Leonid Kuravlyov
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
200
Gender
Male
Birthday
1936-10-08
Day of death
2022-01-30 (85 years old)
Place of Birth
Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
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
Fuse
Streets of Broken Lights
For the Matches
Viy
What a Mess!
Not Under the Jurisdiction
Au-u!
Ono
Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century
Hope
Queen's Personal Life
Pretty Face
The Turkish Gambit
Brigada
Across Red Nights
Seventeen Moments of Spring
Investigation Held by ZnaToKi
Crash
Mimino
Young People
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
TASS Is Authorized to Declare...
The Invisible Man
Five Minutes of Fear
To Dream and to Live
Nylon 100%
The Suicide
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 2
Liberation: The Last Assault
Defeat
Life of Don Quichote and Sancho
Energetic People
Demidovy
The Barber of Siberia
Memories of Sherlock Holmes
The Turkish Gambit
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
Live in Joy
The Most Beautiful Horse
Sentence
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
Ladies Invite Gentlemen
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
Entrance to the Maze
Fuss of the Fusses
Time, Forward!
Afonya
Little Tragedies
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins
Midshipman Panin
Sincerely Yours...
The Book of Masters
Northern Rhapsody
Look for a Woman
Destroy the Thirtieth!
Old Songs About the Main Thing 3
There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach
Little Tragedies
Elder Sister
Holy Moly!
Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...
Shine, Shine, My Star
The Golden Calf
The Master and Margarita
Hello, Andrey!
Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants
The Stringer
Old Songs about the Main Thing 2
The Most Charming and Attractive
The Trust That Has Burst
This Merry Planet
Dangerous for Your Life!
Look for a Woman
Funny People!
Эти невероятные музыканты, или Новые сновидения Шурика
The Night Before Christmas
The Roundabout
Don't Leave Your Lovers
The Heirs
Мастер и Маргарита
Chuffyk
The Beginning
Lady Into Lassie
Timur and His Team
One Time Deal
We, the Undersigned
Chekhov's Vaudevilles
It Can't Be!
Railway Romance
It's Just Awful!
Spanish Actress for Russian Minister
Foam
Your Son and Brother
The Enchanted Wanderer
Karpusha
The Trust That Has Burst
Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation
Presumption of Innocence
When the Trees Were Tall
Крыса на подносе
The Ballad of Bering and His Friends
The Twelve Months
The Codex of Disgrace
Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun
Esli Nevesta Vedma
KGB Agents Also Fall in Love
Everything for You
Simple - Minded
There Will Be No Leave Today
First Encounter - Last Encounter
Life and Amazing Aventures of Robinson Crusoe
The Twelve Months
A Day and the Whole Life
Ultimatum
The Stairway
We're from Jazz
My Friends
There Is Such a Lad
You to Me, Me to You
An Unrealistic Story
Restricted Area
May I Die, Lord...
Lev Gurych Sinichkin
Martinko
Homeboy
Fun for Old People
Lyubushka
Before We Part
Facts of the Past Day
Copper Angel
I Am His Bride
The Seven Brides of Lance-Corporal Zbruyev
Entrance to Labyrinth
Seventh Skies
Russian Miracle
The Left-Hander
Snake Catcher
Black Gloves
The Rain
Two Days of Wonders
The Last Sacrifice
About Friends and Comrades
Enclosure
Take Care of the Men!
Repeated Wedding
A Dog Was Walking on the Piano
While the Dream is Mad
All That Jam
How Is It Going, Crucians?
Boys
Without Father
Kysh and TwoBriefcases
Blackmailer
Crazy Money
The Flight of Mr. McKinley
There Was No Sorrow
Evropejskij Konvoj
Aibolit and Barmaley
The Ghost of My House
Such a Big Boy
Vitya Glushakov - A Friend of the Apaches
White Queen's Move
Pyotr Ryabinkin
The Love Arrow
The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga
A Show for a Single Man
Men's Talk
New Year's Story
Literature Lesson
The Wedding Gift
Evropeyskiy konvoy
The Devil's Puppets
Late Child
Circus in the Circus
Unanswered Love
In Search of the Golden Phallus
Nesrochnaya vesna
Love of Serafim Frolov
Made in USSR
Meet Me in Tahiti
Reports from Lebyazhye
Traces of Rain
Third Time
Provincial Benefit
Through All the Years
Russian Account
Without Witnesses
Tailcoat for an Idler
Next of Kin
Incognito from St.Petersburg
The Adventures of Travka
Heirloom
A Man for a Young Girl
Three on the Red Carpet
Gangsters in the Ocean
Detonator
Счет человеческий
Sitting on the Golden Porch
Machinist Drove the Trains
Take Your Time
