Curt Bois
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1901-04-05
Deathday 1991-12-25 (90 years old)
Place of Birth Berlin, Germany
Also Known As Курт Буа
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
Actor
as Homer
as Friedrich Danziger
as Robert Maschenberg
as Theo Kleber
as Onkel Erwin
as Bühler
as Lazar Ostrowskij
as Benjamin Weiß
as Friedrich Schlick
as Fürst
as Self
as Herr Nathan
as Karl Brunner
as Self (archive footage)
as Franz Seider
as Simon Norton
as Vater
as Ohlers
as Vater Klinger
as Iwakichi
as Seiden-Emil
as Argan
as Hugo
as Johannes Puntila
as Self
as Self
as King Charles II
as Pierre
as Jeweler / Money Lender
as Hugo Schloss
as Franzi Kartos
as Louis
as Marcel
as Tattooed Waiter
as Parquit
as Pepe
as Augustin Haussy
as Paree
as Brillon
as Valdi
as Chef at Danny McGuire's
as François
as Nick Sirocco
as Count Peter de Candome
as Max
as Swab with large nose
as Pickpocket
as Kestrin
as Jensen
as Friedrich Gerber, alias Nappy Dubois
as Bonbois
as Felicio Salles
as Self (archive footage)
as Ernst
as Armand Francois
as Comrade Tronavich
as Ferdie the Tailor
as Henri Lurette
as Student
as Anton
as Kienzl
as Maharajah of Sund
as Dance Director
as Rabbit
as Padrinsky
as Von Hemisch
as Butch, Dress Designer
as Alfonso
as Curt Nickel
as Hartwig
as Emil
as Egun Fürst
as Moritz Spiegel
as Ali ben Mokka
as Der Hilfsregisseur
as Conductor (as Kurt Bois)
as Kind
as Young Hans
Writer
as Screenplay
as Writer
Director
as Director
as Director
Crew
as In Memory Of