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