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Alain Cuny
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 indus…
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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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2025
Emmanuelle in Ontario
Movie Mario (archival footage)
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2006
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2003
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1995
La famiglia Ricordi
TV show
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1995
Dear Antonioni
Movie Self
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1992
The Return of Casanova
Movie Marquis
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1991
The Annunciation of Marie
Movie Anne Vercors
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1991
Sweet War, Farewell
Movie Vecchio Crimen
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1990
Les chevaliers de la table ronde
Movie Merlin
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1990
Film sur Georges Perec
Movie Self
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1989
Histoire(s) du cinéma
TV show Self
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1988
Camille Claudel
Movie Louis-Prosper Claudel
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1988
Umi e, See You
Movie Don Macine
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1988
La coscienza di Zeno
TV show Alfio Cosini sr.
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1988
Van Gogh à Paris, repérages
Movie Lecteur des textes d'Artaud
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1987
Lucky Ravi
Movie Plantation Owner
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1987
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Movie El Viudo Xius
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1987
The Distant Land
Movie Aigner
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1985
Detective
Movie Old Mafioso
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1984
Buio nella Valle
Movie Luigi
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1983
The Basileus Quartet
Movie Mario Cantone
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1983
Fellini nel cestino
Movie Self
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1982
Deuil en 24 heures
TV show Le colonel Carvin
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1982
Time Masters
Movie Xul (voice)
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1982
Colomba
TV show
- 1981
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1979
Le Journal
TV show Wilchaint
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1979
Roberte
Movie La voix du pur esprit
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1979
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Movie Barone Nicola Rotunno
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1978
The Song of Roland
Movie Turpin/der Mönch
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1976
I prosseneti
Movie Il conte Davide
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1976
Illustrious Corpses
Movie Judge Rasto
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1975
Irene, Irene
Movie Guido
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1975
E il Casanova di Fellini?
Movie Self
- 1975
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1974
Antigone
Movie Le Coryphée
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1974
Emmanuelle
Movie Mario
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1974
Le Roman de Renart
TV show Ysengrin (voice)
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1974
Don't Touch the White Woman!
Movie Sitting Bull
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1973
La rosa rossa
Movie Count Paolo Balzeri
