1. Rene Xavier Marie Alain Cuny was a French actor of stage and screen.
19 Facts About Alain Cuny
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Alain Cuny was closely linked with the works of Paul Claudel and Antonin Artaud, and for his performances for the Theatre national populaire and Odeon-Theatre de France.
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Alain Cuny was nominated for the Cesar Award for Best Supporting Actor for the 1988 film Camille Claudel, and won the Joseph Plateau Lifetime Achievement Award in 1992.
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Rene Xavier Marie Alain Cuny was born in Saint-Malo, Brittany.
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Alain Cuny was brought up by an aunt and spent a large part of his childhood with her, in Bouce, and spent several years in an orphanage.
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Alain Cuny developed an early interest in painting and from the age of 15 he attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
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Alain Cuny met Picasso, Braque and members of the surrealist group.
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Alain Cuny then began working in the film industry as a costume, poster and set designer and was employed on films of Cavalcanti, Feyder and Renoir.
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Later Alain Cuny worked with Jean Vilar at the Theatre national populaire, and with Jean-Louis Barrault at the Odeon-Theatre de France.
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Alain Cuny worked frequently in Italian cinema and had close associations with Michelangelo Antonioni and Francesco Rosi as well as Fellini.
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Alain Cuny appeared in the softcore porn film Emmanuelle, a role which he said he took to show his contempt for the film business.
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Alain Cuny appeared in Camille Claudel, a biographical film about the author's sister in which he played their father, Louis-Prosper Claudel.
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Alain Cuny gave regular readings of Claudel's work at the Festival d'Avignon.
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Alain Cuny is buried in Civry-la-Foret, west of Paris, where he had lived.
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Rene Xavier Marie Alain Cuny was born in Saint-Malo, Brittany.
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Alain Cuny was brought up by an aunt and spent a large part of his childhood with her, in Bouce, and spent several years in an orphanage.
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Alain Cuny developed an early interest in painting and from the age of 15 he attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
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Alain Cuny met Picasso, Braque and members of the surrealist group.
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Alain Cuny then began working in the film industry as a costume, poster and set designer and was employed on films of Cavalcanti, Feyder and Renoir.