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Alain Cuny
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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As actor
Emmanuelle in Ontario
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
Dear Antonioni
The Return of Casanova
Sweet War, Farewell
The Annunciation of Marie
Film sur Georges Perec
Les chevaliers de la table ronde
Camille Claudel
Van Gogh à Paris, repérages
Umi e, See You
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
The Distant Land
Lucky Ravi
Detective
Buio nella Valle
Fellini nel cestino
The Basileus Quartet
Time Masters
The Games of Countess Dolingen
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Roberte
The Song of Roland
Illustrious Corpses
I prosseneti
Two in the Amsterdam Rain
Irene, Irene
E il Casanova di Fellini?
Emmanuelle