

My Crimes After Mein Kampf

as Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)

1987

1976

I prosseneti

as Il conte Davide

1953

Les Crimes de l'amour

as Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')

1970

Ciao, Federico!

as Self (uncredited)

1973

Valparaiso, Valparaiso

as Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt

1983

The Basileus Quartet

as Mario Cantone

1988

Van Gogh à Paris, repérages

as Lecteur des textes d'Artaud

1991

1982

Time Masters

as Xul (voice)

1951

1984

1969

Satyricon

as Lica

1978

The Song of Roland

as Turpin/der Mönch

1941

1988

Zeno's Conscience

as Alfio Cosini sr.

1975

Irene, Irene

as Guido

1965

Mission of Fear

as Jean de Brébeuf

1972

The Audience

as teologa Belga

1995

1971

The Big Black Sow

as Il Padre di Enrico

1952

The Solitary Conquerors

as Pascal Giroud

1973

La rosa rossa

as Count Paolo Balzeri

1960

La Dolce Vita

as Steiner

1973

1961

Scano Boa

as Cavarzan

1962

Cross of the Living

as baron von Eggerth

2003

Fellini: I'm a Born Liar

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1987

1987

Lucky Ravi

as Plantation Owner

1974

Antigone

as Le Coryphée

1979

Roberte

as La voix du pur esprit

1953

Mina de Vanghel

as Mr. de Larçay

1988

To the Sea, See You

as Don Macine

Production

1953

The Vanquished

as Second Assistant Director

1991

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