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Leonid Kuravlyov
Born · October 8, 1936
Died · January 30, 2022 (85 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Bio
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
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father Leonty
0.0
2016
The Book of Masters
Barin
4.5
2009
The Heirs
глава администрации
3.0
2008
The Turkish Gambit
Artillery major · (4 episodes)
7.0
2006
The Turkish Gambit
major
6.4
2005
The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga
0.0
2004
Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun
Dobrynya
0.0
2004
Railway Romance
Petrovich
6.4
2003
Evropejskij Konvoj
генерал
5.9
2003
Brigada
Петр Чуйков · (15 episodes)
7.7
2002
Esli Nevesta Vedma
6.2
2002
The Love Arrow
0.0
2002
Memories of Sherlock Holmes
Von Bork · (13 episodes)
7.2
2000
Ultimatum
Leonid
10.0
1999
The Barber of Siberia
Vakhmistr Bukin
7.1
1998
Streets of Broken Lights
Андрей Петрович Ершов, "Дед" · (78 episodes)
6.4
1998
The Stringer
4.3
1998
Old Songs About the Main Thing 3
Жорж Милославский
3.5
1998
New Year's Story
Ded Moroz
0.0
1997
Old Songs about the Main Thing 2
4.8
1997
The Night Before Christmas
6.0
1997
A Man for a Young Girl
0.0
1996
What a Mess!
USA ambassador
6.7
1995
Lady Into Lassie
Grigoriy Muromskiy
5.1
1995
Russian Account
Иван Сидоров, майор
5.8
1994
Simple - Minded
0.0
1994
The Master and Margarita
Nikanor Ivanovich Bosoy
5.9
1994
Шоу для одинокого мужчины
0.0
1994
Russian miracle
Сеня
5.5
1994
Sentence
Лео Харман
0.0
1994
The Ghost of My House
4.0
1994
The Codex of Disgrace
3.5
1993
There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach
Mikhail Gorbachev
5.9
1993
Queen's Personal Life
2.5
1993
The Devil's Puppets
0.0
1993
Provincial Benefit
0.0
1993
Destroy the Thirtieth!
1.0
1992
In Search of the Golden Phallus
руководитель круиза
0.0
1992
Gangsters in the Ocean
Sobakin
8.0
1992
Detonator
0.0
1992
KGB Agents Also Fall in Love
1.7
1991
Traces of Rain
0.0
1991
Made in USSR
Ivan Moiseyevich
5.6
1991
Across Red Nights
0.0
1991
Meet Me in Tahiti
Шнайдер
5.5
1991
How Is It Going, Crucians?
высокий начальник
0.0
1991
Несрочная весна
хозяин
3.5
1990
Pretty Face
8.0
1990
Entrance to Labyrinth
Oleg Khlebnikov
3.4
1990
Entrance to the Maze
Oleg Khlebnikov - doktor neyrofiziolog · (2 episodes)
6.3
1990
The Charming Traveller
Priest
7.0
1990
Spanish Actress for Russian Minister
Игорь Иванович Степанов
5.7
1990
The Suicide
заведующий тиром Александр Лукьянович Калабушкин
6.0
1990
The Stairway
дядя Миша
3.0
1989
It
Vasilisk Borodavkin
4.6
1989
Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation
Editor
5.6
1989
Presumption of Innocence
Bondarev - nachalnik poezda
4.8
1988
Hope
Stepan
5.2
1988
Энергичные люди
Аристарх Петрович Кузькин
0.0
1988
Life of Don Quixote and Sancho
Nicolas · (9 episodes)
4.7
1988
Three on the Red Carpet
Михаил Иванович Сошкин
0.0
1988
May I die, Lord
0.0
1988
Karpusha
Karpusha (voice)
0.0
1988
Enclosure
0.0
1988
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins, Part 2
Von Bork
7.2
1988
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Approaches
Von Bork
7.3
1988
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins
von Bork · (1 episode)
9.0
1988
Blackmailer
Федор Семенович
7.5
1988
Restricted Area
0.0
1988
Holy Moly!
6.2
1988
First Encounter - Last Encounter
Count
5.3
1987
Defeat
0.0
1987
One Time Deal
Fedor Romanov
6.3
1987
Martinko
7.0
1987
Sitting on the Golden Porch
Kороль Амфибрахий
5.4
1986
The Left-Hander
император Александр Павлович
5.4
1986
Snake Catcher
Konstantin
3.0
1986
The Most Charming and Attractive
Pasha Dyatlov
7.1
1985
Five Minutes of Fear
Леонид Каретников (свидетель)
6.3
1985
Sincerely Yours...
Emtsov
3.3
1985
Dangerous for Your Life!
Spartak Molodtsov
6.8
1985
The Invisible Man
Marvel
5.9
1985
TASS Is Authorized to Declare...
Андрей Андреевич Зотов, инженер-корабел · (10 episodes)
6.9
1984
Copper Angel
Ларсен
5.0
1984
Before We Part
Badarin
4.0
1984
Chekhov's Vaudevilles
0.0
1984
Vitya Glushakov - A Friend of the Apaches
Arkady
6.5
1983
Demidovy
Menshikov
7.1
1983
We're from Jazz
Samsonov
6.6
1983
Не было печали
Vadim Petrovich Potapov
0.0
1983
The Trust That Has Burst
Ezra Plunkett
6.1
1983
Свадебный подарок
5.0
1983
Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants
Ivan Shponka
6.5
1983
Ищите женщину
Henri Granden · (2 episodes)
0.0
1983
Look for a Woman
Henri Granden
7.2
1982
It's Just Awful!
Ruslan Ivanovich
7.0
1982
Take Care of the Men!
Vladimir Rodionov
3.0
1982
Crazy Money
Vasiliy
4.7
1981
Facts of the Past Day
Grinin
0.0
1981
Ladies Invite Gentlemen
Sanya
5.5
1981
We, the Undersigned
Lyonya Shindin
4.6
1981
For the Matches
Peasant
6.3
1980
Don't Leave Your Lovers
Валера
6.1
1980
Little Tragedies
Адриан Прохоров/Лепорелло · (3 episodes)
6.0
1980
Little Tragedies
Адриан Прохоров/Лепорелло
5.4
1980
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
Von Bork · (1 episode)
8.0
1980
Глубокие родственники
Толик
7.0
1980
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
"Smoked"
8.2
1979
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
«Копчёный» (вор-чердачник Валентин Бисяев) · (5 episodes)
8.6
1979
Fuss of the Fusses
Volodya
5.9
1979
Pena
Валерий Солома, аферист
5.0
1979
Tailcoat for an Idler
7.0
1979
You to Me, Me to You
Ivan Kashkin / Sergei Kashkin
6.1
1979
Unanswered Love
Pavlov
5.5
1979
Incognito from St.Petersburg
Shpekin
5.9
1978
While the Dream is Mad
4.0
1978
Live in Joy
Митяй Пряжкин (Дмитрий Петрович)
5.1
1978
Счет человеческий
Чаплыгин (зооинспектор)
6.0
1978
The Rain
Trenka, apprentice (voice)
0.0
1978
Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...
Михаил (новелла «Мы едем, едем, едем...»)
6.2
1978
A Dog Was Walking on the Piano
3.9
1978
Funny People!
Денис Григорьев
4.0
1977
The Most Beautiful Horse
0.0
1977
Mimino
Professor Khachikyan
7.6
1977
Timur and His Team
5.9
1977
Fun for Old People
Yefremov
9.0
1977
Эти невероятные музыканты, или Новые сновидения Шурика
5.8
1977
The Last Sacrifice
Lavr Mironych
6.0
1976
The Adventures of Travka
0.0
1976
Ау-у! (Киноальманах)
Пташук Геннадий Иванович («Что наша жизнь?! Или что наша жизнь?!»)
7.5
1976
Circus in the Circus
Grisha
4.8
1976
Without Father
8.0
1976
Afonya
Борщов Афанасий Николаевич (Афоня)
7.9
1976
Escape of Mr. McKinley
мистер Дроот
4.2
1975
It Can't Be!
Vladimir Zavitushkin
7.2
1975
Repeated Wedding
Михайлов
0.0
1975
Lev Gurych Sinichkin
князь Ветренский
4.5
1974
Kysh and TwoBriefcases
папа Алёши, Дмитрий Эдуардович
0.0
1974
Северная рапсодия
0.0
1974
Homeboy
Fedor
6.5
1974
My Friends
6.0
1974
To Dream and to Live
Иван Григорьевич, механизатор-тракторист, режиссёр
5.0
1974
This Merry Planet
Игрек - член экипажа летающей тарелки
4.8
1973
Nylon 100%
работник скупки Веня Гурьянов
5.8
1973
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
Жорж Милославский / князь Милославский
7.9
1973
Life and Amazing Aventures of Robinson Crusoe
Robinson
5.3
1973
Seventeen Moments of Spring
Kurt Eismann - SS Obersturmbannfuehrer · (5 episodes)
7.8
1973
Пётр Рябинкин
0.0
1973
The Twelve Months
Old soldier
6.5
1973
Aibolit and Barmaley
Толстый
5.4
1973
Двенадцать месяцев
Старый солдат · (2 episodes)
0.0
1973
Boys
Viktor Viktorovich
0.0
1972
White Queen's Move
Тюликов, тренер Бабуриной
4.0
1972
Seventh Skies
6.0
1972
Liberation: The Last Assault
Chuikov's signaler
7.7
1971
The Seven Brides of Lance-Corporal Zbruyev
Priest
6.7
1971
Young People
new settler
10.0
1971
Late Child
6.0
1971
The Roundabout
Nikolai Timofeyevich
5.5
1971
The Beginning
Arkadiy
6.4
1970
О друзьях-товарищах
6.0
1970
The Ballad of Bering and His Friends
5.2
1970
A Day and the Whole Life
6.0
1970
Two Days of Wonders
зав. терапевическим отделением Мурашев Вадим Леонидович
4.8
1970
I Am His Bride
0.0
1969
Not Under the Jurisdiction
Sorokin
5.2
1969
Любовь Серафима Фролова
Serafim Frolov
6.0
1969
Shine, Shine, My Star
Red comissar
5.7
1969
Crash
Сыроежкин
0.0
1969
Men's Talk
Alexey
7.0
1969
The Golden Calf
Shura Balaganov
8.0
1968
Literature Lesson
Савелий Сидоров
5.4
1968
Viy
Khoma Brutus
6.9
1967
Such a Big Boy
Vasiliy
1.0
1967
Elder Sister
Volodya
5.6
1967
Без свидетелей
Валька Бурмакин
0.0
1966
Your Son and Brother
Stepan
6.7
1966
There Is Such a Lad
Pashka
6.3
1966
Time, Forward!
Korneyev
5.1
1965
Everything for You
5.0
1965
Непридуманная история
Kostya Remizov
5.7
1964
Third Time
Lyonya Fokin
4.2
1963
Крыса на подносе
0.0
1963
Fuse
(2201 episodes)
7.6
1962
When the Trees Were Tall
Lenka
6.8
1961
Lyubushka
7.5
1961
Водил поезда машинист
Yasha
0.0
1961
Midshipman Panin
Pyotr Kamushkin
4.2
1960
Из Лебяжьего сообщают
Сеня Громов
0.0
1960
There Will Be No Leave Today
Morozov
5.6
1959