Curt Bois
Known for: Acting
Born: April 5, 1901
Died: December 25, 1991
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 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.
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Filmography
92 movies · 10 TV shows, newest first
7.0
Faraway, So Close!
1993
7.8
Wings of Desire
1987
6.8
Kir Royal
19867.0
Detektivbüro Roth
19868.0
Kleine Stadt, ich liebe dich
1985NR
War was, Rickie?
1985NR
Haus Vaterland
1983
3.7
The Roaring Fifties
19834.0
Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois
1982NR
Gesucht wird... Drei Geschichten um nicht ganz ehrenwerte Herren
1981
7.0
Flächenbrand
1981
6.1
The Boat Is Full
198110.0
Der Schützling
19819.0
Der Mond scheint auf Kylenamoe
19809.0
Bühne frei für Kolowitz
19809.0
Wochenendgeschichten
19807.0
Die Alten kommen
19807.0
Liebe, Tod und Heringshäppchen
1979
7.0
Das Idol von Mordassow
1979
6.6
NDR Talk Show
1979
6.3
The Old Fox
19777.0
Das Rentenspiel
1977
9.0
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
19757.0
Strychnin und saure Drops
1974
9.0
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
19739.0
Der trojanische Sessel
19718.0
Der Pott
19719.0
Amerika oder der Verschollene
1969
8.0
The Commissioner
19698.0
Die hundertste Nacht
1966
6.0
Ganovenehre
19667.0
Der eingebildete Kranke
1964
6.8
The Haunted Castle
1960
7.0
Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti
19607.0
Androcles and the Lion
1958
8.0
Aktuelle Schaubude
1957
6.7
The Star of Africa
1957
10.0
Ein Polterabend
19556.0
German Film Award
1951
7.3
Fortunes of Captain Blood
1950
5.3
Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey
1950
6.8
The Great Sinner
1949
6.0
The Lovable Cheat
1949
5.2
A Kiss in the Dark
1949
6.6
Caught
1949
5.7
The Woman in White
1948
7.0
French Leave
1948
6.0
Arch of Triumph
1948
7.5
The Woman from Tangier
1948
5.9
Jungle Flight
1947
6.1
Saratoga Trunk
1945
6.4
The Spanish Main
1945
4.4
Blonde Fever
1944
6.0
Gypsy Wildcat
1944
6.4
Cover Girl
1944
6.0
The Desert Song
1943
6.0
Swing Fever
1943
6.5
Princess O'Rourke
1943
6.1
Paris After Dark
1943
6.8
Destroyer
1943
8.1
Casablanca
1943
7.5
Pacific Rendezvous
1942
5.7
The Tuttles of Tahiti
1942
6.5
Blue, White and Perfect
1942
6.7
Hold Back the Dawn
1941
6.3
That Night in Rio
1941
4.7
The Eternal Jew
1940
6.0
Bitter Sweet
1940
6.5
Hullabaloo
1940
8.0
He Stayed for Breakfast
1940
7.0
Boom Town
1940
6.7
The Lady in Question
1940
7.3
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939
7.0
Hotel Imperial
1939
5.9
The Great Waltz
1938
6.8
Garden of the Moon
1938
6.9
Boy Meets Girl
1938
7.0
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1938
6.8
Gold Diggers in Paris
1938
5.3
Romance in the Dark
1938
5.8
Hollywood Hotel
1938
6.4
Tovarich
1937
8.0
Scherben bringen Glück
1932
9.0
A Tremendously Rich Man
1932
9.0
The Schlemihl
1931NR
Anschluß um Mitternacht
1929
7.8
His Majesty the Barber
1928
10.0
The Fugitive Lover
1927
7.0
The Masked Mannequin
1927
8.0
Gräfin Plättmamsell
19267.0
Der Jüngling aus der Konfektion
1926
10.0
The Golden Butterfly
1926
8.0
Wehe wenn sie losgelassen
19268.0
She and the Three
1922
6.8
The Oyster Princess
1919
NR
Der Dieb
1918
NR
Die Spinne
1917NR
The Indian's Gift
1914
NR
The Minister's Daughter
1913
NR
Ein neuer Erwerbszweig
19123.9
Klebolin Sticks to Everything
19092.0
Mother Love
1909