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.
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Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1901-04-05
Place of birth
Berlin, Germany
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Cast
Wings of Desire
1987
7.76
Casablanca
1943
8.14
Cover Girl
1944
6.34
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939
7.30
Fortunes of Captain Blood
1950
7.10
Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois
1982
1.00
Arch of Triumph
1948
5.82
The Boat Is Full
1981
6.00
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1938
7.20
The Woman in White
1948
5.50
Caught
1949
6.55
Hollywood Hotel
1938
5.54
The Oyster Princess
1919
6.80
The Haunted Castle
1960
6.60
Hold Back the Dawn
1941
6.66
The Lady in Question
1940
6.63
The Spanish Main
1945
6.30
Gold Diggers in Paris
1938
5.70
The Tuttles of Tahiti
1942
5.50
The Desert Song
1943
5.90
Swing Fever
1943
5.00
A Kiss in the Dark
1949
4.70
Jungle Flight
1947
5.70
Paris After Dark
1943
5.60
Hotel Imperial
1939
6.00
Klebolin Sticks to Everything
1909
3.90
That Night in Rio
1941
6.33
Der Dieb
1918
0.00
Bitter Sweet
1940
5.80
Ganovenehre
1966
6.00
Boom Town
1940
6.88
Der Pott
1971
0.00
Androcles and the Lion
1958
0.00
Tovarich
1937
6.20
The Great Waltz
1938
5.40
Die Alten kommen
1980
0.00
Bühne frei für Kolowitz
1980
0.00
Der Mond scheint auf Kylenamoe
1980
0.00
Flächenbrand
1981
0.00
Amerika oder der Verschollene
1969
0.00
A Tremendously Rich Man
1932
0.00
Der trojanische Sessel
1971
0.00
Boy Meets Girl
1938
6.50
Garden of the Moon
1938
6.20
Ein neuer Erwerbszweig
1912
0.00
Liebe, Tod und Heringshäppchen
1979
0.00
Der Schützling
1981
0.00
Das Rentenspiel
1977
0.00
Blue, White, and Perfect
1942
6.30
The Golden Butterfly
1926
0.00
Die hundertste Nacht
1966
0.00
The Eternal Jew
1940
4.50
Der eingebildete Kranke
1964
0.00
Scherben bringen Glück
1932
0.00
Saratoga Trunk
1945
5.70
Hullabaloo
1940
4.00
He Stayed for Breakfast
1940
0.00
Blonde Fever
1944
3.90
The Indian's Gift
1914
0.00
Mother Love
1909
2.00
The Minister's Daughter
1913
0.00
Wochenendgeschichten
1980
0.00
She and the Three
1922
0.00
Das Idol von Mordassow
1979
0.00
Strychnin und saure Drops
1974
0.00
His Majesty the Barber
1928
6.50
Der Jüngling aus der Konfektion
1926
0.00
The Star of Africa
1957
6.35
Wehe wenn sie losgelassen
1926
0.00
Gypsy Wildcat
1944
5.50
The Masked Mannequin
1927
0.00
Romance in the Dark
1938
4.00
The Great Sinner
1949
6.62
The Woman from Tangier
1948
5.00
Haus Vaterland
1983
0.00
Destroyer
1943
6.60
Princess O'Rourke
1943
6.30
Gräfin Plättmamsell
1926
0.00
Anschluß um Mitternacht
1929
0.00
Pacific Rendezvous
1942
6.00
Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey
1950
4.00
The Schlemihl
1931
0.00
Die Spinne
1917
0.00
French Leave
1948
0.00