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Curt Bois

Curt Bois (born Kurt Boas; April 5, 1901 – December 25, 1991) was a German actor with a career spanning over 80 years. He is best remembered for his performances as the pickpocket in Casablanca (1942) and the poet Homer in Wings of Desire (1987).

Life and career

Curt Bois (left) & John Abbott in The Woman in White

Bois was born to a German Jewish family[1] in Berlin and began acting in 1907, becoming one of the film world's first child actors,[citation needed] with a role in the 1907 short film Bauernhaus und Grafenschloß. In 1909, he played the title role in Der Kleine Detektiv ('The Little Detective'). Bois performed in theatre, cabaret, musicals, silent films, and "talkies" over his long acting career. He performed under Max Reinhardt[2] and found success in 1928 in a Viennese stage production of "Charley's Aunt" at the Josefstadt Theater.[3] He was a successful character comic, and for a while film studios tried to make him into a "German Harold Lloyd".[4]

In 1934, institutionalized Anti-Semitism forced the Jewish Bois to leave his home in Nazi Germany for the United States. There he found work on stage on Broadway. By 1937, he had made his way to Hollywood and began acting in films, the best-known being Casablanca (1942), in which he warns a befuddled English gentleman to be on guard against pickpockets ("vultures everywhere") while stealing the man's wallet. He had a notable supporting role in Caught (1949), 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. Most of his Hollywood roles were small, but nevertheless Bois was in demand. After World War II, Bois decided it was safe to return to Germany, which he did in 1950.

Буа завершил свою жизнь и карьеру в Германии, сначала на Востоке , а затем на Западе . Он много лет выступал в Театре Шиллера и Театре де Вестенс . Одно из его последних выступлений было в фильме Вима Вендерса « Der Himmel über Berlin» ( «Крылья желания ») в 1987 году, где он изображал престарелого поэта Гомера, «который бесконечно бродит по Берлину в надежде правильно запечатлеть город на бумаге». [5] За эту роль он получил Европейскую кинопремию за лучшую мужскую роль второго плана . Свою последнюю роль он сыграл в короткометражном фильме 1989 года « Das letzte Band» , завершив 82-летнюю карьеру в кино. Буа умер в Берлине в возрасте 90 лет.

Полная фильмография

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  1. Tablet Magazine: «Братья, написавшие «Касабланку» - писатели Джулиус и Филип Эпштейн также являются предшественниками бейсбольного Тео Эпштейна», Адам Чендлер, 22 августа 2013 г.
  2. ^ Курт Буа в Allmovie
  3. ^ Курт Буа на Deutsches Filmportal
  4. ^ Курт Буа на Deutsches Filmportal
  5. ^ Курт Буа в Allmovie

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