Leonid Kuravlyov

Actor · 1936–2022 · 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

Acted in 198

2010s

2016
All That Jam
father Leonty
2011
The Master and Margarita
Nikanor Ivanovich Bosoy

2000s

2009
The Book of Masters
Barin
2008
The Heirs
глава администрации
2006
The Turkish Gambit
Artillery major · 4 episodes
Мастер и Маргарита
Никанор Иванович Босой · 4 episodes
2005
The Turkish Gambit
major
2004
The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga
Movie
Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun
Dobrynya
2003
Evropeyskiy konvoy
General · 4 episodes
Railway Romance
Petrovich
2002
Brigada
Петр Чуйков · 15 episodes
81
Esli Nevesta Vedma
Movie
The Love Arrow
Movie
2000
Memories of Sherlock Holmes
Von Bork · 13 episodes

1990s

1999
Ultimatum
Leonid
1998
The Barber of Siberia
Vakhmistr Bukin
59
The Stringer
Movie · Drama · Romance
58
Streets of Broken Lights
Ершов - «Дед» · 78 episodes
62
Old Songs About the Main Thing 3
Жорж Милославский
1997
New Year's Story
Ded Moroz
Old Songs about the Main Thing 2
Movie
The Night Before Christmas
Movie
1996
A Man for a Young Girl
Movie
1995
Old Songs about the Main Thing
рабочий-плотник, Жорж Милославский · 1 episode
Lady Into Lassie
Grigoriy Muromskiy
What a Mess!
USA ambassador
1994
Russian Account
Иван Сидоров, майор
Simple - Minded
Movie
A Show for a Single Man
Movie
Russian Miracle
Сеня
Sentence
Лео Харман
The Ghost of My House
Movie
1993
The Codex of Disgrace
Movie
Chuffyk
(voice)
There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach
Mikhail Gorbachev
Queen's Personal Life
Movie
The Devil's Puppets
Movie
Provincial Benefit
Movie
1992
Destroy the Thirtieth!
Movie
In Search of the Golden Phallus
руководитель круиза
Gangsters in the Ocean
Sobakin
Detonator
Movie
1991
KGB Agents Also Fall in Love
Movie
Traces of Rain
Movie
Made in USSR
Ivan Moiseyevich
Across Red Nights
Movie
Meet Me in Tahiti
Шнайдер
How Is It Going, Crucians?
высокий начальник
Shadows
Movie
1990
Nesrochnaya vesna
хозяин
Pretty Face
Movie
Entrance to Labyrinth
Oleg Khlebnikov
Entrance to the Maze
Oleg Khlebnikov - doktor neyrofiziolog · 2 episodes
The Enchanted Wanderer
Priest
Spanish Actress for Russian Minister
Игорь Иванович Степанов
The Suicide
заведующий тиром Александр Лукьянович Калабушкин

1980s

1989
Ono
Vasilisk Borodavkin
The Stairway
дядя Миша
Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation
Editor
1988
Presumption of Innocence
Bondarev - nachalnik poezda
Hope
Stepan
Energetic People
Аристарх Петрович Кузькин
Life of Don Quichote and Sancho
Nicolás · 9 episodes
Three on the Red Carpet
Михаил Иванович Сошкин
May I Die, Lord...
Movie
Karpusha
Karpusha (voice)
Enclosure
Movie
We Are Your Children
Виктор Павлович Демидов, отец Ивана · 2 episodes
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 2
Von Bork
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins
von Bork · 1 episode
Blackmailer
Федор Семенович
Restricted Area
Movie
Holy Moly!
Movie
1987
First Encounter - Last Encounter
Count
Defeat
TV
Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century
Von Bork
One Time Deal
Fedor Romanov
Martinko
Martinko (voice)
1986
Sitting on the Golden Porch
Kороль Амфибрахий
The Left-Hander
император Александр Павлович
Snake Catcher
Konstantin
Five Minutes of Fear
Леонид Каретников (свидетель)
1985
The Most Charming and Attractive
Dyatlov
Sincerely Yours...
Emtsov
Dangerous for Your Life!
Spartak Molodtsov
The Invisible Man
Marvel
Through All the Years
Movie
1984
TASS Is Authorized to Declare...
Андрей Андреевич Зотов, инженер-корабел · 10 episodes
Copper Angel
Ларсен
Before We Part
Badarin
Chekhov's Vaudevilles
Movie
1983
Vitya Glushakov - A Friend of the Apaches
Arkady
Demidovy
Menshikov
69
We're from Jazz
Samsonov
There Was No Sorrow
Vadim Petrovich Potapov
The Trust That Has Burst
Ezra Plunkett
The Trust That Has Burst
TV
Take Care of the Men!
Vladimir Rodionov
The Wedding Gift
Movie
Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants
Ivan Shponka
Look for a Woman
Henri Granden · 2 episodes
1982
Look for a Woman
Henri Granden
It's Just Awful!
Ruslan Ivanovich
1981
Crazy Money
Vasiliy
Facts of the Past Day
Grinin
Heirloom
Movie
Ladies Invite Gentlemen
Sanya
We, the Undersigned
Lyonya Shindin
1980
Don't Leave Your Lovers
Валера
Little Tragedies
Adrian Prokhorov, Leporello · 1 episode
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
Von Bork · 1 episode
For the Matches
Peasant
Next of Kin
Толик

1970s

1979
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
"Smoked"
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
«Копчёный» (вор-чердачник Валентин Бисяев) · 5 episodes
Fuss of the Fusses
Volodya
66
Foam
Валерий Солома, аферист
Tailcoat for an Idler
Movie
Live in Joy
Митяй Пряжкин
Unanswered Love
Pavlov
1978
Funny People!
Денис Григорьев
Incognito from St.Petersburg
Shpekin
While the Dream is Mad
Movie
Счёт человеческий
Чаплыгин (зооинспектор)
The Rain
Trenka, apprentice (voice)
Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...
Михаил (новелла «Мы едем, едем, едем...»)
A Dog Was Walking on the Piano
Movie · Romance · Comedy
62
1977
The Most Beautiful Horse
Movie
You to Me, Me to You
Ivan Kashkin / Sergei Kashkin
Mimino
Professor Khachikyan
79
Timur and His Team
Movie
Fun for Old People
Yefremov
Without Father
Kesha
These Incredible Musicians, or Shurik's New Dreams
Movie
1976
The Last Sacrifice
Lavr Mironych
The Adventures of Travka
Movie
Au-u!
Пташук Геннадий Иванович («Что наша жизнь?! Или что наша жизнь?!»)
Solo for Elephant With Orchestra
Grisha
1975
The Flight of Mr. Mc.Kinley
мистер Дроот
It Can't Be!
Vladimir Zavitushkin
Afonya
Afonya
To Dream and to Live
Иван Григорьевич, механизатор-тракторист, режиссёр
Repeated Wedding
Михайлов
1974
Lev Gurych Sinichkin
князь Ветренский
Kysh and TwoBriefcases
папа Алёши, Дмитрий Эдуардович
Northern Rhapsody
Movie
Homeboy
Fedor
My Friends
Movie
1973
This Merry Planet
Игрек - член экипажа летающей тарелки
Nylon 100%
работник скупки Веня Гурьянов
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
Zhorzh Miloslavsky / knyaz Miloslavsky
81
Life and Amazing Aventures of Robinson Crusoe
Робинзон
Seventeen Moments of Spring
Kurt Eismann - SS Obersturmbannfuehrer · 5 episodes
84
Pyotr Ryabinkin
Movie
The Twelve Months
Old soldier
Aibolit and Barmaley
Толстый
The Twelve Months
Старый солдат · 2 episodes
1972
Boys
Viktor Viktorovich
White Queen's Move
Тюликов, тренер Бабуриной
Seventh Skies
Movie
Take Your Time
Movie
1971
Liberation - Part 4 : The Battle of Berlin
Movie
Liberation - Part 5 : The Last Assault
Signaler Sent to Hitler's Bunker
The Seven Brides of Lance-Corporal Zbruyev
Priest
Young People
new settler
Investigation Held by ZnaToKi
Иван Малахов - кладовщик · 1 episode
79
Late Child
Movie
The Roundabout
Nikolai Timofeyevich
1970
The Beginning
Arkadiy
About Friends and Comrades
Movie
The Ballad of Bering and His Friends
Movie
A Day and the Whole Life
Movie
Two Days of Wonders
зав. терапевическим отделением Мурашев Вадим Леонидович