Leonid Kuravlyov
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
198
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
Viy
Time, Forward!
Memories of Sherlock Holmes
Mimino
Men's Talk
One Time Deal
Ono
Investigation Held by ZnaToKi
Brigada
Ladies Invite Gentlemen
Third Time
Pretty Face
Elder Sister
What a Mess!
Simple - Minded
Love of Serafim Frolov
Hope
Demidovy
Afonya
Detonator
The Barber of Siberia
Two Days of Wonders
Shine, Shine, My Star
The Twelve Months
Destroy the Thirtieth!
This Merry Planet
There Is Such a Lad
The Suicide
The Seven Brides of Lance-Corporal Zbruyev
The Beginning
Don't Leave Your Lovers
Unanswered Love
Boys
Late Child
Incognito from St.Petersburg
There Will Be No Leave Today
Timur and His Team
Sitting on the Golden Porch
Reports from Lebyazhye
We're from Jazz
Lev Gurych Sinichkin
Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation
The Most Beautiful Horse
Fuss of the Fusses
The Codex of Disgrace
Enclosure
Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...
Martinko
The Adventures of Travka
About Friends and Comrades
Russian Account
The Rain
Life and Amazing Aventures of Robinson Crusoe
Esli Nevesta Vedma
A Dog Was Walking on the Piano
Seventh Skies
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 2
Next of Kin
You to Me, Me to You
The Invisible Man
An Unrealistic Story
Pena
The Ballad of Bering and His Friends
Three on the Red Carpet
Vitya Glushakov - A Friend of the Apaches
The Love Arrow
Russian Miracle
First Encounter - Last Encounter
Счет человеческий
Presumption of Innocence
Funny People!
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
Lady Into Lassie
The Master and Margarita
Young People
There Was No Sorrow
Lyubushka
Not Under the Jurisdiction
The Flight of Mr. McKinley
Dangerous for Your Life!
The Last Sacrifice
Spanish Actress for Russian Minister
Эти невероятные музыканты, или Новые сновидения Шурика
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
The Roundabout
Copper Angel
The Golden Calf
A Man for a Young Girl
Meet Me in Tahiti
Railway Romance
My Friends
While the Dream is Mad
Literature Lesson
For the Matches
Provincial Benefit
Heirloom
The Enchanted Wanderer
KGB Agents Also Fall in Love
There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach
Repeated Wedding
Made in USSR
Look for a Woman
I Am His Bride
Black Gloves
Homeboy
Nylon 100%
The Stairway
Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun
The Book of Masters
White Queen's Move
How Is It Going, Crucians?
All That Jam
When the Trees Were Tall
The Devil's Puppets
Seventeen Moments of Spring
Fun for Old People
Without Father
Take Your Time
To Dream and to Live
The Trust That Has Burst
Liberation: The Last Assault
A Day and the Whole Life
May I Die, Lord...
The Night Before Christmas
Holy Moly!
Everything for You
Kysh and TwoBriefcases
A Show for a Single Man
Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants
The Ghost of My House
New Year's Story
Your Son and Brother
Sincerely Yours...
Traces of Rain
It's Just Awful!
Aibolit and Barmaley
Karpusha
The Wedding Gift
Chekhov's Vaudevilles
Without Witnesses
Take Care of the Men!
Tailcoat for an Idler
Machinist Drove the Trains
Au-u!
Queen's Personal Life
Restricted Area
Nesrochnaya vesna
Such a Big Boy
Blackmailer
Chuffyk
Pyotr Ryabinkin
Крыса на подносе
Live in Joy
The Turkish Gambit
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
Five Minutes of Fear
Across Red Nights
Entrance to the Maze
Circus in the Circus
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins
The Turkish Gambit
Look for a Woman
TASS Is Authorized to Declare...
Life of Don Quixote and Sancho
Old Songs about the Main Thing 2
The Trust That Has Burst
Мастер и Маргарита
Little Tragedies
The Twelve Months
Northern Rhapsody
Defeat
We, the Undersigned
Энергичные люди
Little Tragedies
Midshipman Panin
Facts of the Past Day
The Stringer
Entrance to Labyrinth
The Most Charming and Attractive
It Can't Be!
The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga
Crash
In Search of the Golden Phallus
Gangsters in the Ocean
The Heirs
Old Songs About the Main Thing 3
Evropejskij Konvoj
Ultimatum
Before We Part
The Left-Hander
Sentence
Crazy Money
Snake Catcher
Through All the Years
