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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as Self(1 ep)
as father Leonty
as Nikanor Ivanovich Bosoy
as Barin
as глава администрации
as Artillery major(4 eps)
as Никанор Иванович Босой(4 eps)
as major
as General(4 eps)
as Petrovich
as Петр Чуйков(15 eps)
as Von Bork(13 eps)
as Leonid
as Vakhmistr Bukin
as Ершов - «Дед»(78 eps)
as Жорж Милославский
as Ded Moroz
as рабочий-плотник(1 ep)
as Жорж Милославский(1 ep)
as Grigoriy Muromskiy
as USA ambassador
as Иван Сидоров, майор
as Сеня
as Лео Харман
as (voice)
as Mikhail Gorbachev
as руководитель круиза
as Sobakin
as Ivan Moiseyevich
as Шнайдер
as High-Ranking Official
as хозяин
as Oleg Khlebnikov
as Oleg Khlebnikov - doktor neyrofiziolog(2 eps)
as Priest
as Игорь Иванович Степанов
as заведующий тиром Александр Лукьянович Калабушкин
as Vasilisk Borodavkin
as дядя Миша
as Bondarev - nachalnik poezda
as Stepan
as Аристарх Петрович Кузькин
as Nicolás(9 eps)
as Михаил Иванович Сошкин
as Karpusha (voice)
as Виктор Павлович Демидов, отец Ивана(2 eps)
as Федор Семенович
as Count
as Von Bork
as Fedor Romanov
as Martinko (voice)
as Kороль Амфибрахий
as император Александр Павлович
as Konstantin
as Леонид Каретников (свидетель)
as Dyatlov
as Emtsov
as Spartak Molodtsov
as Marvel
as Андрей Андреевич Зотов, инженер-корабел(10 eps)
as Ларсен
as Badarin
as Menshikov
as Samsonov
as Vadim Petrovich Potapov
as Ezra Plunkett
as Vladimir Rodionov
as Ivan Shponka
as Henri Granden(2 eps)
as Henri Granden
as Ruslan Ivanovich
as Vasiliy
as Grinin
as Sanya
as Lyonya Shindin
as Лёня Шиндин, главный диспетчер СМУ(2 eps)
as Валера
as Adrian Prokhorov(1 ep)
as Leporello(2 eps)
as Von Bork(1 ep)
as Peasant
as Толик
as "Smoked"
as «Копчёный» (вор-чердачник Валентин Бисяев)(5 eps)
as Volodya
as Валерий Солома, аферист
as Митяй Пряжкин
as Pavlov
as Denis Grigoriev
as Shpekin
as Чаплыгин (зооинспектор)
as Trenka, apprentice (voice)
as Михаил (новелла «Мы едем, едем, едем...»)
as Ivan Kashkin / Sergei Kashkin
as Professor Khachikyan
as Yefremov
as Kesha
as Lavr Mironych
as Пташук Геннадий Иванович («Что наша жизнь?! Или что наша жизнь?!»)
as Grisha
as Vladimir Zavitushkin
as Afonya
as Иван Григорьевич, механизатор-тракторист, режиссёр
as Михайлов
as князь Ветренский
as папа Алёши, Дмитрий Эдуардович
as Fedor
as Игрек - член экипажа летающей тарелки
as работник скупки Веня Гурьянов
as Zhorzh Miloslavsky / knyaz Miloslavsky
as Kurt Eismann - SS Obersturmbannfuehrer(5 eps)
as Old soldier
as Толстый
as Старый солдат(2 eps)
as Viktor Viktorovich
as Тюликов, тренер Бабуриной
as Signaler Sent to Hitler's Bunker
as new settler
as Иван Малахов - кладовщик(1 ep)
as Nikolai Timofeyevich
as Arkadiy
as зав. терапевическим отделением Мурашев Вадим Леонидович
as Sorokin
as Serafim Frolov
as Red comissar
as Сыроежкин
as Alexey
as Shura Balaganov
as Савелий Сидоров
as Khoma Brut
as Vasiliy
as Volodya
as Burmakin
as Степан Воеводин, средний сын
as Korneev
as Kostya Remizov
as Пашка Колокольников, шофёр
as Lyonya Fokin
as Lenka
as Yasha
as Kamushkin
as Сеня Громов
as Morozov
