Soviet and Russian film actor. He became a People’s Artist of the RSFSR in 1976.
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 (Movies)
All That Jam
Character:father Leonty
Release Date:24/10/2016
The Book of Masters
Character:Barin
Release Date:29/10/2009
The Heirs
Character:глава администрации
Release Date:01/06/2008
The Master and Margarita
Character:Nikanor Ivanovich Bosoy
Release Date:01/06/2006
The Turkish Gambit
Character:major
Release Date:22/02/2005
The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga
Character:
Release Date:31/12/2004
Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun
Character:Dobrynya
Release Date:31/12/2004
Railway Romance
Character:Petrovich
Release Date:12/12/2003
Evropejskij Konvoj
Character:генерал
Release Date:06/06/2003
Esli Nevesta Vedma
Character:
Release Date:06/06/2002
The Love Arrow
Character:
Release Date:01/01/2002
Ultimatum
Character:Leonid
Release Date:01/01/1999
The Barber of Siberia
Character:Vakhmistr Bukin
Release Date:11/11/1998
The Stringer
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1998
Old Songs About the Main Thing 3
Character:Жорж Милославский
Release Date:01/01/1998
New Year's Story
Character:Ded Moroz
Release Date:01/12/1997
Old Songs about the Main Thing 2
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1997
The Night Before Christmas
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1997
A Man for a Young Girl
Character:
Release Date:03/07/1996
Lady Into Lassie
Character:Grigoriy Muromskiy
Release Date:26/05/1995
What a Mess!
Character:USA ambassador
Release Date:30/03/1995
Russian Account
Character:Иван Сидоров, майор
Release Date:01/12/1994
Simple - Minded
Character:
Release Date:09/06/1994
A Show for a Single Man
Character:
Release Date:01/06/1994
Russian Miracle
Character:Сеня
Release Date:01/01/1994
Sentence
Character:Лео Харман
Release Date:01/01/1994
The Ghost of My House
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1994
The Codex of Disgrace
Character:
Release Date:06/06/1993
Chuffyk
Character:(voice)
Release Date:13/04/1993
There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach
Character:Mikhail Gorbachev
Release Date:01/04/1993
Queen's Personal Life
Character:
Release Date:08/03/1993
The Devil's Puppets
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1993
Provincial Benefit
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1993
Destroy the Thirtieth!
Character:
Release Date:01/12/1992
In Search of the Golden Phallus
Character:руководитель круиза
Release Date:17/10/1992
Gangsters in the Ocean
Character:Sobakin
Release Date:10/02/1992
Detonator
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1992
KGB Agents Also Fall in Love
Character:
Release Date:18/12/1991
Traces of Rain
Character:
Release Date:01/12/1991
Made in USSR
Character:Ivan Moiseyevich
Release Date:15/08/1991
Across Red Nights
Character:
Release Date:01/07/1991
Meet Me in Tahiti
Character:Шнайдер
Release Date:01/01/1991
How Is It Going, Crucians?
Character:высокий начальник
Release Date:01/01/1991
Nesrochnaya vesna
Character:хозяин
Release Date:02/06/1990
Pretty Face
Character:
Release Date:01/06/1990
Entrance to Labyrinth
Character:Oleg Khlebnikov
Release Date:01/05/1990
The Enchanted Wanderer
Character:Priest
Release Date:31/01/1990
Spanish Actress for Russian Minister
Character:Игорь Иванович Степанов
Release Date:25/01/1990
The Suicide
Character:заведующий тиром Александр Лукьянович Калабушкин
Release Date:08/01/1990
Ono
Character:Vasilisk Borodavkin
Release Date:01/12/1989
The Stairway
Character:дядя Миша
Release Date:11/11/1989
Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation
Character:Editor
Release Date:01/01/1989
Presumption of Innocence
Character:Bondarev - nachalnik poezda
Release Date:25/12/1988
Hope
Character:Stepan
Release Date:30/11/1988
Energetic People
Character:Аристарх Петрович Кузькин
Release Date:04/09/1988
Three on the Red Carpet
Character:Михаил Иванович Сошкин
Release Date:27/06/1988
May I Die, Lord...
Character:
Release Date:16/06/1988
Karpusha
Character:Karpusha (voice)
Release Date:09/06/1988
Enclosure
Character:
Release Date:19/03/1988
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 2
Character:Von Bork
Release Date:13/03/1988
Blackmailer
Character:Федор Семенович
Release Date:28/01/1988
Restricted Area
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1988
Holy Moly!
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1988
First Encounter - Last Encounter
Character:Count
Release Date:06/06/1987
Defeat
Character:
Release Date:17/05/1987
Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century
Character:Von Bork
Release Date:01/04/1987
One Time Deal
Character:Fedor Romanov
Release Date:01/01/1987
Martinko
Character:Martinko (voice)
Release Date:01/01/1987
Sitting on the Golden Porch
Character:Kороль Амфибрахий
Release Date:30/12/1986
The Left-Hander
Character:император Александр Павлович
Release Date:16/03/1986
Snake Catcher
Character:Konstantin
Release Date:14/03/1986
Five Minutes of Fear
Character:Леонид Каретников (свидетель)
Release Date:10/03/1986
The Most Charming and Attractive
Character:Pasha Dyatlov
Release Date:10/11/1985
Sincerely Yours...
Character:Emtsov
Release Date:16/09/1985
Dangerous for Your Life!
Character:Spartak Molodtsov
Release Date:12/08/1985
The Invisible Man
Character:Marvel
Release Date:14/07/1985
Through All the Years
Character:
Release Date:02/04/1985
Copper Angel
Character:Ларсен
Release Date:16/07/1984
Before We Part
Character:Badarin
Release Date:06/06/1984
Chekhov's Vaudevilles
Character:
Release Date:01/06/1984
Vitya Glushakov - A Friend of the Apaches
Character:Arkady
Release Date:10/10/1983
Demidovy
Character:Menshikov
Release Date:01/08/1983
We're from Jazz
Character:Samsonov
Release Date:06/06/1983
There Was No Sorrow
Character:Vadim Petrovich Potapov
Release Date:21/03/1983
The Trust That Has Burst
Character:Ezra Plunkett
Release Date:18/03/1983
The Wedding Gift
Character:
Release Date:03/01/1983
Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants
Character:Ivan Shponka
Release Date:01/01/1983
Look for a Woman
Character:Henri Granden
Release Date:09/10/1982
It's Just Awful!
Character:Ruslan Ivanovich
Release Date:03/08/1982
Take Care of the Men!
Character:Vladimir Rodionov
Release Date:03/03/1982
Crazy Money
Character:Vasiliy
Release Date:19/11/1981
Facts of the Past Day
Character:Grinin
Release Date:15/11/1981
Heirloom
Character:
Release Date:01/07/1981
Ladies Invite Gentlemen
Character:Sanya
Release Date:30/05/1981
We, the Undersigned
Character:Lyonya Shindin
Release Date:14/03/1981
Don't Leave Your Lovers
Character:Валера
Release Date:07/07/1980
Little Tragedies
Character:Адриан Прохоров/Лепорелло
Release Date:30/06/1980
For the Matches
Character:Peasant
Release Date:18/01/1980
Next of Kin
Character:Толик
Release Date:01/01/1980
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
Character:"Smoked"
Release Date:11/11/1979
Fuss of the Fusses
Character:Volodya
Release Date:29/10/1979
Foam
Character:Валерий Солома, аферист
Release Date:01/10/1979
Tailcoat for an Idler
Character:
Release Date:28/08/1979
You to Me, Me to You
Character:Ivan Kashkin / Sergei Kashkin
Release Date:31/05/1979
Live in Joy
Character:Митяй Пряжкин
Release Date:01/01/1979
Unanswered Love
Character:Pavlov
Release Date:01/01/1979
Funny People!
Character:Денис Григорьев
Release Date:11/12/1978
Incognito from St.Petersburg
Character:Shpekin
Release Date:17/07/1978
While the Dream is Mad
Character:
Release Date:01/07/1978
Счет человеческий
Character:Чаплыгин (зооинспектор)
Release Date:20/02/1978
The Rain
Character:Trenka, apprentice (voice)
Release Date:02/02/1978
Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...
Character:Михаил (новелла «Мы едем, едем, едем...»)
Release Date:08/01/1978
A Dog Was Walking on the Piano
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1978
The Most Beautiful Horse
Character:
Release Date:01/08/1977
Mimino
Character:Professor Khachikyan
Release Date:06/06/1977
Timur and His Team
Character:
Release Date:01/05/1977
Fun for Old People
Character:Yefremov
Release Date:07/02/1977
Эти невероятные музыканты, или Новые сновидения Шурика
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1977
The Last Sacrifice
Character:Lavr Mironych
Release Date:11/10/1976
The Adventures of Travka
Character:
Release Date:02/08/1976
Au-u!
Character:Пташук Геннадий Иванович («Что наша жизнь?! Или что наша жизнь?!»)
Release Date:05/07/1976
Circus in the Circus
Character:Grisha
Release Date:13/02/1976
Without Father
Character:
Release Date:07/01/1976
Afonya
Character:Афанасий Николаевич Борщов (Афоня), слесарь-сантехник
Release Date:01/01/1976
The Flight of Mr. McKinley
Character:мистер Дроот
Release Date:15/12/1975
It Can't Be!
Character:Владимир Завитушкин
Release Date:23/10/1975
Repeated Wedding
Character:Михайлов
Release Date:25/03/1975
Lev Gurych Sinichkin
Character:князь Ветренский
Release Date:30/12/1974
Kysh and TwoBriefcases
Character:папа Алёши, Дмитрий Эдуардович
Release Date:16/12/1974
Northern Rhapsody
Character:
Release Date:04/11/1974
Homeboy
Character:Fedor
Release Date:28/10/1974
My Friends
Character:
Release Date:07/10/1974
To Dream and to Live
Character:Иван Григорьевич, механизатор-тракторист, режиссёр
Release Date:01/04/1974
This Merry Planet
Character:Игрек - член экипажа летающей тарелки
Release Date:31/12/1973
Nylon 100%
Character:работник скупки Веня Гурьянов
Release Date:17/12/1973
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
Character:Жорж Милославский / князь Милославский
Release Date:17/09/1973
Life and Amazing Aventures of Robinson Crusoe
Character:Робинзон (озв. А. Консовский)
Release Date:03/09/1973
Black Gloves
Character:
Release Date:01/07/1973
Pyotr Ryabinkin
Character:
Release Date:16/04/1973
The Twelve Months
Character:Old soldier
Release Date:01/01/1973
Aibolit and Barmaley
Character:Толстый
Release Date:01/01/1973
Boys
Character:Viktor Viktorovich
Release Date:02/10/1972
White Queen's Move
Character:Тюликов, тренер Бабуриной
Release Date:24/04/1972
Seventh Skies
Character:
Release Date:20/03/1972
Take Your Time
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1972
Liberation: The Last Assault
Character:Chuikov's signaler
Release Date:05/11/1971
The Seven Brides of Lance-Corporal Zbruyev
Character:Priest
Release Date:17/05/1971
Young People
Character:new settler
Release Date:26/03/1971
Late Child
Character:
Release Date:11/02/1971
The Roundabout
Character:Nikolai Timofeyevich
Release Date:01/01/1971
The Beginning
Character:Arkadiy
Release Date:12/10/1970
About Friends and Comrades
Character:
Release Date:16/06/1970
The Ballad of Bering and His Friends
Character:
Release Date:06/06/1970
A Day and the Whole Life
Character:
Release Date:25/05/1970
Two Days of Wonders
Character:зав. терапевическим отделением Мурашев Вадим Леонидович
Release Date:15/01/1970
I Am His Bride
Character:
Release Date:10/11/1969
Not Under the Jurisdiction
Character:Sorokin
Release Date:25/08/1969
Love of Serafim Frolov
Character:Serafim Frolov
Release Date:08/06/1969
Shine, Shine, My Star
Character:Red comissar
Release Date:06/06/1969
Crash
Character:Сыроежкин
Release Date:26/05/1969
Men's Talk
Character:Alexey
Release Date:17/02/1969
The Golden Calf
Character:Shura Balaganov
Release Date:08/07/1968
Literature Lesson
Character:Савелий Сидоров
Release Date:01/01/1968
Viy
Character:Khoma Brut
Release Date:27/11/1967
Such a Big Boy
Character:Vasiliy
Release Date:22/06/1967
Elder Sister
Character:Volodya
Release Date:06/03/1967
Without Witnesses
Character:Burmakin
Release Date:04/07/1966
Your Son and Brother
Character:Степан Воеводин, средний сын
Release Date:18/04/1966
There Is Such a Lad
Character:Пашка Колокольников, шофёр
Release Date:04/01/1966
Time, Forward!
Character:Korneyev
Release Date:21/11/1965
Everything for You
Character:
Release Date:14/06/1965
An Unrealistic Story
Character:Kostya Remizov
Release Date:04/12/1964
Third Time
Character:Lyonya Fokin
Release Date:11/04/1963
Крыса на подносе
Character:
Release Date:08/03/1963
When the Trees Were Tall
Character:Lenka
Release Date:25/12/1961
Lyubushka
Character:
Release Date:09/08/1961
Machinist Drove the Trains
Character:Yasha
Release Date:01/01/1961
Midshipman Panin
Character:Пётр Камушкин
Release Date:23/05/1960
Reports from Lebyazhye
Character:Сеня Громов
Release Date:03/02/1960
There Will Be No Leave Today
Character:Morozov
Release Date:09/05/1959
Television Appearances
The Turkish Gambit
Character:Artillery major
Мастер и Маргарита
Character:
Evropeyskiy konvoy
Character:General
Brigada
Character:Петр Чуйков
Memories of Sherlock Holmes
Character:Von Bork
Streets of Broken Lights
Character:Ершов - «Дед»
Entrance to the Maze
Character:Oleg Khlebnikov - doktor neyrofiziolog
Life of Don Quichote and Sancho
Character:Nicolás
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins
Character:von Bork
TASS Is Authorized to Declare...
Character:Андрей Андреевич Зотов, инженер-корабел
The Trust That Has Burst
Character:
Look for a Woman
Character:Henri Granden
Little Tragedies
Character:
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
Character:Von Bork
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
Character:«Копчёный» (вор-чердачник Валентин Бисяев)
Seventeen Moments of Spring
Character:Kurt Eismann - SS Obersturmbannfuehrer
The Twelve Months
Character:Старый солдат
Investigation Held by ZnaToKi
Character:Иван Малахов - кладовщик
Fuse
Character:
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