Curt Bois
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Curt Bois (5 April 1901–25 December 1991) was a German actor.
Bois was born in Berlin. He began acting in 1907, becoming one of the film world's first child actors, with a role in the silent movie Bauernhaus und Grafenschloß. Bois' acting career spanned eighty years, a longer period than can be claimed by any actor. His final performance was in Der Himmel über Berlin (in English: Wings of Desire), in 1987. Bois showed himself to be very adaptable, performing in theatre, cabaret, musicals, silent film and "talkies" over his career as an actor.
In 1934 Bois was forced to leave his home for the shores of the United States of America, where he found work on stage on Broadway. By 1937 he had found his way to Hollywood, and began acting in American pictures, the best-known of which was Casablanca (1942). After World War II Bois decided it was safe to return to Germany, which he did in 1950. He finished out 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.
