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
Also known As
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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...
1990
as Self
1958
as Henri Tournier
1988
as Louis-Prosper Claudel
1956
as Claude Frollo
1991
as Vecchio Crimen
1974
as Mario
1969
as Man with cape
1979
as Barone Nicola Rotunno
1976
as Judge Rasto
1942
as Gilles, a Minstrel
1943
as Hervé
1972
as Profesor Woland & Satana
1985
as Old Mafioso
1974
as Sitting Bull
1963
as Hervé Bontemps
1941
as Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)
1946
as Pierre Desluc
1953
as Lodi
1970
as Gen. Leone
1968
as Hans Richter
1963
as Leonardo Mattioli
1940
as Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)
1987
as El Viudo Xius
1983
as Self
1976
as Il conte Davide
1953
as Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')
1970
as Self (uncredited)
1969
1973
as Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt
1952
as Bueno
1983
as Mario Cantone
1988
as Lecteur des textes d'Artaud
1991
as Anne Vercors
1982
as Xul (voice)
1951
as Antonio
1984
as Luigi
1969
as Lica
1978
as Turpin/der Mönch
1941
as Roustan
1988
as Alfio Cosini sr.
1975
as Guido
1965
as Jean de Brébeuf
1972
as teologa Belga
1995
as Self
1971
as Il Padre di Enrico
1952
as Pascal Giroud
1990
as Merlin
1973
as Count Paolo Balzeri
1960
as Steiner
1973
as Virgile
1961
as Cavarzan
1962
as baron von Eggerth
2003
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1987
as Aigner
1987
as Plantation Owner
1992
as Marquis
1974
as Le Coryphée
1979
as La voix du pur esprit
1953
as Mr. de Larçay
1975
as Self
1972
as Self
1988
as Don Macine
1991
as Director
1953
as Second Assistant Director
1991
as Screenplay
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