Leonid Kuravlyov
Known for: 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
Filmography
Series
Fuse
1962
Series
Streets of Broken Lights
Ершов - «Дед»
1998
Series
Brigada
Петр Чуйков
2002
Series
Hello, Andrey!
Self
2017
Series
Investigation Held by ZnaToKi
Иван Малахов - кладовщик
1971
Series
Seventeen Moments of Spring
Kurt Eismann - SS Obersturmbannfuehrer
1973
Series
Life of Don Quichote and Sancho
Nicolás
1988
Series
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
Von Bork
1980
Series
TASS Is Authorized to Declare...
Андрей Андреевич Зотов, инженер-корабел
1984
Series
Old Songs about the Main Thing
рабочий-плотник
1995
Series
Old Songs about the Main Thing
Жорж Милославский
1995
Film
Restricted Area
1988
Film
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
Zhorzh Miloslavsky / knyaz Miloslavsky
1973
Film
Queen's Personal Life
1993
Film
The Barber of Siberia
Vakhmistr Bukin
1998
Film
Viy
Khoma Brut
1967
Film
Счёт человеческий
Чаплыгин (зооинспектор)
1978
Film
Ono
Vasilisk Borodavkin
1989
Film
Not Under the Jurisdiction
Sorokin
1969
Film
Sincerely Yours...
Emtsov
1985
Film
Fuss of the Fusses
Volodya
1979
Film
Incognito from St.Petersburg
Shpekin
1978
Film
Third Time
Lyonya Fokin
1963
Series
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins
von Bork
1988
Film
Liberation - Part 4 : The Battle of Berlin
1971
Film
Men's Talk
Alexey
1969
Film
Hope
Stepan
1988
Film
Young People
new settler
1971
Film
One Time Deal
Fedor Romanov
1987
Series
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
«Копчёный» (вор-чердачник Валентин Бисяев)
1979
Film
Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century
Von Bork
1987
Film
For the Matches
Peasant
1980
Series
Memories of Sherlock Holmes
Von Bork
2000
Film
Mimino
Professor Khachikyan
1977
Film
Defeat
1987
Film
In Search of the Golden Phallus
руководитель круиза
1992
Series
The Turkish Gambit
Artillery major
2006
Film
Crazy Money
Vasiliy
1981
Мы, нижеподписавшиеся
Лёня Шиндин, главный диспетчер СМУ
1981
Film
Five Minutes of Fear
Леонид Каретников (свидетель)
1986
Series
Little Tragedies
1980
Series
The Twelve Months
Старый солдат
1973
Series
The Trust That Has Burst
1983
Series
Entrance to the Maze
Oleg Khlebnikov - doktor neyrofiziolog
1990
Film
The Master and Margarita
Nikanor Ivanovich Bosoy
2011
Film
Afonya
Afonya
1975
Film
What a Mess!
USA ambassador
1995
Series
Мастер и Маргарита
Никанор Иванович Босой
2006
Scandal in our Kloshgorod
1993
Territory
1993
Why Would an Honest Man Need an Alibi?
1992
Film
To Dream and to Live
Иван Григорьевич, механизатор-тракторист, режиссёр
1974
Film
Shadows
1991
Film
Liberation - Part 5 : The Last Assault
Signaler Sent to Hitler's Bunker
1971
Series
Evropeyskiy konvoy
General
2003
Георгий Данелия. Великий обманщик
Self
2015
Film
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
"Smoked"
1979
Film
About Friends and Comrades
1970
Film
Time, Forward!
Korneyev
1965
Film
Life and Amazing Aventures of Robinson Crusoe
Робинзон
1973
Series
We Are Your Children
Виктор Павлович Демидов, отец Ивана
1988
Film
Facts of the Past Day
Grinin
1981
Film
Circus in the Circus
Grisha
1976
Series
Look for a Woman
Henri Granden
1983
Film
Timur and His Team
1977
Film
There Is Such a Lad
Пашка Колокольников, шофёр
1966
Film
The Turkish Gambit
major
2005
Film
The Book of Masters
Barin
2009
Film
First Encounter - Last Encounter
Count
1987
Film
Lady Into Lassie
Grigoriy Muromskiy
1995
Film
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 2
Von Bork
1988
Film
Elder Sister
Volodya
1967
Film
Blackmailer
Федор Семенович
1988
Film
Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants
Ivan Shponka
1983
Film
The Golden Calf
Shura Balaganov
1968
Film
The Wedding Gift
1983
Film
There Will Be No Leave Today
Morozov
1959
Film
Little Tragedies
Адриан Прохоров/Лепорелло
1980
Film
Midshipman Panin
Пётр Камушкин
1960
Film
When the Trees Were Tall
Lenka
1961
Film
It Can't Be!
Vladimir Zavitushkin
1975
Film
Foam
Валерий Солома, аферист
1979
Film
The Beginning
Arkadiy
1970
Film
Fun for Old People
Yefremov
1977
Film
Repeated Wedding
Михайлов
1975
Film
We, the Undersigned
Lyonya Shindin
1981
Film
Lyubushka
1961
Film
Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun
Dobrynya
2004
Film
Holy Moly!
1988
Film
Snake Catcher
Konstantin
1986
Film
Boys
Viktor Viktorovich
1972
Film
Pyotr Ryabinkin
1973
Film
Vitya Glushakov - A Friend of the Apaches
Arkady
1983
Film
We're from Jazz
Samsonov
1983
Film
Sentence
Лео Харман
1994
Film
This Merry Planet
Игрек - член экипажа летающей тарелки
1973
Film
There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach
Mikhail Gorbachev
1993
Film
How Is It Going, Crucians?
высокий начальник
1991
Film
Funny People!
Денис Григорьев
1978
Film
Northern Rhapsody
1974
Film
Before We Part
Badarin
1984
Film
Your Son and Brother
Степан Воеводин, средний сын
1966
Film
Across Red Nights
1991
Film
The Last Sacrifice
Lavr Mironych
1976
Film
Spanish Actress for Russian Minister
Игорь Иванович Степанов
1990
Film
Look for a Woman
Henri Granden
1982
Film
Au-u!
Пташук Геннадий Иванович («Что наша жизнь?! Или что наша жизнь?!»)
1976
Film
Shine, Shine, My Star
Red comissar
1969
Film
There Was No Sorrow
Vadim Petrovich Potapov
1983
Film
Entrance to Labyrinth
Oleg Khlebnikov
1990
Film
The Suicide
заведующий тиром Александр Лукьянович Калабушкин
1990
Film
The Enchanted Wanderer
Priest
1990
Film
Dangerous for Your Life!
Spartak Molodtsov
1985
Film
The Most Charming and Attractive
Dyatlov
1985
Film
Take Care of the Men!
Vladimir Rodionov
1983
Film
A Dog Was Walking on the Piano
1978
Film
The Stringer
1998
Film
The Ballad of Bering and His Friends
1970
Film
Russian Account
Иван Сидоров, майор
1994
Film
The Invisible Man
Marvel
1985
Film
Kysh and TwoBriefcases
папа Алёши, Дмитрий Эдуардович
1974
Film
Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation
Editor
1989
Film
Railway Romance
Petrovich
2003
Film
The Twelve Months
Old soldier
1973
Film
Old Songs About the Main Thing 3
Жорж Милославский
1998
Film
The Ghost of My House
1994
Film
All That Jam
father Leonty
2016
Film
Destroy the Thirtieth!
1992
Film
The Seven Brides of Lance-Corporal Zbruyev
Priest
1971
Film
Pretty Face
1990
Film
You to Me, Me to You
Ivan Kashkin / Sergei Kashkin
1977
Film
The Codex of Disgrace
1993
Film
Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...
Михаил (новелла «Мы едем, едем, едем...»)
1978
Film
The Roundabout
Nikolai Timofeyevich
1971
Film
The Night Before Christmas
1997
Film
While the Dream is Mad
1978
Film
Energetic People
Аристарх Петрович Кузькин
1988
Film
Aibolit and Barmaley
Толстый
1973
Film
My Friends
1974
Film
Meet Me in Tahiti
Шнайдер
1991
Film
Demidovy
Menshikov
1983
Film
Gangsters in the Ocean
Sobakin
1992
Film
KGB Agents Also Fall in Love
1991
Film
Late Child
1971
Film
The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga
2004
Film
Old Songs about the Main Thing 2
1997
Film
Sitting on the Golden Porch
Kороль Амфибрахий
1986
Film
Literature Lesson
Савелий Сидоров
1968
Film
A Man for a Young Girl
1996
Film
Presumption of Innocence
Bondarev - nachalnik poezda
1988
Film
Such a Big Boy
Vasiliy
1967
Film
The Heirs
глава администрации
2008
Film
Homeboy
Fedor
1974
Film
The Flight of Mr. McKinley
мистер Дроот
1975
Film
I Am His Bride
1969
Film
Simple - Minded
1994
Film
The Trust That Has Burst
Ezra Plunkett
1983
Film
Ladies Invite Gentlemen
Sanya
1981
Film
Live in Joy
Митяй Пряжкин
1979
Film
Everything for You
1965
Film
Through All the Years
1985
Film
Three on the Red Carpet
Михаил Иванович Сошкин
1988
Film
The Left-Hander
император Александр Павлович
1986
Крыса на подносе
1963
Film
The Rain
Trenka, apprentice (voice)
1978
Film
Copper Angel
Ларсен
1984
Film
Lev Gurych Sinichkin
князь Ветренский
1974
Film
Two Days of Wonders
зав. терапевическим отделением Мурашев Вадим Леонидович
1970
Film
The Most Beautiful Horse
1977
Film
The Devil's Puppets
1993
Film
Heirloom
1981
Film
Seventh Skies
1972
Film
Don't Leave Your Lovers
Валера
1980
Film
Karpusha
Karpusha (voice)
1988
Film
These Incredible Musicians, or Shurik's New Dreams
1977
Film
Provincial Benefit
1993
Film
Nesrochnaya vesna
хозяин
1990
Film
Esli Nevesta Vedma
2002
Film
May I Die, Lord...
1988
Film
Traces of Rain
1991
Film
New Year's Story
Ded Moroz
1997
Film
Love of Serafim Frolov
Serafim Frolov
1969
Film
Reports from Lebyazhye
Сеня Громов
1960
Film
Take Your Time
1972
Film
The Adventures of Travka
1976
Film
Unanswered Love
Pavlov
1979
Film
It's Just Awful!
Ruslan Ivanovich
1982
Film
Next of Kin
Толик
1980
Film
Enclosure
1988
Film
A Show for a Single Man
1994
Film
An Unrealistic Story
Kostya Remizov
1964
Film
Crash
Сыроежкин
1969
Film
Made in USSR
Ivan Moiseyevich
1991
Film
Detonator
1992
Film
Ultimatum
Leonid
1999
Film
A Day and the Whole Life
1970
Film
The Stairway
дядя Миша
1989
Film
Nylon 100%
работник скупки Веня Гурьянов
1973
Film
Martinko
Martinko (voice)
1987
Film
Machinist Drove the Trains
Yasha
1961
Film
The Love Arrow
2002
Black Gloves
1973
Film
White Queen's Move
Тюликов, тренер Бабуриной
1972
Film
Russian Miracle
Сеня
1994
Film
Without Father
Kesha
1977
Film
Tailcoat for an Idler
1979
Film
Chuffyk
(voice)
1993
Film
Chekhov's Vaudevilles
1984
Without Witnesses
Burmakin
1966