Curt Bois

Known for ActingBorn 1901-04-05Died 1991-12-25Berlin, 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 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. Read more

Movies & web series

Der Schützling

Ein Polterabend

The Golden Butterfly

Bühne frei für Kolowitz

Der Mond scheint auf Kylenamoe

Wochenendgeschichten

Film Emigration from Nazi Germany

Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt

Der trojanische Sessel

Amerika oder der Verschollene

A Tremendously Rich Man

The Schlemihl

Kleine Stadt, ich liebe dich

Der Pott

The Commissioner

Wings of Desire

Die hundertste Nacht

Aktuelle Schaubude

Casablanca

He Stayed for Breakfast

Scherben bringen Glück

Wehe wenn sie losgelassen

Gräfin Plättmamsell

She and the Three

His Majesty the Barber

The Woman from Tangier

Pacific Rendezvous

Detektivbüro Roth

Faraway, So Close!

Flächenbrand

Fortunes of Captain Blood

Die Alten kommen

Liebe, Tod und Heringshäppchen

Das Idol von Mordassow

Das Rentenspiel

Strychnin und saure Drops

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Der eingebildete Kranke

Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti

Androcles and the Lion

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

Kir Royal

French Leave

Hotel Imperial

NDR Talk Show

The Haunted Castle

Boom Town

The Masked Mannequin