10.0
10.0
Ultimatum
1999
as Leonid
Leonid Kuravlyov
Acting
Born:October 8, 1936
Died:January 30, 2022(aged 85)
Birthplace:Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
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CommunityBiography
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 (176 movies)
9.0
9.0
Fun for Old People
1977
as Yefremov
9.0
9.0
Young People
1971
as new settler
8.1
8.1
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
1979
as "Smoked"
8.0
8.0
Gangsters in the Ocean
1992
as Sobakin
8.0
8.0
Without Father
1976
8.0
8.0
The Golden Calf
1968
as Shura Balaganov
7.9
7.9
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
1973
as Жорж Милославский / князь Милославский
7.8
7.8
Afonya
1976
as Афанасий Николаевич Борщов (Афоня), слесарь-сантехник
7.6
7.6
Mimino
1977
as Professor Khachikyan
7.5
7.5
Blackmailer
1988
as Федор Семенович
7.5
7.5
Lyubushka
1961
7.3
7.3
It Can't Be!
1975
as Владимир Завитушкин
7.2
7.2
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 2
1988
as Von Bork
7.2
7.2
Look for a Woman
1982
as Henri Granden
7.2
7.2
Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century
1987
as Von Bork
7.1
7.1
Liberation: The Last Assault
1971
as Chuikov's signaler
7.1
7.1
The Barber of Siberia
1998
as Vakhmistr Bukin
7.1
7.1
Demidovy
1983
as Menshikov
7.0
7.0
The Most Charming and Attractive
1985
as Pasha Dyatlov
7.0
7.0
The Most Beautiful Horse
1977
7.0
7.0
Next of Kin
1980
as Толик
7.0
7.0
Tailcoat for an Idler
1979
7.0
7.0
Men's Talk
1969
as Alexey
7.0
7.0
Martinko
1987
as Martinko (voice)
7.0
7.0
The Enchanted Wanderer
1990
as Priest
7.0
7.0
Five Minutes of Fear
1986
as Леонид Каретников (свидетель)
7.0
7.0
It's Just Awful!
1982
as Ruslan Ivanovich
6.9
6.9
Viy
1967
as Khoma Brut
6.8
6.8
Spanish Actress for Russian Minister
1990
as Игорь Иванович Степанов
6.8
6.8
Dangerous for Your Life!
1985
as Spartak Molodtsov
6.7
6.7
Your Son and Brother
1966
as Степан Воеводин, средний сын
6.7
6.7
We're from Jazz
1983
as Samsonov
6.6
6.6
The Seven Brides of Lance-Corporal Zbruyev
1971
as Priest
6.6
6.6
When the Trees Were Tall
1961
as Lenka
6.6
6.6
What a Mess!
1995
as USA ambassador
6.5
6.5
Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants
1983
as Ivan Shponka
6.5
6.5
The Twelve Months
1973
as Old soldier
6.5
6.5
There Is Such a Lad
1966
as Пашка Колокольников, шофёр
6.5
6.5
Railway Romance
2003
as Petrovich
6.5
6.5
Homeboy
1974
as Fedor
6.4
6.4
One Time Deal
1987
as Fedor Romanov
6.4
6.4
The Turkish Gambit
2005
as major
6.2
6.2
Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...
1978
as Михаил (новелла «Мы едем, едем, едем...»)
6.2
6.2
Holy Moly!
1988
6.2
6.2
Esli Nevesta Vedma
2002
6.1
6.1
The Trust That Has Burst
1983
as Ezra Plunkett
6.1
6.1
You to Me, Me to You
1979
as Ivan Kashkin / Sergei Kashkin
6.1
6.1
Don't Leave Your Lovers
1980
as Валера
6.0
6.0
Late Child
1971
6.0
6.0
Счет человеческий
1978
as Чаплыгин (зооинспектор)
6.0
6.0
Love of Serafim Frolov
1969
as Serafim Frolov
6.0
6.0
Seventh Skies
1972
6.0
6.0
The Suicide
1990
as заведующий тиром Александр Лукьянович Калабушкин
6.0
6.0
The Beginning
1970
as Arkadiy
6.0
6.0
About Friends and Comrades
1970
6.0
6.0
My Friends
1974
6.0
6.0
A Day and the Whole Life
1970
6.0
6.0
The Night Before Christmas
1997
6.0
6.0
The Last Sacrifice
1976
as Lavr Mironych
5.9
5.9
Incognito from St.Petersburg
1978
as Shpekin
5.9
5.9
Fuss of the Fusses
1979
as Volodya
5.9
5.9
Evropejskij Konvoj
2003
as генерал
5.9
5.9
Timur and His Team
1977
5.8
5.8
There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach
1993
as Mikhail Gorbachev
5.8
5.8
Эти невероятные музыканты, или Новые сновидения Шурика
1977
5.8
5.8
Ladies Invite Gentlemen
1981
as Sanya
5.8
5.8
Hope
1988
as Stepan
5.7
5.7
There Will Be No Leave Today
1959
as Morozov
5.7
5.7
Funny People!
1978
as Денис Григорьев
5.7
5.7
An Unrealistic Story
1964
as Kostya Remizov
5.6
5.6
Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation
1989
as Editor
5.6
5.6
Elder Sister
1967
as Volodya
5.6
5.6
Made in USSR
1991
as Ivan Moiseyevich
5.6
5.6
Live in Joy
1979
as Митяй Пряжкин
5.5
5.5
Pretty Face
1990
5.5
5.5
Meet Me in Tahiti
1991
as Шнайдер
5.5
5.5
The Roundabout
1971
as Nikolai Timofeyevich
5.5
5.5
Unanswered Love
1979
as Pavlov
5.4
5.4
The Left-Hander
1986
as император Александр Павлович
5.4
5.4
Sitting on the Golden Porch
1986
as Kороль Амфибрахий
5.4
5.4
Shine, Shine, My Star
1969
as Red comissar
5.4
5.4
Literature Lesson
1968
as Савелий Сидоров
5.4
5.4
Little Tragedies
1980
as Адриан Прохоров/Лепорелло
5.4
5.4
Aibolit and Barmaley
1973
as Толстый
5.3
5.3
Life and Amazing Aventures of Robinson Crusoe
1973
as Робинзон (озв. А. Консовский)
5.3
5.3
Vitya Glushakov - A Friend of the Apaches
1983
as Arkady
5.3
5.3
First Encounter - Last Encounter
1987
as Count
5.3
5.3
Nylon 100%
1973
as работник скупки Веня Гурьянов
5.3
5.3
The Invisible Man
1985
as Marvel
5.2
5.2
The Ballad of Bering and His Friends
1970
5.2
5.2
Not Under the Jurisdiction
1969
as Sorokin
5.1
5.1
Old Songs About the Main Thing 3
1998
as Жорж Милославский
5.1
5.1
Time, Forward!
1965
as Korneyev
5.0
5.0
Lady Into Lassie
1995
as Grigoriy Muromskiy
5.0
5.0
Everything for You
1965
5.0
5.0
Copper Angel
1984
as Ларсен
5.0
5.0
Pena
1979
as Валерий Солома, аферист
5.0
5.0
Midshipman Panin
1960
as Pyotr Kamushkin
5.0
5.0
The Wedding Gift
1983
5.0
5.0
We, the Undersigned
1981
as Lyonya Shindin
5.0
5.0
To Dream and to Live
1974
as Иван Григорьевич, механизатор-тракторист, режиссёр
5.0
5.0
This Merry Planet
1973
as Игрек - член экипажа летающей тарелки
4.9
4.9
Ono
1989
as Vasilisk Borodavkin
4.8
4.8
Circus in the Circus
1976
as Grisha
4.8
4.8
Presumption of Innocence
1988
as Bondarev - nachalnik poezda
4.8
4.8
Two Days of Wonders
1970
as зав. терапевическим отделением Мурашев Вадим Леонидович
4.8
4.8
Russian Account
1994
as Иван Сидоров, майор
4.7
4.7
Crazy Money
1981
as Vasiliy
4.6
4.6
Russian Miracle
1994
as Сеня
4.5
4.5
Lev Gurych Sinichkin
1974
as князь Ветренский
4.4
4.4
The Book of Masters
2009
as Barin
4.2
4.2
Third Time
1963
as Lyonya Fokin
4.1
4.1
The Flight of Mr. McKinley
1975
as мистер Дроот
4.0
4.0
Before We Part
1984
as Badarin
4.0
4.0
While the Dream is Mad
1978
4.0
4.0
The Stringer
1998
4.0
4.0
White Queen's Move
1972
as Тюликов, тренер Бабуриной
4.0
4.0
The Ghost of My House
1994
3.9
3.9
A Dog Was Walking on the Piano
1978
3.5
3.5
The Codex of Disgrace
1993
3.4
3.4
Entrance to Labyrinth
1990
as Oleg Khlebnikov
3.3
3.3
Sincerely Yours...
1985
as Emtsov
3.0
3.0
Nesrochnaya vesna
1990
as хозяин
3.0
3.0
Take Care of the Men!
1982
as Vladimir Rodionov
3.0
3.0
Snake Catcher
1986
as Konstantin
3.0
3.0
The Heirs
2008
as глава администрации
2.8
2.8
The Stairway
1989
as дядя Миша
2.0
2.0
Queen's Personal Life
1993
2.0
2.0
Detonator
1992
2.0
2.0
Repeated Wedding
1975
as Михайлов
2.0
2.0
Enclosure
1988
1.8
1.8
KGB Agents Also Fall in Love
1991
1.0
1.0
Destroy the Thirtieth!
1992
1.0
1.0
All That Jam
2016
as father Leonty
1.0
1.0
Such a Big Boy
1967
as Vasiliy
0.5
0.5
The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga
2004
Facts of the Past Day
1981
as Grinin
How Is It Going, Crucians?
1991
as высокий начальник
Energetic People
1988
as Аристарх Петрович Кузькин
The Devil's Puppets
1993
Boys
1972
as Viktor Viktorovich
New Year's Story
1997
as Ded Moroz
Karpusha
1988
as Karpusha (voice)
Black Gloves
1973
Крыса на подносе
1963
I Am His Bride
1969
Pyotr Ryabinkin
1973
May I Die, Lord...
1988
Northern Rhapsody
1974
A Show for a Single Man
1994
Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun
2004
as Dobrynya
Three on the Red Carpet
1988
as Михаил Иванович Сошкин
Without Witnesses
1966
as Burmakin
Chekhov's Vaudevilles
1984
Traces of Rain
1991
Simple - Minded
1994
Chuffyk
1993
as (voice)
Through All the Years
1985
Provincial Benefit
1993
The Love Arrow
2002
Across Red Nights
1991
Sentence
1994
as Лео Харман
Heirloom
1981
The Adventures of Travka
1976
A Man for a Young Girl
1996
The Rain
1978
as Trenka, apprentice (voice)
Take Your Time
1972
There Was No Sorrow
1983
as Vadim Petrovich Potapov
Kysh and TwoBriefcases
1974
as папа Алёши, Дмитрий Эдуардович
Defeat
1987
Crash
1969
as Сыроежкин
In Search of the Golden Phallus
1992
as руководитель круиза
Reports from Lebyazhye
1960
as Сеня Громов
Machinist Drove the Trains
1961
as Yasha
Restricted Area
1988
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