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name: "Alain Cuny"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/alain-cuny"
fi1m_id: "alain-cuny"
imdb_id: "nm0192490"
tmdb_id: 5964
wikidata_id: "Q334506"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "12 July 1908"
died: "16 May 1994"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T09:12:11.131678+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Alain Cuny

## Identity

Alain Cuny

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alain-cuny
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** alain-cuny
- **IMDb ID:** nm0192490
- **TMDB ID:** 5964
- **Wikidata ID:** Q334506
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Cuny, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q334506, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0192490/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5964

Actor. Born 12 July 1908 in Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France. Died 16 May 1994.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 12 July 1908, Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
- **Died:** 16 May 1994
- **Also known as:** René Xavier Marie Alain Cuny
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Cuny, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q334506, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0192490/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5964

## Biography

Alain Cuny (born René Xavier Marie Alain Cuny) was a French actor of stage and screen. He appeared in films from the 1940s onwards and worked extensively in both French and Italian cinema.

His notable screen roles include the philosopher Steiner in Federico Fellini’s *La Dolce Vita* (1960), Henri Tournier in Louis Malle’s *The Lovers* (1958), General Leone in Francesco Rosi’s *Many Wars Ago* (1970), and Louis-Prosper Claudel in *Camille Claudel* (1988). He was also known for collaborations with directors such as Marcel Carné, Michelangelo Antonioni and Luis Buñuel. On stage he performed with the Théâtre national populaire and Odéon-Théâtre de France, and was closely associated with the works of Paul Claudel and Antonin Artaud.

Cuny received a César Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for *Camille Claudel* and was awarded the Joseph Plateau Lifetime Achievement Award in 1992.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *La Dolce Vita* (1960), Fi1m 88, as Steiner — [page](https://film.one/film/la-dolce-vita.md)

## Complete filmography (64)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Emmanuelle in Ontario* (2025), as Mario (archival footage)
- *La famiglia Ricordi* (1995), series, Actor
- *The Return of Casanova* (1992), as Marquis
- *The Annunciation of Marie* (1991), as Anne Vercors · Director, Screenplay
- *Sweet War, Farewell* (1991), as Vecchio Crimen
- *Les chevaliers de la table ronde* (1990), as Merlin
- *Camille Claudel* (1988), as Louis-Prosper Claudel
- *Umi e, See You* (1988), as Don Macine
- *La coscienza di Zeno* (1988), series, as Alfio Cosini sr.
- *Van Gogh à Paris, repérages* (1988), as Lecteur des textes d'Artaud
- *Lucky Ravi* (1987), as Plantation Owner
- *Chronicle of a Death Foretold* (1987), as El Viudo Xius
- *The Distant Land* (1987), as Aigner
- *Detective* (1985), as Old Mafioso
- *Buio nella Valle* (1984), as Luigi
- *The Basileus Quartet* (1983), as Mario Cantone
- *Deuil en 24 heures* (1982), series, as Le colonel Carvin
- *Time Masters* (1982), as Xul (voice)
- *Colomba* (1982), series, Actor
- *The Games of Countess Dolingen* (1981), Actor
- *Le Journal* (1979), series, as Wilchaint
- *Roberte* (1979), as La voix du pur esprit
- *Christ Stopped at Eboli* (1979), as Barone Nicola Rotunno
- *The Song of Roland* (1978), as Turpin/der Mönch
- *I prosseneti* (1976), as Il conte Davide
- *Illustrious Corpses* (1976), as Judge Rasto
- *Irene, Irene* (1975), as Guido
- *Two in the Amsterdam Rain* (1975), Actor
- *Antigone* (1974), as Le Coryphée
- *Emmanuelle* (1974), as Mario
- *Le Roman de Renart* (1974), series, as Ysengrin (voice)
- *Don't Touch the White Woman!* (1974), as Sitting Bull
- *La rosa rossa* (1973), as Count Paolo Balzeri
- *Valparaiso, Valparaiso* (1973), as Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt
- *La divine comédie* (1973), as Virgile
- *The Master and Margarita* (1972), as Profesor Woland & Satana
- *The Audience* (1972), as teologa Belga
- *The Big Black Sow* (1971), as Il Padre di Enrico
- *Many Wars Ago* (1970), as Gen. Leone
- *Satyricon* (1969), as Lica
- *Safari 5000* (1969), Actor
- *The Milky Way* (1969), as Man with cape
- *La forêt noire* (1968), as Hans Richter
- *Mission of Fear* (1965), as Jean de Brébeuf
- *Corruption* (1963), as Leonardo Mattioli
- *Banana Peel* (1963), as Hervé Bontemps
- *Cross of the Living* (1962), as Baron Von Eggerth
- *Scano Boa* (1961), as Cavarzan
- *La Dolce Vita* (1960), as Steiner — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/la-dolce-vita.md)
- *The Lovers* (1958), as Henri Tournier
- *The Hunchback of Notre Dame* (1956), as Claude Frollo
- *The Vanquished* (1953), Second Assistant Director
- *Mina de Vanghel* (1953), as Mr. de Larçay
- *The Lady Without Camelias* (1953), as Lodi
- *Les Crimes de l'amour* (1953), as Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')
- *The Solitary Conquerors* (1952), as Pascal Giroud
- *Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi* (1952), as Bueno
- *The Forbidden Christ* (1951), as Antonio
- *Solita de Cordoue* (1946), as Pierre Desluc
- *The Phantom Baron* (1943), as Hervé
- *The Devil's Envoys* (1942), as Gilles, a Minstrel
- *Stormy Waters* (1941), as Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)
- *Madame Sans-Gêne* (1941), as Roustan
- *My Crimes After Mein Kampf* (1940), as Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)

## Gallery

- ![Alain Cuny](https://film.one/media/person/3877203/gallery-04c9c94f046d.jpg) Alain Cuny — JPRoche, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Alain_Cuny-130822-0001FP.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Carla Gravina e Alain Cuny in una scena del film italiano Scano Boa (1961)](https://film.one/media/person/3877203/gallery-abdac9397d2d.png) Carla Gravina e Alain Cuny in una scena del film italiano Scano Boa (1961) — Renato Dall'Ara (director), Cinematografica Lombarda, Ara Cinematografica, Luvi (production), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Scano_Boa_%281961%29_Carla_Gravina_e_Alain_Cuny.png/1280px-Scano_Boa_%281961%29_Carla_Gravina_e_Alain_Cuny.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Arletty et Alain Cuny dans Les Visiteurs du soir de Marcel Carné, 1942.](https://film.one/media/person/3877203/gallery-42e31b0fa4e7.jpg) Arletty et Alain Cuny dans Les Visiteurs du soir de Marcel Carné, 1942. — Coupure de presse, Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Arts du spectacle, 8-RSUPP-1192, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Les_Visiteurs_du_soir%2C_film_de_Marcel_Carn%C3%A9%2C_1942._Coupure_de_presse_cropped.jpg/1280px-Les_Visiteurs_du_soir%2C_film_de_Marcel_Carn%C3%A9%2C_1942._Coupure_de_presse_cropped.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Alain Cuny](https://film.one/media/person/3877203/gallery-a2416bb4761c.jpg) Alain Cuny — Image via TMDB
- ![Alain Cuny](https://film.one/media/person/3877203/gallery-68593a6a18f2.jpg) Alain Cuny — Image via TMDB

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