Rene
Xavier Marie Alain Cuny was born in Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France on July
12, 1908. He was
a French actor of stage and screen. Cuny went to medical school with the intention
of becoming a physician but left to attend an arts school in Paris and became a
painter. He entered the film industry as a costume and set designer for such
directors as Alberto Cavalcanti and Jacques Feyder, all the time
attending acting school. In the late 1930s he began acting professionally,
first on stage and then in films. Cuny divided his time between making films in
France and Italy, switching back and forth from romantic leads to solid
character parts. His best remembered role is probably that of the conflicted
philosopher in Federico Fellini's “La dolce vita” (1960).
Cuny died in Paris on May 16, 1994.
CUNY, Alain (René Xavier
Marie Alain Cuny) [7/12/1908,
Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France – 5/16/1994, Paris, Île-de-France, France]
– director, assistant director, writer, film actor, singer.
Don’t Touch the White Woman! – 1973 (Sitting Bull)
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