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Leonid Kuravlyov
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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, Murmans…
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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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BODY OF WORK
Leonid Kuravlyov's Filmography
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All That Jam
as father Leonty
No Poster
Георгий Данелия. Великий обманщик
as Self
The Master and Margarita
as Nikanor Ivanovich Bosoy
The Book of Masters
as Barin
The Heirs
as глава администрации
The Turkish Gambit
as major
The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga
Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun
as Dobrynya
Railway Romance
as Petrovich
Esli Nevesta Vedma
The Love Arrow
Ultimatum
as Leonid
The Barber of Siberia
as Vakhmistr Bukin
The Stringer
Old Songs About the Main Thing 3
as Жорж Милославский
New Year's Story
as Ded Moroz
Old Songs about the Main Thing 2
The Night Before Christmas
A Man for a Young Girl
Lady Into Lassie
as Grigoriy Muromskiy
What a Mess!
as USA ambassador
Russian Account
as Иван Сидоров, майор
Simple - Minded
A Show for a Single Man
The Ghost of My House
Russian Miracle
as Сеня
Sentence
as Лео Харман
The Codex of Disgrace
No Poster
Scandal in our Kloshgorod
No Poster
Territory
Chuffyk
as (voice)
There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach
as Mikhail Gorbachev
Queen's Personal Life
Provincial Benefit
The Devil's Puppets
Destroy the Thirtieth!
No Poster
Why Would an Honest Man Need an Alibi?
In Search of the Golden Phallus
as руководитель круиза
Gangsters in the Ocean
as Sobakin
Detonator
KGB Agents Also Fall in Love
Traces of Rain
Made in USSR
as Ivan Moiseyevich
Across Red Nights
Meet Me in Tahiti
as Шнайдер
Shadows
How Is It Going, Crucians?
as высокий начальник
Nesrochnaya vesna
as хозяин
Pretty Face
Entrance to Labyrinth
as Oleg Khlebnikov
The Enchanted Wanderer
as Priest
Spanish Actress for Russian Minister
as Игорь Иванович Степанов
The Suicide
as заведующий тиром Александр Лукьянович Калабушкин
Ono
as Vasilisk Borodavkin
The Stairway
as дядя Миша
Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation
as Editor
Presumption of Innocence
as Bondarev - nachalnik poezda
Hope
as Stepan
Energetic People
as Аристарх Петрович Кузькин
Three on the Red Carpet
as Михаил Иванович Сошкин
May I Die, Lord...
Karpusha
as Karpusha (voice)
Enclosure
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 2
as Von Bork
Blackmailer
as Федор Семенович
Restricted Area
Holy Moly!
First Encounter - Last Encounter
as Count
Defeat
Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century
as Von Bork
Martinko
as Martinko (voice)
One Time Deal
as Fedor Romanov
Sitting on the Golden Porch
as Kороль Амфибрахий
The Left-Hander
as император Александр Павлович
Snake Catcher
as Konstantin
Five Minutes of Fear
as Леонид Каретников (свидетель)
The Most Charming and Attractive
as Dyatlov
Sincerely Yours...
as Emtsov
Dangerous for Your Life!
as Spartak Molodtsov
The Invisible Man
as Marvel
Through All the Years
Copper Angel
as Ларсен
Before We Part
as Badarin
Chekhov's Vaudevilles
Vitya Glushakov - A Friend of the Apaches
as Arkady
Demidovy
as Menshikov
We're from Jazz
as Samsonov
There Was No Sorrow
as Vadim Petrovich Potapov
The Trust That Has Burst
as Ezra Plunkett
Take Care of the Men!
as Vladimir Rodionov
The Wedding Gift
Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants
as Ivan Shponka
Look for a Woman
as Henri Granden
It's Just Awful!
as Ruslan Ivanovich
Crazy Money
as Vasiliy
Facts of the Past Day
as Grinin
Heirloom
Ladies Invite Gentlemen
as Sanya
We, the Undersigned
as Lyonya Shindin
Don't Leave Your Lovers
as Валера
For the Matches
as Peasant
Next of Kin
as Толик
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
as "Smoked"
Fuss of the Fusses
as Volodya
Foam
as Валерий Солома, аферист
Tailcoat for an Idler
Live in Joy
as Митяй Пряжкин
Unanswered Love
as Pavlov
Funny People!
as Денис Григорьев
Incognito from St.Petersburg
as Shpekin
While the Dream is Mad
Счёт человеческий
as Чаплыгин (зооинспектор)
The Rain
as Trenka, apprentice (voice)
Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...
as Михаил (новелла «Мы едем, едем, едем...»)
A Dog Was Walking on the Piano
The Most Beautiful Horse
You to Me, Me to You
as Ivan Kashkin / Sergei Kashkin
Mimino
as Professor Khachikyan
Timur and His Team
Fun for Old People
as Yefremov
Without Father
as Kesha
These Incredible Musicians, or Shurik's New Dreams
The Last Sacrifice
as Lavr Mironych
The Adventures of Travka
Au-u!
as Пташук Геннадий Иванович («Что наша жизнь?! Или что наша жизнь?!»)
Circus in the Circus
as Grisha
The Flight of Mr. Mc.Kinley
as мистер Дроот
It Can't Be!
as Vladimir Zavitushkin
Afonya
as Afonya
To Dream and to Live
as Иван Григорьевич, механизатор-тракторист, режиссёр
Repeated Wedding
as Михайлов
Lev Gurych Sinichkin
as князь Ветренский
Kysh and TwoBriefcases
as папа Алёши, Дмитрий Эдуардович
Northern Rhapsody
Homeboy
as Fedor
My Friends
This Merry Planet
as Игрек - член экипажа летающей тарелки
Nylon 100%
as работник скупки Веня Гурьянов
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
as Zhorzh Miloslavsky / knyaz Miloslavsky
Life and Amazing Aventures of Robinson Crusoe
as Робинзон
No Poster
Black Gloves
Pyotr Ryabinkin
Aibolit and Barmaley
as Толстый
The Twelve Months
as Old soldier
Boys
as Viktor Viktorovich
White Queen's Move
as Тюликов, тренер Бабуриной
Seventh Skies
Take Your Time
Liberation - Part 4 : The Battle of Berlin
Liberation - Part 5 : The Last Assault
as Signaler Sent to Hitler's Bunker
The Seven Brides of Lance-Corporal Zbruyev
as Priest
Young People
as new settler
Late Child
The Roundabout
as Nikolai Timofeyevich
The Beginning
as Arkadiy
About Friends and Comrades
The Ballad of Bering and His Friends
A Day and the Whole Life
Two Days of Wonders
as зав. терапевическим отделением Мурашев Вадим Леонидович
I Am His Bride
Not Under the Jurisdiction
as Sorokin
Love of Serafim Frolov
as Serafim Frolov
Shine, Shine, My Star
as Red comissar
Crash
as Сыроежкин
Men's Talk
as Alexey
The Golden Calf
as Shura Balaganov
Literature Lesson
as Савелий Сидоров
Viy
as Khoma Brut
Such a Big Boy
as Vasiliy
Elder Sister
as Volodya
No Poster
Without Witnesses
as Burmakin
Your Son and Brother
as Степан Воеводин, средний сын
Time, Forward!
as Korneyev
Everything for You
An Unrealistic Story
as Kostya Remizov
There Is Such a Lad
as Пашка Колокольников, шофёр
Third Time
as Lyonya Fokin
No Poster
Крыса на подносе
When the Trees Were Tall
as Lenka
Lyubushka
Machinist Drove the Trains
as Yasha
Midshipman Panin
as Пётр Камушкин
Reports from Lebyazhye
as Сеня Громов
There Will Be No Leave Today
as Morozov