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.
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Acting
Movie
Casablanca
as Pickpocket
1943
Movie
Wings of Desire
as Homer
1987
Movie
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Student
1939
Movie
Cover Girl
as Chef at Danny McGuire's
1944
Movie
Caught
as Franzi Kartos
1949
Movie
The Oyster Princess
as Conductor (as Kurt Bois)
1919
Movie
Boom Town
as Ferdie the Tailor
1940
Movie
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
as Rabbit
1938
Movie
The Eternal Jew
as Self (archive footage)
1940
Movie
Hold Back the Dawn
as Bonbois
1941
Movie
Arch of Triumph
as Tattooed Waiter
1948
Movie
The Spanish Main
as Paree
1945
Movie
The Haunted Castle
as Hugo
1960
Movie
The Lady in Question
as Henri Lurette
1940
Movie
The Woman in White
as Louis
1948
Movie
The Great Sinner
as Jeweler / Money Lender
1949
Movie
Princess O'Rourke
as Count Peter de Candome
1943
TV
The Old Fox
as Herr Nathan
1977
TV
The Old Fox
as Karl Brunner
1977
Movie
That Night in Rio
as Felicio Salles
1941
Movie
The Great Waltz
as Kienzl
1938
Movie
Saratoga Trunk
as Augustin Haussy
1945
Movie
Destroyer
as Swab with large nose
1943
Movie
The Boat Is Full
as Lazar Ostrowskij
1981
