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Leonid Kuravlyov

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

Personal information

Birthday

1936-10-08

Birth Place

Moscow, RSFSR, USSR

Movies and TV shows :

A Day and the Whole Life

A Day and the Whole Life

1970

6.0

Movie
A Dog Was Walking on the Piano

A Dog Was Walking on the Piano

1978

3.9

Movie
A Man for a Young Girl

A Man for a Young Girl

1996

0.0

Movie
Across Red Nights

Across Red Nights

1991

0.0

Movie
Afonya

Afonya

1976

7.9

Movie
Aibolit and Barmaley

Aibolit and Barmaley

1973

5.4

Movie
All That Jam

All That Jam

2016

0.0

Movie
Before We Part

Before We Part

1984

4.0

Movie
Blackmailer

Blackmailer

1988

7.5

Movie
Boys

Boys

1972

0.0

Movie
poster

Brigada

2002

7.7

TV
Chekhov's Vaudevilles

Chekhov's Vaudevilles

1984

0.0

Movie
Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...

Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...

1978

6.5

Movie
Circus in the Circus

Circus in the Circus

1976

4.8

Movie
Copper Angel

Copper Angel

1984

5.0

Movie
Crash

Crash

1969

0.0

Movie
Crazy Money

Crazy Money

1981

4.7

Movie
Dangerous for Your Life!

Dangerous for Your Life!

1985

6.8

Movie
Defeat

Defeat

1987

0.0

Movie
Demidovy

Demidovy

1983

7.1

Movie
Destroy the Thirtieth!

Destroy the Thirtieth!

1992

1.0

Movie
Detonator

Detonator

1992

0.0

Movie
Don't Leave Your Lovers

Don't Leave Your Lovers

1980

6.1

Movie
Elder Sister

Elder Sister

1967

5.6

Movie
Enclosure

Enclosure

1988

0.0

Movie
Entrance to Labyrinth

Entrance to Labyrinth

1990

3.4

Movie
poster

Entrance to the Maze

1990

6.3

TV
Escape of Mr. McKinley

Escape of Mr. McKinley

1975

4.2

Movie
Esli Nevesta Vedma

Esli Nevesta Vedma

2002

6.2

Movie
Everything for You

Everything for You

1965

5.0

Movie
Evropejskij Konvoj

Evropejskij Konvoj

2003

5.9

Movie
Facts of the Past Day

Facts of the Past Day

1981

0.0

Movie
First Encounter - Last Encounter

First Encounter - Last Encounter

1987

5.3

Movie
Five Minutes of Fear

Five Minutes of Fear

1985

6.3

Movie
For the Matches

For the Matches

1980

6.3

Movie
Fun for Old People

Fun for Old People

1977

9.0

Movie
Funny People!

Funny People!

1977

4.0

Movie
poster

Fuse

1962

7.6

TV
Fuss of the Fusses

Fuss of the Fusses

1979

5.9

Movie
Gangsters in the Ocean

Gangsters in the Ocean

1992

8.0

Movie
Holy Moly!

Holy Moly!

1988

6.2

Movie
Homeboy

Homeboy

1974

6.5

Movie
Hope

Hope

1988

5.2

Movie
How Is It Going, Crucians?

How Is It Going, Crucians?

1991

0.0

Movie
I Am His Bride

I Am His Bride

1969

0.0

Movie
In Search of the Golden Phallus

In Search of the Golden Phallus

1992

0.0

Movie
Incognito from St.Petersburg

Incognito from St.Petersburg

1978

5.9

Movie
It

It

1989

4.6

Movie
It Can't Be!

It Can't Be!

1975

7.2

Movie
It's Just Awful!

It's Just Awful!

1982

7.0

Movie
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession

Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession

1973

7.9

Movie
Karpusha

Karpusha

1988

0.0

Movie
KGB Agents Also Fall in Love

KGB Agents Also Fall in Love

1991

1.7

Movie
Kysh and TwoBriefcases

Kysh and TwoBriefcases

1974

0.0

Movie
Ladies Invite Gentlemen

Ladies Invite Gentlemen

1981

5.5

Movie
Lady Into Lassie

Lady Into Lassie

1995

5.1

Movie
Late Child

Late Child

1971

6.0

Movie
Lev Gurych Sinichkin

Lev Gurych Sinichkin

1974

4.5

Movie
Liberation: The Last Assault

Liberation: The Last Assault

1971

7.7

Movie
Life and Amazing Aventures of Robinson Crusoe

Life and Amazing Aventures of Robinson Crusoe

1973

5.3

Movie
poster

Life of Don Quixote and Sancho

1988

4.7

TV
Literature Lesson

Literature Lesson

1968

5.4

Movie
Little Tragedies

Little Tragedies

1980

5.4

Movie
poster

Little Tragedies

1980

6.0

TV
Live in Joy

Live in Joy

1978

5.1

Movie
Look for a Woman

Look for a Woman

1982

7.2

Movie
Lyubushka

Lyubushka

1961

7.5

Movie
Made in USSR

Made in USSR

1991

5.6

Movie
Martinko

Martinko

1987

7.0

Movie
May I die, Lord

May I die, Lord

1988

0.0

Movie
Meet Me in Tahiti

Meet Me in Tahiti

1991

5.5

Movie
poster

Memories of Sherlock Holmes

2000

7.2

TV
Men's Talk

Men's Talk

1969

7.0

Movie
Midshipman Panin

Midshipman Panin

1960

4.2

Movie
Mimino

Mimino

1977

7.6

Movie
Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants

Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants

1983

6.5

Movie
My Friends

My Friends

1974

6.0

Movie
New Year's Story

New Year's Story

1997

0.0

Movie
Not Under the Jurisdiction

Not Under the Jurisdiction

1969

5.2

Movie
Nylon 100%

Nylon 100%

1973

5.8

Movie
Old Songs about the Main Thing 2

Old Songs about the Main Thing 2

1997

4.8

Movie
Old Songs About the Main Thing 3

Old Songs About the Main Thing 3

1998

3.5

Movie
One Time Deal

One Time Deal

1987

6.3

Movie
Pena

Pena

1979

5.0

Movie
Presumption of Innocence

Presumption of Innocence

1988

4.8

Movie
Pretty Face

Pretty Face

1990

8.0

Movie
Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation

Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation

1989

5.6

Movie
Provincial Benefit

Provincial Benefit

1993

0.0

Movie
Queen's Personal Life

Queen's Personal Life

1993

2.5

Movie
Railway Romance

Railway Romance

2003

6.4

Movie
Repeated Wedding

Repeated Wedding

1975

0.0

Movie
Restricted Area

Restricted Area

1988

0.0

Movie
Russian Account

Russian Account

1994

5.8

Movie
Russian miracle

Russian miracle

1994

5.5

Movie
Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun

Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun

2004

0.0

Movie
Sentence

Sentence

1994

0.0

Movie
poster

Seventeen Moments of Spring

1973

7.8

TV
Seventh Skies

Seventh Skies

1972

6.0

Movie
Shine, Shine, My Star

Shine, Shine, My Star

1969

5.7

Movie
Simple - Minded

Simple - Minded

1994

0.0

Movie
Sincerely Yours...

Sincerely Yours...

1985

3.3

Movie
Sitting on the Golden Porch

Sitting on the Golden Porch

1986

5.4

Movie
Snake Catcher

Snake Catcher

1986

3.0

Movie
Spanish Actress for Russian Minister

Spanish Actress for Russian Minister

1990

5.7

Movie
poster

Streets of Broken Lights

1998

6.4

TV
Such a Big Boy

Such a Big Boy

1967

1.0

Movie
Tailcoat for an Idler

Tailcoat for an Idler

1979

7.0

Movie
Take Care of the Men!

Take Care of the Men!

1982

3.0

Movie
poster

TASS Is Authorized to Declare...

1984

6.9

TV
poster

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

1980

8.0

TV
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Approaches

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Approaches

1988

7.3

Movie
poster

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins

1988

9.0

TV
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins, Part 2

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins, Part 2

1988

7.2

Movie
The Adventures of Travka

The Adventures of Travka

1976

0.0

Movie
The Ballad of Bering and His Friends

The Ballad of Bering and His Friends

1970

5.2

Movie
The Barber of Siberia

The Barber of Siberia

1998

7.1

Movie
The Beginning

The Beginning

1970

6.4

Movie
The Book of Masters

The Book of Masters

2009

4.5

Movie
The Charming Traveller

The Charming Traveller

1990

7.0

Movie
The Codex of Disgrace

The Codex of Disgrace

1993

3.5

Movie
The Devil's Puppets

The Devil's Puppets

1993

0.0

Movie
The Ghost of My House

The Ghost of My House

1994

4.0

Movie
The Golden Calf

The Golden Calf

1968

8.0

Movie
The Heirs

The Heirs

2008

3.0

Movie
The Invisible Man

The Invisible Man

1985

5.9

Movie
The Last Sacrifice

The Last Sacrifice

1976

6.0

Movie
The Left-Hander

The Left-Hander

1986

5.4

Movie
The Love Arrow

The Love Arrow

2002

0.0

Movie
The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita

1994

5.9

Movie
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed

The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed

1979

8.2

Movie
poster

The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed

1979

8.6

TV
The Most Beautiful Horse

The Most Beautiful Horse

1977

0.0

Movie
The Most Charming and Attractive

The Most Charming and Attractive

1985

7.1

Movie
The Night Before Christmas

The Night Before Christmas

1997

6.0

Movie
The Rain

The Rain

1978

0.0

Movie
The Roundabout

The Roundabout

1971

5.5

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

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

2004

0.0

Movie
The Seven Brides of Lance-Corporal Zbruyev

The Seven Brides of Lance-Corporal Zbruyev

1971

6.7

Movie
The Stairway

The Stairway

1989

3.0

Movie
The Stringer

The Stringer

1998

4.3

Movie
The Suicide

The Suicide

1990

6.0

Movie
The Trust That Has Burst

The Trust That Has Burst

1983

6.1

Movie
The Turkish Gambit

The Turkish Gambit

2005

6.4

Movie
poster

The Turkish Gambit

2006

7.0

TV
The Twelve Months

The Twelve Months

1973

6.5

Movie
There Is Such a Lad

There Is Such a Lad

1966

6.3

Movie
There Will Be No Leave Today

There Will Be No Leave Today

1959

5.6

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

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

1993

5.9

Movie
Third Time

Third Time

1963

4.2

Movie
This Merry Planet

This Merry Planet

1973

4.8

Movie
Three on the Red Carpet

Three on the Red Carpet

1988

0.0

Movie
Time, Forward!

Time, Forward!

1965

5.1

Movie
Timur and His Team

Timur and His Team

1977

5.9

Movie
To Dream and to Live

To Dream and to Live

1974

5.0

Movie
Traces of Rain

Traces of Rain

1991

0.0

Movie
Two Days of Wonders

Two Days of Wonders

1970

4.8

Movie
Ultimatum

Ultimatum

1999

10.0

Movie
Unanswered Love

Unanswered Love

1979

5.5

Movie
Vitya Glushakov - A Friend of the Apaches

Vitya Glushakov - A Friend of the Apaches

1983

6.5

Movie
Viy

Viy

1967

6.9

Movie
We, the Undersigned

We, the Undersigned

1981

4.6

Movie
We're from Jazz

We're from Jazz

1983

6.6

Movie
What a Mess!

What a Mess!

1995

6.8

Movie
When the Trees Were Tall

When the Trees Were Tall

1961

6.8

Movie
While the Dream is Mad

While the Dream is Mad

1978

4.0

Movie
White Queen's Move

White Queen's Move

1972

4.0

Movie
Without Father

Without Father

1976

8.0

Movie
You to Me, Me to You

You to Me, Me to You

1979

6.1

Movie
Young People

Young People

1971

10.0

Movie
Your Son and Brother

Your Son and Brother

1966

6.7

Movie
Ау-у! (Киноальманах)

Ау-у! (Киноальманах)

1976

7.5

Movie
Без свидетелей

Без свидетелей

1966

0.0

Movie
Водил поезда машинист

Водил поезда машинист

1961

0.0

Movie
Глубокие родственники

Глубокие родственники

1980

7.0

Movie
poster

Двенадцать месяцев

1973

0.0

TV
Из Лебяжьего сообщают

Из Лебяжьего сообщают

1960

0.0

Movie
poster

Ищите женщину

1983

0.0

TV
Крыса на подносе

Крыса на подносе

1963

0.0

Movie
Любовь Серафима Фролова

Любовь Серафима Фролова

1969

6.0

Movie
Не было печали

Не было печали

1983

0.0

Movie
Непридуманная история

Непридуманная история

1964

5.7

Movie
Несрочная весна

Несрочная весна

1990

3.5

Movie
О друзьях-товарищах

О друзьях-товарищах

1970

6.0

Movie
Пётр Рябинкин

Пётр Рябинкин

1973

0.0

Movie
Свадебный подарок

Свадебный подарок

1983

5.0

Movie
Северная рапсодия

Северная рапсодия

1974

0.0

Movie
Счет человеческий

Счет человеческий

1978

6.0

Movie
Шоу для одинокого мужчины

Шоу для одинокого мужчины

1994

0.0

Movie
Энергичные люди

Энергичные люди

1988

0.0

Movie
Эти невероятные музыканты, или Новые сновидения Шурика

Эти невероятные музыканты, или Новые сновидения Шурика

1977

5.8

Movie