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 Куравлёв, Леонид Куравлев
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
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 2
as Von Bork
The Barber of Siberia
as Vakhmistr Bukin
Viy
as Khoma Brut
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
as Zhorzh Miloslavsky / knyaz Miloslavsky
White Queen's Move
as Тюликов, тренер Бабуриной
Mimino
as Professor Khachikyan
When the Trees Were Tall
as Lenka
Ono
as Vasilisk Borodavkin
What a Mess!
as USA ambassador
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
as "Smoked"
The Master and Margarita
as Nikanor Ivanovich Bosoy
Sitting on the Golden Porch
as Kороль Амфибрахий
Au-u!
as Пташук Геннадий Иванович («Что наша жизнь?! Или что наша жизнь?!»)
Afonya
as Afonya
Time, Forward!
as Korneyev
The Turkish Gambit
as major
Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century
as Von Bork
The Trust That Has Burst
as Ezra Plunkett
Old Songs about the Main Thing 2
Liberation - Part 4 : The Battle of Berlin
Ladies Invite Gentlemen
as Sanya
Simple - Minded
This Merry Planet
as Игрек - член экипажа летающей тарелки
Liberation - Part 5 : The Last Assault
as Signaler Sent to Hitler's Bunker
Old Songs About the Main Thing 3
as Жорж Милославский
To Dream and to Live
as Иван Григорьевич, механизатор-тракторист, режиссёр
For the Matches
as Peasant
There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach
as Mikhail Gorbachev
The Book of Masters
as Barin
Not Under the Jurisdiction
as Sorokin
The Codex of Disgrace
The Beginning
as Arkadiy
Demidovy
as Menshikov
Queen's Personal Life
It Can't Be!
as Vladimir Zavitushkin
May I Die, Lord...
The Night Before Christmas
Live in Joy
as Митяй Пряжкин
Presumption of Innocence
as Bondarev - nachalnik poezda
Third Time
as Lyonya Fokin
I Am His Bride
The Suicide
as заведующий тиром Александр Лукьянович Калабушкин
The Golden Calf
as Shura Balaganov
Fuss of the Fusses
as Volodya
Crazy Money
as Vasiliy
Your Son and Brother
as Степан Воеводин, средний сын
Little Tragedies
as Адриан Прохоров/Лепорелло
The Rain
as Trenka, apprentice (voice)
Pretty Face
Incognito from St.Petersburg
as Shpekin
The Seven Brides of Lance-Corporal Zbruyev
as Priest
Nylon 100%
as работник скупки Веня Гурьянов
Everything for You
Lyubushka
The Ghost of My House
In Search of the Golden Phallus
as руководитель круиза
The Flight of Mr. McKinley
as мистер Дроот
The Most Charming and Attractive
as Dyatlov
The Roundabout
as Nikolai Timofeyevich
Energetic People
as Аристарх Петрович Кузькин
Sincerely Yours...
as Emtsov
Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation
as Editor
Five Minutes of Fear
as Леонид Каретников (свидетель)
Fun for Old People
as Yefremov
Russian Account
as Иван Сидоров, майор
Destroy the Thirtieth!
Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun
as Dobrynya
Look for a Woman
as Henri Granden
Martinko
as Martinko (voice)
We're from Jazz
as Samsonov
Entrance to Labyrinth
as Oleg Khlebnikov
There Is Such a Lad
as Пашка Колокольников, шофёр
You to Me, Me to You
as Ivan Kashkin / Sergei Kashkin
The Invisible Man
as Marvel
Life and Amazing Aventures of Robinson Crusoe
as Робинзон (озв. А. Консовский)
The Most Beautiful Horse
Don't Leave Your Lovers
as Валера
Men's Talk
as Alexey
The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga
Lady Into Lassie
as Grigoriy Muromskiy
How Is It Going, Crucians?
as высокий начальник
Next of Kin
as Толик
Restricted Area
Take Care of the Men!
as Vladimir Rodionov
There Will Be No Leave Today
as Morozov
Dangerous for Your Life!
as Spartak Molodtsov
Late Child
While the Dream is Mad
A Dog Was Walking on the Piano
Blackmailer
as Федор Семенович
Crash
as Сыроежкин
Made in USSR
as Ivan Moiseyevich
Literature Lesson
as Савелий Сидоров
Vitya Glushakov - A Friend of the Apaches
as Arkady
Unanswered Love
as Pavlov
A Man for a Young Girl
The Stringer
All That Jam
as father Leonty
Circus in the Circus
as Grisha
Without Father
as Kesha
Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...
as Михаил (новелла «Мы едем, едем, едем...»)
Foam
as Валерий Солома, аферист
Hope
as Stepan
The Stairway
as дядя Миша
We, the Undersigned
as Lyonya Shindin
Holy Moly!
First Encounter - Last Encounter
as Count
Shine, Shine, My Star
as Red comissar
An Unrealistic Story
as Kostya Remizov
Timur and His Team
Provincial Benefit
Snake Catcher
as Konstantin
Repeated Wedding
as Михайлов
Defeat
The Twelve Months
as Old soldier
Seventh Skies
There Was No Sorrow
as Vadim Petrovich Potapov
The Left-Hander
as император Александр Павлович
Chuffyk
as (voice)
The Enchanted Wanderer
as Priest
Enclosure
Facts of the Past Day
as Grinin
Before We Part
as Badarin
Meet Me in Tahiti
as Шнайдер
The Ballad of Bering and His Friends
One Time Deal
as Fedor Romanov
These Incredible Musicians, or Shurik's New Dreams
Funny People!
as Денис Григорьев
The Last Sacrifice
as Lavr Mironych
About Friends and Comrades
A Day and the Whole Life
Kysh and TwoBriefcases
as папа Алёши, Дмитрий Эдуардович
Boys
as Viktor Viktorovich
The Wedding Gift
Midshipman Panin
as Пётр Камушкин
Nesrochnaya vesna
as хозяин
Young People
as new settler
Machinist Drove the Trains
as Yasha
Through All the Years
Aibolit and Barmaley
as Толстый
Russian Miracle
as Сеня
Two Days of Wonders
as зав. терапевическим отделением Мурашев Вадим Леонидович
Spanish Actress for Russian Minister
as Игорь Иванович Степанов
KGB Agents Also Fall in Love
Love of Serafim Frolov
as Serafim Frolov
Elder Sister
as Volodya
It's Just Awful!
as Ruslan Ivanovich
My Friends
Northern Rhapsody
Such a Big Boy
as Vasiliy
Tailcoat for an Idler
Gangsters in the Ocean
as Sobakin
Reports from Lebyazhye
as Сеня Громов
Shadows
Karpusha
as Karpusha (voice)
Traces of Rain
Крыса на подносе
Счет человеческий
as Чаплыгин (зооинспектор)
Sentence
as Лео Харман
Detonator
A Show for a Single Man
Copper Angel
as Ларсен
Without Witnesses
as Burmakin
The Devil's Puppets
Ultimatum
as Leonid
Chekhov's Vaudevilles
Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants
as Ivan Shponka
Evropejskij Konvoj
as генерал
Across Red Nights
New Year's Story
as Ded Moroz
Lev Gurych Sinichkin
as князь Ветренский
Railway Romance
as Petrovich
Scandal in our Kloshgorod
The Adventures of Travka
Homeboy
as Fedor
Pyotr Ryabinkin
The Love Arrow
Heirloom
Георгий Данелия. Великий обманщик
as Self
Take Your Time
The Heirs
as глава администрации
Esli Nevesta Vedma
Three on the Red Carpet
as Михаил Иванович Сошкин
Territory
Why Would an Honest Man Need an Alibi?