Curt Bois (April 5, 1901 – December 25, 1991) was a German actor. He is best remembered for his performance as the Pickpocket in Casablanca (1942). 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. In 1909, he played the title role in Der Kleine Detektiv (‘The Little Detective’). Curt Bois’ acting career spanned eighty years, a longer period than can be claimed by any other actor. His final performance was in Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire, 1987). Bois performed in theatre, cabaret, musicals, silent film and “talkies” over his career as an actor. In 1934, the Jewish Bois was forced to leave his home in Nazi Germany for the United States, where he found work on stage on Broadway. By 1937, he had found his way to Hollywood, and began acting in films, the best-known of which was Casablanca (1942), with a single speech warning about pickpockets as “vultures everywhere” while stealing the wallet of a gullible Englishman. He also appeared in “Die Austernprinzessin” (1919), “Der Golden Schemetterling” (1926), “The Hunchback of Nôtre Dame” (1939), “The Great Sinner” (1949), “Her Puntila und Sein Knecht Matti” (1955) and “Der Himmel über Berlin” (1987), his last film. He also directed two films and appeared in the Book of Guinnes Records as the actor with a more long career, from 1907 to 1987.  After World War II Curt Bois decided it was safe to return to Germany, which he did in 1950. He finished 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.