Leonid Kuravlyov
Soviet and Russian film actor. He became a People’s Artist of the RSFSR in 1976.
Kuravlyov was born in Moscow into a working-class family. His father Vyacheslav Yakovlevich Kuravlyov (1909–1979) worked as a locksmith at the Salyut Machine-Building Association and his mother Valentina Dmitriyevna Kuravlyova (1916–1993) was a hairdresser. In 1941 with the start of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union (known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War) his mother was arrested on false report, accused of counter-revolutionary activity (Article 58) and exiled to Karaganda, Kazakh SSR to work at the local plant. In five years she was freed without a right to live in Moscow and sent to Zasheyek, Murmansk Oblast in the Russian far north where she continued working as a hairdresser. In 1948 she managed to get a permission to see her son who spent a year with her at Zasheyek, and in 1951 she finally returned to Moscow.
In 1955 Kuravlyov entered VGIK to study acting under Boris Bibikov. He graduated in 1960 and joined the Theater Studio of Film Actors. He made his first movie appearances while still a student. In 1960 he was noted by Vasily Shukshin and took part in his diploma film Reported From Lebyazhye. In 1961 they both starred in the popular melodrama When the Trees Were Tall, and in 1964 Shukshin gave him the leading role in his comedy movie There Is Such a Lad which brought Kuravlyov true fame and which he considered to be the start of his successful movie career. He also acted in Your Son and Brother (1965) and felt so grateful for what the director did for him that he later named his son after Shukshin.
The role of Shura Balaganov in Mikhail Schweitzer’s comedy The Little Golden Calf based on the book by Ilf and Petrov was one of his first successful roles: he managed to create an image of a brash yet charming petty thief. His other notable roles of that period include Khoma Brut in one of the first Soviet horror movies Viy (1967), antagonist Sorokin in a psychological melodrama Not Under the Jurisdiction (1969), Robinson Crusoe in Stanislav Govorukhin’s Life and Amazing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1972), a Nazi officer Kurt Eismann in Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973) and Lavr Mironovich in Pyotr Todorovsky’s The Last Victim (1975).
In the 1970s he appeared in three to four films per year. Even though Kuravlyov was adept at playing serious dramatic roles, he is still best known for his leading roles in top-grossing comedy movies such as Afonya (1975) by Georgiy Daneliya (11th highest-grossing Soviet film, highest grossing film of the year, 62.2 mln viewers), Leonid Gaidai’s Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (1973, 17th highest-grossing film, 60 mln viewers) and It Can’t Be! (1975, 46th highest-grossing film with 46.9 mln viewers), The Most Charming and Attractive (1985) by Gerald Bezhanov (the highest-grossing film of 1985, 44.9 mln viewers) and others.
During the late 1990s he hosted a popular TV programme The World of Books with Leonid Kuravlyov where he talked about new book releases. In two years it was closed and then relaunched with new hosts. In 2012 he was awarded the IV class Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”.
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Known for
Fuse
Streets of Broken Lights
Андрей Петрович Ершов, "Дед"
Viy
Khoma Brut
Time, Forward!
Korneyev
Ladies Invite Gentlemen
Sanya
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
Von Bork
The Barber of Siberia
Vakhmistr Bukin
Men's Talk
Alexey
Ono
Vasilisk Borodavkin
Third Time
Lyonya Fokin
Vitya Glushakov - A Friend of the Apaches
Arkady
Lyubushka
Investigation Held by ZnaToKi
Иван Малахов - кладовщик
Lev Gurych Sinichkin
князь Ветренский
The Enchanted Wanderer
Priest
Brigada
Петр Чуйков
The Ballad of Bering and His Friends
Afonya
Афанасий Николаевич Борщов (Афоня), слесарь-сантехник
Mimino
Professor Khachikyan
An Unrealistic Story
Kostya Remizov
The Suicide
заведующий тиром Александр Лукьянович Калабушкин
The Codex of Disgrace
Destroy the Thirtieth!
Esli Nevesta Vedma
Seventh Skies
The Love Arrow
Boys
Viktor Viktorovich
Timur and His Team
Next of Kin
Толик
KGB Agents Also Fall in Love
Unanswered Love
Pavlov
About Friends and Comrades
Late Child
Love of Serafim Frolov
Serafim Frolov
Reports from Lebyazhye
Сеня Громов
Two Days of Wonders
зав. терапевическим отделением Мурашев Вадим Леонидович
Russian Miracle
Сеня
The Golden Calf
Shura Balaganov
Enclosure
Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...
Михаил (новелла «Мы едем, едем, едем...»)
This Merry Planet
Игрек - член экипажа летающей тарелки
Simple - Minded
Martinko
Martinko (voice)
Hope
Stepan
First Encounter - Last Encounter
Count
There Will Be No Leave Today
Morozov
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
"Smoked"
Elder Sister
Volodya
Russian Account
Иван Сидоров, майор
Provincial Benefit
My Friends
We're from Jazz
Samsonov
The Beginning
Arkadiy
Don't Leave Your Lovers
Валера
The Twelve Months
Old soldier
One Time Deal
Fedor Romanov
Demidovy
Menshikov
Young People
new settler
The Seven Brides of Lance-Corporal Zbruyev
Priest
There Is Such a Lad
Пашка Колокольников, шофёр
The Rain
Trenka, apprentice (voice)
There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach
Mikhail Gorbachev
Repeated Wedding
Михайлов
The Book of Masters
Barin
Not Under the Jurisdiction
Sorokin
What a Mess!
USA ambassador
Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation
Editor
You to Me, Me to You
Ivan Kashkin / Sergei Kashkin
The Master and Margarita
Nikanor Ivanovich Bosoy
The Flight of Mr. McKinley
мистер Дроот
Seventeen Moments of Spring
Kurt Eismann - SS Obersturmbannfuehrer
The Adventures of Travka
The Roundabout
Nikolai Timofeyevich
Detonator
Shine, Shine, My Star
Red comissar
Spanish Actress for Russian Minister
Игорь Иванович Степанов
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 2
Von Bork
May I Die, Lord...
There Was No Sorrow
Vadim Petrovich Potapov
Copper Angel
Ларсен
Life and Amazing Aventures of Robinson Crusoe
Робинзон (озв. А. Консовский)
The Last Sacrifice
Lavr Mironych
How Is It Going, Crucians?
высокий начальник
Meet Me in Tahiti
Шнайдер
Funny People!
Денис Григорьев
Эти невероятные музыканты, или Новые сновидения Шурика
The Invisible Man
Marvel
A Man for a Young Girl
I Am His Bride
Presumption of Innocence
Bondarev - nachalnik poezda
Homeboy
Fedor
While the Dream is Mad
The Devil's Puppets
Restricted Area
When the Trees Were Tall
Lenka
Pena
Валерий Солома, аферист
Pyotr Ryabinkin
Lady Into Lassie
Grigoriy Muromskiy
Blackmailer
Федор Семенович
Look for a Woman
Henri Granden
A Day and the Whole Life
Literature Lesson
Савелий Сидоров
Fuss of the Fusses
Volodya
Dangerous for Your Life!
Spartak Molodtsov
The Stairway
дядя Миша
Railway Romance
Petrovich
Fun for Old People
Yefremov
Made in USSR
Ivan Moiseyevich
It's Just Awful!
Ruslan Ivanovich
The Wedding Gift
A Show for a Single Man
Incognito from St.Petersburg
Shpekin
Nylon 100%
работник скупки Веня Гурьянов
Pretty Face
Heirloom
The Night Before Christmas
White Queen's Move
Тюликов, тренер Бабуриной
Live in Joy
Митяй Пряжкин (Дмитрий Петрович)
A Dog Was Walking on the Piano
Kysh and TwoBriefcases
папа Алёши, Дмитрий Эдуардович
Machinist Drove the Train
Yasha
Liberation: The Last Assault
Chuikov's signaler
Without Father
Счет человеческий
Чаплыгин (зооинспектор)
Your Son and Brother
Степан Воеводин, средний сын
The Ghost of My House
Everything for You
Traces of Rain
Sincerely Yours...
Emtsov
Take Your Time
Black Gloves
Take Care of the Men!
Vladimir Rodionov
Three on the Red Carpet
Михаил Иванович Сошкин
Tailcoat for an Idler
Such a Big Boy
Vasiliy
New Year's Story
Ded Moroz
Aibolit and Barmaley
Толстый
Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun
Dobrynya
Queen's Personal Life
Au-u!
Пташук Геннадий Иванович («Что наша жизнь?! Или что наша жизнь?!»)
All That Jam
father Leonty
Sitting on the Golden Porch
Kороль Амфибрахий
Holy Moly!
Without Witnesses
Burmakin
Chekhov's Vaudevilles
Chuffyk
(voice)
Karpusha
Karpusha (voice)
For the Matches
Peasant
Nesrochnaya vesna
хозяин
Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants
Ivan Shponka
Крыса на подносе
The Most Beautiful Horse
The Trust That Has Burst
Ezra Plunkett
To Dream and to Live
Иван Григорьевич, механизатор-тракторист, режиссёр
Entrance to the Maze
Oleg Khlebnikov - doktor neyrofiziolog
Memories of Sherlock Holmes
Von Bork
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
Жорж Милославский / князь Милославский
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
«Копчёный» (вор-чердачник Валентин Бисяев)
The Turkish Gambit
Artillery major
TASS Is Authorized to Declare...
Андрей Андреевич Зотов, инженер-корабел
Circus in the Circus
Grisha
Across Red Nights
Life of Don Quixote and Sancho
Nicolás
Мастер и Маргарита
Little Tragedies
Five Minutes of Fear
Леонид Каретников (свидетель)
The Trust That Has Burst
Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century
Von Bork
The Turkish Gambit
major
Northern Rhapsody
Old Songs about the Main Thing 2
It Can't Be!
Vladimir Zavitushkin
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins
von Bork
Defeat
Энергичные люди
Аристарх Петрович Кузькин
Look for a Woman
Henri Granden
The Most Charming and Attractive
Pasha Dyatlov
The Twelve Months
Старый солдат
Crash
Сыроежкин
Snake Catcher
Konstantin
The Stringer
The Heirs
глава администрации
Ultimatum
Leonid
Old Songs About the Main Thing 3
Жорж Милославский
We, the Undersigned
Lyonya Shindin
Little Tragedies
Адриан Прохоров/Лепорелло
The Left-Hander
император Александр Павлович
Facts of the Past Day
Grinin
Crazy Money
Vasiliy
Gangsters in the Ocean
Sobakin
Entrance to Labyrinth
Oleg Khlebnikov
Before We Part
Badarin
Evropejskij Konvoj
генерал
Through All the Years
Midshipman Panin
Pyotr Kamushkin
Sentence
Лео Харман
The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga
In Search of the Golden Phallus
руководитель круиза