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

Queen's Personal Life

19933.8

Viy

19676.9

Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession

19737.9

Liberation - Part 4 : The Battle of Berlin

19716.8

Ono

19895.0

Defeat

1987

Not Under the Jurisdiction

19695.8

Sincerely Yours...

19855.0

Incognito from St.Petersburg

19786.0

Fuss of the Fusses

19796.1

Young People

19718.5

Счёт человеческий

19787.3

Men's Talk

19697.5

Mimino

19777.6

The Barber of Siberia

19987.0

Hope

19886.3

One Time Deal

19876.6

Third Time

19635.0

Five Minutes of Fear

19867.4

Shadows

1991

To Dream and to Live

19746.7

Scandal in our Kloshgorod

1993

Afonya

19757.7

Why Would an Honest Man Need an Alibi?

1992

For the Matches

19806.3

Георгий Данелия. Великий обманщик

2015

In Search of the Golden Phallus

19928.0

Territory

1993

Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century

19877.1

What a Mess!

19956.7

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

19887.3

Life and Amazing Aventures of Robinson Crusoe

19735.5

Liberation - Part 5 : The Last Assault

19717.1

The Master and Margarita

20115.5

The Turkish Gambit

20056.3

Across Red Nights

19919.0

It Can't Be!

19757.3

The Book of Masters

20094.4

The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed

19798.1

Circus in the Circus

19765.1

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

19935.9

Spanish Actress for Russian Minister

19906.8

Old Songs About the Main Thing 3

19985.5

Time, Forward!

19655.3

The Flight of Mr. McKinley

19754.4

The Trust That Has Burst

19836.4

The Stringer

19984.7

Sitting on the Golden Porch

19865.9

We're from Jazz

19836.8

Funny People!

19786.0

Au-u!

19767.6

Timur and His Team

19775.9

Your Son and Brother

19666.8

The Golden Calf

19688.0

Entrance to Labyrinth

19904.7

While the Dream is Mad

19784.8

About Friends and Comrades

19706.0

Nylon 100%

19735.7

Midshipman Panin

19605.4

A Day and the Whole Life

19708.0

The Enchanted Wanderer

19906.7

The Last Sacrifice

19766.8

Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants

19837.2

Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation

19895.7

Restricted Area

1988

We, the Undersigned

19815.9

Traces of Rain

19919.0

The Beginning

19706.2

Elder Sister

19675.8

Little Tragedies

19805.8

KGB Agents Also Fall in Love

19912.8

The Invisible Man

19855.4

Two Days of Wonders

19705.8

When the Trees Were Tall

19616.7

You to Me, Me to You

19776.4

The Most Charming and Attractive

19857.0

Lady Into Lassie

19955.3

Old Songs about the Main Thing 2

19975.4

Such a Big Boy

19673.7

An Unrealistic Story

19646.8

Snake Catcher

19864.4

Northern Rhapsody

197410.0

Demidovy

19837.2

Pretty Face

19906.0

Holy Moly!

19886.4

Ladies Invite Gentlemen

19816.0

Seventh Skies

19727.0

Facts of the Past Day

19819.0

The Suicide

19906.5

Late Child

19716.0

Sentence

1994

The Left-Hander

19865.9

The Seven Brides of Lance-Corporal Zbruyev

19716.7

The Ballad of Bering and His Friends

19705.8

Provincial Benefit

19937.0

First Encounter - Last Encounter

19875.5

Unanswered Love

19796.7

New Year's Story

1997

Kysh and TwoBriefcases

19747.0

Dangerous for Your Life!

19856.7

The Most Beautiful Horse

19777.0

Live in Joy

19795.4

Take Care of the Men!

19834.3

Crazy Money

19815.3

Crash

19698.0

Destroy the Thirtieth!

19925.5

Ultimatum

199910.0

Look for a Woman

19827.3

There Was No Sorrow

19839.0

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

20040.5

Don't Leave Your Lovers

19806.2

Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...

19786.4

Aibolit and Barmaley

19735.4

Love of Serafim Frolov

19697.0

There Is Such a Lad

19666.6

Lyubushka

19617.5

The Roundabout

19715.7

The Rain

1978

There Will Be No Leave Today

19595.8

Detonator

19925.5

A Dog Was Walking on the Piano

19784.2

Literature Lesson

19685.8

Meet Me in Tahiti

19916.0

Gangsters in the Ocean

19928.7

The Stairway

19893.9

Shine, Shine, My Star

19695.6

The Heirs

20083.0

This Merry Planet

19735.1

These Incredible Musicians, or Shurik's New Dreams

19775.8

Foam

19795.4

My Friends

19746.0

Railway Romance

20036.8

The Codex of Disgrace

19935.0

Blackmailer

19888.0

Homeboy

19747.7

Vitya Glushakov - A Friend of the Apaches

19836.3

The Devil's Puppets

19938.0

The Night Before Christmas

19977.0

Boys

1972

Крыса на подносе

1963

Enclosure

19885.5

Before We Part

19846.0

The Twelve Months

19736.5

A Man for a Young Girl

19967.0

Russian Account

19945.7

Made in USSR

19916.1

The Ghost of My House

19945.5

Martinko

19877.0

Presumption of Innocence

19885.4

Simple - Minded

19945.0

Russian Miracle

19945.2

Repeated Wedding

19755.0

Pyotr Ryabinkin

1973

I Am His Bride

19697.0

Copper Angel

19846.0

Nesrochnaya vesna

19903.7

A Show for a Single Man

1994

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

2004

Karpusha

1988

Everything for You

19657.5

Machinist Drove the Trains

19616.0

Esli Nevesta Vedma

20026.2

Without Father

19777.0

The Adventures of Travka

19769.0

How Is It Going, Crucians?

19919.0

White Queen's Move

19725.3

Next of Kin

19806.7

The Wedding Gift

19835.5

Chuffyk

1993

Fun for Old People

19779.0

The Love Arrow

2002

Energetic People

1988

Through All the Years

19857.0

Lev Gurych Sinichkin

19745.2

Chekhov's Vaudevilles

1984

Take Your Time

1972

Reports from Lebyazhye

19607.0

Tailcoat for an Idler

19797.0

Three on the Red Carpet

1988

May I Die, Lord...

1988

Heirloom

1981

All That Jam

20161.0

Without Witnesses

1966

Black Gloves

1973

It's Just Awful!

19828.0