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
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
as Zhorzh Miloslavsky / knyaz Miloslavsky
Age 36 (now 85)
The Most Charming and Attractive
as Dyatlov
Age 49 (now 85)
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
as "Smoked"
Age 43 (now 85)
The Master and Margarita
as Nikanor Ivanovich Bosoy
Age 74 (now 85)
Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun
as Dobrynya
Age 68 (now 85)
The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga
Old Songs About the Main Thing 3
as Жорж Милославский
Age 61 (now 85)
There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach
as Mikhail Gorbachev
Age 56 (now 85)
Why Would an Honest Man Need an Alibi?
In Search of the Golden Phallus
as руководитель круиза
Age 56 (now 85)
Spanish Actress for Russian Minister
as Игорь Иванович Степанов
Age 53 (now 85)
The Suicide
as заведующий тиром Александр Лукьянович Калабушкин
Age 53 (now 85)
Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation
as Editor
Age 52 (now 85)
Presumption of Innocence
as Bondarev - nachalnik poezda
Age 52 (now 85)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 2
as Von Bork
Age 51 (now 85)
Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century
as Von Bork
Age 50 (now 85)
Sitting on the Golden Porch
as Kороль Амфибрахий
Age 50 (now 85)
The Most Charming and Attractive
as Dyatlov
Age 49 (now 85)
Vitya Glushakov - A Friend of the Apaches
as Arkady
Age 47 (now 85)
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
as "Smoked"
Age 43 (now 85)
Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...
as Михаил (новелла «Мы едем, едем, едем...»)
Age 41 (now 85)
These Incredible Musicians, or Shurik's New Dreams
Au-u!
as Пташук Геннадий Иванович («Что наша жизнь?! Или что наша жизнь?!»)
Age 39 (now 85)
Kysh and TwoBriefcases
as папа Алёши, Дмитрий Эдуардович
Age 38 (now 85)
To Dream and to Live
as Иван Григорьевич, механизатор-тракторист, режиссёр
Age 37 (now 85)
This Merry Planet
as Игрек - член экипажа летающей тарелки
Age 37 (now 85)
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
as Zhorzh Miloslavsky / knyaz Miloslavsky
Age 36 (now 85)
Life and Amazing Aventures of Robinson Crusoe
as Робинзон (озв. А. Консовский)
Age 36 (now 85)
Liberation - Part 5 : The Last Assault
as Signaler Sent to Hitler's Bunker
Age 35 (now 85)
Liberation - Part 4 : The Battle of Berlin
The Seven Brides of Lance-Corporal Zbruyev
as Priest
Age 34 (now 85)
Two Days of Wonders
as зав. терапевическим отделением Мурашев Вадим Леонидович
Age 33 (now 85)
The Adventures of Soldier Ivan Chonkin
Presenter
Age 71 (now 85)
Old Songs about the Main Thing
as рабочий-плотник
Age 59 (now 85) Old Songs about the Main Thing
as Жорж Милославский
Age 59 (now 85)
Entrance to the Maze
as Oleg Khlebnikov - doktor neyrofiziolog
Age 53 (now 85)
Life of Don Quichote and Sancho
as Nicolás
Age 51 (now 85)
We Are Your Children
as Виктор Павлович Демидов, отец Ивана
Age 51 (now 85)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins
as von Bork
Age 51 (now 85)
TASS Is Authorized to Declare...
as Андрей Андреевич Зотов, инженер-корабел
Age 47 (now 85)
Мы, нижеподписавшиеся
as Лёня Шиндин, главный диспетчер СМУ
Age 44 (now 85)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
as Von Bork
Age 43 (now 85)
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
as «Копчёный» (вор-чердачник Валентин Бисяев)
Age 43 (now 85)
Seventeen Moments of Spring
as Kurt Eismann - SS Obersturmbannfuehrer
Age 36 (now 85)
Investigation Held by ZnaToKi
as Иван Малахов - кладовщик
Age 34 (now 85)
Gathering insights...
Also Known As
Leonid Kuravlev, Леонид Куравлев, Куравлёв Леонид Вячеславович, L. Kuravlev, L. Kuravlyov, Leonid Kouravliov, Leonid Viatcheslavovitch Kouravliov, Л. Куравлёв
IMDB
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