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
Ершов - «Дед»
For the Matches
Peasant
Investigation Held by ZnaToKi
Иван Малахов - кладовщик
Seventeen Moments of Spring
Kurt Eismann - SS Obersturmbannfuehrer
Brigada
Петр Чуйков
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
Von Bork
What a Mess!
USA ambassador
Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century
Von Bork
Pretty Face
Ono
Vasilisk Borodavkin
Not Under the Jurisdiction
Sorokin
Memories of Sherlock Holmes
Von Bork
Young People
new settler
TASS Is Authorized to Declare...
Андрей Андреевич Зотов, инженер-корабел
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
«Копчёный» (вор-чердачник Валентин Бисяев)
Life of Don Quichote and Sancho
Nicolás
Energetic People
Аристарх Петрович Кузькин
Defeat
The Turkish Gambit
Artillery major
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins
von Bork
Viy
Khoma Brut
Little Tragedies
Afonya
Афанасий Николаевич Борщов (Афоня), слесарь-сантехник
Queen's Personal Life
The Barber of Siberia
Vakhmistr Bukin
Ladies Invite Gentlemen
Sanya
Entrance to the Maze
Oleg Khlebnikov - doktor neyrofiziolog
Мастер и Маргарита
Mimino
Professor Khachikyan
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
Жорж Милославский / князь Милославский
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
"Smoked"
Sentence
Лео Харман
The Trust That Has Burst
Crash
Сыроежкин
Across Red Nights
Look for a Woman
Henri Granden
Old Songs about the Main Thing 2
Au-u!
Пташук Геннадий Иванович («Что наша жизнь?! Или что наша жизнь?!»)
Time, Forward!
Korneyev
Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...
Михаил (новелла «Мы едем, едем, едем...»)
The Invisible Man
Marvel
The Master and Margarita
Nikanor Ivanovich Bosoy
Circus in the Circus
Grisha
The Golden Calf
Shura Balaganov
Liberation: The Last Assault
Chuikov's signaler
The Most Charming and Attractive
Pasha Dyatlov
The Turkish Gambit
major
There Will Be No Leave Today
Morozov
First Encounter - Last Encounter
Count
The Twelve Months
Старый солдат
The Stringer
The Roundabout
Nikolai Timofeyevich
There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach
Mikhail Gorbachev
The Beginning
Arkadiy
Old Songs About the Main Thing 3
Жорж Милославский
Midshipman Panin
Пётр Камушкин
The Book of Masters
Barin
Evropeyskiy konvoy
General
The Last Sacrifice
Lavr Mironych
Five Minutes of Fear
Леонид Каретников (свидетель)
When the Trees Were Tall
Lenka
Spanish Actress for Russian Minister
Игорь Иванович Степанов
Don't Leave Your Lovers
Валера
Lev Gurych Sinichkin
князь Ветренский
About Friends and Comrades
My Friends
It's Just Awful!
Ruslan Ivanovich
Entrance to Labyrinth
Oleg Khlebnikov
Restricted Area
Late Child
The Rain
Trenka, apprentice (voice)
Nylon 100%
работник скупки Веня Гурьянов
KGB Agents Also Fall in Love
The Ballad of Bering and His Friends
We, the Undersigned
Lyonya Shindin
The Codex of Disgrace
While the Dream is Mad
Homeboy
Fedor
To Dream and to Live
Иван Григорьевич, механизатор-тракторист, режиссёр
There Is Such a Lad
Пашка Колокольников, шофёр
Facts of the Past Day
Grinin
Shine, Shine, My Star
Red comissar
Gangsters in the Ocean
Sobakin
Such a Big Boy
Vasiliy
Life and Amazing Aventures of Robinson Crusoe
Робинзон (озв. А. Консовский)
Presumption of Innocence
Bondarev - nachalnik poezda
Funny People!
Денис Григорьев
The Adventures of Travka
Live in Joy
Митяй Пряжкин
Kysh and TwoBriefcases
папа Алёши, Дмитрий Эдуардович
Look for a Woman
Henri Granden
A Man for a Young Girl
Blackmailer
Федор Семенович
Everything for You
Fun for Old People
Yefremov
Snake Catcher
Konstantin
Reports from Lebyazhye
Сеня Громов
Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun
Dobrynya
Foam
Валерий Солома, аферист
Эти невероятные музыканты, или Новые сновидения Шурика
Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants
Ivan Shponka
A Show for a Single Man
The Stairway
дядя Миша
The Trust That Has Burst
Ezra Plunkett
You to Me, Me to You
Ivan Kashkin / Sergei Kashkin
Vitya Glushakov - A Friend of the Apaches
Arkady
Simple - Minded
It Can't Be!
Владимир Завитушкин
A Dog Was Walking on the Piano
Dangerous for Your Life!
Spartak Molodtsov
In Search of the Golden Phallus
руководитель круиза
All That Jam
father Leonty
Your Son and Brother
Степан Воеводин, средний сын
Before We Part
Badarin
Hope
Stepan
A Day and the Whole Life
How Is It Going, Crucians?
высокий начальник
Incognito from St.Petersburg
Shpekin
Little Tragedies
Адриан Прохоров/Лепорелло
Boys
Viktor Viktorovich
Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation
Editor
Timur and His Team
Aibolit and Barmaley
Толстый
Sincerely Yours...
Emtsov
Repeated Wedding
Михайлов
Elder Sister
Volodya
Unanswered Love
Pavlov
Esli Nevesta Vedma
Made in USSR
Ivan Moiseyevich
Martinko
Martinko (voice)
This Merry Planet
Игрек - член экипажа летающей тарелки
We're from Jazz
Samsonov
The Heirs
глава администрации
Lady Into Lassie
Grigoriy Muromskiy
Russian Miracle
Сеня
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 2
Von Bork
Russian Account
Иван Сидоров, майор
I Am His Bride
Evropejskij Konvoj
генерал
Provincial Benefit
Seventh Skies
May I Die, Lord...
Without Father
The Seven Brides of Lance-Corporal Zbruyev
Priest
The Twelve Months
Old soldier
Ultimatum
Leonid
Railway Romance
Petrovich
Holy Moly!
The Enchanted Wanderer
Priest
Chuffyk
(voice)
Destroy the Thirtieth!
Traces of Rain
Karpusha
Karpusha (voice)
White Queen's Move
Тюликов, тренер Бабуриной
The Wedding Gift
Men's Talk
Alexey
The Devil's Puppets
There Was No Sorrow
Vadim Petrovich Potapov
Copper Angel
Ларсен
The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga
Two Days of Wonders
зав. терапевическим отделением Мурашев Вадим Леонидович
Literature Lesson
Савелий Сидоров
Demidovy
Menshikov
Lyubushka
Pyotr Ryabinkin
Next of Kin
Толик
One Time Deal
Fedor Romanov
The Night Before Christmas
Take Care of the Men!
Vladimir Rodionov
The Most Beautiful Horse
Machinist Drove the Trains
Yasha
Fuss of the Fusses
Volodya
An Unrealistic Story
Kostya Remizov
The Left-Hander
император Александр Павлович
The Flight of Mr. McKinley
мистер Дроот
Enclosure
Crazy Money
Vasiliy
Third Time
Lyonya Fokin
Love of Serafim Frolov
Serafim Frolov
Detonator
Крыса на подносе
Through All the Years
The Love Arrow
Meet Me in Tahiti
Шнайдер
Sitting on the Golden Porch
Kороль Амфибрахий
Tailcoat for an Idler
The Suicide
заведующий тиром Александр Лукьянович Калабушкин
Chekhov's Vaudevilles
Счет человеческий
Чаплыгин (зооинспектор)
Northern Rhapsody
Nesrochnaya vesna
хозяин
The Ghost of My House
Heirloom
Take Your Time
New Year's Story
Ded Moroz
Three on the Red Carpet
Михаил Иванович Сошкин
Black Gloves
Without Witnesses
Burmakin
Hello, Andrey!
Self