Curt Bois

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BIRTHDAY

April 05, 1901

Berlin, Germany

DIED

December 25, 1991

RECENT CREDITS

Das Boot ist voll (FILM) Mar. 4, 2005

Wings of Desire (FILM) Apr. 29, 1988

The Lovable Cheat (FILM) May. 11, 1949

Caught (FILM) Jan. 1, 1949

Cover Girl (FILM) Mar. 30, 1944

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BIOGRAPHY

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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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