Leonid Kuravlyov

Leonid Kuravlyov

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: Acting

Born: Moscow, RSFSR, USSR, 1936-10-08

Died: 2022-01-30

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1959	There Will Be No Leave Today	Morozov	57
2	1960	Reports from Lebyazhye	Сеня Громов	0
3	1960	Midshipman Panin	Pyotr Kamushkin	50
4	1961	Machinist Drove the Train	Yasha	0
5	1961	Lyubushka		75
6	1961	When the Trees Were Tall	Lenka	66
7	1963	Крыса на подносе		0
8	1963	Third Time	Lyonya Fokin	42
9	1964	An Unrealistic Story	Kostya Remizov	57
10	1965	Everything for You		50
11	1965	Time, Forward!	Korneyev	51
12	1966	There Is Such a Lad	Пашка Колокольников, шофёр	65
13	1966	Your Son and Brother	Степан Воеводин, средний сын	67
14	1966	Без свидетелей	Валька Бурмакин	0
15	1967	Elder Sister	Volodya	56
16	1967	Such a Big Boy	Vasiliy	10
17	1967	Viy	Khoma Brut	69
18	1968	Literature Lesson	Савелий Сидоров	54
19	1968	The Golden Calf	Shura Balaganov	80
20	1969	Men's Talk	Alexey	70
21	1969	Crash	Сыроежкин	0
22	1969	Shine, Shine, My Star	Red comissar	54
23	1969	Love of Serafim Frolov	Serafim Frolov	60
24	1969	Not Under the Jurisdiction	Sorokin	52
25	1969	I Am His Bride		0
26	1970	Two Days of Wonders	зав. терапевическим отделением Мурашев Вадим Леонидович	48
27	1970	A Day and the Whole Life		60
28	1970	The Ballad of Bering and His Friends		52
29	1970	О друзьях-товарищах		60
30	1970	The Beginning	Arkadiy	62
31	1971	The Roundabout	Nikolai Timofeyevich	55
32	1971	Late Child		60
33	1971	Young People	new settler	100
34	1971	The Seven Brides of Lance-Corporal Zbruyev	Priest	66
35	1971	Liberation: The Last Assault	Chuikov's signaler	74
36	1972	Seventh Skies		60
37	1972	White Queen's Move	Тюликов, тренер Бабуриной	40
38	1972	Boys	Viktor Viktorovich	0
39	1973	The Twelve Months	Old soldier	65
40	1973	Aibolit and Barmaley	Толстый	54
41	1973	Pyotr Ryabinkin		0
42	1973	Life and Amazing Aventures of Robinson Crusoe	Робинзон (озв. А. Консовский)	53
43	1973	Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession	Жорж Милославский / князь Милославский	79
44	1973	Nylon 100%	работник скупки Веня Гурьянов	53
45	1973	This Merry Planet	Игрек - член экипажа летающей тарелки	48
46	1974	To Dream and to Live	Иван Григорьевич, механизатор-тракторист, режиссёр	50
47	1974	My Friends		60
48	1974	Homeboy	Fedor	65
49	1974	Северная рапсодия		0
50	1974	Kysh and TwoBriefcases	папа Алёши, Дмитрий Эдуардович	0
51	1974	Lev Gurych Sinichkin	князь Ветренский	45
52	1975	Repeated Wedding	Михайлов	20
53	1975	It Can't Be!	Vladimir Zavitushkin	71
54	1975	Escape of Mr. McKinley	мистер Дроот	41
55	1976	Afonya	Афанасий Николаевич Борщов (Афоня), слесарь-сантехник	79
56	1976	Without Father		80
57	1976	Circus in the Circus	Grisha	48
58	1976	Ау-у! (Киноальманах)	Пташук Геннадий Иванович («Что наша жизнь?! Или что наша жизнь?!»)	75
59	1976	The Adventures of Travka		0
60	1976	The Last Sacrifice	Lavr Mironych	60
61	1977	Эти невероятные музыканты, или Новые сновидения Шурика		58
62	1977	Fun for Old People	Yefremov	90
63	1977	Timur and His Team		59
64	1977	Mimino	Professor Khachikyan	75
65	1977	The Most Beautiful Horse		70
66	1978	A Dog Was Walking on the Piano		39
67	1978	Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...	Михаил (новелла «Мы едем, едем, едем...»)	62
68	1978	The Rain	Trenka, apprentice (voice)	0
69	1978	Счет человеческий	Чаплыгин (зооинспектор)	60
70	1978	Live in Joy	Митяй Пряжкин (Дмитрий Петрович)	51
71	1978	While the Dream is Mad		40
72	1978	Incognito from St.Petersburg	Shpekin	59
73	1978	Funny People!	Денис Григорьев	57
74	1979	Unanswered Love	Pavlov	55
75	1979	You to Me, Me to You	Ivan Kashkin / Sergei Kashkin	61
76	1979	Tailcoat for an Idler		70
77	1979	Pena	Валерий Солома, аферист	50
78	1979	Fuss of the Fusses	Volodya	59
79	1979	The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed	"Smoked"	81
80	1980	Next of Kin	Толик	70
81	1980	Little Tragedies	Адриан Прохоров/Лепорелло	54
82	1980	Don't Leave Your Lovers	Валера	61
83	1980	For the Matches	Peasant	63
84	1981	We, the Undersigned	Lyonya Shindin	46
85	1981	Ladies Invite Gentlemen	Sanya	58
86	1981	Facts of the Past Day	Grinin	0
87	1981	Crazy Money	Vasiliy	47
88	1982	Take Care of the Men!	Vladimir Rodionov	30
89	1982	It's Just Awful!	Ruslan Ivanovich	70
90	1982	Look for a Woman	Henri Granden	72
91	1983	Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants	Ivan Shponka	65
92	1983	The Wedding Gift		50
93	1983	The Trust That Has Burst	Ezra Plunkett	61
94	1983	Не было печали	Vadim Petrovich Potapov	0
95	1983	We're from Jazz	Samsonov	67
96	1983	Demidovy	Menshikov	71
97	1983	Vitya Glushakov - A Friend of the Apaches	Arkady	53
98	1984	Chekhov's Vaudevilles		0
99	1984	Before We Part	Badarin	40
100	1984	Copper Angel	Ларсен	50
101	1985	The Invisible Man	Marvel	54
102	1985	Dangerous for Your Life!	Spartak Molodtsov	68
103	1985	Sincerely Yours...	Emtsov	33
104	1985	The Most Charming and Attractive	Pasha Dyatlov	70
105	1986	Five Minutes of Fear	Леонид Каретников (свидетель)	70
106	1986	Snake Catcher	Konstantin	30
107	1986	The Left-Hander	император Александр Павлович	54
108	1986	Sitting on the Golden Porch	Kороль Амфибрахий	54
109	1987	One Time Deal	Fedor Romanov	64
110	1987	Martinko	Martinko (voice)	70
111	1987	Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century	Von Bork	71
112	1987	Defeat		0
113	1987	First Encounter - Last Encounter	Count	53
114	1988	Restricted Area		0
115	1988	Holy Moly!		62
116	1988	Blackmailer	Федор Семенович	75
117	1988	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 2	Von Bork	72
118	1988	Enclosure		0
119	1988	Karpusha	Karpusha (voice)	0
120	1988	May I Die, Lord...		0
121	1988	Three on the Red Carpet	Михаил Иванович Сошкин	0
122	1988	Энергичные люди	Аристарх Петрович Кузькин	0
123	1988	Hope	Stepan	55
124	1988	Presumption of Innocence	Bondarev - nachalnik poezda	48
125	1989	Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation	Editor	56
126	1989	The Stairway	дядя Миша	28
127	1990	The Suicide	заведующий тиром Александр Лукьянович Калабушкин	60
128	1990	Spanish Actress for Russian Minister	Игорь Иванович Степанов	68
129	1990	The Charming Traveller	Priest	70
130	1990	It	Vasilisk Borodavkin	49
131	1990	Entrance to Labyrinth	Oleg Khlebnikov	34
132	1990	Pretty Face		55
133	1990	Несрочная весна	хозяин	35
134	1991	Meet Me in Tahiti	Шнайдер	55
135	1991	How Is It Going, Crucians?	высокий начальник	0
136	1991	Across Red Nights		0
137	1991	Made in USSR	Ivan Moiseyevich	56
138	1991	Traces of Rain		0
139	1991	KGB Agents Also Fall in Love		18
140	1992	Detonator		0
141	1992	Gangsters in the Ocean	Sobakin	80
142	1992	In Search of the Golden Phallus	руководитель круиза	0
143	1992	Destroy the Thirtieth!		10
144	1993	The Devil's Puppets		0
145	1993	Provincial Benefit		0
146	1993	Queen's Personal Life		25
147	1993	There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach	Mikhail Gorbachev	58
148	1993	Chuffyk	(voice)	0
149	1993	The Codex of Disgrace		35
150	1994	Russian Miracle	Сеня	46
151	1994	Sentence	Лео Харман	0
152	1994	The Ghost of My House		40
153	1994	A Show for a Single Man		0
154	1994	The Master and Margarita	Nikanor Ivanovich Bosoy	57
155	1994	Simple - Minded		0
156	1994	Russian Account	Иван Сидоров, майор	48
157	1995	What a Mess!	USA ambassador	66
158	1995	Lady Into Lassie	Grigoriy Muromskiy	53
159	1996	A Man for a Young Girl		0
160	1997	Old Songs about the Main Thing 2		50
161	1997	The Night Before Christmas		60
162	1997	New Year's Story	Ded Moroz	0
163	1998	The Stringer		43
164	1998	Old Songs About the Main Thing 3	Жорж Милославский	51
165	1998	The Barber of Siberia	Vakhmistr Bukin	71
166	1999	Ultimatum	Leonid	100
167	2002	The Love Arrow		0
168	2002	Esli Nevesta Vedma		62
169	2003	Evropejskij Konvoj	генерал	59
170	2003	Railway Romance	Petrovich	65
171	2004	The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga		5
172	2004	Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun	Dobrynya	0
173	2005	The Turkish Gambit	major	63
174	2008	The Heirs	глава администрации	30
175	2009	The Book of Masters	Barin	44
176	2016	All That Jam	father Leonty	10

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1962	Fuse		76
2	1971	Investigation Held by ZnaToKi	Иван Малахов - кладовщик	71
3	1973	The Twelve Months	Старый солдат	0
4	1973	Seventeen Moments of Spring	Kurt Eismann - SS Obersturmbannfuehrer	77
5	1979	The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed	«Копчёный» (вор-чердачник Валентин Бисяев)	86
6	1980	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson	Von Bork	78
7	1980	Little Tragedies		60
8	1983	Ищите женщину	Henri Granden	0
9	1983	The Trust That Has Burst		0
10	1984	TASS Is Authorized to Declare...	Андрей Андреевич Зотов, инженер-корабел	69
11	1988	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins	von Bork	85
12	1988	Life of Don Quixote and Sancho	Nicolas	47
13	1990	Entrance to the Maze	Oleg Khlebnikov - doktor neyrofiziolog	63
14	1998	Streets of Broken Lights	Андрей Петрович Ершов, "Дед"	60
15	2000	Memories of Sherlock Holmes	Von Bork	72
16	2002	Brigada	Петр Чуйков	76
17	2006	Мастер и Маргарита		0
18	2006	The Turkish Gambit	Artillery major	70

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