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Curt Bois

 
Actor: Curt Bois
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  • Born: Apr 05, 1901 in Berlin, Germany
  • Died: Dec 25, 1991 in Berlin, Germany
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '30s-'50s
  • Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
  • Career Highlights: Wings of Desire, Caught, Das Boot ist voll
  • First Major Screen Credit: Ein Steinreicher Mann (1932)

Biography

German actor Curt Bois took to the stage at age seven. After experience as a cabaret performer, Bois worked with the legendary impresario Max Reinhardt and appeared in 25 German films. He left Germany to escape Hitler in 1933, then re-established himself on the Broadway stage. His first film, in which he was seen in his standard characterization of a slick, self-important European, was 1937's Tovarich. Bois' best-known film appearance was brief: he played the obsequious pickpocket ("There are vultures everywhere) in the 1942 classic Casablanca. As a result, he spent many of his last years being interviewed on the subject of that film, his stories improving with each telling. Bois went on to work with such directors as Lubitsch and Ophuls before returning to Germany in 1950. Here he continued to appear in films, and in 1955 directed the feature Ein Polterabend. One of Curt Bois' last performances was as the wizened historian who endlessly wanders Berlin in hopes of properly capturing the city on paper in Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire (1988). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Curt Bois

Curt Bois (left) with Fritz Kortner in the Berlin Schillertheater (1959)
Born April 5, 1901(1901-04-05)
Berlin, Germany
Died December 25, 1991 (aged 90)
Berlin, Germany
Occupation Actor
Years active 1907–1989

Curt Bois (5 April 1901 – 25 December 1991) was a German actor.

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 (in English: Wings of Desire). Bois showed himself to be very adaptable, performing 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 shores of 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 out 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.

Partial filmography

1 denotes American film debut.

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