
Alain Cuny
Born July 12, 1908 · Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
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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Christ Stopped at Eboli

The Games of Countess Dolingen

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The Lady Without Camelias

The Song of Roland

Valparaiso, Valparaiso

My Crimes After Mein Kampf

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Banana Peel

Cross of the Living

The Big Black Sow

E il Casanova di Fellini?

Dear Antonioni

Antigone

I prosseneti

Many Wars Ago

Corruption

Scano Boa

Safari 5000

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute

Buio nella Valle

Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi

The Audience

La Légende du siècle

The Phantom Baron

Umi e, See You

Les Crimes de l'amour

Mission of Fear

Ciao, Federico!

Sweet War, Farewell

La rosa rossa

The Annunciation of Marie

La forêt noire

The Basileus Quartet

Les chevaliers de la table ronde

The Distant Land

Irene, Irene

Two in the Amsterdam Rain

Roberte

Madame Sans-Gêne

Emmanuelle in Ontario

Mina de Vanghel

The Solitary Conquerors

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