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Alain Cuny

Jul 12, 1908 - May 16, 1994 (85 years old) in 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.

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Known For

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Emmanuelle
Mario
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La Dolce Vita
Steiner
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Claude Frollo
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Histoire(s) du cinéma
Self
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
El Viudo Xius
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Time Masters
Xul (voice)
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The Devil's Envoys
Gilles, a Minstrel
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Le Roman de Renart
Ysengrin (voice)
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The Milky Way
Man with cape
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Deuil en 24 heures
Le colonel Carvin

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