Curt Bois
1901-04-05 ( 124 years old ) in 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 (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.    

Movies

Haus Vaterland 1983-12-12
Flächenbrand 1981-04-12
Der Pott 1971-01-12
Ganovenehre 1966-04-13
Caught 1949-02-17
French Leave 1948-04-10
Jungle Flight 1947-08-22
Saratoga Trunk 1945-11-21
Blonde Fever 1944-12-05
Gypsy Wildcat 1944-08-02
Cover Girl 1944-03-22
Swing Fever 1943-11-01
Destroyer 1943-08-19
Casablanca 1943-01-15
Bitter Sweet 1940-11-08
Hullabaloo 1940-10-25
Boom Town 1940-08-30
Hotel Imperial 1939-05-11
Boy Meets Girl 1938-08-27
Tovarich 1937-12-25
The Schlemihl 1931-11-27
Der Dieb 1918-01-01
Die Spinne 1917-02-02
Mother Love 1909-01-01