Curt Bois
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
Homer
Der Himmel über Berlin
Pickpocket
Casablanca
Chef at Danny McGuire's
Cover Girl
Student
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
King Charles II
Fortunes of Captain Blood
Self
Gedächtnis: Ein Film für Curt Bois und Bernhard Minetti
Tattooed Waiter
Arch of Triumph
Lazar Ostrowskij
Das Boot ist voll
Rabbit
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Louis
The Woman in White
Franzi Kartos
Caught
Butch, Dress Designer
Hollywood Hotel
Conductor (as Kurt Bois)
Die Austernprinzessin
Hugo
Das Spukschloss im Spessart
Bonbois
Hold Back the Dawn
Henri Lurette
The Lady in Question
Paree
The Spanish Main
Padrinsky
Gold Diggers in Paris
Jensen
The Tuttles of Tahiti
François
The Desert Song
Nick Sirocco
Swing Fever
Hugo Schloss
A Kiss in the Dark
Pepe
Jungle Flight
Max
Paris After Dark
Anton
Hotel Imperial
Klebolin klebt alles
Felicio Salles
That Night in Rio
Der Dieb
Ernst
Bitter Sweet
Seiden-Emil
Ganovenehre
Ferdie the Tailor
Boom Town
Simon Norton
Der Pott
Androklus und der Löwe
Alfonso
Tovarich
Kienzl
The Great Waltz
Bühler
Flächenbrand
Johannes Puntila
Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti
Die Alten kommen
Benjamin Weiß
Bühne frei für Kolowitz
Der Mond scheint auf Kylenamoe
Vater
Amerika oder der Verschollene
Curt Nickel
Ein steinreicher Mann
Franz Seider
Der trojanische Sessel
Dance Director
Boy Meets Girl
Maharajah of Sund
Garden of the Moon
Ein neuer Erwerbszweig
Friedrich Schlick
Liebe, Tod und Heringshäppchen
Der Schützling
Das Rentenspiel
Friedrich Gerber, alias Nappy Dubois
Blue, White, and Perfect
Der goldene Schmetterling
Iwakichi
Die hundertste Nacht
Self (archive footage)
Der ewige Jude
Argan
Der eingebildete Kranke
Scherben bringen Glück
Augustin Haussy
Saratoga Trunk
Armand Francois
Hullabaloo
Comrade Tronavich
He Stayed for Breakfast
Brillon
Blonde Fever
Kind
Das Geschenk des Inders
Mutterliebe
Young Hans
Des Pfarrers Töchterlein
Gesucht wird... Drei Geschichten um nicht ganz ehrenwerte Herren
Wochenendgeschichten
Der Hilfsregisseur
Sie und die Drei
Fürst
Das Idol von Mordassow
Strychnin und saure Drops
Majestät schneidet Bubiköpfe
Moritz Spiegel
Der Jüngling aus der Konfektion
Der Stern von Afrika
Ali ben Mokka
Wehe wenn sie losgelassen
Valdi
Gypsy Wildcat
Egun Fürst
Der Fürst von Pappenheim
Von Hemisch
Romance in the Dark
Jeweler / Money Lender
The Great Sinner
Parquit
The Woman from Tangier
Haus Vaterland
Swab with large nose
Destroyer
Count Peter de Candome
Princess O'Rourke
Gräfin Plättmamsell
Emil
Anschluß um Mitternacht
Kestrin
Pacific Rendezvous
Self
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
Pierre
Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey
Hartwig
Der Schlemihl
Die Spinne
Marcel
French Leave
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
87
Gender
Male
Birthday
1901-04-05
Place of Birth
Berlin, Germany
Also Known As
Курт Буа