Leonid Kuravlyov
Acting • Born 1936-10-08 – Died 2022-01-30
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
Filmography
204 credits
White Queen's Move
Movie • 1972
Тюликов, тренер Бабуриной
Afonya
Movie • 1976
Афанасий Николаевич Борщов (Афоня), слесарь-сантехник
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
Movie • 1973
Жорж Милославский / князь Милославский
Крыса на подносе
Movie • 1963
Pyotr Ryabinkin
Movie • 1973
I Am His Bride
Movie • 1969
The Most Beautiful Horse
Movie • 1977
Northern Rhapsody
Movie • 1974
Old Songs about the Main Thing 2
Movie • 1997
The Book of Masters
Movie • 2009
Barin
Enclosure
Movie • 1988
Restricted Area
Movie • 1988
Mimino
Movie • 1977
Professor Khachikyan
It Can't Be!
Movie • 1975
Владимир Завитушкин
Evropejskij Konvoj
Movie • 2003
генерал
There Will Be No Leave Today
Movie • 1959
Morozov
The Golden Calf
Movie • 1968
Shura Balaganov
This Merry Planet
Movie • 1973
Игрек - член экипажа летающей тарелки
The Trust That Has Burst
Movie • 1983
Ezra Plunkett
The Most Charming and Attractive
Movie • 1985
Pasha Dyatlov
Esli Nevesta Vedma
Movie • 2002
Fuss of the Fusses
Movie • 1979
Volodya
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
Movie • 1979
"Smoked"
Shine, Shine, My Star
Movie • 1969
Red comissar
Incognito from St.Petersburg
Movie • 1978
Shpekin
The Stairway
Movie • 1989
дядя Миша
The Turkish Gambit
Movie • 2005
major
First Encounter - Last Encounter
Movie • 1987
Count
Destroy the Thirtieth!
Movie • 1992
All That Jam
Movie • 2016
father Leonty
When the Trees Were Tall
Movie • 1961
Lenka
The Beginning
Movie • 1970
Arkadiy
The Night Before Christmas
Movie • 1997
The Ballad of Bering and His Friends
Movie • 1970
There Is Such a Lad
Movie • 1966
Пашка Колокольников, шофёр
We're from Jazz
Movie • 1983
Samsonov
Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation
Movie • 1989
Editor
Dangerous for Your Life!
Movie • 1985
Spartak Molodtsov
The Codex of Disgrace
Movie • 1993
Look for a Woman
Movie • 1982
Henri Granden
One Time Deal
Movie • 1987
Fedor Romanov
What a Mess!
Movie • 1995
USA ambassador
Holy Moly!
Movie • 1988
Snake Catcher
Movie • 1986
Konstantin
Railway Romance
Movie • 2003
Petrovich
Life and Amazing Aventures of Robinson Crusoe
Movie • 1973
Робинзон (озв. А. Консовский)
There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach
Movie • 1993
Mikhail Gorbachev
Meet Me in Tahiti
Movie • 1991
Шнайдер
Little Tragedies
Movie • 1980
Адриан Прохоров/Лепорелло
Lady Into Lassie
Movie • 1995
Grigoriy Muromskiy
Defeat
Movie • 1987
Funny People!
Movie • 1978
Денис Григорьев
A Show for a Single Man
Movie • 1994
Lev Gurych Sinichkin
Movie • 1974
князь Ветренский
To Dream and to Live
Movie • 1974
Иван Григорьевич, механизатор-тракторист, режиссёр
Ladies Invite Gentlemen
Movie • 1981
Sanya
Sitting on the Golden Porch
Movie • 1986
Kороль Амфибрахий
Five Minutes of Fear
Movie • 1986
Леонид Каретников (свидетель)
The Master and Margarita
Movie • 2011
Nikanor Ivanovich Bosoy
Don't Leave Your Lovers
Movie • 1980
Валера
We, the Undersigned
Movie • 1981
Lyonya Shindin
You to Me, Me to You
Movie • 1979
Ivan Kashkin / Sergei Kashkin
Elder Sister
Movie • 1967
Volodya
The Barber of Siberia
Movie • 1998
Vakhmistr Bukin
Timur and His Team
Movie • 1977
The Invisible Man
Movie • 1985
Marvel
Entrance to Labyrinth
Movie • 1990
Oleg Khlebnikov
The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga
Movie • 2004
Before We Part
Movie • 1984
Badarin
Счет человеческий
Movie • 1978
Чаплыгин (зооинспектор)
A Dog Was Walking on the Piano
Movie • 1978
Two Days of Wonders
Movie • 1970
зав. терапевическим отделением Мурашев Вадим Леонидович
Made in USSR
Movie • 1991
Ivan Moiseyevich
Эти невероятные музыканты, или Новые сновидения Шурика
Movie • 1977
Three on the Red Carpet
Movie • 1988
Михаил Иванович Сошкин
Hope
Movie • 1988
Stepan
Without Witnesses
Movie • 1966
Burmakin
Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants
Movie • 1983
Ivan Shponka
Live in Joy
Movie • 1979
Митяй Пряжкин
Repeated Wedding
Movie • 1975
Михайлов
Demidovy
Movie • 1983
Menshikov
Midshipman Panin
Movie • 1960
Пётр Камушкин
Vitya Glushakov - A Friend of the Apaches
Movie • 1983
Arkady
Chekhov's Vaudevilles
Movie • 1984
Queen's Personal Life
Movie • 1993
The Enchanted Wanderer
Movie • 1990
Priest
Traces of Rain
Movie • 1991
The Roundabout
Movie • 1971
Nikolai Timofeyevich
Ono
Movie • 1989
Vasilisk Borodavkin
Simple - Minded
Movie • 1994
Russian Account
Movie • 1994
Иван Сидоров, майор
Russian Miracle
Movie • 1994
Сеня
There Was No Sorrow
Movie • 1983
Vadim Petrovich Potapov
Sincerely Yours...
Movie • 1985
Emtsov
Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...
Movie • 1978
Михаил (новелла «Мы едем, едем, едем...»)
Not Under the Jurisdiction
Movie • 1969
Sorokin
The Seven Brides of Lance-Corporal Zbruyev
Movie • 1971
Priest
The Twelve Months
Movie • 1973
Old soldier
Gangsters in the Ocean
Movie • 1992
Sobakin
An Unrealistic Story
Movie • 1964
Kostya Remizov
Martinko
Movie • 1987
Martinko (voice)
Literature Lesson
Movie • 1968
Савелий Сидоров
Your Son and Brother
Movie • 1966
Степан Воеводин, средний сын
Third Time
Movie • 1963
Lyonya Fokin
Men's Talk
Movie • 1969
Alexey
A Man for a Young Girl
Movie • 1996
Blackmailer
Movie • 1988
Федор Семенович
KGB Agents Also Fall in Love
Movie • 1991
Liberation: The Last Assault
Movie • 1971
Chuikov's signaler
The Adventures of Travka
Movie • 1976
It's Just Awful!
Movie • 1982
Ruslan Ivanovich
Tailcoat for an Idler
Movie • 1979
The Left-Hander
Movie • 1986
император Александр Павлович
Without Father
Movie • 1976
Aibolit and Barmaley
Movie • 1973
Толстый
Detonator
Movie • 1992
Circus in the Circus
Movie • 1976
Grisha
Kysh and TwoBriefcases
Movie • 1974
папа Алёши, Дмитрий Эдуардович
Sentence
Movie • 1994
Лео Харман
The Love Arrow
Movie • 2002
Ultimatum
Movie • 1999
Leonid
Everything for You
Movie • 1965
Au-u!
Movie • 1976
Пташук Геннадий Иванович («Что наша жизнь?! Или что наша жизнь?!»)
A Day and the Whole Life
Movie • 1970
My Friends
Movie • 1974
Lyubushka
Movie • 1961
Late Child
Movie • 1971
While the Dream is Mad
Movie • 1978
Nylon 100%
Movie • 1973
работник скупки Веня Гурьянов
Copper Angel
Movie • 1984
Ларсен
About Friends and Comrades
Movie • 1970
Time, Forward!
Movie • 1965
Korneyev
Presumption of Innocence
Movie • 1988
Bondarev - nachalnik poezda
Homeboy
Movie • 1974
Fedor
The Suicide
Movie • 1990
заведующий тиром Александр Лукьянович Калабушкин
The Wedding Gift
Movie • 1983
Seventh Skies
Movie • 1972
The Stringer
Movie • 1998
Spanish Actress for Russian Minister
Movie • 1990
Игорь Иванович Степанов
Crash
Movie • 1969
Сыроежкин
Take Care of the Men!
Movie • 1982
Vladimir Rodionov
The Flight of Mr. McKinley
Movie • 1975
мистер Дроот
May I Die, Lord...
Movie • 1988
In Search of the Golden Phallus
Movie • 1992
руководитель круиза
Crazy Money
Movie • 1981
Vasiliy
Machinist Drove the Trains
Movie • 1961
Yasha
Reports from Lebyazhye
Movie • 1960
Сеня Громов
Foam
Movie • 1979
Валерий Солома, аферист
How Is It Going, Crucians?
Movie • 1991
высокий начальник
Facts of the Past Day
Movie • 1981
Grinin
Old Songs About the Main Thing 3
Movie • 1998
Жорж Милославский
Viy
Movie • 1967
Khoma Brut
The Last Sacrifice
Movie • 1976
Lavr Mironych
Such a Big Boy
Movie • 1967
Vasiliy
Energetic People
Movie • 1988
Аристарх Петрович Кузькин
Nesrochnaya vesna
Movie • 1990
хозяин
Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun
Movie • 2004
Dobrynya
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 2
Movie • 1988
Von Bork
Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century
Movie • 1987
Von Bork
The Devil's Puppets
Movie • 1993
Young People
Movie • 1971
new settler
The Heirs
Movie • 2008
глава администрации
Love of Serafim Frolov
Movie • 1969
Serafim Frolov
New Year's Story
Movie • 1997
Ded Moroz
Next of Kin
Movie • 1980
Толик
Fun for Old People
Movie • 1977
Yefremov
Unanswered Love
Movie • 1979
Pavlov
For the Matches
Movie • 1980
Peasant
The Rain
Movie • 1978
Trenka, apprentice (voice)
The Ghost of My House
Movie • 1994
Pretty Face
Movie • 1990
Boys
Movie • 1972
Viktor Viktorovich
Across Red Nights
Movie • 1991
Provincial Benefit
Movie • 1993
Karpusha
Movie • 1988
Karpusha (voice)
Chuffyk
Movie • 1993
(voice)
Through All the Years
Movie • 1985
Heirloom
Movie • 1981
Black Gloves
Movie • 1973
Take Your Time
Movie • 1972
Seventeen Moments of Spring
TV • 1973
Kurt Eismann - SS Obersturmbannfuehrer
Entrance to the Maze
TV • 1990
Oleg Khlebnikov - doktor neyrofiziolog
The Turkish Gambit
TV • 2006
Artillery major
Brigada
TV • 2002
Петр Чуйков
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
TV • 1979
«Копчёный» (вор-чердачник Валентин Бисяев)
Fuse
TV • 1962
TASS Is Authorized to Declare...
TV • 1984
Андрей Андреевич Зотов, инженер-корабел
Streets of Broken Lights
TV • 1998
Ершов - «Дед»
Life of Don Quichote and Sancho
TV • 1988
Nicolás
Memories of Sherlock Holmes
TV • 2000
Von Bork
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
TV • 1980
Von Bork
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins
TV • 1988
von Bork
The Twelve Months
TV • 1973
Старый солдат
Look for a Woman
TV • 1983
Henri Granden
Little Tragedies
TV • 1980
Investigation Held by ZnaToKi
TV • 1971
Иван Малахов - кладовщик
Мастер и Маргарита
TV • 2006
The Trust That Has Burst
TV • 1983
Evropeyskiy konvoy
TV • 2003
General
Hello, Andrey!
TV • 2017
Self
Старые песни о главном
TV • 1995
рабочий-плотник
Старые песни о главном
TV • 1995
Жорж Милославский
Мы, нижеподписавшиеся
TV • 1981
Лёня Шиндин, главный диспетчер СМУ
Мы - ваши дети
TV • 1988
Виктор Павлович Демидов, отец Ивана