Leonid Kuravlyov

Acting · 1.1 popularity

Age

Movies

185

Born: October 8, 1936 – January 30, 2022
From: Moscow, RSFSR, USSR

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

Works

185 films

Viy

19676.9

Queen's Personal Life

19933.8

Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession

19737.9

Ono

19895.0

Sincerely Yours...

19855.0

Liberation - Part 4 : The Battle of Berlin

19716.8

Young People

19718.5

Incognito from St.Petersburg

19786.0

Счёт человеческий

19787.3

Not Under the Jurisdiction

19695.8

Men's Talk

19697.5

Defeat

1987

The Barber of Siberia

19987.0

Fuss of the Fusses

19796.1

Hope

19886.3

Third Time

19635.0

Mimino

19777.6

Shadows

1991

One Time Deal

19876.6

Afonya

19757.7

Five Minutes of Fear

19867.4

Territory

1993

Scandal in our Kloshgorod

1993

To Dream and to Live

19746.7

Why Would an Honest Man Need an Alibi?

1992

In Search of the Golden Phallus

19928.0

Георгий Данелия. Великий обманщик

2015

For the Matches

19806.3

Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century

19877.1

Tailcoat for an Idler

19797.0

What a Mess!

19956.7

Life and Amazing Aventures of Robinson Crusoe

19735.5

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

19887.3

The Master and Margarita

20115.5

Across Red Nights

19919.0

Liberation - Part 5 : The Last Assault

19717.1

Old Songs About the Main Thing 3

19985.5

The Golden Calf

19688.0

Time, Forward!

19655.3

Funny People!

19786.0

The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed

19798.1

The Book of Masters

20094.4

It Can't Be!

19757.3

Timur and His Team

19775.9

The Turkish Gambit

20056.3

Circus in the Circus

19765.1

Two Days of Wonders

19705.8

Lady Into Lassie

19955.3

Demidovy

19837.2

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

19935.9

Restricted Area

1988

Entrance to Labyrinth

19904.7

Sitting on the Golden Porch

19865.9

The Flight of Mr. McKinley

19754.4

Little Tragedies

19805.8

The Stringer

19984.7

Take Care of the Men!

19834.3

The Last Sacrifice

19766.8

KGB Agents Also Fall in Love

19912.8

Facts of the Past Day

19819.0

We, the Undersigned

19815.9

We're from Jazz

19836.8

The Enchanted Wanderer

19906.7

The Trust That Has Burst

19836.4

Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation

19895.7

New Year's Story

1997

About Friends and Comrades

19706.0

Au-u!

19767.6

Snake Catcher

19864.4

Holy Moly!

19886.4

Pretty Face

19906.0

Spanish Actress for Russian Minister

19906.8

Northern Rhapsody

197410.0

The Invisible Man

19855.4

The Left-Hander

19865.9

Provincial Benefit

19937.0

The Ballad of Bering and His Friends

19705.8

When the Trees Were Tall

19616.7

Your Son and Brother

19666.8

First Encounter - Last Encounter

19875.5

This Merry Planet

19735.1

There Is Such a Lad

19666.6

The Most Beautiful Horse

19777.0

Elder Sister

19675.8

Vitya Glushakov - A Friend of the Apaches

19836.3

Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants

19837.2

Midshipman Panin

19605.4

The Beginning

19706.2

An Unrealistic Story

19646.8

The Stairway

19893.9

The Most Charming and Attractive

19857.0

The Heirs

20083.0

There Will Be No Leave Today

19595.8

Literature Lesson

19685.8

While the Dream is Mad

19784.8

The Rain

1978

Such a Big Boy

19673.7

Homeboy

19747.7

Love of Serafim Frolov

19697.0

Aibolit and Barmaley

19735.4

Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...

19786.4

The Roundabout

19715.7

The Devil's Puppets

19938.0

Foam

19795.4

Dangerous for Your Life!

19856.7

Nylon 100%

19735.7

Kysh and TwoBriefcases

19747.0

Seventh Skies

19727.0

Machinist Drove the Trains

19616.0

Don't Leave Your Lovers

19806.2

The Suicide

19906.5

Enclosure

19885.5

These Incredible Musicians, or Shurik's New Dreams

19775.8

There Was No Sorrow

19839.0

Martinko

19877.0

Ladies Invite Gentlemen

19816.0

Russian Miracle

19945.2

Three on the Red Carpet

1988

Unanswered Love

19796.7

Crazy Money

19815.3

How Is It Going, Crucians?

19919.0

Without Father

19777.0

Crash

19698.0

Destroy the Thirtieth!

19925.5

Through All the Years

19857.0

The Twelve Months

19736.5

Russian Account

19945.7

My Friends

19746.0

Made in USSR

19916.1

You to Me, Me to You

19776.4

Old Songs about the Main Thing 2

19975.4

Lyubushka

19617.5

Karpusha

1988

Detonator

19925.5

The Seven Brides of Lance-Corporal Zbruyev

19716.7

A Show for a Single Man

1994

Live in Joy

19795.4

Boys

1972

Look for a Woman

19827.3

A Dog Was Walking on the Piano

19784.2

The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga

20040.5

Late Child

19716.0

A Day and the Whole Life

19708.0

Meet Me in Tahiti

19916.0

Repeated Wedding

19755.0

Shine, Shine, My Star

19695.6

Railway Romance

20036.8

Lev Gurych Sinichkin

19745.2

Gangsters in the Ocean

19928.7

Ultimatum

199910.0

Presumption of Innocence

19885.4

The Codex of Disgrace

19935.0

The Ghost of My House

19945.5

A Man for a Young Girl

19967.0

All That Jam

20161.0

Blackmailer

19888.0

Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun

2004

The Night Before Christmas

19977.0

Next of Kin

19806.7

Before We Part

19846.0

Sentence

1994

Traces of Rain

19919.0

Esli Nevesta Vedma

20026.2

The Wedding Gift

19835.5

I Am His Bride

19697.0

Everything for You

19657.5

Heirloom

1981

The Adventures of Travka

19769.0

White Queen's Move

19725.3

Copper Angel

19846.0

Pyotr Ryabinkin

1973

Nesrochnaya vesna

19903.7

Chuffyk

1993

Black Gloves

1973

The Love Arrow

2002

Take Your Time

1972

Fun for Old People

19779.0

May I Die, Lord...

1988

Energetic People

1988

Simple - Minded

19945.0

Chekhov's Vaudevilles

1984

It's Just Awful!

19828.0

Крыса на подносе

1963

Without Witnesses

1966

Reports from Lebyazhye

19607.0