Curt Bois
Acting • Born 1901-04-05 – Died 1991-12-25
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.
Filmography
100 credits
Wings of Desire
Movie • 1987
Homer
Casablanca
Movie • 1943
Pickpocket
Cover Girl
Movie • 1944
Chef at Danny McGuire's
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Movie • 1939
Student
Fortunes of Captain Blood
Movie • 1950
King Charles II
Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois
Movie • 1982
Self
Arch of Triumph
Movie • 1948
Tattooed Waiter
The Boat Is Full
Movie • 1981
Lazar Ostrowskij
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Movie • 1938
Rabbit
The Woman in White
Movie • 1948
Louis
Caught
Movie • 1949
Franzi Kartos
Hollywood Hotel
Movie • 1938
Butch, Dress Designer
The Oyster Princess
Movie • 1919
Conductor (as Kurt Bois)
The Haunted Castle
Movie • 1960
Hugo
Hold Back the Dawn
Movie • 1941
Bonbois
The Lady in Question
Movie • 1940
Henri Lurette
The Spanish Main
Movie • 1945
Paree
Gold Diggers in Paris
Movie • 1938
Padrinsky
The Tuttles of Tahiti
Movie • 1942
Jensen
The Desert Song
Movie • 1943
François
Swing Fever
Movie • 1943
Nick Sirocco
A Kiss in the Dark
Movie • 1949
Hugo Schloss
Jungle Flight
Movie • 1947
Pepe
Paris After Dark
Movie • 1943
Max
Hotel Imperial
Movie • 1939
Anton
Klebolin Sticks to Everything
Movie • 1909
That Night in Rio
Movie • 1941
Felicio Salles
Der Dieb
Movie • 1918
Bitter Sweet
Movie • 1940
Ernst
Ganovenehre
Movie • 1966
Seiden-Emil
Boom Town
Movie • 1940
Ferdie the Tailor
Der Pott
Movie • 1971
Simon Norton
Androcles and the Lion
Movie • 1958
Tovarich
Movie • 1937
Alfonso
The Great Waltz
Movie • 1938
Kienzl
Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti
Movie • 1960
Johannes Puntila
Die Alten kommen
Movie • 1980
Bühne frei für Kolowitz
Movie • 1980
Benjamin Weiß
Der Mond scheint auf Kylenamoe
Movie • 1980
Flächenbrand
Movie • 1981
Bühler
Amerika oder der Verschollene
Movie • 1969
Vater
A Tremendously Rich Man
Movie • 1932
Curt Nickel
Der trojanische Sessel
Movie • 1971
Franz Seider
Boy Meets Girl
Movie • 1938
Dance Director
Garden of the Moon
Movie • 1938
Maharajah of Sund
Ein neuer Erwerbszweig
Movie • 1912
Liebe, Tod und Heringshäppchen
Movie • 1979
Friedrich Schlick
Der Schützling
Movie • 1981
Das Rentenspiel
Movie • 1977
Blue, White, and Perfect
Movie • 1942
Friedrich Gerber, alias Nappy Dubois
The Golden Butterfly
Movie • 1926
Die hundertste Nacht
Movie • 1966
Iwakichi
The Eternal Jew
Movie • 1940
Self (archive footage)
Der eingebildete Kranke
Movie • 1964
Argan
Scherben bringen Glück
Movie • 1932
Saratoga Trunk
Movie • 1945
Augustin Haussy
Hullabaloo
Movie • 1940
Armand Francois
He Stayed for Breakfast
Movie • 1940
Comrade Tronavich
Blonde Fever
Movie • 1944
Brillon
The Indian's Gift
Movie • 1914
Kind
Mother Love
Movie • 1909
The Minister's Daughter
Movie • 1913
Young Hans
Gesucht wird... Drei Geschichten um nicht ganz ehrenwerte Herren
Movie • 1981
Wochenendgeschichten
Movie • 1980
She and the Three
Movie • 1922
Der Hilfsregisseur
Das Idol von Mordassow
Movie • 1979
Fürst
Strychnin und saure Drops
Movie • 1974
His Majesty the Barber
Movie • 1928
Der Jüngling aus der Konfektion
Movie • 1926
Moritz Spiegel
The Star of Africa
Movie • 1957
Wehe wenn sie losgelassen
Movie • 1926
Ali ben Mokka
Gypsy Wildcat
Movie • 1944
Valdi
The Masked Mannequin
Movie • 1927
Egun Fürst
Romance in the Dark
Movie • 1938
Von Hemisch
The Great Sinner
Movie • 1949
Jeweler / Money Lender
The Woman from Tangier
Movie • 1948
Parquit
Haus Vaterland
Movie • 1983
Destroyer
Movie • 1943
Swab with large nose
Princess O'Rourke
Movie • 1943
Count Peter de Candome
Gräfin Plättmamsell
Movie • 1926
Anschluß um Mitternacht
Movie • 1929
Emil
Pacific Rendezvous
Movie • 1942
Kestrin
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
Movie • 1973
Self
Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey
Movie • 1950
Pierre
The Schlemihl
Movie • 1931
Hartwig
Die Spinne
Movie • 1917
French Leave
Movie • 1948
Marcel
The Lovable Cheat
Movie • 1949
Count de la Brive
Der Kommissar
TV • 1969
Ohlers
Der Kommissar
TV • 1969
Vater Klinger
Kir Royal
TV • 1986
Friedrich Danziger
Der Alte
TV • 1977
Herr Nathan
Der Alte
TV • 1977
Karl Brunner
Detektivbüro Roth
TV • 1986
Robert Maschenberg
Kleine Stadt, ich liebe dich
TV • 1985
Theo Kleber
German Film Award
TV • 1951
Self
War was, Rickie?
TV • 1985
Onkel Erwin
NDR Talk Show
TV • 1979
Self
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
TV • 1975
Self (archive footage)
Aktuelle Schaubude
TV • 1957
Self