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
as father Leonty
as Barin
as глава администрации
as Artillery major
as major
as Petrovich
as генерал
as Петр Чуйков
as Von Bork
as Leonid
as Vakhmistr Bukin
as Жорж Милославский
as Андрей Петрович Ершов, "Дед"
as Ded Moroz
as USA ambassador
as Grigoriy Muromskiy
as Иван Сидоров, майор
as Nikanor Ivanovich Bosoy
as Сеня
as Лео Харман
as Mikhail Gorbachev
as руководитель круиза
as Sobakin
as Ivan Moiseyevich
as Шнайдер
as высокий начальник
as хозяин
as Oleg Khlebnikov
as Vasilisk Borodavkin
as Priest
as Игорь Иванович Степанов
as заведующий тиром Александр Лукьянович Калабушкин
as Oleg Khlebnikov - doktor neyrofiziolog
as дядя Миша
as Bondarev - nachalnik poezda
as Stepan
as Аристарх Петрович Кузькин
as Михаил Иванович Сошкин
as Karpusha (voice)
as Федор Семенович
as Nicolas
as Count
as Fedor Romanov
as Kороль Амфибрахий
as император Александр Павлович
as Konstantin
as Pasha Dyatlov
as Леонид Каретников (свидетель)
as Emtsov
as Spartak Molodtsov
as Marvel
as Ларсен
as Badarin
as Андрей Андреевич Зотов, инженер-корабел
as Menshikov
as Samsonov
as Vadim Petrovich Potapov
as Ezra Plunkett
as Ivan Shponka
as Henri Granden
as Henri Granden
as Ruslan Ivanovich
as Vladimir Rodionov
as Vasiliy
as Grinin
as Sanya
as Lyonya Shindin
as Peasant
as Валера
as Адриан Прохоров/Лепорелло
as Толик
as Адриан Прохоров/Лепорелло
as Von Bork
as "Smoked"
as Volodya
as Валерий Солома, аферист
as Ivan Kashkin / Sergei Kashkin
as Pavlov
as «Копчёный» (вор-чердачник Валентин Бисяев)
as Shpekin
as Митяй Пряжкин (Дмитрий Петрович)
as Чаплыгин (зооинспектор)
as Trenka, apprentice (voice)
as Михаил (новелла «Мы едем, едем, едем...»)
as Денис Григорьев
as Professor Khachikyan
as Yefremov
as Lavr Mironych
as Пташук Геннадий Иванович («Что наша жизнь?! Или что наша жизнь?!»)
as Grisha
as Борщов Афанасий Николаевич (Афоня)
as мистер Дроот
as Vladimir Zavitushkin
as Михайлов
as князь Ветренский
as папа Алёши, Дмитрий Эдуардович
as Fedor
as Иван Григорьевич, механизатор-тракторист, режиссёр
as Игрек - член экипажа летающей тарелки
as работник скупки Веня Гурьянов
as Жорж Милославский / князь Милославский
as Robinson
as Old soldier
as Толстый
as Kurt Eismann - SS Obersturmbannfuehrer
as Старый солдат
as Viktor Viktorovich
as Тюликов, тренер Бабуриной
as Chuikov's signaler
as new settler
as Nikolai Timofeyevich
as Arkadiy
as зав. терапевическим отделением Мурашев Вадим Леонидович
as Sorokin
as Serafim Frolov
as Red comissar
as Сыроежкин
as Alexey
as Shura Balaganov
as Савелий Сидоров
as Khoma Brutus
as Vasiliy
as Volodya
as Валька Бурмакин
as Stepan
as Pashka
as Korneyev
as Kostya Remizov
as Lyonya Fokin
as Lenka
as Yasha
as Pyotr Kamushkin
as Сеня Громов
as Morozov
Crew
as Presenter