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Curt Bois
Berlin, Germany
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…
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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.
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1993
Faraway, So Close!
Movie In Memory Of
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1987
Wings of Desire
Movie Homer
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1986
Kir Royal
TV show Friedrich Danziger
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1986
Detektivbüro Roth
TV show Robert Maschenberg
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1985
Kleine Stadt, ich liebe dich
TV show Theo Kleber
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1985
War was, Rickie?
TV show Onkel Erwin
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1983
Haus Vaterland
Movie
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1983
The Roaring Fifties
Movie
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1982
Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois
Movie Self
- 1981
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1981
Flächenbrand
Movie Bühler
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1981
The Boat Is Full
Movie Lazar Ostrowskij
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1981
Der Schützling
Movie
- 1980
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1980
Bühne frei für Kolowitz
Movie Benjamin Weiß
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1980
Wochenendgeschichten
Movie
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1980
Die Alten kommen
Movie
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1979
Liebe, Tod und Heringshäppchen
Movie Friedrich Schlick
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1979
Das Idol von Mordassow
Movie Fürst
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1979
NDR Talk Show
TV show Self
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1977
The Old Fox
TV show Herr Nathan
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1977
Das Rentenspiel
Movie
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1975
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
TV show Self (archive footage)
- 1974
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1973
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
Movie Self
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1971
Der trojanische Sessel
Movie Franz Seider
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1971
Der Pott
Movie Simon Norton
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1969
Amerika oder der Verschollene
Movie Vater
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1969
The Commissioner
TV show Ohlers
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1966
Die hundertste Nacht
Movie Iwakichi
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1966
Ganovenehre
Movie Seiden-Emil
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1964
Der eingebildete Kranke
Movie Argan
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1960
The Haunted Castle
Movie Hugo
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1960
Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti
Movie Johannes Puntila
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1958
Androcles and the Lion
Movie
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1957
Aktuelle Schaubude
TV show Self
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1957
The Star of Africa
Movie
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1955
Ein Polterabend
Movie Director
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1951
German Film Award
TV show Self
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1950
Fortunes of Captain Blood
Movie King Charles II
