Curt Bois
Actor
- Born
- April 5, 1901 · Berlin, Germany
- Died
- December 25, 1991 (age 90)
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').
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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
Casablanca
January 15, 1943
Wings of Desire
September 23, 1987
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
August 31, 1939
Caught
February 17, 1949
Cover Girl
March 22, 1944
The Oyster Princess
June 26, 1919
Boom Town
August 30, 1940
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
July 20, 1938
The Eternal Jew
November 28, 1940
Hold Back the Dawn
September 26, 1941
Arch of Triumph
February 17, 1948
The Spanish Main
October 1, 1945
Acting90
- 1987Wings of Desire as Homer
- 1983Haus Vaterland
- 1983The Roaring Fifties
- 1982Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois as Self
- 1981Gesucht wird... Drei Geschichten um nicht ganz ehrenwerte Herren
- 1981Flächenbrand as Bühler
- 1981The Boat Is Full as Lazar Ostrowskij
- 1981Der Schützling
- 1980Der Mond scheint auf Kylenamoe
- 1980Bühne frei für Kolowitz as Benjamin Weiß
- 1980