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