Alain Cuny
Born July 12, 1908 (Age: 117)
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Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
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.
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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Filmography
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
1998
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as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Age: 90
The Return of Casanova
1992
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as Marquis
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Age: 83
The Annunciation of Marie
1991
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as Anne Vercors
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Age: 83
Sweet War, Farewell
1991
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as Vecchio Crimen
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Age: 83
Les chevaliers de la table ronde
1990
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as Merlin
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Age: 82
Film sur Georges Perec
1990
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as Self
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Age: 81
Camille Claudel
1988
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as Louis-Prosper Claudel
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Age: 80
Umi e, See You
1988
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as Don Macine
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Age: 79
No Image
Van Gogh à Paris, repérages
1988
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as Lecteur des textes d'Artaud
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Age: 79
No Image
Lucky Ravi
1987
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as Plantation Owner
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Age: 78
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
1987
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as El Viudo Xius
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Age: 78
The Distant Land
1987
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as Aigner
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Age: 78
Detective
1985
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as Old Mafioso
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Age: 77
Buio nella Valle
1984
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as Luigi
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Age: 76
Time Masters
1982
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as Xul (voice)
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Age: 73
The Games of Countess Dolingen
1981
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as
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Age: 73
The Song of Roland
1978
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as Turpin/der Mönch
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Age: 70
E il Casanova di Fellini?
1975
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as Self
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Age: 66
Antigone
1974
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as Le Coryphée
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Age: 66
Emmanuelle
1974
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as Mario
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Age: 65
Don't Touch the White Woman!
1974
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as Sitting Bull
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Age: 65
La rosa rossa
1973
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as Count Paolo Balzeri
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Age: 64
Valparaiso, Valparaiso
1973
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as Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt
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Age: 64
La divine comédie
1973
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as Virgile
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Age: 64
The Master and Margarita
1972
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as Profesor Woland & Satana
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Age: 64
La Légende du siècle
1972
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as Self
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Age: 63
The Audience
1972
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as teologa Belga
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Age: 63
The Big Black Sow
1971
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as Il Padre di Enrico
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Age: 62
Satyricon
1969
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as Lica
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Age: 61
Safari 5000
1969
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as
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Age: 61
The Milky Way
1969
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as Man with cape
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Age: 60
La forêt noire
1968
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as Hans Richter
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Age: 59
Mission of Fear
1965
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as Jean de Brébeuf
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Age: 56
Corruption
1963
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as Leonardo Mattioli
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Age: 55
Banana Peel
1963
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as Hervé Bontemps
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Age: 54
Cross of the Living
1962
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as Baron Von Eggerth
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Age: 54
Scano Boa
1961
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as Cavarzan
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Age: 52
La Dolce Vita
1960
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as Steiner
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Age: 51
The Lovers
1958
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as Henri Tournier
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Age: 50
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1956
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as Claude Frollo
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Age: 48
Mina de Vanghel
1953
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as Mr. de Larçay
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Age: 44
The Lady Without Camelias
1953
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as Lodi
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Age: 44
Les Crimes de l'amour
1953
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as Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')
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Age: 44
The Devil's Envoys
1942
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as Gilles, a Minstrel
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Age: 34
Stormy Waters
1941
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as Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)
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Age: 33
Madame Sans-Gêne
1941
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as Roustan
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Age: 33