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 worlds 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 1987s 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.
Pickpocket
Film 1943
Chef at Danny McGuire's
Film 1944
King Charles II
Film 1950
Self
Film 1982
Tattooed Waiter
Film 1948
Lazar Ostrowskij
Film 1981
Louis
Film 1948
Franzi Kartos
Film 1949
Butch, Dress Designer
Film 1938
Conductor (as Kurt Bois)
Film 1919
Hugo
Film 1960
Bonbois
Film 1941
Henri Lurette
Film 1940
Jensen
Film 1942
François
Film 1943
Nick Sirocco
Film 1943
Hugo Schloss
Film 1949
Pepe
Film 1947
Max
Film 1943
Anton
Film 1939
Film 1909
Felicio Salles
Film 1941
Film 1918
Ernst
Film 1940
Seiden-Emil
Film 1966
Simon Norton
Film 1971
Film 1958
Alfonso
Film 1937
Bühler
Film 1981
Johannes Puntila
Film 1960
Film 1980
Benjamin Weiß
Film 1980
Film 1981
Vater
Film 1969
Curt Nickel
Film 1932
Franz Seider
Film 1971
Maharajah of Sund
Film 1938
Film 1912
Friedrich Schlick
Film 1979
Film 1981
Film 1977
Film 1926
Iwakichi
Film 1966
Self (archive footage)
Film 1940
Argan
Film 1964
Film 1932
Augustin Haussy
Film 1945
Armand Francois
Film 1940
Comrade Tronavich
Film 1940
Brillon
Film 1944
Kind
Film 1914
Film 1909
Young Hans
Film 1913
Film 1981
Film 1980
Der Hilfsregisseur
Film 1922
Fürst
Film 1979
Film 1974
Film 1928
Moritz Spiegel
Film 1926
Film 1957
Ali ben Mokka
Film 1926
Valdi
Film 1944
Egun Fürst
Film 1927
Von Hemisch
Film 1938
Parquit
Film 1948
Film 1983
Count Peter de Candome
Film 1943
Film 1926
Emil
Film 1929
Self
Film 1973
Pierre
Film 1950
Hartwig
Film 1931
Film 1917
Marcel
Film 1948
Ohlers
Tv 1969
Vater Klinger
Tv 1969
Friedrich Danziger
Tv 1986
Herr Nathan
Tv 1977
Karl Brunner
Tv 1977
Robert Maschenberg
Tv 1986
Theo Kleber
Tv 1985
Self
Tv 1951
Onkel Erwin
Tv 1985
Self
Tv 1979
Self (archive footage)
Tv 1975
Self
Tv 1957