Leonid Kuravlyov
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”.
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Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1936-10-08
Place of birth
Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
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Cast
White Queen's Move
1972
4.00
Afonya
1976
7.90
Крыса на подносе
1963
0.00
Pyotr Ryabinkin
1973
0.00
I Am His Bride
1969
0.00
The Most Beautiful Horse
1977
0.00
Северная рапсодия
1974
0.00
Old Songs about the Main Thing 2
1997
5.04
The Book of Masters
2009
4.50
Enclosure
1988
0.00
Restricted Area
1988
0.00
Mimino
1977
7.60
It Can't Be!
1975
7.30
Evropejskij Konvoj
2003
5.90
There Will Be No Leave Today
1959
5.60
The Golden Calf
1968
8.00
This Merry Planet
1973
4.80
The Trust That Has Burst
1983
6.10
The Most Charming and Attractive
1985
7.10
Esli Nevesta Vedma
2002
6.20
Fuss of the Fusses
1979
5.90
Shine, Shine, My Star
1969
5.70
Incognito from St.Petersburg
1978
5.90
The Stairway
1989
2.80
First Encounter - Last Encounter
1987
5.30
The Turkish Gambit
2005
6.36
Destroy the Thirtieth!
1992
1.00
All That Jam
2016
0.00
When the Trees Were Tall
1961
6.80
The Beginning
1970
6.40
The Night Before Christmas
1997
6.00
There Is Such a Lad
1966
6.72
We're from Jazz
1983
6.60
Dangerous for Your Life!
1985
6.80
The Codex of Disgrace
1993
3.50
Look for a Woman
1982
7.20
One Time Deal
1987
6.30
What a Mess!
1995
6.70
Holy Moly!
1988
6.20
Snake Catcher
1986
3.00
Railway Romance
2003
6.50
Meet Me in Tahiti
1991
5.50
Little Tragedies
1980
5.40
Lady Into Lassie
1995
5.40
Defeat
1987
0.00
Funny People!
1977
4.00
A Show for a Single Man
1994
0.00
Lev Gurych Sinichkin
1974
4.50
To Dream and to Live
1974
5.00
Ladies Invite Gentlemen
1981
5.90
Sitting on the Golden Porch
1986
5.40
Five Minutes of Fear
1985
6.30
The Master and Margarita
1994
5.90
Don't Leave Your Lovers
1980
6.10
We, the Undersigned
1981
4.60
You to Me, Me to You
1979
6.10
Elder Sister
1967
5.60
The Barber of Siberia
1998
7.10
Timur and His Team
1977
5.90
The Invisible Man
1985
5.90
Entrance to Labyrinth
1990
3.40
Before We Part
1984
4.00
Счет человеческий
1978
6.00
A Dog Was Walking on the Piano
1978
3.90
Two Days of Wonders
1970
4.80
Made in USSR
1991
5.60
Three on the Red Carpet
1988
0.00
Hope
1988
5.20
Без свидетелей
1966
0.00
Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants
1983
6.50
Live in Joy
1978
5.10
Repeated Wedding
1975
2.00
Midshipman Panin
1960
5.00
Demidovy
1983
7.10
Chekhov's Vaudevilles
1984
0.00
Queen's Personal Life
1993
2.50
The Charming Traveller
1990
7.00
Traces of Rain
1991
0.00
The Roundabout
1971
5.50
It
1990
4.64
Simple - Minded
1994
0.00
Russian Account
1994
5.80
Russian miracle
1994
5.50
Не было печали
1983
0.00
Sincerely Yours...
1985
3.30
Not Under the Jurisdiction
1969
5.20
The Twelve Months
1973
6.50
Gangsters in the Ocean
1992
8.00
Непридуманная история
1964
5.70
Martinko
1987
6.96
Literature Lesson
1968
5.40
Third Time
1963
4.20
Your Son and Brother
1966
6.70
Men's Talk
1969
7.00
A Man for a Young Girl
1996
0.00
Blackmailer
1988
7.50
KGB Agents Also Fall in Love
1991
1.80
Liberation: The Last Assault
1971
7.70
The Adventures of Travka
1976
0.00
It's Just Awful!
1982
7.00
Tailcoat for an Idler
1979
7.00
The Left-Hander
1986
5.40
Without Father
1976
8.00
Aibolit and Barmaley
1973
5.40
Detonator
1992
0.00
Circus in the Circus
1976
4.80
Kysh and TwoBriefcases
1974
0.00
Sentence
1994
0.00
The Love Arrow
2002
0.00
Ultimatum
1999
10.00
Ау-у! (Киноальманах)
1976
7.50
Everything for You
1965
5.00
A Day and the Whole Life
1970
6.00
My Friends
1974
6.00
Lyubushka
1961
7.50
Late Child
1971
6.00
While the Dream is Mad
1978
4.00
Nylon 100%
1973
5.33
Copper Angel
1984
5.00
О друзьях-товарищах
1970
6.00
Time, Forward!
1965
5.10
Presumption of Innocence
1988
4.80
Homeboy
1974
6.50
The Suicide
1990
6.00
Seventh Skies
1972
6.00
Свадебный подарок
1983
5.00
The Stringer
1998
4.30
Crash
1969
0.00
Take Care of the Men!
1982
3.00
Escape of Mr. McKinley
1975
4.20
May I die, Lord
1988
0.00
In Search of the Golden Phallus
1992
0.00
Crazy Money
1981
4.70
Водил поезда машинист
1961
0.00
Из Лебяжьего сообщают
1960
0.00
Pena
1979
5.00
How Is It Going, Crucians?
1991
0.00
Facts of the Past Day
1981
0.00
Old Songs About the Main Thing 3
1998
4.88
Viy
1967
6.90
The Last Sacrifice
1976
6.00
Such a Big Boy
1967
1.00
Энергичные люди
1988
0.00
Несрочная весна
1990
3.50
The Devil's Puppets
1993
0.00
Young People
1971
10.00
The Heirs
2008
3.00
Любовь Серафима Фролова
1969
6.00
New Year's Story
1997
0.00
Next of Kin
1980
7.00
Fun for Old People
1977
9.00
Unanswered Love
1979
5.50
For the Matches
1980
6.30
The Rain
1978
0.00
The Ghost of My House
1994
4.00
Pretty Face
1990
5.50
Boys
1972
0.00
Across Red Nights
1991
0.00
Provincial Benefit
1993
0.00
Karpusha
1988
0.00
Chuffyk
1993
0.00