Alain Cuny
Birthday: Born in 1908-07-12 in Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
Deathday: 1994-05-16
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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Deuil en 24 heures
Character: Le colonel Carvin
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Le Roman de Renart
Character: Ysengrin (voice)
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Histoire(s) du cinéma
Character: Self
An 8-part documentary chronicling the history of cinema, examining the history of the concept of cinema and how both relates to the 20th century....
Le Journal
Character: Wilchaint
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Cinépanorama
Character: Self
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Movie Credits
Film sur Georges Perec
Character: Self
A two-part documentary made for French TV about Georges Perec, directed by his former partner Catherine Binet. It features a mixture of archival footage, scenes from Perec’s films and to-camera readings of excerpts from his work by various actors and friends of the author (Michael Lonsdale, Marina Vlady, Alain Cuny, Sami Frey, Edith Scob, Harry Mathews and others)....
The Lovers
Character: Henri Tournier
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Camille Claudel
Character: Louis-Prosper Claudel
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Character: Claude Frollo
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Sweet War, Farewell
Character: Vecchio Crimen
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Emmanuelle
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The Milky Way
Character: Man with cape
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The Devil's Envoys
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The Phantom Baron
Character: Hervé
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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
Character: Self
Part 5 of Godard's 8 part examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates to the 20th century....
The Master and Margarita
Character: Profesor Woland & Satana
Maestro Nikolai Masoudov, a talented writer, and his assistant Margaret, are working on a biblical story of Pontius Pilate. The Satan — Woland, and his lieutenants, are harassing Master by surveillance, by killing his friend, and sending another friend to Gulag prison in Siberia. Victimized by their harassment, Master becomes paranoid, and is locked up in a mental institution. Margaret is trying to save him regardless of the danger....
Detective
Character: Old Mafioso
Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum of money that he owes them, with both the police and the mob circling the situation. In the same hotel, Inspector Neveu looks into a murder that took place years before, and his storyline overlaps with the arc of the Chenals....
Don't Touch the White Woman!
Character: Sitting Bull
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Banana Peel
Character: Hervé Bontemps
Two scoundrels cheat a millionaire out of a huge bankroll on the French Riviera....
Stormy Waters
Character: Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)
A married tugboat captain falls for a woman he rescues from a sinking ship....
Solita de Cordoue
Character: Pierre Desluc
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The Lady Without Camelias
Character: Lodi
A Milanese shop assistant becomes an overnight film sensation when fate lands her the leading role in a prominent producer's romantic drama....
Many Wars Ago...
Character: Gen. Leone
Time after time, soldiers of the Italian Army are forced to leave their mountain trenches in attempts to storm an enemy fortress, always with the same disastrous results. As casualties mount, indignation spreads among the rank and file. Disturbed by his superiors' decisions, Lieutenant Sassu is led to question the purpose of war and reconsider where his real duties lie....
La forêt noire
Character: Hans Richter
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Corruption
Character: Leonardo Mattioli
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My Crimes After Mein Kampf
Character: Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Character: El Viudo Xius
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Two in the Amsterdam Rain
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Akira, a Japanese expat working in Amsterdam, falls in love with a Japanese woman at Schiphol Airport who he thinks is his high school love....
I prosseneti
Character: Il conte Davide
David and his wife Gilda transform their beautiful villa in a brothel, which are home to several characters. Odile, the daughter of a woman tortured by mercenaries, meets in the villa one of the torturers and want to relive over his own body the suffering endured by the mother. An ambassador who was abandoned by his companion, imposes its new partner to take his place. An eighteen year old, very open-minded, staged an orgy....
Les Crimes de l'amour
Character: Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')
Two adaptations. First, "Le Rideau cramoisi" by Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly is about a young second lieutenant of hussars, garrisoned in the provinces, who evokes a strange adventure. Staying with an old couple, he acts as acquaintance with Albertine, the daughter of his hosts, fell in love with her and, after paying her assiduous courtship, made her his mistress. But one night, she died in his arms. He tried in vain to get rid of the corpse and ended up run away. Second, "Mina de Vanghel" b...
Ciao, Federico!
Character: Self (uncredited)
A behind-the-scenes documentary about the filming of the Federico Fellini film, "Satyricon."...
Safari 5000
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A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driver named Pierre (Jean-Claude Drouot). Godai is enlisted to race in an annual endurance race, The East African Safari Rally. Peripheral to this is the story concerning Godai's former lover Yuko (Ruriko Asaoka), a fashion designer, and her friend Anna (Emmanuel Riva), who happens to be Pierre's wife....
Valparaiso, Valparaiso
Character: Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt
Alain Cluny is Balthazar, a bumbling middle-aged intellectual who spouts off from time to time about leftist causes, usually to his current girlfriend. Then Edwarda (Bernadette Lafont), who is active in the political underground, comes into his life. From that point on, he begins to act on his beliefs. Edwarda's underground political action group stages a little drama to test Balthazar's commitment and reliability, putting him through an interrogation by what appear to him to be French secret po...
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
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The Basileus Quartet
Character: Mario Cantone
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The Annunciation of Marie
Character: Anne Vercors
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Time Masters
Character: Xul (voice)
On planet Perdide, an attack of giant hornets leaves young Piel alone in a wrecked car with his dying father. A mayday message reaches their friend Jaffar, an adventurer travelling through space. Onboard Jaffar’s shuttle are the renegade Prince Matton, his fiancée, and Silbad, who knows Perdide well. Thus begins an incredible race across space to save Piel....
The Forbidden Christ
Character: Antonio
Freshly released from a Russian POW camp, Italian soldier Raf Vallone tries to discover who betrayed his brother to the Nazis....
Buio nella Valle
Character: Luigi
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Satyricon
Character: Lica
After his young lover, Gitone, leaves him for another man, Encolpio decides to kill himself, but a sudden earthquake destroys his home before he has a chance to do so. Now wandering around Rome in the time of Nero, Encolpio encounters one bizarre and surreal scene after another....
The Song of Roland
Character: Turpin/der Mönch
Roland des Roncesvalles is a legendary knight from the age of chivalry in France. In the 11th-century epic La Chanson de Roland, he is depicted as a key figure in halting the advance of the Arabs into France. In this story, the 10th-century legend is staged by a group of 12th-century pilgrims using the 11th-century poem. Their acting is interrupted by a violent peasant uprising, which kills many of the pilgrims. However, one of the survivors, is converted to the peasant cause and later speaks ou...
Madame Sans-Gêne
Character: Roustan
Deals with the ordeals of a crude washerwoman in the chic court of Napoleon the First. Based on the play of the same name....
Zeno's Conscience
Character: Alfio Cosini sr.
La coscienza di Zeno is a TV adaptation of the 1923 novel by Italo Svevo. It was broadcasted by RAI in 1988....
Irene, Irene
Character: Guido
The 60-year-old Guido is in a life crisis after his wife left him. His search for her develops more and more into his search for himself and the confrontation with the question of the meaning of life ......
Mission of Fear
Character: Jean de Brébeuf
A young Jesuit missionary reflects on his life and his faith while awaiting his execution at the hands of the Native Americans he came to convert....
The Audience
Character: teologa Belga
Caustic satire on bureaucracy of the Vatican authority and a simple Italian who wants to achieve the audience with the Pope....
Dear Antonioni
Character: Self
A documentary portrait of Michangelo Antonioni based on Roland Barthes' essay....
The Big Black Sow
Character: Il Padre di Enrico
Enrico struggles with his dysfunctional family and cheating wife, and eventually makes plans to kill them all....
The Solitary Conquerors
Character: Pascal Giroud
After inheriting a forest in Africa where she decides to go, Thérèse tries to sell her property to Pascal, a gold digger who owns the land neighboring this forest. He refuses the transaction and multiplies the obstacles against the forest exploitation project to which Thérèse resigns herself given Pascal's attitude....
Les chevaliers de la table ronde
Character: Merlin
The Quest of the Grail from the birth of Merlin, to the foundation of the Round Table, the coronation of Arthur, the love affairs of Lancelot and Guinevere, the Bridge of the Sword, the revenge of Morgana until the return of Gilead to the castle of the Fisher King....
La rosa rossa
Character: Count Paolo Balzeri
A former General comes back to Trieste to live with his cousins....
La Dolce Vita
Character: Steiner
Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer....
La divine comédie
Character: Virgile
Dante's Divine Comedy in a TV version by Michel Tréguer....
Scano Boa
Character: Cavarzan
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Cross of the Living
Character: baron von Eggerth
Yan, who has just been acquitted of a crime he has not committed, returns to his Flemish village, where he meets hostility, particularly from Franz, the garage owner. Fortunately, Gus, his childhood friend refuses to follow the pack and talks his mother, the richest person in the area, into getting him a job. But Yan is soon drawn to Maria, the sultry girl Gus lives with....
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
A look at Fellini's creative process. In extensive interviews, Fellini talks a bit about his background and then discusses how he works and how he creates. Several actors, a producer, a writer, and a production manager talk about working with Fellini. Archive footage of Fellini and others on the set plus clips from his films provide commentary and illustration for the points interviewees make. Fellini is fully in charge; actors call themselves puppets. He dismisses improvisation and calls for "a...
The Distant Land
Character: Aigner
The Distant Land (German: Das weite Land) is a 1987 Austrian-German drama film directed by Luc Bondy. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. Based on a play by Arthur Schnitzler, which is generally referred to in English as The Vast Domain and was also adapted by Tom Stoppard as Undiscovered Country....
The Return of Casanova
Character: Marquis
After many years of rambling across Europe the aging Giacomo Casanova is impoverished. He wants to return to the Republic of Venice but he doesn't dare going there directly because he was a fugitive when he left. While he tries to find a way to get a pardon he meets a young lady named Marcelina. The more he shows his affection, the more ostentatiously she rejects him. Even so he doesn't give up on her because her lover Lorenzo has grave gaming debts. In return for the required money Lorenzo tell...
Antigone
Character: Le Coryphée
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Roberte
Character: La voix du pur esprit
Roberte, 40, resistant during the war, Calvinist and anticlerical, is deputy to the chamber and inspector of Censorship. She married Octave, an old Catholic aesthete, professor of canon law, whom she saves from impeachment for collaboration during the war. He submits his wife to a perverse custom: the laws of hospitality or prostitution of the wife by the husband....
Mina de Vanghel
Character: Mr. de Larçay
A romantic German girl is brought to France. After an interlude with an old roue, she falls in love with a simple, but married, man. She goes to work for him as a servant, but after a night of love with him, she commits suicide....
E il Casanova di Fellini?
Character: Self
During his preparation for his film on Casanova Fellini asks a number of renowned actors to give him their view on the character of Casanova....
La Légende du siècle
Character: Self
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To the Sea, See You
Character: Don Macine
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