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
185 movies · 23 shows
All That Jam
2016·1.0
Георгий Данелия. Великий обманщик
2015·0.0
The Master and Margarita
2011·5.5
The Book of Masters
2009·4.4
The Heirs
2008·3.0
The Turkish Gambit
2005·6.3
The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga
2004·0.5
Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun
2004·0.0
Railway Romance
2003·6.8
Esli Nevesta Vedma
2002·6.2
The Love Arrow
2002·0.0
Ultimatum
1999·10.0
The Barber of Siberia
1998·7.0
The Stringer
1998·4.7
Old Songs About the Main Thing 3
1998·5.5
New Year's Story
1997·0.0
Old Songs about the Main Thing 2
1997·5.4
The Night Before Christmas
1997·7.0
A Man for a Young Girl
1996·7.0
Lady Into Lassie
1995·5.3
What a Mess!
1995·6.6
Russian Account
1994·5.7
Simple - Minded
1994·5.0
A Show for a Single Man
1994·0.0
Russian Miracle
1994·5.2
Sentence
1994·0.0
The Ghost of My House
1994·5.5
The Codex of Disgrace
1993·5.0
Scandal in our Kloshgorod
1993·0.0
Territory
1993·0.0
Chuffyk
1993·0.0
There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach
1993·5.9
Queen's Personal Life
1993·3.8
The Devil's Puppets
1993·8.0
Provincial Benefit
1993·7.0
Destroy the Thirtieth!
1992·5.5
Why Would an Honest Man Need an Alibi?
1992·0.0
In Search of the Golden Phallus
1992·8.0
Gangsters in the Ocean
1992·8.7
Detonator
1992·5.5
KGB Agents Also Fall in Love
1991·2.8
Traces of Rain
1991·9.0
Made in USSR
1991·6.1
Across Red Nights
1991·9.0
Meet Me in Tahiti
1991·6.0
How Is It Going, Crucians?
1991·9.0
Shadows
1991·0.0
Nesrochnaya vesna
1990·3.7
Pretty Face
1990·6.0
Entrance to Labyrinth
1990·4.7
The Enchanted Wanderer
1990·6.7
Spanish Actress for Russian Minister
1990·6.8
The Suicide
1990·6.5
Ono
1989·5.3
The Stairway
1989·3.9
Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation
1989·5.7
Presumption of Innocence
1988·5.4
Hope
1988·6.3
Energetic People
1988·0.0
Three on the Red Carpet
1988·0.0
May I Die, Lord...
1988·0.0
Karpusha
1988·0.0
Enclosure
1988·5.5
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 2
1988·7.3
Blackmailer
1988·8.0
Restricted Area
1988·0.0
Holy Moly!
1988·6.4
First Encounter - Last Encounter
1987·5.5
Defeat
1987·0.0
Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century
1987·7.2
One Time Deal
1987·6.6
Martinko
1987·7.0
Sitting on the Golden Porch
1986·5.9
The Left-Hander
1986·5.9
Snake Catcher
1986·4.4
Five Minutes of Fear
1986·7.4
The Most Charming and Attractive
1985·7.0
Sincerely Yours...
1985·5.0
Dangerous for Your Life!
1985·6.7
The Invisible Man
1985·5.4
Through All the Years
1985·7.0
Copper Angel
1984·6.0
Before We Part
1984·6.0
Chekhov's Vaudevilles
1984·0.0
Vitya Glushakov - A Friend of the Apaches
1983·6.3
Demidovy
1983·7.2
We're from Jazz
1983·6.8
There Was No Sorrow
1983·9.0
The Trust That Has Burst
1983·6.4
Take Care of the Men!
1983·4.3
The Wedding Gift
1983·5.5
Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants
1983·7.2
Look for a Woman
1982·7.3
It's Just Awful!
1982·8.0
Crazy Money
1981·5.3
Facts of the Past Day
1981·9.0
Heirloom
1981·0.0
Ladies Invite Gentlemen
1981·6.0
We, the Undersigned
1981·5.9
Don't Leave Your Lovers
1980·6.2
Little Tragedies
1980·5.8
For the Matches
1980·6.3
Next of Kin
1980·6.7
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
1979·8.1
Fuss of the Fusses
1979·6.1
Foam
1979·5.4
Tailcoat for an Idler
1979·7.0
Live in Joy
1979·5.4
Unanswered Love
1979·6.7
Funny People!
1978·6.0
Incognito from St.Petersburg
1978·6.0
While the Dream is Mad
1978·4.8
Счёт человеческий
1978·7.3
The Rain
1978·0.0
Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...
1978·6.4
A Dog Was Walking on the Piano
1978·4.2
The Most Beautiful Horse
1977·7.0
You to Me, Me to You
1977·6.4
Mimino
1977·7.6
Timur and His Team
1977·5.9
Fun for Old People
1977·9.0
Without Father
1977·7.0
These Incredible Musicians, or Shurik's New Dreams
1977·5.8
The Last Sacrifice
1976·6.8
The Adventures of Travka
1976·9.0
Au-u!
1976·7.6
Circus in the Circus
1976·5.1
The Flight of Mr. McKinley
1975·4.4
It Can't Be!
1975·7.3
Afonya
1975·7.7
Repeated Wedding
1975·5.0
Lev Gurych Sinichkin
1974·5.2
Kysh and TwoBriefcases
1974·7.0
Northern Rhapsody
1974·10.0
Homeboy
1974·7.7
My Friends
1974·6.0
To Dream and to Live
1974·6.7
This Merry Planet
1973·5.1
Nylon 100%
1973·5.7
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
1973·7.9
Life and Amazing Aventures of Robinson Crusoe
1973·5.5
Black Gloves
1973·0.0
Pyotr Ryabinkin
1973·0.0
The Twelve Months
1973·6.5
Aibolit and Barmaley
1973·5.4
Boys
1972·0.0
White Queen's Move
1972·5.3
Seventh Skies
1972·7.0
Take Your Time
1972·0.0
Liberation - Part 4 : The Battle of Berlin
1971·6.8
Liberation - Part 5 : The Last Assault
1971·7.1
The Seven Brides of Lance-Corporal Zbruyev
1971·6.7
Young People
1971·8.5
Late Child
1971·6.0
The Roundabout
1971·5.7
The Beginning
1970·6.2
About Friends and Comrades
1970·6.0
The Ballad of Bering and His Friends
1970·5.8
A Day and the Whole Life
1970·8.0
Two Days of Wonders
1970·5.8
I Am His Bride
1969·7.0
Not Under the Jurisdiction
1969·5.8
Love of Serafim Frolov
1969·7.0
Shine, Shine, My Star
1969·5.6
Crash
1969·8.0
Men's Talk
1969·7.5
The Golden Calf
1968·8.0
Literature Lesson
1968·5.8
Viy
1967·6.9
Such a Big Boy
1967·3.7
Elder Sister
1967·5.8
Without Witnesses
1966·0.0
Your Son and Brother
1966·6.8
There Is Such a Lad
1966·6.6
Time, Forward!
1965·5.3
Everything for You
1965·7.5
An Unrealistic Story
1964·6.8
Third Time
1963·5.0
Крыса на подносе
1963·0.0
When the Trees Were Tall
1961·6.7
Lyubushka
1961·7.5
Machinist Drove the Trains
1961·6.0
Midshipman Panin
1960·5.4
Reports from Lebyazhye
1960·7.0
There Will Be No Leave Today
1959·5.8