Leonid Kuravlyov
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
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”.
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Known For
Acting
(2016)
All That Jam
as father Leonty
(2009)
The Book of Masters
as Barin
(2008)
The Heirs
as глава администрации
(2005)
The Turkish Gambit
as major
(2004)
(2004)
(2003)
Evropejskij Konvoj
as генерал
(2003)
Railway Romance
as Petrovich
(2002)
(2002)
(1999)
Ultimatum
as Leonid
(1998)
The Barber of Siberia
as Vakhmistr Bukin
(1998)
Old Songs About the Main Thing 3
as Жорж Милославский
(1998)
(1997)
(1997)
(1997)
New Year's Story
as Ded Moroz
(1996)
(1995)
Lady Into Lassie
as Grigoriy Muromskiy
(1995)
What a Mess!
as USA ambassador
(1994)
The Master and Margarita
as Nikanor Ivanovich Bosoy
(1994)
(1994)
(1994)
Russian Account
as Иван Сидоров, майор
(1994)
Sentence
as Лео Харман
(1994)
Russian miracle
as Сеня
(1994)
(1993)
There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach
as Mikhail Gorbachev
(1993)
(1993)
(1993)
(1993)
(1993)
Chuffyk
as (voice)
(1992)
In Search of the Golden Phallus
as руководитель круиза
(1992)
(1992)
Gangsters in the Ocean
as Sobakin
(1992)
(1991)
How Is It Going, Crucians?
as высокий начальник
(1991)
(1991)
Meet Me in Tahiti
as Шнайдер
(1991)
(1991)
Made in USSR
as Ivan Moiseyevich
(1991)
(1990)
Spanish Actress for Russian Minister
as Игорь Иванович Степанов
(1990)
Entrance to Labyrinth
as Oleg Khlebnikov
(1990)
It
as Vasilisk Borodavkin
(1990)
The Charming Traveller
as Priest
(1990)
(1990)
The Suicide
as заведующий тиром Александр Лукьянович Калабушкин
(1990)
Несрочная весна
as хозяин
(1989)
(1989)
The Stairway
as дядя Миша
(1988)
Presumption of Innocence
as Bondarev - nachalnik poezda
(1988)
(1988)
Hope
as Stepan
(1988)
(1988)
(1988)
(1988)
(1988)
Karpusha
as Karpusha (voice)
(1988)
Blackmailer
as Федор Семенович
(1988)
Энергичные люди
as Аристарх Петрович Кузькин
(1988)
Three on the Red Carpet
as Михаил Иванович Сошкин
(1987)
Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century
as Von Bork
(1987)
One Time Deal
as Fedor Romanov
(1987)
Martinko
as Martinko (voice)
(1987)
First Encounter - Last Encounter
as Count
(1987)
(1986)
Sitting on the Golden Porch
as Kороль Амфибрахий
(1986)
Snake Catcher
as Konstantin
(1986)
The Left-Hander
as император Александр Павлович
(1985)
Dangerous for Your Life!
as Spartak Molodtsov
(1985)
The Most Charming and Attractive
as Pasha Dyatlov
(1985)
The Invisible Man
as Marvel
(1985)
Five Minutes of Fear
as Леонид Каретников (свидетель)
(1985)
Sincerely Yours...
as Emtsov
(1984)
Before We Part
as Badarin
(1984)
(1984)
Copper Angel
as Ларсен
(1983)
We're from Jazz
as Samsonov
(1983)
(1983)
Demidovy
as Menshikov
(1983)
The Trust That Has Burst
as Ezra Plunkett
(1983)
(1983)
Не было печали
as Vadim Petrovich Potapov
(1983)
Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants
as Ivan Shponka
(1982)
It's Just Awful!
as Ruslan Ivanovich
(1982)
Look for a Woman
as Henri Granden
(1982)
Take Care of the Men!
as Vladimir Rodionov
(1981)
Ladies Invite Gentlemen
as Sanya
(1981)
We, the Undersigned
as Lyonya Shindin
(1981)
Facts of the Past Day
as Grinin
(1981)
Crazy Money
as Vasiliy
(1980)
For the Matches
as Peasant
(1980)
Little Tragedies
as Адриан Прохоров/Лепорелло
(1980)
Don't Leave Your Lovers
as Валера
(1980)
Next of Kin
as Толик
(1979)
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
as "Smoked"
(1979)
Fuss of the Fusses
as Volodya
(1979)
You to Me, Me to You
as Ivan Kashkin / Sergei Kashkin
(1979)
Unanswered Love
as Pavlov
(1979)
Pena
as Валерий Солома, аферист
(1979)
(1978)
(1978)
Live in Joy
as Митяй Пряжкин (Дмитрий Петрович)
(1978)
(1978)
Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...
as Михаил (новелла «Мы едем, едем, едем...»)
(1978)
The Rain
as Trenka, apprentice (voice)
(1978)
Incognito from St.Petersburg
as Shpekin
(1978)
Счет человеческий
as Чаплыгин (зооинспектор)
(1977)
Mimino
as Professor Khachikyan
(1977)
Funny People!
as Денис Григорьев
(1977)
(1977)
(1977)
(1977)
Fun for Old People
as Yefremov
(1976)
Afonya
as Афанасий Николаевич Борщов (Афоня), слесарь-сантехник
(1976)
Ау-у! (Киноальманах)
as Пташук Геннадий Иванович («Что наша жизнь?! Или что наша жизнь?!»)
(1976)
Circus in the Circus
as Grisha
(1976)
(1976)
The Last Sacrifice
as Lavr Mironych
(1976)
(1975)
It Can't Be!
as Vladimir Zavitushkin
(1975)
Repeated Wedding
as Михайлов
(1975)
Escape of Mr. McKinley
as мистер Дроот
(1974)
Lev Gurych Sinichkin
as князь Ветренский
(1974)
Homeboy
as Fedor
(1974)
Kysh and TwoBriefcases
as папа Алёши, Дмитрий Эдуардович
(1974)
To Dream and to Live
as Иван Григорьевич, механизатор-тракторист, режиссёр
(1974)
(1974)
(1973)
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
as Жорж Милославский / князь Милославский
(1973)
Life and Amazing Aventures of Robinson Crusoe
as Робинзон (озв. А. Консовский)
(1973)
This Merry Planet
as Игрек - член экипажа летающей тарелки
(1973)
Nylon 100%
as работник скупки Веня Гурьянов
(1973)
(1973)
The Twelve Months
as Old soldier
(1973)
Aibolit and Barmaley
as Толстый
(1972)
Boys
as Viktor Viktorovich
(1972)
(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
(1971)
(1971)
(1970)
The Beginning
as Arkadiy
(1970)
(1970)
(1970)
(1970)
Two Days of Wonders
as зав. терапевическим отделением Мурашев Вадим Леонидович
(1969)
Shine, Shine, My Star
as Red comissar
(1969)
Men's Talk
as Alexey
(1969)
Crash
as Сыроежкин
(1969)
(1969)
Любовь Серафима Фролова
as Serafim Frolov
(1969)
Not Under the Jurisdiction
as Sorokin
(1968)
The Golden Calf
as Shura Balaganov
(1968)
Literature Lesson
as Савелий Сидоров
(1967)
Viy
as Khoma Brut
(1967)
Elder Sister
as Volodya
(1967)
Such a Big Boy
as Vasiliy
(1966)
There Is Such a Lad
as Пашка Колокольников, шофёр
(1966)
Your Son and Brother
as Степан Воеводин, средний сын
(1966)
Без свидетелей
as Валька Бурмакин
(1965)
Time, Forward!
as Korneyev
(1965)
(1964)
Непридуманная история
as Kostya Remizov
(1963)
Third Time
as Lyonya Fokin
(1963)
(1961)
When the Trees Were Tall
as Lenka
(1961)
(1961)
Водил поезда машинист
as Yasha
(1960)
Midshipman Panin
as Pyotr Kamushkin
(1960)
Из Лебяжьего сообщают
as Сеня Громов
(1959)
There Will Be No Leave Today
as Morozov