Curt Bois
Acting
- Born:
- 1901-04-05
- Died:
- 1991-12-25
- Place of birth:
- Berlin, Germany
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
Wings of Desire
Kir Royal
Detektivbüro Roth
Kleine Stadt, ich liebe dich
War was, Rickie?
Haus Vaterland
The Roaring Fifties
Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois
Gesucht wird... Drei Geschichten um nicht ganz ehrenwerte Herren
Flächenbrand
The Boat Is Full
Der Schützling
Der Mond scheint auf Kylenamoe
Bühne frei für Kolowitz
Wochenendgeschichten
Die Alten kommen
Liebe, Tod und Heringshäppchen
Das Idol von Mordassow
NDR Talk Show
The Old Fox
Das Rentenspiel
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
Strychnin und saure Drops
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
Der trojanische Sessel
Der Pott
Amerika oder der Verschollene
The Commissioner
Die hundertste Nacht
Ganovenehre
Der eingebildete Kranke
The Haunted Castle
Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti
Androcles and the Lion
Aktuelle Schaubude
The Star of Africa
German Film Award
Fortunes of Captain Blood
Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey
The Great Sinner
The Lovable Cheat
A Kiss in the Dark
Caught
The Woman in White
French Leave
Arch of Triumph
The Woman from Tangier
Jungle Flight
Saratoga Trunk
The Spanish Main
Blonde Fever
Gypsy Wildcat
Cover Girl
The Desert Song
Swing Fever
Princess O'Rourke
Paris After Dark
Destroyer
Casablanca
Pacific Rendezvous
The Tuttles of Tahiti
Blue, White and Perfect
Hold Back the Dawn
That Night in Rio
The Eternal Jew
Bitter Sweet
Hullabaloo
He Stayed for Breakfast
Boom Town
The Lady in Question
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hotel Imperial
The Great Waltz
Garden of the Moon
Boy Meets Girl
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Gold Diggers in Paris
Romance in the Dark
Hollywood Hotel
Tovarich
Scherben bringen Glück
A Tremendously Rich Man
The Schlemihl
Anschluß um Mitternacht
His Majesty the Barber
The Fugitive Lover
The Masked Mannequin
Gräfin Plättmamsell
Der Jüngling aus der Konfektion
The Golden Butterfly
Wehe wenn sie losgelassen
She and the Three
The Oyster Princess
Der Dieb
The Spider
The Indian's Gift
The Minister's Daughter
Ein neuer Erwerbszweig
Klebolin Sticks to Everything
Mother Love