Leonid Kuravlyov Net Worth is
$10 Million

Mini Biography

Leonid Kuravlyov produced his 1st appearance inside a film even though he was even now students. In 1959 he performed in the film Segodnya uvolneniya ne budet (1959) by his classmate Andrei Tarkovsky. In 1960, he performed the role of the sailor Kamushkin inside a historic film Michman Panin (1960) directed by Mikhail Shvejtser. Concurrently, Kuravlyov acted in Vasiliy Shukshin’s level function Iz Lebyazhego soobshchayut (1960). That same 12 months, Kuravlyov graduated from VGIK and became a member of the Theater Studio room of Film Actors. From that instant on, Leonid Kuravlyov performed several leading parts and incidental character types in a few films. In 1961, Kuravlyov starred inside a popular Soviet melodrama Kogda derevya byli bolshimi (1962) with Yuriy Nikulin playing the best part. Acting professional and film movie director Vasiliy Shukshin is known as to have already been the main one to broadly expose Leonid Kuravlyov to everyone. In 1964, he shot two movies – Zhivyot takoy paren (1964) and Vash syn i brat (1966) – both starring Leonid Kuravlyov. Vasiliy Shukshin loved Kuravlyov’s performing in both of these movies a lot that he’d constantly present him different functions in lots of of his tasks. Kuravlyov, however, rejected every one of them because he didn’t desire to play clichéd character types. The role of Shura Balaganov in Mikhail Shvejtser’s comedy The Golden Calf (1968) predicated on Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov’s eponymous book was the next phase in Leonid Kuravlyov’s acting career, where he were able to create an memorable sparkling image of a naive petty thief. Kuravlyov’s various other notable films of the period include among the initial Soviet horror films Viy (1967) version of Nikolai Gogol’s novell aimed by Georgiy Kropachyov, where he performed youthful seminarist Khoma Brutus, and a emotional melodrama Nepodsuden (1969) aimed by Vladimir Krasnopolskiy and Valeriy Uskov, where he performed the negative personality Sorokin. In the first 1970s, Leonid Kuravlyov would star in 3 to 4 motion pictures a year. He were able to play completely contrary people like Robinson Crusoe in Stanislav Govorukhin’s Robinson Crusoe (1973), Nazi official Kurt Eismann in Semnadtsat mgnoveniy vesny (1973), and Lavr Mironych in Pyotr Todorovskiy’s Poslednyaya zhertva (1976). Despite the fact that Kuravlyov is great at using serious dramatic jobs, he’s still most widely known and mainly cherished for his comic appearances in films like Leonid Gayday’s Ivan Vasilievich: Back again to the near future (1973), where Kuravlyov played a thief named George Miloslavsky, who unintentionally got teleported to the days of Ivan the Terrible. Oddly enough plenty of, Andrey Mironov also used for this part, but Leonid Gayday determined in Kuravlyov’s favour. In 1975, Leonid Kuravlyov starred in a single his most well-known comedies Afonya (1975), directed by Georgiy Daneliya. Kuravlyov performed an extremely atypical personality – a plumber called Afonya Borshchyov, who requires bribes, often enters trouble, abuses alcoholic beverages, quarrels along with his superiors at the job, and doesn’t actually know what regarding his life. And suddenly, one of is own neighborhood “feminine customers” falls deeply in love with him… About 62,2 mln. people visited observe Afonya during its 1st year on movie theater screens, rendering it an unconditional Soviet box-office head of 1975. In 1979, Leonid Kuravlyov played out a very brief role of the thief named Kopchyoniy in Stanislav Govorukhin’s cult series Mesto vstrechi izmenit nelzya (1979). The professional masterfully made an achieved and amazingly reliable image of a skilled criminal in a matter of minutes. Through the 1980s, Leonid Kuravlyov starred in several memorable movies, such as for example Damy priglashayut kavalerov (1981), Ishchite zhenshchinu (1983), Demidovy (1984), TASS upolnomochen zayavit… (1984), Samaya obayatelnaya i privlekatelnaya (1985), Priklyucheniya Sherloka Kholmsa i doktora Vatsona: Dvadtsatyy vek nachinaetsya (1986) and many more. The 1990s weren’t the very best times for the Russian cinema generally and most from the released films were mediocre and low-grade. During this time period, many actors had been forced to superstar in low-quality movies just to pay the bills, and Leonid Kuravlyov had not been an exception. Probably, his role within a film called Female Into Lassie (1995) may be the only one worthy of mentioning. In 2002 he starred in Russian mini-TV series Brigada (2002) as an MVD general. In ’09 2009 he performed the Nobleman in Disney’s initial Russian-only discharge, Kniga masterov (2009).

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