As Actor
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
1998
6.4
Alain Cuny
Acting
Birth Date
July 12, 1908
Place of Birth
Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
Date of Death
May 16, 1994
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.
Complete Filmography
As Actor
The Return of Casanova
1992
6.0
As Actor, As Director, As Writer
The Annunciation of Marie
1991
5.5
As Actor
Sweet War, Farewell
1991
7.0
As Actor
Camille Claudel
1988
6.8
As Actor
Zeno's Conscience
1988
6.2
As Actor
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
1987
7.4
As Actor
Detective
1985
5.3
As Actor
The Basileus Quartet
1983
1.0
As Actor
Time Masters
1982
7.3
As Actor
Christ Stopped at Eboli
1979
7.2
As Actor
The Song of Roland
1978
4.8
As Actor
I prosseneti
1976
3.4
As Actor
Illustrious Corpses
1976
6.8
As Actor
Two in the Amsterdam Rain
1975
7.5
As Actor
Emmanuelle
1974
6.0
As Actor
Valparaiso, Valparaiso
1973
4.4
As Actor
The Master and Margarita
1972
5.3
As Actor
The Audience
1972
6.7
As Actor
Ciao, Federico!
1970
6.8