Leonid Kuravlyov

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1936-10-08

Deathday 2022-01-30 (85 years old)

Place of Birth Moscow, RSFSR, USSR

Also Known As Leonid Kuravlev, Леонид Куравлёв, Леонид Куравлев, Куравлёв Леонид Вячеславович, L. Kuravlev, L. Kuravlyov, L.Kuravlyov, Куравлев Леонид Вячеславович, Leonid Kouravliov, Leonid Viatcheslavovitch Kouravliov

Leonid Kuravlyov

Biography

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”. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Known For

Actor

2016
All That Jam

as father Leonty

2009
2008
The Heirs

as глава администрации

2006
The Turkish Gambit

as Artillery major

2005
2003
Railway Romance

as Petrovich

2003
Evropejskij Konvoj

as генерал

2002
Brigada

as Петр Чуйков

1999
Ultimatum

as Leonid

1998
The Barber of Siberia

as Vakhmistr Bukin

1998
Old Songs about the Main Thing 3

as Жорж Милославский

1998
Streets of Broken Lights

as Андрей Петрович Ершов, "Дед"

1997
New Year's Story

as Ded Moroz

1995
What a Mess!

as USA ambassador

1995
Lady Into Lassie

as Grigoriy Muromskiy

1994
Russian Account

as Иван Сидоров, майор

1994
The Master and Margarita

as Nikanor Ivanovich Bosoy

1994
Russian miracle

as Сеня

1994
Sentence

as Лео Харман

1992
In Search of the Golden Phallus

as руководитель круиза

1992
1991
Made in USSR

as Ivan Moiseyevich

1991
Meet Me in Tahiti

as Шнайдер

1991
How Is It Going, Crucians?

as высокий начальник

1990
1990
Entrance to Labyrinth

as Oleg Khlebnikov

1990
Spanish Actress for Russian Minister

as Игорь Иванович Степанов

1990
The Suicide

as заведующий тиром Александр Лукьянович Калабушкин

1990
Entrance to the Maze

as Oleg Khlebnikov - doktor neyrofiziolog

1989
The Stairway

as дядя Миша

1989
It

as Vasilisk Borodavkin

1988
Presumption of Innocence

as Bondarev - nachalnik poezda

1988
Hope

as Stepan

1988
Энергичные люди

as Аристарх Петрович Кузькин

1988
Three on the Red Carpet

as Михаил Иванович Сошкин

1988
Karpusha

as Karpusha (voice)

1988
Blackmailer

as Федор Семенович

1987
1987
One Time Deal

as Fedor Romanov

1986
Sitting on the Golden Porch

as Kороль Амфибрахий

1986
The Left-Hander

as император Александр Павлович

1986
Snake Catcher

as Konstantin

1985
Five Minutes of Fear

as Леонид Каретников (свидетель)

1985
1985
Dangerous for Your Life!

as Spartak Molodtsov

1985
1984
Copper Angel

as Ларсен

1984
Before We Part

as Badarin

1984
TASS Is Authorized to Declare...

as Андрей Андреевич Зотов, инженер-корабел

1983
Demidovy

as Menshikov

1983
We're from Jazz

as Samsonov

1983
Не было печали

as Vadim Petrovich Potapov

1983
The Trust That Has Burst

as Ezra Plunkett

1983
1982
Look for a Woman

as Henri Granden

1982
It's Just Awful!

as Ruslan Ivanovich

1982
Take Care of the Men!

as Vladimir Rodionov

1981
Crazy Money

as Vasiliy

1981
1981
We, the Undersigned

as Lyonya Shindin

1980
For the Matches

as Peasant

1980
Don't Leave Your Lovers

as Валера

1980
Little Tragedies

as Адриан Прохоров/Лепорелло

1980
Little Tragedies

as Адриан Прохоров/Лепорелло

1979
1979
Pena

as Валерий Солома, аферист

1979
You to Me, Me to You

as Ivan Kashkin / Sergei Kashkin

1979
Unanswered Love

as Pavlov

1979
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed

as «Копчёный» (вор-чердачник Валентин Бисяев)

1978
Live in Joy

as Митяй Пряжкин (Дмитрий Петрович)

1978
Счет человеческий

as Чаплыгин (зооинспектор)

1978
Dozhd'

as Trenka, journeyman (voice)

1978
Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...

as Михаил (новелла «Мы едем, едем, едем...»)

1977
Funny People!

as Денис Григорьев

1977
Mimino

as Professor Khachikyan

1977
Fun for Old People

as Yefremov

1976
The Last Sacrifice

as Lavr Mironych

1976
Ау-у! (Киноальманах)

as Пташук Геннадий Иванович («Что наша жизнь?! Или что наша жизнь?!»)

1976
1976
Afonya

as Борщов Афанасий Николаевич (Афоня)

1975
Escape of Mr. McKinley

as мистер Дроот

1975
It Can't Be!

as Vladimir Zavitushkin

1975
Repeated Wedding

as Михайлов

1974
Lev Gurych Sinichkin

as князь Ветренский

1974
Kysh and TwoBriefcases

as папа Алёши, Дмитрий Эдуардович

1974
Homeboy

as Fedor

1974
To Dream and to Live

as Иван Григорьевич, механизатор-тракторист, режиссёр

1973
This Merry Planet

as Игрек - член экипажа летающей тарелки

1973
Nylon 100%

as работник скупки Веня Гурьянов

1973
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession

as Жорж Милославский / князь Милославский

1973
The Twelve Months

as Old soldier

1973
Aibolit and Barmaley

as Толстый

1973
Seventeen Moments of Spring

as Kurt Eismann - SS Obersturmbannfuehrer

1972
Boys

as Viktor Viktorovich

1972
White Queen's Move

as Тюликов, тренер Бабуриной

1971
Liberation: The Last Assault

as Chuikov's signaler

1971
Young People

as new settler

1971
The Roundabout

as Nikolai Timofeyevich

1970
The Beginning

as Arkadiy

1970
Two Days of Wonders

as зав. терапевическим отделением Мурашев Вадим Леонидович

1969
Shine, Shine, My Star

as Red comissar

1969
Crash

as Сыроежкин

1969
Men's Talk

as Alexey

1968
The Golden Calf

as Shura Balaganov

1968
Literature Lesson

as Савелий Сидоров

1967
Viy

as Khoma Brutus

1967
Such a Big Boy

as Vasiliy

1967
Elder Sister

as Volodya

1966
Без свидетелей

as Валька Бурмакин

1966
1966
1965
Time, Forward!

as Korneyev

1963
Third Time

as Lyonya Fokin

1962
1960
Midshipman Panin

as Pyotr Kamushkin

1960