Curt Bois
Highest Rated: 100% Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
Lowest Rated: 95% Cover Girl (1944)
Birthday: Apr 5, 1901
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Diminutive character player who specialized in dapper comic roles, often as head waiters or pompous clerks, in his more than 25 German and 40 Hollywood films. Bois began acting at seven and later worked in cabaret and with Max Reinhardt before fleeing Nazi Germany in 1933. He appeared on the New York stage before earning roles in the Hollywood films "Tovarich" (1937), "Casablanca" (1942, as a pickpocket), "Cover Girl" (1944) and "Caught" (1949).
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| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 98% | 93% | Wings of Desire | Homer (Character) | $120.8K | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | 75% | The Boat Is Full | Lazar Ostrowskij (Character) | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Scoundrel's Honour | Emil (Character) | - | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | The Haunted Castle | Hugo (Character) | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fortunes of Captain Blood | King Charles II (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | A Kiss in the Dark | Hugo Schloss (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lovable Cheat | Count de la Brive (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | The Great Sinner | Jeweler (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | The Woman in White | Louis (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | 51% | Arch of Triumph | Tattooed waiter (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Woman From Tangier | Parquit (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jungle Flight | Pepe (Character) | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | 52% | The Spanish Main | Paree (Character) | - | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | 58% | Saratoga Trunk | Augustin Haussy (Character) | - | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gypsy Wildcat | Valdi (Character) | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Swing Fever | Nick Sirocco (Character) | - | 1944 |
| 95% | 70% | Cover Girl | Chef at Danny McGuire's (Character) | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | Blonde Fever | Brillon (Character) | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | 51% | Princess O'Rourke | Count Peter de Candome (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Desert Song | François (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Blue, White and Perfect | Friedrich Gerber, alias Nappy Dubois (Character) | - | 1942 |
| 100% | 78% | Hold Back the Dawn | Bonbois (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | That Night in Rio | Felicio Salles (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hullabaloo | Armand Francois (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | The Lady in Question | Henri Lurette (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | Bitter Sweet | Ernst (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | 59% | The Great Waltz | Kienzl (Character) | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | 11% | Gold Diggers in Paris | Padrinsky (Character) | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | 39% | Hollywood Hotel | Butch (Character) | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | 42% | Tovarich | Alfonso (Character) | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Die Austernprinzessin | Kapellmeister (Character) | - | 1919 |
| No Score Yet | 84% | The Oyster Princess | Conductor (Character) | - | 1919 |