Leonid Kuravlyov
Age: N/A | From: Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Person Details
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Aliases: Leonid Kuravlev , Леонид Куравлёв , Леонид Куравлев , Куравлёв Леонид Вячеславович , L. Kuravlev , L. Kuravlyov , L.Kuravlyov , Куравлев Леонид Вячеславович , Leonid Kouravliov , Leonid Viatcheslavovitch Kouravliov
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Homepage: http://www.kinoafonya.ru
Movie Involvements: 66
TV Involvements: 10
Most Famous Work
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
Most Famous Work
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
(1980) Von Bork
Seventeen Moments of Spring
(1973) Kurt Eismann - SS Obersturmbannfuehrer
Brigada
(2002) Петр Чуйков
Viy
(1967) Khoma Brutus
Memories of Sherlock Holmes
(2000) Von Bork
Life of Don Quixote and Sancho
(1988) Nicolas
The Turkish Gambit
(2006) Artillery major
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
(1979) "Smoked"Acting
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | father Leonty | |
| 2009 | Barin | |
| 2008 | глава администрации | |
| 2007 | авторский текст (голос за кадром) | |
| 2006 | Artillery major | |
| 2005 | major | |
| 2004 | Dobrynya | |
| N/A | ||
| 2003 | Petrovich | |
| генерал | ||
| 2002 | Петр Чуйков | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 2000 | Von Bork | |
| 1999 | Leonid | |
| 1998 | Vakhmistr Bukin | |
| Андрей Петрович Ершов, "Дед" | ||
| N/A | ||
| Жорж Милославский | ||
| 1997 | Ded Moroz | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1996 | N/A | |
| 1995 | USA ambassador | |
| Grigoriy Muromskiy | ||
| 1994 | Иван Сидоров, майор | |
| Nikanor Ivanovich Bosoy | ||
| N/A | ||
| Сеня | ||
| Лео Харман | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1993 | N/A | |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | ||
| N/A | ||
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| 1992 | N/A | |
| руководитель круиза | ||
| Sobakin | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1991 | N/A | |
| Ivan Moiseyevich | ||
| N/A | ||
| Шнайдер | ||
| высокий начальник | ||
| 1990 | хозяин | |
| N/A | ||
| Oleg Khlebnikov - doktor neyrofiziolog | ||
| Oleg Khlebnikov | ||
| Priest | ||
| Игорь Иванович Степанов | ||
| заведующий тиром Александр Лукьянович Калабушкин | ||
| 1989 | дядя Миша | |
| Vasilisk Borodavkin | ||
| Editor | ||
| 1988 | Bondarev - nachalnik poezda | |
| Stepan | ||
| Аристарх Петрович Кузькин | ||
| Nicolas | ||
| Михаил Иванович Сошкин | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Федор Семенович | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1987 | Count | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Fedor Romanov | ||
| 1986 | Kороль Амфибрахий | |
| император Александр Павлович | ||
| Konstantin | ||
| Von Bork | ||
| Von Bork | ||
| 1985 | Pasha Dyatlov | |
| Леонид Каретников (свидетель) | ||
| Emtsov | ||
| Spartak Molodtsov | ||
| Marvel | ||
| 1984 | Андрей Андреевич Зотов, инженер-корабел | |
| Ларсен | ||
| Badarin | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1983 | Arkady | |
| Menshikov | ||
| Samsonov | ||
| Vadim Petrovich Potapov | ||
| Ezra Plunkett | ||
| N/A | ||
| Ivan Shponka | ||
| 1982 | Henri Granden | |
| Ruslan Ivanovich | ||
| Vladimir Rodionov | ||
| 1981 | Vasiliy | |
| Grinin | ||
| Sanya | ||
| Lyonya Shindin | ||
| 1980 | Peasant | |
| Валера | ||
| Адриан Прохоров/Лепорелло | ||
| Адриан Прохоров/Лепорелло | ||
| Von Bork | ||
| Толик | ||
| 1979 | «Копчёный» (вор-чердачник Валентин Бисяев) | |
| "Smoked" | ||
| Volodya | ||
| Валерий Солома, аферист | ||
| N/A | ||
| Ivan Kashkin / Sergei Kashkin | ||
| Pavlov | ||
| 1978 | Shpekin | |
| N/A | ||
| Митяй Пряжкин (Дмитрий Петрович) | ||
| Чаплыгин (зооинспектор) | ||
| Trenka, journeyman (voice) | ||
| Михаил (новелла «Мы едем, едем, едем...») | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1977 | Денис Григорьев | |
| N/A | ||
| Professor Khachikyan | ||
| N/A | ||
| Yefremov | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1976 | Lavr Mironych | |
| N/A | ||
| Grisha | ||
| N/A | ||
| Борщов Афанасий Николаевич (Афоня) | ||
| 1975 | мистер Дроот | |
| N/A | ||
| Vladimir Zavitushkin | ||
| Михайлов | ||
| 1974 | князь Ветренский | |
| папа Алёши, Дмитрий Эдуардович | ||
| N/A | ||
| Fedor | ||
| N/A | ||
| Иван Григорьевич, механизатор-тракторист, режиссёр | ||
| 1973 | Игрек - член экипажа летающей тарелки | |
| работник скупки Веня Гурьянов | ||
| Жорж Милославский / князь Милославский | ||
| Robinson | ||
| Kurt Eismann - SS Obersturmbannfuehrer | ||
| N/A | ||
| Old soldier | ||
| Толстый | ||
| 1972 | Viktor Viktorovich | |
| Тюликов, тренер Бабуриной | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1971 | Chuikov's signaler | |
| Priest | ||
| new settler | ||
| N/A | ||
| Nikolai Timofeyevich | ||
| 1970 | Arkadiy | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| зав. терапевическим отделением Мурашев Вадим Леонидович | ||
| 1969 | N/A | |
| Sorokin | ||
| Serafim Frolov | ||
| Red comissar | ||
| Сыроежкин | ||
| Alexey | ||
| 1968 | Shura Balaganov | |
| Савелий Сидоров | ||
| 1967 | Khoma Brutus | |
| Vasiliy | ||
| Volodya | ||
| 1966 | Валька Бурмакин | |
| Stepan | ||
| Pashka | ||
| 1965 | Korneyev | |
| N/A | ||
| 1964 | Kostya Remizov | |
| 1963 | Lyonya Fokin | |
| N/A | ||
| 1962 | N/A | |
| 1961 | Lenka | |
| N/A | ||
| Yasha | ||
| 1960 | Pyotr Kamushkin | |
| Сеня Громов | ||
| 1959 | Morozov | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
