| Curt Bois | |
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 Curt Bois (left) with Fritz Kortner in the Berlin Schillertheater (1959) |
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| Born | April 5, 1901 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 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 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.
1 denotes American film debut.
   | Curt Bois biography - Portrait of the actor Curt Bois by Thomas Staedeli |
| | Thomas Staedeli's index of German film stars and filmmakers from 1903–1945 - Silent movie: Index of film stars and film makers of the silent movie eraand the early talkies (1903-1945) by Thomas Staedeli |
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