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