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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alain Cuny, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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Fellini Satyricon
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Camille Claudel
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The Devil's Envoys
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The Lovers
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Time Masters
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
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The Milky Way
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Illustrious Corpses
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Detective
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Many Wars Ago
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The Lady Without Camelias
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Christ Stopped at Eboli
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The Return of Casanova
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The Master and Margarita
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Corruption
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Don't Touch the White Woman!
as Sitting BullA highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand...
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Stormy Waters
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The Forbidden Christ
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The Audience
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Ciao, Federico!
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Banana Peel
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Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
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My Crimes After Mein Kampf
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The Phantom Baron
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The Song of Roland
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I prosseneti
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Safari 5000
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Cross of the Living
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The Big Black Sow
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Buio nella Valle
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Zeno's Conscience
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Sweet War, Farewell
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The Distant Land
as AignerThe Distant Land (German: Das weite Land) is a 1987 Austrian-German drama film directed by Luc...
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Two in the Amsterdam Rain
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Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
as BuenoThe story of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1849 campaign to free Italy from Austrian domination.
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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
as SelfPart 5 of Godard's 8 part examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates...
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Madame Sans-Gêne
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The Annunciation of Marie
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Mina de Vanghel
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Mission of Fear
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The Basileus Quartet
as Mario CantoneThe lives of the surviving members of the Basileus Quartet, a chamber group that has been...
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Le Roman de Renart
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Les Crimes de l'amour
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Solita de Cordoue
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Valparaiso, Valparaiso
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Dear Antonioni
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La forêt noire
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Les chevaliers de la table ronde
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La rosa rossa
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Irene, Irene
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Film sur Georges Perec
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Roberte
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The Solitary Conquerors
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La divine comédie
as VirgileDante's Divine Comedy in a TV version by Michel Tréguer.
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Histoire(s) du cinéma
as SelfAn 8-part documentary chronicling the history of cinema, examining the history of the concept of...
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