
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.

Cinépanorama
TV • 1956

Emmanuelle
MOVIE • 1974

La Dolce Vita
MOVIE • 1960

Histoire(s) du cinéma
TV • 1989

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
MOVIE • 1956

The Return of Casanova
MOVIE • 1992

La famiglia Ricordi
TV • 1995

Satyricon
MOVIE • 1969

Camille Claudel
MOVIE • 1988

Safari 5000
MOVIE • 1969

Detective
MOVIE • 1985

Chronicle of a Death Foretold
MOVIE • 1987

Stormy Waters
MOVIE • 1941

Time Masters
MOVIE • 1982

Illustrious Corpses
MOVIE • 1976

The Devil's Envoys
MOVIE • 1942

Le Roman de Renart
TV • 1974

Banana Peel
MOVIE • 1963