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Alain Cuny

Alain Cuny

Birthday: 1908-07-12 | Place of Birth: Saint-Malo, France

​From 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1989
Camille Claudel

as    Louis-Prosper Claudel

1985
Detective

as    Old Mafioso

1983
The Basileus Quartet

as    Mario Cantone

1979
Christ Stopped at Eboli

as    Barone Nicola Rotunno

1976
Illustrious Corpses

as    Judge Rasto

1974
Emmanuelle

as    Mario

1972
The Master and Margarita

as    Profesor Woland & Satana

1963
Banana Peel

as    Hervé Bontemps

1961
La Dolce Vita

as    Steiner

1958
The Lovers

as    Henri Tournier

1957
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

as    Claude Frollo