Alain Cuny

Alain Cuny was a French actor in theatre and cinema.

Alain Cuny was born in SaintMalo, Brittany. He developed an early interest in painting and from the age ofhe attended the cole des BeauxArts in Paris. He met Picasso, Braque and members of the surrealist group. He then began working in the film industry as a costume and set designer and was employed on films of Cavalcanti, Feyder and Renoir. After a meeting with the actormanager Charles Dullin, Cuny was persuaded to study drama and he began acting on stage in the late 1930s. In the theatre Cuny became particularly linked with the works of Paul Claudel . Another literary friend and hero was Antonin Artaud, whose texts he read with supreme conviction at a time when Artaud was more or less an outcast, a situation reflected in Artauds Van Gogh The Man Suicided by Society, which Cuny interpreted in his voices fabulous organ tones. Later Cuny worked with Jean Vilar at the Thtre national populaire, and with JeanLouis Barrault at the OdonThtre de France. His dramatic presence and measured

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