Curt Bois
Birthday: 1901-04-05 | Place of Birth: Berlin, GermanyFrom 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 longer period than can be claimed by any other actor. 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
Role
as Homer
as Lazar Ostrowskij
as Friedrich Schlick
as Fürst
as Self (archive footage)
as Simon Norton
as Vater
as Seiden-Emil
as Johannes Puntila
as King Charles II
as Franzi Kartos
as Hugo Schloss
as Jeweler / Money Lender
as Louis
as Marcel
as Tattooed Waiter
as Pepe
as Augustin Haussy
as Brillon
as Nick Sirocco
as Valdi
as Count Peter de Candome
