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Curt Bois

Curt Bois

Birthday: 1901-04-05 | Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany

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 longer period than can be claimed by any other actor. 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1988
Wings of Desire

as    Homer

1981
The Boat Is Full

as    Lazar Ostrowskij

1949
Caught

as    Franzi Kartos

1948
The Woman in White

as    Louis

1947
Jungle Flight

as    Pepe

1945
Saratoga Trunk

as    Augustin Haussy

1944
Swing Fever

as    Nick Sirocco

1944
Gypsy Wildcat

as    Valdi

1943
The Desert Song

as    François

1942
Blue, White, and Perfect

as    Friedrich Gerber, alias Nappy Dubois

1942
The Tuttles of Tahiti

as    Jensen

1941
Hold Back the Dawn

as    Bonbois

1941
That Night in Rio

as    Felicio Salles

1940
Bitter Sweet

as    Ernst

1940
The Lady in Question

as    Henri Lurette

1938
The Great Waltz

as    Kienzl