Curt Bois
Known For
Acting
Born
1901-04-05 in Berlin, Germany
Died
1991-12-25
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.
Most Known For
Der Alte
as Herr Nathan
Der Alte
as Karl Brunner
NDR Talk Show
as Self
Casablanca
as Pickpocket
German Film Award
as Self
Der Kommissar
as Ohlers
Der Kommissar
as Vater Klinger
The Schlemihl
as Hartwig
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Student
Caught
as Franzi Kartos
Aktuelle Schaubude
as Self
Swing Fever
as Nick Sirocco
Wings of Desire
as Homer
Cover Girl
as Chef at Danny McGuire's
Kir Royal
as Friedrich Danziger
Detektivbüro Roth
as Robert Maschenberg
War was, Rickie?
as Onkel Erwin
Flächenbrand
as Bühler
Der Schützling
Ganovenehre
as Seiden-Emil