Alain Cuny
Birthday: 1908-07-12 | Place of Birth: Saint-Malo, FranceFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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
Acting
Role
as Xul (voice)
as Self
as Marquis
as Anne Vercors
as Louis-Prosper Claudel
as Self
as Alfio Cosini sr.
as El Viudo Xius
as Old Mafioso
as Mario Cantone
as Barone Nicola Rotunno
as La voix du pur esprit
as Wilchaint
as Turpin/der Mönch
as Il conte Davide
as Judge Rasto
as Self
as Mario
as Sitting Bull
as Ysengrin (voice)
as Profesor Woland & Satana
as Self
as teologa Belga
as Il Padre di Enrico
as Gen. Leone
as Man with cape
