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”.
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Filmography
all 183
Movies 170
TV Shows 13
Narrator 1
Voice 1
All That Jam (2016)
The Book of Masters (2009)
The Heirs (2008)
Priklyucheniya soldata Ivana Chonkina (2007)
The Turkish Gambit (2006)
The Turkish Gambit (2005)
Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun (2004)
The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga (2004)
Railway Romance (2003)
Evropejskij Konvoj (2003)
Brigada (2002)
Esli Nevesta Vedma (2002)
The Love Arrow (2002)
Memories of Sherlock Holmes (2000)
Ultimatum (1999)
The Barber of Siberia (1998)
Streets of Broken Lights (1998)
Старые песни о главном 3 (1998)
The Stringer (1998)
New Year's Story (1997)
The Night Before Christmas (1997)
Старые песни о главном 2 (1997)
A Man for a Young Girl (1996)
What a Mess! (1995)
Lady Into Lassie (1995)
Russian Account (1994)
The Master and Margarita (1994)
Шоу для одинокого мужчины (1994)
Russian miracle (1994)
The Ghost of My House (1994)
Sentence (1994)
The Codex of Disgrace (1993)
There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach (1993)
Queen's Personal Life (1993)
Провинциальный бенефис (1993)
The Devil's Puppets (1993)
Destroy the Thirtieth! (1992)
In Search of the Golden Phallus (1992)
Gangsters in the Ocean (1992)
Великое замыкание, или Детонатор (1992)
KGB Agents Also Fall in Love (1991)
Made in USSR (1991)
Across Red Nights (1991)
Meet me in Tahiti (1991)
How Is It Going, Crucians? (1991)
Несрочная весна (1990)
Pretty Face (1990)
Entrance to the Maze (1990)
Entrance to Labyrinth (1990)
The Charming Traveller (1990)
Spanish Actress for Russian Minister (1990)
The Suicide (1990)
The Stairway (1989)
It (1989)
Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation (1989)
Presumption of Innocence (1988)
Hope (1988)
Энергичные люди (1988)
Life of Don Quixote and Sancho (1988)
May I die, Lord (1988)
Загон (1988)
Blackmailer (1988)
Restricted Area (1988)
Holy Moly! (1988)
First Encounter - Last Encounter (1987)
Defeat (1987)
One Time Deal (1987)
Martinko (1987)
Sitting on the Golden Porch (1986)
The Left-Hander (1986)
Snake Catcher (1986)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins, Part 2 (1986)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Approaches (1986)
The Most Charming and Attractive (1985)
Sincerely Yours... (1985)
Dangerous for Your Life! (1985)
The Invisible Man (1985)
Five Minutes of Fear (1985)
TASS Is Authorized to Declare... (1984)
Copper Angel (1984)
Before We Part (1984)
Vitya Glushakov - A Friend of the Apaches (1983)
Demidovy (1983)
We're from Jazz (1983)
Не было печали (1983)
The Trust That Has Burst (1983)
Свадебный подарок (1983)
Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants (1983)
Look for a Woman (1982)
It's Just Awful! (1982)
Take Care of the Men! (1982)
Crazy Money (1981)
Facts of the Past Day (1981)
Ladies Invite Gentlemen (1981)
We, the Undersigned (1981)
For the Matches (1980)
Don't Leave Your Lovers (1980)
Little Tragedies (1980)
Little Tragedies (1980)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1980)
Глубокие родственники (1980)
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed (1979)
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed (1979)
Fuss of the Fusses (1979)
Pena (1979)
Tailcoat for an Idler (1979)
You to Me, Me to You (1979)
Unanswered Love (1979)
Incognito from St.Petersburg (1978)
While the Dream is Mad (1978)
Live in Joy (1978)
Shchyot Chelovecheskiy (1978)
Dozhd' (1978)
Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street... (1978)
A Dog Was Walking on the Piano (1978)
Funny People! (1977)
The Most Beautiful Horse (1977)
Mimino (1977)
Timur and His Team (1977)
Развлечение для старичков (1977)
Эти невероятные музыканты, или Новые сновидения Шурика (1977)
The Last Sacrifice (1976)
The Adventures of Travka (1976)
Circus in the Circus (1976)
Without Father (1976)
Afonya (1976)
Escape of Mr. McKinley (1975)
Ау-у! (1975)
It Can't Be! (1975)
Repeated Wedding (1975)
Lev Gurych Sinichkin (1974)
Kysh and TwoBriefcases (1974)
Северная рапсодия (1974)
Homeboy (1974)
My Friends (1974)
To Dream and to Live (1974)
This Merry Planet (1973)
Nylon 100% (1973)
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession (1973)
Life and Amazing Aventures of Robinson Crusoe (1973)
Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973)
Пётр Рябинкин (1973)
Aibolit and Barmaley (1973)
The Twelve Months (1973)
Boys (1972)
White Queen's Move (1972)
Seventh Skies (1972)
Liberation: The Last Assault (1971)
Young People (1971)
Late Child (1971)
The Roundabout (1971)
The Beginning (1970)
О друзьях-товарищах (1970)
The Ballad of Bering and His Friends (1970)
A Day and the Whole Life (1970)
Two Days of Wonders (1970)
The Seven Brides of Lance-Corporal Zbruyev (1970)
I Am His Bride (1969)
Not Under the Jurisdiction (1969)
Любовь Серафима Фролова (1969)
Shine, Shine, My Star (1969)
Crash (1969)
Men's Talk (1969)
The Golden Calf (1968)
Literature Lesson (1968)
Viy (1967)
Such a Big Boy (1967)
Elder Sister (1967)
Your Son and Brother (1966)
There Is Such a Lad (1966)
Time, Forward! (1965)
Everything for You (1965)
Непридуманная история (1964)
Third Time (1963)
Крыса на подносе (1963)
Fuse (1962)
When the Trees Were Tall (1961)
Lyubushka (1961)
Водил поезда машинист (1961)
Midshipman Panin (1960)
Из Лебяжьего сообщают (1960)
There Will Be No Leave Today (1959)
Life of Don Quixote and Sancho
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GenderMale
Birthday1936-10-08
Deathday2022-01-30 (85 years old)
Birth NameЛеонид Вячеславович Куравлёв
Birth PlaceMoscow, Russia
CitizenshipsSoviet Union, Russia
Also Known AsLeonid Kuravlev, Леонид Куравлёв, Леонид Куравлев, Куравлёв Леонид Вячеславович, L. Kuravlev, L. Kuravlyov, L.Kuravlyov, Куравлев Леонид Вячеславович, Leonid Kouravliov, Leonid Viatcheslavovitch Kouravliov
AwardsOrder "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV class, Prize of the Federal Security Service of Russia, Order of the Badge of Honour, People's Artist of the RSFSR, Merited Artist of the RSFSR
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