Curt Bois

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1901-04-05 (90 years old)

Deathday

1991-12-25

Place of Birth

Berlin, Germany

Curt Bois

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...

Acting

1987

1943

Casablanca

as Pickpocket

1944

Cover Girl

as Chef at Danny McGuire's

1950

Fortunes of Captain Blood

as King Charles II

1948

Arch of Triumph

as Tattooed Waiter

1981

The Boat Is Full

as Lazar Ostrowskij

1948

1949

Caught

as Franzi Kartos

1938

Hollywood Hotel

as Butch, Dress Designer

1919

The Oyster Princess

as Conductor (as Kurt Bois)

1941

1940

The Lady in Question

as Henri Lurette

1945

1938

1943

The Desert Song

as François

1943

Swing Fever

as Nick Sirocco

1949

A Kiss in the Dark

as Hugo Schloss

1947

1939

1941

That Night in Rio

as Felicio Salles

1940

Bitter Sweet

as Ernst

1966

Ganovenehre

as Seiden-Emil

1940

Boom Town

as Ferdie the Tailor

1971

Der Pott

as Simon Norton

1937

Tovarich

as Alfonso

1938

1960

1980

Bühne frei für Kolowitz

as Benjamin Weiß

1981

Flächenbrand

as Bühler

1932

1971

Der trojanische Sessel

as Franz Seider

1938

Boy Meets Girl

as Dance Director

1938

Garden of the Moon

as Maharajah of Sund

1979

1942

Blue, White, and Perfect

as Friedrich Gerber, alias Nappy Dubois

1966

1940

The Eternal Jew

as Self (archive footage)

1945

Saratoga Trunk

as Augustin Haussy

1940

Hullabaloo

as Armand Francois

1940

He Stayed for Breakfast

as Comrade Tronavich

1944

Blonde Fever

as Brillon

1913

1922

She and the Three

as Der Hilfsregisseur

1926

1944

1927

The Masked Mannequin

as Egun Fürst

1938

Romance in the Dark

as Von Hemisch

1949

The Great Sinner

as Jeweler / Money Lender

1943

Destroyer

as Swab with large nose

1943

Princess O'Rourke

as Count Peter de Candome

1942

1931

The Schlemihl

as Hartwig

1948

French Leave

as Marcel

Production

1993

Faraway, So Close!

as In Memory Of

1955

Ein Polterabend

as Director

1955

Ein Polterabend

as Screenplay

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