Alain Cuny

Gender: Male
Born: 12th July 1908
Died: 16th May 1994
Nationality: France
Movies: Satyricon, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, La Dolce Vita, Don't Touch The White Woman!, Les Visiteurs du soir, Emmanuelle, The Return of Casanova, The Forbidden Christ, Many Wars Ago, The Recourse to the Method, Christ Stopped at Eboli, The Return of the Unfortunate Son, Les Amants, Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Camille Claudel, Detective, The Milky Way, Peau de banane, The Master and Margaret, Illustrious Corpses, The Annunciation of Marie

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.

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