Curt Bois
Acting
Born April 5, 1901 · Berlin, Germany
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.
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Acting (88)
Wings of Desire
1987
Haus Vaterland
1983
Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois
1982
Gesucht wird... Drei Geschichten um nicht ganz ehrenwerte Herren
1981
Flächenbrand
1981
The Boat Is Full
1981
Der Schützling
1981
Der Mond scheint auf Kylenamoe
1980
Bühne frei für Kolowitz
1980
Wochenendgeschichten
1980
Die Alten kommen
1980
Liebe, Tod und Heringshäppchen
1979
Das Idol von Mordassow
1979
Das Rentenspiel
1977
Strychnin und saure Drops
1974
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
1973
Der trojanische Sessel
1971
Der Pott
1971
Amerika oder der Verschollene
1969
Die hundertste Nacht
1966
Ganovenehre
1966
Der eingebildete Kranke
1964
The Haunted Castle
1960
Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti
1960
Androcles and the Lion
1958
The Star of Africa
1957
Fortunes of Captain Blood
1950
Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey
1950
The Great Sinner
1949
The Lovable Cheat
1949
A Kiss in the Dark
1949
Caught
1949
The Woman in White
1948
French Leave
1948
Arch of Triumph
1948
The Woman from Tangier
1948
Jungle Flight
1947
Saratoga Trunk
1945
The Spanish Main
1945
Blonde Fever
1944
Gypsy Wildcat
1944
Cover Girl
1944
The Desert Song
1943
Swing Fever
1943
Princess O'Rourke
1943
Paris After Dark
1943
Destroyer
1943
Casablanca
1943
Pacific Rendezvous
1942
The Tuttles of Tahiti
1942
Blue, White, and Perfect
1942
Hold Back the Dawn
1941
That Night in Rio
1941
The Eternal Jew
1940
Bitter Sweet
1940
Hullabaloo
1940
He Stayed for Breakfast
1940
Boom Town
1940
The Lady in Question
1940
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939
Hotel Imperial
1939
The Great Waltz
1938
Garden of the Moon
1938
Boy Meets Girl
1938
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1938
Gold Diggers in Paris
1938
Romance in the Dark
1938
Hollywood Hotel
1938
Tovarich
1937
Scherben bringen Glück
1932
A Tremendously Rich Man
1932
The Schlemihl
1931
Anschluß um Mitternacht
1929
His Majesty the Barber
1928
The Masked Mannequin
1927
Gräfin Plättmamsell
1926
Der Jüngling aus der Konfektion
1926
The Golden Butterfly
1926
Wehe wenn sie losgelassen
1926
She and the Three
1922
The Oyster Princess
1919
Der Dieb
1918
Die Spinne
1917
The Indian's Gift
1914
The Minister's Daughter
1913
Ein neuer Erwerbszweig
1912
Klebolin Sticks to Everything
1909
Mother Love
1909