FrameThrower · Actors · Alain Cuny
Alain Cuny
4 films · 260 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1958–1985
Born 12 July 1908 · Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France · died 16 May 1994
Alain Cuny 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!.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 260 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Alain takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 52% of their frames are day, 51% natural — the look of the work Alain takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
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