Cast

Leonid Kuravlyov

Acting

Cast

Leonid Kuravlyov

Known for

Acting

Born

1936-10-08

From

Moscow, RSFSR, USSR

Died

2022-01-30

Also known as Leonid Kuravlev, Леонид Куравлев, Куравлёв Леонид Вячеславович

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

Leonid Kuravlyov

Leonid Kuravlyov

Biography

Ono

Счёт человеческий

Viy

Incognito from St.Petersburg

Third Time

Not Under the Jurisdiction

Sincerely Yours...

Fuss of the Fusses

One Time Deal

Men's Talk

Young People

Queen's Personal Life

Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession

Defeat

To Dream and to Live

Mimino

Five Minutes of Fear

Liberation - Part 4 : The Battle of Berlin

Shadows

Life and Amazing Aventures of Robinson Crusoe

Hope

Scandal in our Kloshgorod

For the Matches

The Barber of Siberia

Territory

Георгий Данелия. Великий обманщик

Why Would an Honest Man Need an Alibi?

What a Mess!

In Search of the Golden Phallus

Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century

Time, Forward!

The Trust That Has Burst

A Dog Was Walking on the Piano

Afonya

The Most Beautiful Horse

The Turkish Gambit

Entrance to Labyrinth

Across Red Nights

The Master and Margarita

Live in Joy

Au-u!

When the Trees Were Tall

Sitting on the Golden Porch

The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed

Timur and His Team

The Stringer

Shine, Shine, My Star

Midshipman Panin

The Book of Masters

The Invisible Man

The Most Charming and Attractive

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 2

Lady Into Lassie

There Is Such a Lad

The Golden Calf

There Will Be No Leave Today

It Can't Be!

Dangerous for Your Life!

The Suicide

There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach

Northern Rhapsody

Ladies Invite Gentlemen

Pretty Face

The Codex of Disgrace

We're from Jazz

This Merry Planet

First Encounter - Last Encounter

Demidovy

Holy Moly!

Snake Catcher

Look for a Woman

The Heirs

The Stairway

The Twelve Months

Literature Lesson

The Beginning

Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation