Cuny, Alain
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| Birthname | René Xavier Marie Alain Cuny | ||||
| born on | 12 July 1908 at 12:00 (= 12:00 noon ) | ||||
| Place | St.Malo, France, 48n39, 2w01 | ||||
| Timezone | LST m2e2015 (is standard time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   19°41'   00°07 Asc. 11°24'
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Biography
French actor, who first studied medicine 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), 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, and literary heroes like Antonin Artaud.
Later in his career, he had a role in the softcore porn film Emmanuelle in 1974. Also that same year, 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, an example of his work in Italian language is as general Leone in Many Wars Ago (1970). He died on 16 May 1994 in Paris.
Relationships
- friend relationship with Artaud, Antonin (born 4 September 1896)
Events
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield quotes birth certificate n° 150 in the online Ille-et-Vilaine archives, p. 39/78.
Categories
- Vocation : Art : Stage/ Set design
- Vocation : Beauty : Designer/ Fashion (Costume designer)
- Vocation : Entertainment : Actor/ Actress
