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Curt Bois is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and In Memory Of Allemand born on 5 april 1901 at Berlin (German)
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 longer period than can be claimed by any other actor. His final performance was in Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire, 1987). Bois performed in theatre, cabaret, musicals, silent film and "talkies" over his career as an actor.
In 1934, the Jewish Bois was forced to leave his home in Nazi Germany 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 films, the best-known of which was Casablanca (1942), with a single speech warning about pickpockets as "vultures everywhere" while stealing the wallet of a gullible Englishman.
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.
Il joue au théâtre (genre où il s'était déjà illustré en Allemagne) à Broadway en 1936, dans deux pièces uniquement (il ne renouvellera pas cette expérience du théâtre new-yorkais), Tomorrow's a Holiday - avec Charles Halton, Joseph Schildkraut - et Help Yourself.
En 1937, il reprend dans son pays d'accueil sa carrière d'acteur de cinéma, jusqu'à un dernier film aux États-Unis en 1950, année où il décide, la Seconde Guerre mondiale étant achevée, de revenir en Allemagne. Il y tournera encore plusieurs films et fera sa dernière apparition au cinéma en 1987 (dans sa ville natale, avec Les Ailes du désir), mettant ainsi un terme à 80 ans de carrière (à l'instar de Charles Vanel - 77 ans de cinéma -, de Paulette Dubost - 81 ans de cinéma - ou de Danielle Darrieux - 79 ans de cinéma à ce jour -) !
En Allemagne, à compter de 1958, il se produira également à la télévision, dans plusieurs téléfilms et séries, jusqu'en 1986.
Notons qu'à son retour en Europe, il jouera bien davantage à la télévision qu'au cinéma, d'abord en République démocratique allemande, puis en Allemagne de l'Ouest. C'est en RDA qu'il réalise en 1955 son second - donc, dernier - film (il en est également coscénariste), sa première réalisation étant un court-métrage, en 1932.
Il est parfois crédité Kurt Bois aux génériques de ses films (et quelquefois aussi non crédité, dans des petits rôles).
Curt Bois est enterré au cimetière de Wilmersdorf de Berlin.
(1987)
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Birth name Curt Bois
Nationality German
Birth 5 april 1901 at Berlin (German)
Death 25 december 1991 (at 90 years) at Berlin (German)
Awards Grand Merit Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Nationality German
Birth 5 april 1901 at Berlin (German)
Death 25 december 1991 (at 90 years) at Berlin (German)
Awards Grand Merit Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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 Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire, 1987). Bois performed in theatre, cabaret, musicals, silent film and "talkies" over his career as an actor.
In 1934, the Jewish Bois was forced to leave his home in Nazi Germany 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 films, the best-known of which was Casablanca (1942), with a single speech warning about pickpockets as "vultures everywhere" while stealing the wallet of a gullible Englishman.
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.
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Avant Shirley Temple, Curt Bois est un enfant prodige au cinéma puisqu'il tourne son premier film en 1907, à six ans. Il fait sa carrière en Allemagne jusqu'en 1932. Durant la période du cinéma muet, il a déjà de nombreux films à son actif (dont une douzaine avant quinze ans) et effectue en douceur la transition vers le parlant. Mais l'avènement du nazisme le contraint à fuir aux États-Unis en 1934, étant de confession juive.Il joue au théâtre (genre où il s'était déjà illustré en Allemagne) à Broadway en 1936, dans deux pièces uniquement (il ne renouvellera pas cette expérience du théâtre new-yorkais), Tomorrow's a Holiday - avec Charles Halton, Joseph Schildkraut - et Help Yourself.
En 1937, il reprend dans son pays d'accueil sa carrière d'acteur de cinéma, jusqu'à un dernier film aux États-Unis en 1950, année où il décide, la Seconde Guerre mondiale étant achevée, de revenir en Allemagne. Il y tournera encore plusieurs films et fera sa dernière apparition au cinéma en 1987 (dans sa ville natale, avec Les Ailes du désir), mettant ainsi un terme à 80 ans de carrière (à l'instar de Charles Vanel - 77 ans de cinéma -, de Paulette Dubost - 81 ans de cinéma - ou de Danielle Darrieux - 79 ans de cinéma à ce jour -) !
En Allemagne, à compter de 1958, il se produira également à la télévision, dans plusieurs téléfilms et séries, jusqu'en 1986.
Notons qu'à son retour en Europe, il jouera bien davantage à la télévision qu'au cinéma, d'abord en République démocratique allemande, puis en Allemagne de l'Ouest. C'est en RDA qu'il réalise en 1955 son second - donc, dernier - film (il en est également coscénariste), sa première réalisation étant un court-métrage, en 1932.
Il est parfois crédité Kurt Bois aux génériques de ses films (et quelquefois aussi non crédité, dans des petits rôles).
Curt Bois est enterré au cimetière de Wilmersdorf de Berlin.
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Faraway, So Close! (1993)
, 2h24Directed by Wim Wenders
Origin German
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about angels
Actors Otto Sander, Bruno Ganz, Heinz Rühmann, Peter Falk, Nastassja Kinski, Willem Dafoe
Roles The Dying Homer (scenes deleted)
Rating71%
Cassiel and Raphaella, two angels, observe the busy life of reunited Berlin. Due to their divine origin, they can hear the thoughts of the people around them, and try to console a dying man. Cassiel has been following his friend Damiel (a former angel), who senses his presence and talks about his experiences as a human. He owns a pizza parlor named Casa dell'angelo (Angel's House) and has married Marion, a trapeze artist whom he met when an angel. She works in a local bar in West Berlin, and the two have a young daughter, Doria.
Wings of Desire (1987)
, 2h8Directed by Wim Wenders
Origin German
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Circus films, Films about religion, Films about angels, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois, Peter Falk, Nick Cave
Roles Homer
Rating78%
Set in contemporary West Berlin (at the time still enclosed by the Berlin Wall), Wings of Desire follows two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, as they roam the city, unseen and unheard by its human inhabitants, observing and listening to the diverse thoughts of Berliners: a pregnant woman in an ambulance on the way to the hospital, a painter struggling to find inspiration, a broken man who thinks his girlfriend no longer loves him. Their raison d'être is, as Cassiel says, to "assemble, testify, preserve" reality. In addition to the story of two angels, the film is also a meditation on Berlin's past, present, and future. Damiel and Cassiel have always existed as angels; they existed in Berlin before it was a city, and before there were even any humans.
The Roaring Fifties (1983)
, 2h6Directed by Peter Zadek
Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Boy Gobert, Peter Kern, Christine Kaufmann, Sunnyi Melles, Beatrice Richter, Eva Mattes
Rating54%
La Seconde Guerre mondiale est finie. Jakob Formann, ancien prisonnier de guerre, rentre chez lui. À Linz, il trouve du travail comme interprète pour l'armée américaine. Il se procure 40 000 œufs auprès des Américains et fonde un élevage de poulets. La ferme qu'il acquiert a appartenu à Heinrich Himmler. Le miracle économique de Jakob Formann commence. Il devient un homme d'affaires de la jeune République fédérale. Il acquiert des sociétés de construction et d'édition. Formann mène une vie de luxe. Mais le premier choc pétrolier de 1973 met fin à l'ascension du petit-bourgeois. Formann vend sa firme à un consortium de banques. Mais il n'est pas malheureux. Il prend sa retraite en compagnie de sa compagne Julia.
The Boat Is Full (1981)
, 1h41Directed by Markus Imhoof
Origin Suisse
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Tina Engel, Curt Bois, Mathias Gnädinger
Roles Lazar Ostrowskij
Rating70%
Ganovenehre (1966)
, 1h34Directed by Wolfgang Staudte
Origin German
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Gert Fröbe, Mario Adorf, Karin Baal, Curt Bois, Helen Vita, Ilse Pagé
Roles Seiden-Emil
Rating66%
Sous une pluie battante, le chef de gang Paul l'Import fait l'éloge funèbre d'Orje l'Artiste.
The Haunted Castle (1960)
, 1h41Directed by Kurt Hoffmann
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Fantasy, Adventure, Horror, Musical
Themes Ghost films, Musical films
Actors Liselotte Pulver, Heinz Baumann, Georg Thomalla, Hubert von Meyerinck, Curt Bois, Hans Clarin
Roles Hugo
Rating62%
, 1h37Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti
Origin Austria
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Curt Bois, Maria Emo, Heinz Engelmann, Elfriede Irrall, Otto Schmöle, Elisabeth Stiepl
Roles Johannes Puntila
Rating64%
Le propriétaire terrien finlandais Puntila est devenu un bon ami après avoir bu et raconte ses soucis à son chauffeur Matti. Il veut marier sa fille Eva à un attaché diplomatique, mais cela lui fait mal de devoir donner à son gendre comme une dot un morceau de sa forêt.
Der Stern von Afrika (1957)
, 1h39Directed by Alfred Weidenmann
Genres Drama, War
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Joachim Hansen, Marianne Koch, Hansjörg Felmy, Horst Frank, Carl Lange, Albert Hehn
Rating62%
The film begins shortly before the outbreak of World War II when ensign Jochen Marseille is located at a Luftwaffe (Air Force) Kriegsschule (War School) in Berlin, where he makes a negative impression on his superiors with daredevil stunts and undisciplined behavior. His friend and comrade, Robert Franke, helps spare him from severe punishment. His squadron moves to France after the outbreak of World War II. During the Battle of Britain, Marseille experiences the brutality of war for the first time when Franke is shot down over the English Channel and is posted missing for a short while. But after his comrade's return, Marseille is back to a carefree world of flying. A thoughtful conversation in a bar while playing a game of billiards with an elderly French civilian affects him and his fellow pilots only briefly. A short time later, his unit is transferred to the Afrikakorps in the North African Theater of Operations. Marseille, thanks to his outstanding flying skill and talent, quickly becomes the most successful fighter pilot.
Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950)
, 1h31Directed by Gordon Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films
Actors Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, George Macready, Curt Bois, Dona Drake, Lowell Gilmore
Roles King Charles II
Rating57%
The film follows the standard story about Captain Blood. An Irishman banished for his treatment on a wounded rebel during the Monmouth Rebellion, Dr. Peter Blood has become a feared buccaneer on the high seas. King Charles II of Spain (Curt Bois) thus calls upon the Marquis de Riconete to capture the evasive Captain Blood and end his attacks upon Spanish ships. Blood is safe until he docks to resupply his crew; while his men are out they are betrayed by their supplier, the slave trader George Fairfax. Once captured, the pirates are tortured by the Marquis to find Blood's whereabouts.
Oh, You Beautiful Doll (1949)
, 1h33Directed by John M. Stahl
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Mark Stevens, June Haver, Edward Clark, John Davidson, S.Z. Sakall, James Griffith
Roles Zaltz
Rating59%
The film is a fictionalized biography of Fred Fisher, a German-born American writer of Tin Pan Alley songs. Tin Pan Alley promoter (Mark Stevens) turns serious composer Fred Breitenbach (S.Z. Sakall) into songwriter Fred Fisher. Fred Fisher is his assumed name in real life and Breitenbach is his birth surname. In the film, many Fisher songs were given a symphonic arrangement that was performed at Aeolian Hall. Among the Fisher songs heard were:
Caught (1949)
, 1h28Directed by Max Ophüls
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Romance
Actors Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Ryan, James Mason, Frank Ferguson, Curt Bois, Natalie Schafer
Roles Franzi Kartos
Rating69%
Young model Leonora Eames marries multimillionaire Smith Ohlrig. Ohlrig though is deranged and did not marry for love. Eames insists several times that she married for love, but the film suggests that she is deluding herself. When Ohlrig becomes too abusive, she leaves him, penniless, to find a job at a medical clinic in a poor neighborhood and eventually falls for Dr. Larry Quinada.
The Great Sinner (1949)
, 1h50Directed by Robert Siodmak
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Walter Huston, Ethel Barrymore, Frank Morgan
Roles Jeweler / Money Lender
Rating65%
During the 1860s in Wiesbaden, Pauline Ostrovsky, a reformed addict, receives a manuscript from the dying writer Fedya (diminutive of Fyodor), in which he looks back at their first meeting: While traveling from Paris to Moscow, Fedya meets Pauline and secretly feels attracted to her. Noticing she is disembarking at Wiesbaden, Fedya decides to leave the train as well and follows her to a casino. There, he finds out Pauline is, like her father General Ostrovsky, a gambling addict. Upon seeing how undisturbed the Ostrovskys are to find out the General's wealthy mother is dying, he becomes interested in the effects of gambling. He decides to stay in Wiesbaden to do a character study of gambling addicts.
A Kiss in the Dark (1949)
, 1h27Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors David Niven, Jane Wyman, Wayne Morris, Victor Moore, Broderick Crawford, Maria Ouspenskaïa
Roles Hugo Schloss
Rating60%
Concert pianist Eric Phillips (David Niven) has been on the road touring for twenty-one years when he finally returns home. One day he is served a warrant to perform repairs on the building he owns, and learns that his financial advisor, Peter Danilo, bought the building with his money some time ago as an investment. Eric goes to visit the building and meets some of its tenants. Among them the young and beautiful photo model Polly Haines (Jane Wyman), and Eric is instantly quite smitten by her. While they speak Polly's suitor, an insurance salesman, Bruce Arnold (Wayne Morris), arrives to the building. Being afraid of damaging his piano hands, Eric is convinced to buy an insurance for himself before he starts the building repairs. Eric and the rest of the tenants agree to fix up the building together during the next few weeks. They start off by building a roof garden with a day care center, and while the rest of the tenants go at it, Eric takes the kids on a hike. When he returns from the hike, a building inspector tells him that the building repairs are insufficient. Eric blames the former owner and present manager, Horace Willoughby (Victor Moore), for the poor quality of the work, and fires him on the spot. Polly comes to Horace's defense, telling Eric that he is a helpful soul who was unfortunate and had to sell the building to manage. Filled with remorse, Eric rehires Horace as chief of the repairs.
The Woman in White (1948)
, 1h49Directed by Peter Godfrey, Peter Godfrey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Actors Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet, Gig Young, Agnes Moorehead, John Abbott
Roles Louis
Rating65%
Arriving at an estate in England to teach drawing to wealthy Laura Fairlie (Eleanor Parker), artist Walter Hartright (Gig Young) sees a mysterious woman in white who promptly vanishes.
The Woman from Tangier (1948)
, 1h6Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Adele Jergens, Stephen Dunne, Ian MacDonald, Donna Martell, Curt Bois, Maurice Marsac
Roles Parquit
Rating56%
A dancer known to everyone by the name Nylon has been working in Morocco at a somewhat disreputable nightclub owned by Paul Morales, who gets into some trouble with police. Nylon decides to set sail for Gibraltar on the North Empress, which docks along the way in Tangier.