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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


Aliases
  • Leonid Viatcheslavovitch Kouravliov
  • Leonid Kuravlyov
English русский язык français עברית
  • Born In Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
  • Born October 8, 1936
  • Died January 30, 2022
  • Gender Male
  • On Other Sites IMDB TheMovieDB.com
  • Race White or Caucasian (Non-Hispanic)
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Мичман Панин

1960
as Pyotr Kamushkin

Крах

1969
as Syroyezhkin

Не было печали

1983
as Vadim Petrovich Potapov

Русский счёт

1994
as Иван Сидоров, майор

Весь этот джем

2016
as Father Leonty

The Stringer

1998
as Mityagin

Всё для вас

1965
as Yuriy Grebeshkov

Любушка

1961
as Aleksandr Ivanovich

Little Tragedies

1980
as Адриан Прохоров / Лепорелло / слуга Дон Гуана

Ты — мне, я — тебе

1977
as Ivan Kashkin / Sergei Kashkin

Мартынко

1987
as Martynko

Третий тайм

1963
as Lonya Fokin

Опасно для жизни!

1985
as Spartak Molodtsov

Сделано в СССР

1991
as Ivan Moyseyevich

Как живете, караси?

as Samoye vysokoye nachal'stvo

Guest Star

Episode Приключения Шерлока Холмса и доктора Ватсона
Двадцатый век начинается. 2-я серия
1986
Episode Семнадцать мгновений весны
25 лет спустя. Часть 1
1998
Episode Семнадцать мгновений весны
25 лет спустя. Часть 2
1998
Episode Приключения Шерлока Холмса и доктора Ватсона
Двадцатый век начинается. 1-я серия
1986