Overview

Know for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
12 Jul, 1908 (116 years old)

Alain Cuny

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.

Known For

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
HD
27 min 1998

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

Documentary
Christ Stopped at Eboli
HD
220 min 1979

Christ Stopped at Eboli

Drama
Emmanuelle
HD
95 min 1974

Emmanuelle

Drama
The Milky Way
HD
102 min 1969

The Milky Way

Comedy
The Lovers
HD
90 min 1958

The Lovers

Romance
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
HD
115 min 1956

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Drama

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