Curt Bois
Age: N/A | From: Berlin, Germany
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Курт Буа
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Berlin, Germany
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 44
TV Involvements: 10
Most Famous Work
Biography
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.
Most Famous Work
Der Alte
(1977) Karl Brunner
Casablanca
(1942) Pickpocket
Deutscher Filmpreis (Lola)
(1951) Self
Der Kommissar
(1969) Ohlers
Wings of Desire
(1987) Homer
Aktuelle Schaubude
(1957) Self
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(1939) Student
Detektivbüro Roth
(1986) Robert MaschenbergActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Homer | |
| 1986 | Friedrich Danziger | |
| Robert Maschenberg | ||
| 1985 | Theo Kleber | |
| Onkel Erwin | ||
| 1983 | N/A | |
| 1982 | Self | |
| 1981 | N/A | |
| Bühler | ||
| Lazar Ostrowskij | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1980 | Benjamin Weiß | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1979 | Friedrich Schlick | |
| Fürst | ||
| Self | ||
| 1977 | Herr Nathan | |
| Karl Brunner | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1975 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1974 | N/A | |
| 1973 | Self | |
| 1971 | Franz Seider | |
| Simon Norton | ||
| 1969 | Vater | |
| Vater Klinger | ||
| Ohlers | ||
| 1966 | Iwakichi | |
| Seiden-Emil | ||
| 1964 | Argan | |
| 1960 | Hugo | |
| Johannes Puntila | ||
| 1958 | N/A | |
| 1957 | Self | |
| N/A | ||
| 1951 | Self | |
| 1950 | King Charles II | |
| Pierre | ||
| 1949 | Jeweler / Money Lender | |
| Hugo Schloss | ||
| Franzi Kartos | ||
| 1948 | Louis | |
| Marcel | ||
| Tattooed Waiter | ||
| Parquit | ||
| 1947 | Pepe | |
| 1945 | Augustin Haussy | |
| Paree | ||
| 1944 | Brillon | |
| Valdi | ||
| Chef at Danny McGuire's | ||
| 1943 | François | |
| Nick Sirocco | ||
| Count Peter de Candome | ||
| Max | ||
| Swab with large nose | ||
| 1942 | Pickpocket | |
| Kestrin | ||
| Jensen | ||
| Friedrich Gerber, alias Nappy Dubois | ||
| 1941 | Bonbois | |
| Felicio Salles | ||
| 1940 | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Ernst | ||
| Armand Francois | ||
| Comrade Tronavich | ||
| Ferdie the Tailor | ||
| Henri Lurette | ||
| 1939 | Student | |
| Anton | ||
| 1938 | Kienzl | |
| Maharajah of Sund | ||
| Dance Director | ||
| Rabbit | ||
| Padrinsky | ||
| Von Hemisch | ||
| 1937 | Alfonso | |
| Butch, Dress Designer | ||
| 1932 | N/A | |
| Curt Nickel | ||
| 1931 | N/A | |
| 1929 | Emil | |
| 1928 | N/A | |
| 1927 | Egun Fürst | |
| 1926 | N/A | |
| Moritz Spiegel | ||
| N/A | ||
| Ali ben Mokka | ||
| 1922 | Der Hilfsregisseur | |
| 1919 | Conductor (as Kurt Bois) | |
| 1918 | N/A | |
| 1917 | N/A | |
| 1914 | Kind | |
| 1913 | Young Hans | |
| 1912 | N/A | |
| 1909 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Crew
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | In Memory Of | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1955 | Director | |
| 1932 | Director | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1955 | Screenplay | |
| 1932 | Writer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |