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