Leonid Kuravlyov
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
White Queen's Move
(Тюликов, тренер Бабуриной)
Afonya
(Борщов Афанасий Николаевич (Афоня))
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
(Жорж Милославский / князь Милославский)
Крыса на подносе
Пётр Рябинкин
I Am His Bride
The Most Beautiful Horse
Северная рапсодия
Old Songs about the Main Thing 2
The Book of Masters
(Barin)
Enclosure
Restricted Area
Mimino
(Professor Khachikyan)
It Can't Be!
(Vladimir Zavitushkin)
Evropejskij Konvoj
(генерал)
There Will Be No Leave Today
(Morozov)
The Golden Calf
(Shura Balaganov)
This Merry Planet
(Игрек - член экипажа летающей тарелки)
The Trust That Has Burst
(Ezra Plunkett)
The Most Charming and Attractive
(Pasha Dyatlov)
Esli Nevesta Vedma
Fuss of the Fusses
(Volodya)
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
("Smoked")
Shine, Shine, My Star
(Red comissar)
Incognito from St.Petersburg
(Shpekin)
The Stairway
(дядя Миша)
The Turkish Gambit
(major)
First Encounter - Last Encounter
(Count)
Destroy the Thirtieth!
All That Jam
(father Leonty)
When the Trees Were Tall
(Lenka)
The Beginning
(Arkadiy)
The Night Before Christmas
The Ballad of Bering and His Friends
There Is Such a Lad
(Pashka)
We're from Jazz
(Samsonov)
Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation
(Editor)
Dangerous for Your Life!
(Spartak Molodtsov)
The Codex of Disgrace
Look for a Woman
(Henri Granden)
One Time Deal
(Fedor Romanov)
What a Mess!
(USA ambassador)
Holy Moly!
Snake Catcher
(Konstantin)
Railway Romance
(Petrovich)
Life and Amazing Aventures of Robinson Crusoe
(Robinson)
There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach
(Mikhail Gorbachev)
Meet Me in Tahiti
(Шнайдер)
Little Tragedies
(Адриан Прохоров/Лепорелло)
Lady Into Lassie
(Grigoriy Muromskiy)
Defeat
Funny People!
(Денис Григорьев)
Шоу для одинокого мужчины
Lev Gurych Sinichkin
(князь Ветренский)
To Dream and to Live
(Иван Григорьевич, механизатор-тракторист, режиссёр)
Ladies Invite Gentlemen
(Sanya)
Sitting on the Golden Porch
(Kороль Амфибрахий)
Five Minutes of Fear
(Леонид Каретников (свидетель))
The Master and Margarita
(Nikanor Ivanovich Bosoy)
Don't Leave Your Lovers
(Валера)
We, the Undersigned
(Lyonya Shindin)
You to Me, Me to You
(Ivan Kashkin / Sergei Kashkin)
Elder Sister
(Volodya)
The Barber of Siberia
(Vakhmistr Bukin)
Timur and His Team
The Invisible Man
(Marvel)
Entrance to Labyrinth
(Oleg Khlebnikov)
The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga
Before We Part
(Badarin)
Счет человеческий
(Чаплыгин (зооинспектор))
A Dog Was Walking on the Piano
Two Days of Wonders
(зав. терапевическим отделением Мурашев Вадим Леонидович)
Made in USSR
(Ivan Moiseyevich)
Эти невероятные музыканты, или Новые сновидения Шурика
Three on the Red Carpet
(Михаил Иванович Сошкин)
Hope
(Stepan)
Без свидетелей
(Валька Бурмакин)
Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants
(Ivan Shponka)
Live in Joy
(Митяй Пряжкин (Дмитрий Петрович))
Repeated Wedding
(Михайлов)
Demidovy
(Menshikov)
Midshipman Panin
(Pyotr Kamushkin)
Vitya Glushakov - A Friend of the Apaches
(Arkady)
Chekhov's Vaudevilles
Queen's Personal Life
The Charming Traveller
(Priest)
Traces of Rain
The Roundabout
(Nikolai Timofeyevich)
It
(Vasilisk Borodavkin)
Simple - Minded
Russian Account
(Иван Сидоров, майор)
Russian miracle
(Сеня)
Не было печали
(Vadim Petrovich Potapov)
Sincerely Yours...
(Emtsov)
Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...
(Михаил (новелла «Мы едем, едем, едем...»))
Not Under the Jurisdiction
(Sorokin)
The Seven Brides of Lance-Corporal Zbruyev
(Priest)
The Twelve Months
(Old soldier)
Gangsters in the Ocean
(Sobakin)
Непридуманная история
(Kostya Remizov)
Martinko
Literature Lesson
(Савелий Сидоров)
Your Son and Brother
(Stepan)
Third Time
(Lyonya Fokin)
Men's Talk
(Alexey)
A Man for a Young Girl
Blackmailer
(Федор Семенович)
KGB Agents Also Fall in Love
Liberation: The Last Assault
(Chuikov's signaler)
The Adventures of Travka
It's Just Awful!
(Ruslan Ivanovich)
Tailcoat for an Idler
The Left-Hander
(император Александр Павлович)
Without Father
Aibolit and Barmaley
(Толстый)
Detonator
Circus in the Circus
(Grisha)
Kysh and TwoBriefcases
(папа Алёши, Дмитрий Эдуардович)
Sentence
(Лео Харман)
The Love Arrow
Ultimatum
(Leonid)
Everything for You
Ау-у! (Киноальманах)
(Пташук Геннадий Иванович («Что наша жизнь?! Или что наша жизнь?!»))
A Day and the Whole Life
My Friends
Lyubushka
Late Child
While the Dream is Mad
Nylon 100%
(работник скупки Веня Гурьянов)
Copper Angel
(Ларсен)
О друзьях-товарищах
Time, Forward!
(Korneyev)
Presumption of Innocence
(Bondarev - nachalnik poezda)
Homeboy
(Fedor)
The Suicide
(заведующий тиром Александр Лукьянович Калабушкин)
Свадебный подарок
Seventh Skies
The Stringer
Spanish Actress for Russian Minister
(Игорь Иванович Степанов)
Crash
(Сыроежкин)
Take Care of the Men!
(Vladimir Rodionov)
Escape of Mr. McKinley
(мистер Дроот)
May I die, Lord
In Search of the Golden Phallus
(руководитель круиза)
Crazy Money
(Vasiliy)
Водил поезда машинист
(Yasha)
Из Лебяжьего сообщают
(Сеня Громов)
Pena
(Валерий Солома, аферист)
How Is It Going, Crucians?
(высокий начальник)
Facts of the Past Day
(Grinin)
Old Songs about the Main Thing 3
(Жорж Милославский)
Viy
(Khoma Brutus)
The Last Sacrifice
(Lavr Mironych)
Such a Big Boy
(Vasiliy)
Энергичные люди
(Аристарх Петрович Кузькин)
Несрочная весна
(хозяин)
Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun
(Dobrynya)
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 Approaches
(Von Bork)
The Devil's Puppets
Young People
(new settler)
The Heirs
(глава администрации)
Любовь Серафима Фролова
(Serafim Frolov)
New Year's Story
(Ded Moroz)
Глубокие родственники
(Толик)
Fun for Old People
(Yefremov)
Unanswered Love
(Pavlov)
For the Matches
(Peasant)
Dozhd'
(Trenka, journeyman (voice))
The Ghost of My House
Pretty Face
Boys
(Viktor Viktorovich)
Across Red Nights
Provincial Benefit
Karpusha
(Karpusha (voice))
Seventeen Moments of Spring
(Kurt Eismann - SS Obersturmbannfuehrer)
Entrance to the Maze
(Oleg Khlebnikov - doktor neyrofiziolog)
The Turkish Gambit
(Artillery major)
Brigada
(Петр Чуйков)
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
(«Копчёный» (вор-чердачник Валентин Бисяев))
Fuse
TASS Is Authorized to Declare...
(Андрей Андреевич Зотов, инженер-корабел)
Little Tragedies
(Адриан Прохоров/Лепорелло)
Streets of Broken Lights
(Андрей Петрович Ершов, "Дед")
Life of Don Quixote and Sancho
(Nicolas)
Memories of Sherlock Holmes
(Von Bork)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
(Von Bork)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins
(von Bork)