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

Known For	Acting
Most Rating	21.553
Birthday	1936-10-08
Place of Birth	Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Also Known As	Leonid Kuravlev, Леонид Куравлёв, Леонид Куравлев, Куравлёв Леонид Вячеславович, L. Kuravlev, L. Kuravlyov, L.Kuravlyov, Куравлев Леонид Вячеславович, Leonid Kouravliov, Leonid Viatcheslavovitch Kouravliov,

White Queen's Move

Afonya

Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession

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

Enclosure

Restricted Area

Mimino

It Can't Be!

Evropejskij Konvoj

There Will Be No Leave Today

The Golden Calf

This Merry Planet

The Trust That Has Burst

The Most Charming and Attractive

Esli Nevesta Vedma

Fuss of the Fusses

The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed

Shine, Shine, My Star

Incognito from St.Petersburg

The Stairway

First Encounter - Last Encounter

The Turkish Gambit

Destroy the Thirtieth!

All That Jam

When the Trees Were Tall

The Beginning

The Night Before Christmas

The Ballad of Bering and His Friends

There Is Such a Lad

We're from Jazz

Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation

Dangerous for Your Life!

The Codex of Disgrace

Look for a Woman

One Time Deal

What a Mess!

Holy Moly!

Snake Catcher

Railway Romance

Life and Amazing Aventures of Robinson Crusoe

There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach

Meet Me in Tahiti

Little Tragedies

Lady Into Lassie

Defeat

Funny People!

Шоу для одинокого мужчины

Lev Gurych Sinichkin

To Dream and to Live

Ladies Invite Gentlemen

Sitting on the Golden Porch

Five Minutes of Fear

The Master and Margarita

Don't Leave Your Lovers

We, the Undersigned

You to Me, Me to You

Elder Sister

The Barber of Siberia

Timur and His Team

The Invisible Man

Entrance to Labyrinth

The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga

Before We Part

Счет человеческий

A Dog Was Walking on the Piano

Two Days of Wonders

Made in USSR

Эти невероятные музыканты, или Новые сновидения Шурика

Three on the Red Carpet

Hope

Без свидетелей

Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants

Live in Joy

Repeated Wedding