Curt Bois
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.
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Known for
Der Alte
Herr Nathan
Der Alte
Karl Brunner
German Film Award
Self
Casablanca
Pickpocket
Der Kommissar
Ohlers
Der Kommissar
Vater Klinger
Der Jüngling aus der Konfektion
Moritz Spiegel
Amerika oder der Verschollene
Vater
Androcles and the Lion
Pacific Rendezvous
Kestrin
Hollywood Hotel
Butch, Dress Designer
Paris After Dark
Max
Arch of Triumph
Tattooed Waiter
The Lady in Question
Henri Lurette
Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois
Self
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Student
Wings of Desire
Homer
The Woman from Tangier
Parquit
Der Schützling
Destroyer
Swab with large nose
Garden of the Moon
Maharajah of Sund
The Boat Is Full
Lazar Ostrowskij
Hold Back the Dawn
Bonbois
Gypsy Wildcat
Valdi
Flächenbrand
Bühler
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Rabbit
Romance in the Dark
Von Hemisch
Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey
Pierre
The Desert Song
François
Strychnin und saure Drops
He Stayed for Breakfast
Comrade Tronavich
Caught
Franzi Kartos
Cover Girl
Chef at Danny McGuire's
Swing Fever
Nick Sirocco
The Eternal Jew
Self (archive footage)
Boy Meets Girl
Dance Director
Tovarich
Alfonso
Hotel Imperial
Anton
Detektivbüro Roth
Robert Maschenberg
Bitter Sweet
Ernst
Blonde Fever
Brillon
Gesucht wird... Drei Geschichten um nicht ganz ehrenwerte Herren
A Kiss in the Dark
Hugo Schloss
Gold Diggers in Paris
Padrinsky
The Masked Mannequin
Egun Fürst
The Great Sinner
Jeweler / Money Lender
The Star of Africa
French Leave
Marcel
The Great Waltz
Kienzl
Bühne frei für Kolowitz
Benjamin Weiß
Ganovenehre
Seiden-Emil
Fortunes of Captain Blood
King Charles II
The Golden Butterfly
The Spanish Main
Paree
Princess O'Rourke
Count Peter de Candome
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
Self (archive footage)
Hullabaloo
Armand Francois
She and the Three
Der Hilfsregisseur
War was, Rickie?
Onkel Erwin
The Schlemihl
Hartwig
Wehe wenn sie losgelassen
Ali ben Mokka
Jungle Flight
Pepe
The Tuttles of Tahiti
Jensen
Kir Royal
Friedrich Danziger
The Haunted Castle
Hugo
A Tremendously Rich Man
Curt Nickel
Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti
Johannes Puntila
Die hundertste Nacht
Iwakichi
The Woman in White
Louis
Boom Town
Ferdie the Tailor
Liebe, Tod und Heringshäppchen
Friedrich Schlick
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
Self
Blue, White, and Perfect
Friedrich Gerber, alias Nappy Dubois
The Minister's Daughter
Young Hans
His Majesty the Barber
Saratoga Trunk
Augustin Haussy
That Night in Rio
Felicio Salles
Der Mond scheint auf Kylenamoe
The Oyster Princess
Conductor (as Kurt Bois)
Kleine Stadt, ich liebe dich
Theo Kleber
Die Spinne
Haus Vaterland
Die Alten kommen
Der trojanische Sessel
Franz Seider
Gräfin Plättmamsell
Der Pott
Simon Norton
The Indian's Gift
Kind
Anschluß um Mitternacht
Emil
Scherben bringen Glück
Ein neuer Erwerbszweig
Das Rentenspiel
Der eingebildete Kranke
Argan
Wochenendgeschichten
Das Idol von Mordassow
Fürst
Der Dieb
Klebolin Sticks to Everything
NDR Talk Show
Self
Mother Love
Aktuelle Schaubude
Self