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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Berlin, Germany, 1901-04-05

Died: 1991-12-25

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1909	Mother Love		20
2	1909	Klebolin Sticks to Everything		39
3	1912	Ein neuer Erwerbszweig		0
4	1913	The Minister's Daughter	Young Hans	0
5	1914	The Indian's Gift	Kind	0
6	1917	Die Spinne		0
7	1918	Der Dieb		0
8	1919	The Oyster Princess	Conductor (as Kurt Bois)	68
9	1922	She and the Three	Der Hilfsregisseur	0
10	1926	Wehe wenn sie losgelassen	Ali ben Mokka	0
11	1926	The Golden Butterfly		0
12	1926	Der Jüngling aus der Konfektion	Moritz Spiegel	0
13	1926	Gräfin Plättmamsell		0
14	1927	The Masked Mannequin	Egun Fürst	0
15	1928	His Majesty the Barber		65
16	1929	Anschluß um Mitternacht	Emil	0
17	1931	The Schlemihl	Hartwig	0
18	1932	A Tremendously Rich Man	Curt Nickel	0
19	1932	Scherben bringen Glück		0
20	1937	Tovarich	Alfonso	62
21	1938	Hollywood Hotel	Butch, Dress Designer	54
22	1938	Romance in the Dark	Von Hemisch	30
23	1938	Gold Diggers in Paris	Padrinsky	57
24	1938	The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse	Rabbit	72
25	1938	Boy Meets Girl	Dance Director	65
26	1938	Garden of the Moon	Maharajah of Sund	58
27	1938	The Great Waltz	Kienzl	57
28	1939	Hotel Imperial	Anton	60
29	1939	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Student	73
30	1940	The Lady in Question	Henri Lurette	66
31	1940	Boom Town	Ferdie the Tailor	69
32	1940	He Stayed for Breakfast	Comrade Tronavich	0
33	1940	Hullabaloo	Armand Francois	40
34	1940	Bitter Sweet	Ernst	58
35	1940	The Eternal Jew	Self (archive footage)	45
36	1941	That Night in Rio	Felicio Salles	62
37	1941	Hold Back the Dawn	Bonbois	67
38	1942	Blue, White, and Perfect	Friedrich Gerber, alias Nappy Dubois	63
39	1942	The Tuttles of Tahiti	Jensen	55
40	1942	Pacific Rendezvous	Kestrin	60
41	1943	Casablanca	Pickpocket	82
42	1943	Destroyer	Swab with large nose	66
43	1943	Paris After Dark	Max	56
44	1943	Princess O'Rourke	Count Peter de Candome	63
45	1943	Swing Fever	Nick Sirocco	50
46	1943	The Desert Song	François	59
47	1944	Cover Girl	Chef at Danny McGuire's	64
48	1944	Gypsy Wildcat	Valdi	55
49	1944	Blonde Fever	Brillon	44
50	1945	The Spanish Main	Paree	63
51	1945	Saratoga Trunk	Augustin Haussy	57
52	1947	Jungle Flight	Pepe	59
53	1948	The Woman from Tangier	Parquit	50
54	1948	Arch of Triumph	Tattooed Waiter	58
55	1948	French Leave	Marcel	0
56	1948	The Woman in White	Louis	55
57	1949	Caught	Franzi Kartos	66
58	1949	A Kiss in the Dark	Hugo Schloss	47
59	1949	The Great Sinner	Jeweler / Money Lender	66
60	1950	Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey	Pierre	40
61	1950	Fortunes of Captain Blood	King Charles II	71
62	1957	Der Stern von Afrika		63
63	1958	Androcles and the Lion		0
64	1960	Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti	Johannes Puntila	0
65	1960	The Haunted Castle	Hugo	66
66	1964	Der eingebildete Kranke	Argan	0
67	1966	Ganovenehre	Seiden-Emil	60
68	1966	Die hundertste Nacht	Iwakichi	0
69	1969	Amerika oder der Verschollene	Vater	0
70	1971	Der Pott	Simon Norton	0
71	1971	Der trojanische Sessel	Franz Seider	0
72	1973	Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt	Self	0
73	1974	Strychnin und saure Drops		0
74	1977	Das Rentenspiel		0
75	1979	Das Idol von Mordassow	Fürst	0
76	1979	Liebe, Tod und Heringshäppchen	Friedrich Schlick	0
77	1980	Die Alten kommen		0
78	1980	Wochenendgeschichten		0
79	1980	Bühne frei für Kolowitz	Benjamin Weiß	0
80	1980	Der Mond scheint auf Kylenamoe		0
81	1981	Der Schützling		0
82	1981	The Boat Is Full	Lazar Ostrowskij	63
83	1981	Flächenbrand	Bühler	0
84	1981	Gesucht wird... Drei Geschichten um nicht ganz ehrenwerte Herren		0
85	1982	Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois	Self	10
86	1983	Haus Vaterland		0
87	1987	Wings of Desire	Homer	78

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Deutscher Filmpreis	Self	60
2	1957	Aktuelle Schaubude	Self	60
3	1969	Der Kommissar	Ohlers	79
4	1969	Der Kommissar	Vater Klinger	79
5	1975	Film Emigration from Nazi Germany	Self (archive footage)	90
6	1977	Der Alte	Herr Nathan	60
7	1977	Der Alte	Karl Brunner	60
8	1979	NDR Talk Show	Self	65
9	1985	War was, Rickie?	Onkel Erwin	0
10	1985	Kleine Stadt, ich liebe dich	Theo Kleber	0
11	1986	Detektivbüro Roth	Robert Maschenberg	0
12	1986	Kir Royal	Friedrich Danziger	73

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