Curt Bois

He was an actor, known for Wings of Desire (1987), Casablanca (1942) and Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950). He was married to Dagmar and Hedy Ury.

In 1950 Curt Bois returned to Germany and went to the East part of Berlin. There he played again for the theater and appeared in his only movie "Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti" (1955). Because interesting roles failed to come, Curt Bois went to West Berlin where he was boycotted for the present. Only from 1957 he could take on bigger parts at the theater, the film became again a employer from 1958.

Having only 10 seconds of screen immortality in Casablanca (1942) belies the fact that Bois was considered an acting prodigy in Germany as a young boy. He became a leading comedian on the German stage in the early 1930s under the direction of the great Max Reinhardt and was a hit in the Viennese stage production of "Charley's Aunt" at the Josefstad Theater.

In 1934, Bois was forced to leave his home in Nazi Germany for the United States because he was Jewish, where he found work on stage on Broadway.

The actor Curt Bois was one of the first child stars at all. He played in the operetta "Der fidele Bauer" (1908) the part of Heinerle. The operetta was recorded on a disc at the same and also as a sound picture, the predecessor of the "running pictures". After that followed numerous child parts on the stage in which Curt Bois shined.

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.

Curt Bois was born on April 5, 1901 in Berlin, Germany.