Alain Cuny
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A former medical student, Alain Cuny briefly pursued a painting career, entering the French film industry in the early '30s as a set and costume designer. In 1941 he turned to acting, at first playing leading roles but later specializing in character parts as priests and aesthetes. Most American audiences first caught up with Cuny when he played the villainous cleric Claude Frollo in the Anthony Quinn version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956). He worked frequently in the films of Federico Fellini, playing the anguished intellectual Steiner in La Dolce Vita (1960) and Lycas in Fellini Satyricon (1970). Alain Cuny's final screen role was as the title character's father in Camille Claudel (1988). ~ Hal Erickson, RoviFilmography:
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Alain Cuny
| Alain Cuny | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 12, 1908 Saint-Malo, Brittany |
| Died | May 16, 1994 (aged 85) Paris, France |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1941-1994 |
Alain Cuny (12 July 1908 – 16 May 1994) was a French actor.
He was born René Xavier Marie[1] 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.
Selected filmography
- The Phantom Baron (1943)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956)
- The Master and Margaret (1972)
- The Recourse to the Method (1978)
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987)
- The Return of Casanova (1992)
References
External links
- Alain Cuny at the Internet Movie Database
- Alain Cuny at the Internet Broadway Database
- Alain Cuny at the TCM Movie Database
- Alain Cuny at AllRovi
- Alain Cuny Filmography with link to a full biography.
- New York Times Filmography Reviews available for some films.
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