Actor
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 Ela ...

Known For
Acting
2003 -- Fellini: I'm a Born Liar | Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1998 -- Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute | Self
1995 -- Dear Antonioni | Self
1992 -- The Return of Casanova | Marquis
1991 -- The Annunciation of Marie | Anne Vercors
1991 -- Sweet War, Farewell | Vecchio Crimen
1990 -- Les chevaliers de la table ronde | Merlin
1990 -- Film sur Georges Perec | Self
1988 -- Camille Claudel | Louis-Prosper Claudel
1988 -- To the Sea, See You | Don Macine
1988 -- Zeno's Conscience | Alfio Cosini sr.
1988 -- Van Gogh à Paris, repérages | Lecteur des textes d'Artaud
1987 -- Lucky Ravi | Plantation Owner
1987 -- Chronicle of a Death Foretold | El Viudo Xius
1987 -- The Distant Land | Aigner
1985 -- Detective | Old Mafioso
1984 -- Buio nella Valle | Luigi
1983 -- The Basileus Quartet | Mario Cantone
1983 -- Fellini nel cestino | Self
1982 -- Time Masters | Xul (voice)
1979 -- Roberte | La voix du pur esprit
1979 -- Christ Stopped at Eboli | Barone Nicola Rotunno
1978 -- The Song of Roland | Turpin/der Mönch
1976 -- I prosseneti | Il conte Davide
1976 -- Illustrious Corpses | Judge Rasto
1975 -- Irene, Irene | Guido
1975 -- E il Casanova di Fellini? | Self
1975 -- Two in the Amsterdam Rain |
1974 -- Antigone | Le Coryphée
1974 -- Emmanuelle | Mario
1974 -- Don't Touch the White Woman! | Sitting Bull
1973 -- La rosa rossa | Count Paolo Balzeri
1973 -- Valparaiso, Valparaiso | Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt
1973 -- La divine comédie | Virgile
1972 -- The Master and Margarita | Profesor Woland & Satana
1972 -- La Légende du siècle | Self
1972 -- The Audience | teologa Belga
1971 -- The Big Black Sow | Il Padre di Enrico
1970 -- Ciao, Federico! | Self (uncredited)
1970 -- Many Wars Ago... | Gen. Leone
1969 -- Fellini Satyricon | Lica
1969 -- Safari 5000 |
1969 -- The Milky Way | Man with cape
1968 -- La forêt noire | Hans Richter
1965 -- Mission of Fear | Jean de Brébeuf
1963 -- Corruption | Leonardo Mattioli
1963 -- Banana Peel | Hervé Bontemps
1962 -- Cross of the Living | baron von Eggerth
1961 -- Scano Boa | Cavarzan
1960 -- La Dolce Vita | Steiner
1958 -- The Lovers | Henri Tournier
1956 -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Claude Frollo
1953 -- Mina de Vanghel | Mr. de Larçay
1953 -- The Lady Without Camelias | Lodi
1953 -- Les Crimes de l'amour | Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')
1952 -- The Solitary Conquerors | Pascal Giroud
1952 -- Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi | Bueno
1951 -- The Forbidden Christ | Antonio
1946 -- Solita de Cordoue | Pierre Desluc
1943 -- The Phantom Baron | Hervé
1942 -- The Devil's Envoys | Gilles, a Minstrel
1941 -- Stormy Waters | Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)
1941 -- Madame Sans-Gêne | Roustan
1940 -- My Crimes After Mein Kampf | Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)
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