1. Curt Bois is best remembered for his performances as the pickpocket in Casablanca and the poet Homer in Wings of Desire.
10 Facts About Curt Bois
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Curt Bois performed in theatre, cabaret, musicals, silent films, and "talkies" over his long acting career.
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Curt Bois performed under Max Reinhardt and found success in 1928 in a Viennese stage production of "Charley's Aunt" at the Josefstadt Theater.
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Curt Bois was a successful character comic, and for a while film studios tried to make him into a "German Harold Lloyd".
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In 1934, institutionalized Anti-Semitism forced the Jewish Curt Bois to leave his home in Nazi Germany for the United States.
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Curt Bois had a notable supporting role in Caught, starring Robert Ryan, Barbara Bel Geddes, and James Mason; Ryan played a megalomaniacal industrialist openly based on Howard Hughes and Bois was Ryan's conflicted fixer, Franzi Kartos.
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Curt Bois finished his life and career in Germany, first in the East, and then in the West.
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Curt Bois appeared at the Schiller Theater and the Theater des Westens for many years.
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Curt Bois won the European Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for this role.
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Curt Bois played his last role in the 1989 short film Das letzte Band, ending a film career of 82 years.