
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.
Filmografi
Casablanca1943 · Pickpocket
Wings of Desire1987 · Homer
Boom Town1940 · Ferdie the Tailor
The Hunchback of Notre Dame1939 · Student
Caught1949 · Franzi Kartos
Swing Fever1943 · Nick Sirocco
Flächenbrand1981 · Bühler
Cover Girl1944 · Chef at Danny McGuire's
Fortunes of Captain Blood1950 · King Charles II
The Roaring Fifties1983 ·
The Eternal Jew1940 · Self (archive footage)
The Haunted Castle1960 · Hugo
The Oyster Princess1919 · Conductor (as Kurt Bois)
Ganovenehre1966 · Seiden-Emil
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse1938 · Rabbit
The Schlemihl1931 · Hartwig
Princess O'Rourke1943 · Count Peter de Candome
The Fugitive Lover1927 · Simche Regierer
Hold Back the Dawn1941 · Bonbois
A Tremendously Rich Man1932 · Curt Nickel
The Spider1917 ·
Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti1960 · Johannes Puntila
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