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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Acted in
Wings of Desire
1987
as Homer
Kir Royal
1986
as Friedrich Danziger
Detektivbüro Roth
1986
as Robert Maschenberg
Kleine Stadt, ich liebe dich
1985
as Theo Kleber
War was, Rickie?
1985
as Onkel Erwin
Haus Vaterland
1983
Gedächtnis: Ein Film für Curt Bois und Bernhard Minetti
1982
as Self
Gesucht wird... Drei Geschichten um nicht ganz ehrenwerte Herren
1981
Flächenbrand
1981
as Bühler
The Boat Is Full
1981
as Lazar Ostrowskij
Der Mond scheint auf Kylenamoe
1981
Der Schützling
1981
Bühne frei für Kolowitz
1980
as Benjamin Weiß
Wochenendgeschichten
1980
Die Alten kommen
1980
Liebe, Tod und Heringshäppchen
1979
as Friedrich Schlick
Das Idol von Mordassow
1979
as Fürst
Der Alte
1977
as Herr Nathan
Der Alte
1977
as Karl Brunner
Das Rentenspiel
1977
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
1975
as Self (archive footage)
Strychnin und saure Drops
1974
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
1973
as Self
Der trojanische Sessel
1971
as Franz Seider
Der Pott
1971
as Simon Norton
Amerika oder der Verschollene
1969
as Vater
Der Kommissar
1969
as Vater Klinger
Der Kommissar
1969
as Ohlers
Die hundertste Nacht
1966
as Iwakichi
Ganovenehre
1966
as Seiden-Emil
Der eingebildete Kranke
1964
as Argan
The Haunted Castle
1960
as Hugo
Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti
1960
as Johannes Puntila
Androcles and the Lion
1958
Der Stern von Afrika
1957
Deutscher Filmpreis
1951
as Self
Fortunes of Captain Blood
1950
as King Charles II
Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey
1950
as Pierre
The Great Sinner
1949
as Jeweler / Money Lender
A Kiss in the Dark
1949
as Hugo Schloss
Caught
1949
as Franzi Kartos
The Woman in White
1948
as Louis
French Leave
1948
as Marcel
Arch of Triumph
1948
as Tattooed Waiter
The Woman from Tangier
1948
as Parquit
Jungle Flight
1947
as Pepe
Saratoga Trunk
1945
as Augustin Haussy
The Spanish Main
1945
as Paree
Blonde Fever
1944
as Brillon
Gypsy Wildcat
1944
as Valdi
Cover Girl
1944
as Chef at Danny McGuire's
The Desert Song
1943
as François
Swing Fever
1943
as Nick Sirocco
Princess O'Rourke
1943
as Count Peter de Candome
Paris After Dark
1943
as Max
Destroyer
1943
as Swab with large nose
Casablanca
1943
as Pickpocket
Pacific Rendezvous
1942
as Kestrin
The Tuttles of Tahiti
1942
as Jensen
Blue, White, and Perfect
1942
as Friedrich Gerber, alias Nappy Dubois
Hold Back the Dawn
1941
as Bonbois
That Night in Rio
1941
as Felicio Salles
The Eternal Jew
1940
as Self (archive footage)
Bitter Sweet
1940
as Ernst
Hullabaloo
1940
as Armand Francois
He Stayed for Breakfast
1940
as Comrade Tronavich
Boom Town
1940
as Ferdie the Tailor
The Lady in Question
1940
as Henri Lurette
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939
as Student
Hotel Imperial
1939
as Anton
The Great Waltz
1938
as Kienzl
Garden of the Moon
1938
as Maharajah of Sund
Boy Meets Girl
1938
as Dance Director
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1938
as Rabbit
Gold Diggers in Paris
1938
as Padrinsky
Romance in the Dark
1938
as Von Hemisch
Hollywood Hotel
1938
as Butch, Dress Designer
Tovarich
1937
as Alfonso
Scherben bringen Glück
1932
A Tremendously Rich Man
1932
as Curt Nickel
The Schlemihl
1931
as Hartwig
Anschluß um Mitternacht
1929
as Emil
His Majesty the Barber
1928
The Masked Mannequin
1927
as Egun Fürst
Gräfin Plättmamsell
1926
Der Jüngling aus der Konfektion
1926
as Moritz Spiegel
The Golden Butterfly
1926
Wehe wenn sie losgelassen
1926
as Ali ben Mokka
She and the Three
1922
as Der Hilfsregisseur
The Oyster Princess
1919
as Conductor (as Kurt Bois)
Der Dieb
1918
Die Spinne
1917
The Indian's Gift
1914
as Kind
The Minister's Daughter
1913
as Young Hans
Ein neuer Erwerbszweig
1912
Klebolin Sticks to Everything
1909
Mother Love
1909