Acting
Leonid Kuravlyov
RU, EN, IT, FI cinema · 184 credits
Born
8 October 1936
Died
30 January 2022 (aged 85)
Birthplace
Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Also known as Leonid Kuravlev · Леонид Куравлев · L. Kuravlev · L. Kuravlyov · Leonid Kouravliov · Leonid Viatcheslavovitch Kouravliov
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
Filmography
All That Jam
as father Leonty
The Master and Margarita
as Nikanor Ivanovich Bosoy
The Book of Masters
as Barin
The Heirs
as глава администрации
The Turkish Gambit
as major
Railway Romance
as Petrovich
Ultimatum
as Leonid
The Barber of Siberia
as Vakhmistr Bukin
Old Songs About the Main Thing 3
as Жорж Милославский
New Year's Story
as Ded Moroz
What a Mess!
as USA ambassador
Lady Into Lassie
as Grigoriy Muromskiy
Russian Account
as Иван Сидоров, майор
Russian Miracle
as Сеня
Sentence
as Лео Харман
There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach
as Mikhail Gorbachev
Chuffyk
as (voice)
Gangsters in the Ocean
as Sobakin
In Search of the Golden Phallus
as руководитель круиза
Meet Me in Tahiti
as Шнайдер
Made in USSR
as Ivan Moiseyevich
How Is It Going, Crucians?
as высокий начальник
Entrance to Labyrinth
as Oleg Khlebnikov
The Enchanted Wanderer
as Priest
The Suicide
as заведующий тиром Александр Лукьянович Калабушкин
Spanish Actress for Russian Minister
as Игорь Иванович Степанов
Nesrochnaya vesna
as хозяин
The Stairway
as дядя Миша
Ono
as Vasilisk Borodavkin
Three on the Red Carpet
as Михаил Иванович Сошкин
Hope
as Stepan
Blackmailer
as Федор Семенович
Presumption of Innocence
as Bondarev - nachalnik poezda
Energetic People
as Аристарх Петрович Кузькин
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 2
as Von Bork
Karpusha
as Karpusha (voice)
One Time Deal
as Fedor Romanov
Martinko
as Martinko (voice)
Snake Catcher
as Konstantin
Sitting on the Golden Porch
as Kороль Амфибрахий
Five Minutes of Fear
as Леонид Каретников (свидетель)
The Left-Hander
as император Александр Павлович
Dangerous for Your Life!
as Spartak Molodtsov
The Invisible Man
as Marvel
Sincerely Yours...
as Emtsov
Before We Part
as Badarin
Copper Angel
as Ларсен
The Trust That Has Burst
as Ezra Plunkett
We're from Jazz
as Samsonov
Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants
as Ivan Shponka
Demidovy
as Menshikov
There Was No Sorrow
as Vadim Petrovich Potapov
Take Care of the Men!
as Vladimir Rodionov
Look for a Woman
as Henri Granden
It's Just Awful!
as Ruslan Ivanovich
We, the Undersigned
as Lyonya Shindin
Crazy Money
as Vasiliy
Facts of the Past Day
as Grinin
Don't Leave Your Lovers
as Валера
Next of Kin
as Толик
For the Matches
as Peasant
Fuss of the Fusses
as Volodya
Live in Joy
as Митяй Пряжкин
Foam
as Валерий Солома, аферист
Unanswered Love
as Pavlov
Incognito from St.Petersburg
as Shpekin
Funny People!
as Денис Григорьев
Счёт человеческий
as Чаплыгин (зооинспектор)
Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...
as Михаил (новелла «Мы едем, едем, едем...»)
The Rain
as Trenka, apprentice (voice)
Mimino
as Professor Khachikyan
You to Me, Me to You
as Ivan Kashkin / Sergei Kashkin
Without Father
as Kesha
Fun for Old People
as Yefremov
Circus in the Circus
as Grisha
Au-u!
as Пташук Геннадий Иванович («Что наша жизнь?! Или что наша жизнь?!»)
The Last Sacrifice
as Lavr Mironych
Afonya
as Afonya
It Can't Be!
as Vladimir Zavitushkin
To Dream and to Live
as Иван Григорьевич, механизатор-тракторист, режиссёр
Repeated Wedding
as Михайлов
The Flight of Mr. Mc.Kinley
as мистер Дроот
Lev Gurych Sinichkin
as князь Ветренский
Kysh and TwoBriefcases
as папа Алёши, Дмитрий Эдуардович
Homeboy
as Fedor
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
as Zhorzh Miloslavsky / knyaz Miloslavsky
This Merry Planet
as Игрек - член экипажа летающей тарелки
The Twelve Months
as Old soldier
Aibolit and Barmaley
as Толстый
Nylon 100%
as работник скупки Веня Гурьянов
White Queen's Move
as Тюликов, тренер Бабуриной
Boys
as Viktor Viktorovich
The Roundabout
as Nikolai Timofeyevich
Young People
as new settler
Liberation - Part 5 : The Last Assault
as Signaler Sent to Hitler's Bunker
The Beginning
as Arkadiy
Two Days of Wonders
as зав. терапевическим отделением Мурашев Вадим Леонидович
Shine, Shine, My Star
as Red comissar
Not Under the Jurisdiction
as Sorokin
Men's Talk
as Alexey
Crash
as Сыроежкин
Love of Serafim Frolov
as Serafim Frolov
The Golden Calf
as Shura Balaganov
Literature Lesson
as Савелий Сидоров
Elder Sister
as Volodya
Viy
as Khoma Brut
Such a Big Boy
as Vasiliy
Your Son and Brother
as Степан Воеводин, средний сын
Time, Forward!
as Korneyev
There Is Such a Lad
as Пашка Колокольников, шофёр
An Unrealistic Story
as Kostya Remizov
Third Time
as Lyonya Fokin
Midshipman Panin
as Пётр Камушкин
Reports from Lebyazhye
as Сеня Громов
There Will Be No Leave Today
as Morozov