Leonid Kuravlev

Aktor film Soviet dan Rusia. Ia menjadi Artis Rakyat RSFSR pada tahun 1976. Kuravlyov lahir di Moskow dari keluarga kelas pekerja. Ayahnya Vyacheslav Yakovlevich Kuravlyov (1909–1979) bekerja sebagai tukang kunci di Asosiasi Pembuatan Mesin Salyut dan ibunya Valentina Dmitriyevna Kuravlyova (1916–1993) adalah seorang penata rambut. Pada tahun 1941 dengan dimulainya invasi Nazi ke Uni Soviet (dikenal di Rusia sebagai Perang Patriotik Hebat) ibunya ditangkap atas laporan palsu, dituduh melakukan kegiatan kontra-revolusioner (Pasal 58) dan diasingkan ke Karaganda, SSR Kazakh untuk bekerja di pabrik lokal. Dalam lima tahun dia dibebaskan tanpa hak untuk tinggal di Moskow dan dikirim ke Zasheyek, Oblast Murmansk di ujung utara Rusia di mana dia terus bekerja sebagai penata rambut. Pada tahun 1948 ia berhasil mendapatkan izin untuk menemui putranya yang menghabiskan satu tahun bersamanya di Zasheyek, dan pada tahun 1951 ia akhirnya kembali ke Moskow. Pada tahun 1955 Kuravlyov masuk VGIK untuk belajar akting di bawah bimbingan Boris Bibikov. Ia lulus pada tahun 1960 dan bergabung dengan Studio Teater Aktor Film. Dia membuat penampilan film pertamanya saat masih menjadi mahasiswa. Pada tahun 1960 ia dicatat oleh Vasily Shukshin dan mengambil bagian dalam film diplomanya Dilaporkan Dari Lebyazhye. Pada tahun 1961 mereka berdua membintangi melodrama populer When the Trees Were Tall, dan pada tahun 1964 Shukshin memberinya peran utama dalam film komedi There Is Such a Lad yang membawa ketenaran sejati Kuravlyov dan yang ia anggap sebagai awal karir filmnya yang sukses. Dia juga berakting dalam Your Son and Brother (1965) dan merasa sangat bersyukur atas apa yang dilakukan sutradara untuknya sehingga dia kemudian menamai putranya dengan nama Shukshin. Peran Shura Balaganov dalam komedi Mikhail Schweitzer The Little Golden Calf berdasarkan buku karya Ilf dan Petrov adalah salah satu peran pertamanya yang sukses: ia berhasil menciptakan citra pencuri kecil yang kurang ajar namun menawan. Peran penting lainnya pada periode itu termasuk Khoma Brut dalam salah satu film horor Soviet pertama Viy (1967), antagonis Sorokin dalam melodrama psikologis Not Under the Jurisdiction (1969), Robinson Crusoe dalam Life and Amazing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe karya Stanislav Govorukhin (1972), seorang perwira Nazi Kurt Eismann dalam Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973) dan Lavr Mironovich dalam Pyotr Korban Terakhir Todorovsky (1975). Pada tahun 1970-an ia tampil dalam tiga hingga empat film per tahun. Meskipun Kuravlyov mahir memainkan peran dramatis yang serius, ia masih terkenal karena peran utamanya dalam film komedi terlaris seperti Afonya (1975) karya Georgiy Daneliya (film Soviet terlaris ke-11, film terlaris tertinggi tahun ini, 62,2 juta penonton), Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future karya Leonid Gaidai (1973, film terlaris ke-17, 60 juta pemirsa) dan Itu Tidak Mungkin! (1975, film terlaris ke-46 dengan 46,9 juta penonton), The Most Charming and Attractive (1985) oleh Gerald Bezhanov (film terlaris tahun 1985, 44,9 juta penonton) dan lain-lain. Pada akhir 1990-an ia menjadi pembawa acara program TV populer Dunia Buku bersama Leonid Kuravlyov di mana ia berbicara tentang peluncuran buku baru. Dalam dua tahun itu ditutup dan kemudian diluncurkan kembali dengan host baru. Pada tahun 2012 ia dianugerahi Ordo Kelas IV “Untuk Merit ke Tanah Air”. Dari Wikipedia, ensiklopedia gratis

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