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 Ela...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
2003
as 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 cre...
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
1998
as 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.
Dear Antonioni
1995
as Self
A documentary portrait of Michangelo Antonioni based on Roland Barthes' essay.
The Return of Casanova
1992
as 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 dar...
The Annunciation of Marie
1991
as Anne Vercors
During the Crusades, Vercors betroths his beautiful daughter Violaine to Jacques. She cannot marry Jacques because she has contracted leprosy, so Jacq...
The Annunciation of Marie
1991
Director, Screenplay
During the Crusades, Vercors betroths his beautiful daughter Violaine to Jacques. She cannot marry Jacques because she has contracted leprosy, so Jacq...
Sweet War, Farewell
1991
as Vecchio Crimen
A man walks with his child on the grass of a hill. He reaches an old country house, where years before he had spent his childhood during World War II....
Les chevaliers de la table ronde
1990
as 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 Guin...
Film sur Georges Perec
1990
as 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 foot...
Camille Claudel
1988
as Louis-Prosper Claudel
The life of Camille Claudel, a French sculptor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin driv...
To the Sea, See You
1988
as Don Macine
Team DANKAI are a group of drivers set to compete in the Paris-Dakar Rally, an off-road endurance race spanning thousands of miles and multiple contin...
Zeno's Conscience
1988
as 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.
Van Gogh à Paris, repérages
1988
as Lecteur des textes d'Artaud
"What is a location search ? Maybe that's it : hanging in a pub... let their thoughts flow freely." (André S. Labarthe) The camera reinvests the place...
Lucky Ravi
1987
as Plantation Owner
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
1987
as El Viudo Xius
This suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series of events that led up to murder. Based on a novel by d...
The Distant Land
1987
as Aigner
Vienna at the turn of the century: The industrialist Friedrich Hofreiter is a vain, self-important man who is used to taking what he wants and who enj...
Detective
1985
as 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 t...
Buio nella Valle
1984
as Luigi
The two-episode television drama tells the story of a family willing to do anything to maintain possession of their assets, even two brutal murders th...
The Basileus Quartet
1983
as Mario Cantone
The lives of the surviving members of the Basileus Quartet, a chamber group that has been playing successfully around the world for more than 30 years...
Fellini nel cestino
1983
as Self
Time Masters
1982
as 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 Ja...
Roberte
1979
as 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 Ca...
Christ Stopped at Eboli
1979
as Barone Nicola Rotunno
In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and...
The Song of Roland
1978
as 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 k...
I prosseneti
1976
as 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 b...
Illustrious Corpses
1976
as Judge Rasto
A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.
Irene, Irene
1975
as 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 confr...
E il Casanova di Fellini?
1975
as 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.
Two in the Amsterdam Rain
1975
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.
Antigone
1974
as Le Coryphée
Emmanuelle
1974
as Mario
An employee at the French Embassy in Bangkok invites his wife to join him – and enjoy the benefits of their open marriage.
Don't Touch the White Woman!
1974
as Sitting Bull
A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Pari...
La rosa rossa
1973
as Count Paolo Balzeri
A former General comes back to Trieste to live with his cousins.
Valparaiso, Valparaiso
1973
as 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...
La divine comédie
1973
as Virgile
Dante's Divine Comedy in a TV version by Michel Tréguer.
The Master and Margarita
1972
as 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 hi...
La Légende du siècle
1972
as Self
The Audience
1972
as teologa Belga
Caustic satire on bureaucracy of the Vatican authority and a simple Italian who wants to achieve the audience with the Pope.
The Big Black Sow
1971
as Il Padre di Enrico
Enrico struggles with his dysfunctional family and cheating wife, and eventually makes plans to kill them all.
Ciao, Federico!
1970
as Self (uncredited)
A behind-the-scenes documentary about the filming of the Federico Fellini film, "Satyricon."
Many Wars Ago
1970
as 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...
Satyricon
1969
as 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...
Safari 5000
1969
A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driver named Pierre (Jean-Claude Drouot). Godai is enl...
The Milky Way
1969
as Man with cape
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of people—some trucu...
La forêt noire
1968
as Hans Richter
Inspired by the life of 19th century composer Robert Schumann, this fiction tells the decline of Hans Richter, a great German musician. Then dying, he...
Mission of Fear
1965
as 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.
Corruption
1963
as Leonardo Mattioli
Stefano is a shy and sensitive teenager who has just completed his studies in Switzerland and is considering becoming a monk. But his father, a rich M...
Banana Peel
1963
as Hervé Bontemps
Two scoundrels cheat a millionaire out of a huge bankroll on the French Riviera.
Cross of the Living
1962
as 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, t...
Scano Boa
1961
as Cavarzan
La Dolce Vita
1960
as 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 sti...
The Lovers
1958
as Henri Tournier
A shallow, provincial wife finds her relationship with her preoccupied husband strained by romantic notions of love, leading her further towards Paris...
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1956
as Claude Frollo
Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Among jugglers and other ente...
The Vanquished
1953
Second Assistant Director
Three tales of privileged youth entangled in murder: French students kill for money, an Italian student smuggles cigarettes, and an English poet explo...
Mina de Vanghel
1953
as 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 ...
The Lady Without Camelias
1953
as Lodi
A Milanese shop assistant becomes an overnight film sensation when fate lands her the leading role in a prominent producer's romantic drama.
Les Crimes de l'amour
1953
as 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 provi...
The Solitary Conquerors
1952
as 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...
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
1952
as Bueno
The story of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1849 campaign to free Italy from Austrian domination.
The Forbidden Christ
1951
as Antonio
Freshly released from a Russian POW camp, Italian soldier Raf Vallone tries to discover who betrayed his brother to the Nazis.
Solita de Cordoue
1946
as Pierre Desluc
Pierre lives with his wife Marie in a small village in the Landes. He dreams of leaving. On the occasion of the passage of a caravan of gypsies, he me...
The Phantom Baron
1943
as Hervé
Elfy, Countess of Saint-Hélié's daughter, was brought up with her foster sister Anne, in an old dilapidated castle whose landlord, Baron Julius Carol,...
The Devil's Envoys
1942
as Gilles, a Minstrel
At the end of the 15th century, a man and a woman, posing as traveling minstrels, are sent by the Devil to a castle to seduce its inhabitants.
Stormy Waters
1941
as Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)
A married tugboat captain falls for a woman he rescues from a sinking ship.
Madame Sans-Gêne
1941
as 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.
My Crimes After Mein Kampf
1940
as Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)
The film shows the seizure of power by the Nazis and Hitler wants a trial, at a time when France has just declared war on Germany (Sept. 3, 1939). Hyb...