Known For
Acting
Born
Apr 05, 1901
Died
Dec 25, 1991
Place of Birth
Berlin, Germany
Credits
100 titles
Curt Bois
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Curt Bois (April 5, 1901 – December 25, 1991) was a German actor. He is best remembered for his performance as the Pickpocket in Casablanca (1942). Bois was born in Berlin and began acting in 1907, becoming one of the film world's first child actors, with a role in the silent movie Bauernhaus und Grafenschloß. In 1909, he played the title role in Der Kleine Detektiv ('The Little Detective'). Bois' acting career spanned eighty years, a span reached by few other actors. His final performance was in 1987's Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire). Bois performed in theatre, cabaret, musicals, silent film and "talkies" over his career as an actor. In 1934, Bois was forced to leave his home for the United States, where he found work on stage on Broadway. By 1937, he had found his way to Hollywood, and began acting in American pictures, the best-known of which was Casablanca (1942), with a single speech warning about pickpockets as "vultures everywhere". After World War II Bois decided it was safe to return to Germany, which he did in 1950. He finished his life and career in Germany, first in the East, and finally in the West. Bois died in Berlin, the city of his birth, at the age of ninety. Description above from the Wikipedia article Curt Bois, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Faraway, So Close!
In Memory Of
Wings of Desire
Homer
Kir Royal
Friedrich Danziger
Detektivbüro Roth
Robert Maschenberg
Kleine Stadt, ich liebe dich
Theo Kleber
War was, Rickie?
Onkel Erwin
Haus Vaterland
Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois
Self
Gesucht wird... Drei Geschichten um nicht ganz ehrenwerte Herren
Flächenbrand
Bühler
The Boat Is Full
Lazar Ostrowskij
Der Schützling
Der Mond scheint auf Kylenamoe
Bühne frei für Kolowitz
Benjamin Weiß
Wochenendgeschichten
Die Alten kommen
Liebe, Tod und Heringshäppchen
Friedrich Schlick
Das Idol von Mordassow
Fürst
NDR Talk Show
Self
The Old Fox
Herr Nathan
Das Rentenspiel
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
Self (archive footage)
Strychnin und saure Drops
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
Self
Der trojanische Sessel
Franz Seider
Der Pott
Simon Norton
Amerika oder der Verschollene
Vater
The Commissioner
Ohlers
Die hundertste Nacht
Iwakichi
Ganovenehre
Seiden-Emil
Der eingebildete Kranke
Argan
The Haunted Castle
Hugo
Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti
Johannes Puntila
Androcles and the Lion
Aktuelle Schaubude
Self
The Star of Africa
Ein Polterabend
Director
German Film Award
Self
Fortunes of Captain Blood
King Charles II
Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey
Pierre
The Great Sinner
Jeweler / Money Lender
The Lovable Cheat
Count de la Brive
A Kiss in the Dark
Hugo Schloss
Caught
Franzi Kartos
The Woman in White
Louis
French Leave
Marcel
Arch of Triumph
Tattooed Waiter
The Woman from Tangier
Parquit
Jungle Flight
Pepe
Saratoga Trunk
Augustin Haussy