Curt Bois

Birthday:

04/05/1901

Place of birth:

Berlin, Germany:

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.    



Credits

Wings of Desire (1987)
Homer
Haus Vaterland (1983)
Gedächtnis: Ein Film für Curt Bois und Bernhard Minetti (1982)
Self
Gesucht wird... Drei Geschichten um nicht ganz ehrenwerte Herren (1981)
Flächenbrand (1981)
Bühler
The Boat Is Full (1981)
Lazar Ostrowskij
Der Mond scheint auf Kylenamoe (1981)
Der Schützling (1981)
Bühne frei für Kolowitz (1980)
Benjamin Weiß
Wochenendgeschichten (1980)
Die Alten kommen (1980)
Liebe, Tod und Heringshäppchen (1979)
Friedrich Schlick
Das Idol von Mordassow (1979)
Fürst
Das Rentenspiel (1977)
Strychnin und saure Drops (1974)
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt (1973)
Self
Der trojanische Sessel (1971)
Franz Seider
Der Pott (1971)
Simon Norton
Amerika oder der Verschollene (1969)
Vater
Die hundertste Nacht (1966)
Iwakichi
Ganovenehre (1966)
Seiden-Emil
Der eingebildete Kranke (1964)
Argan
The Haunted Castle (1960)
Hugo
Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti (1960)
Johannes Puntila
Androcles and the Lion (1958)
Der Stern von Afrika (1957)
Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950)
King Charles II
Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey (1950)
Pierre
The Great Sinner (1949)
Jeweler / Money Lender
A Kiss in the Dark (1949)
Hugo Schloss
Caught (1949)
Franzi Kartos
The Woman in White (1948)
Louis
French Leave (1948)
Marcel
Arch of Triumph (1948)
Tattooed Waiter
The Woman from Tangier (1948)
Parquit
Jungle Flight (1947)
Pepe
Saratoga Trunk (1945)
Augustin Haussy
The Spanish Main (1945)
Paree
Blonde Fever (1944)
Brillon
Gypsy Wildcat (1944)
Valdi
Cover Girl (1944)
Chef at Danny McGuire's
The Desert Song (1943)
François
Swing Fever (1943)
Nick Sirocco
Princess O'Rourke (1943)
Count Peter de Candome
Paris After Dark (1943)
Max
Destroyer (1943)
Swab with large nose
Casablanca (1943)
Pickpocket
Pacific Rendezvous (1942)
Kestrin
The Tuttles of Tahiti (1942)
Jensen
Blue, White, and Perfect (1942)
Friedrich Gerber, alias Nappy Dubois
Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
Bonbois
That Night in Rio (1941)
Felicio Salles
The Eternal Jew (1940)
Himself (archive footage)
Bitter Sweet (1940)
Ernst
Hullabaloo (1940)
Armand Francois
He Stayed for Breakfast (1940)
Comrade Tronavich
Boom Town (1940)
Ferdie the Tailor
The Lady in Question (1940)
Henri Lurette
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Student
Hotel Imperial (1939)
Anton
The Great Waltz (1938)
Kienzl
Garden of the Moon (1938)
Maharajah of Sund
Boy Meets Girl (1938)
Dance Director
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
Rabbit
Gold Diggers in Paris (1938)
Padrinsky
Romance in the Dark (1938)
Von Hemisch
Hollywood Hotel (1938)
Butch, Dress Designer
Tovarich (1937)
Alfonso
Scherben bringen Glück (1932)
A Tremendously Rich Man (1932)
Curt Nickel
The Schlemihl (1931)
Hartwig
Anschluß um Mitternacht (1929)
Emil
His Majesty the Barber (1928)
The Masked Mannequin (1927)
Egun Fürst
Gräfin Plättmamsell (1926)
Der Jüngling aus der Konfektion (1926)
Moritz Spiegel
The Golden Butterfly (1926)
Wehe wenn sie losgelassen (1926)
Ali ben Mokka
She and the Three (1922)
Der Hilfsregisseur
The Oyster Princess (1919)
Conductor (as Kurt Bois)
Der Dieb (1918)
Die Spinne (1917)
The Indian's Gift (1914)
Kind
The Minister's Daughter (1913)
Young Hans
Ein neuer Erwerbszweig (1912)
Klebolin Sticks to Everything (1909)
Mother Love (1909)
Faraway, So Close! (1993)
In Memory Of
Ein Polterabend (1955)
Director
Ein Polterabend (1955)
Screenplay
Scherben bringen Glück (1932)
Director
Scherben bringen Glück (1932)
Writer