Klaus Kinski
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 18, 1926
- Died
- November 23, 1991 (aged 65)
Biography
Klaus Kinski (German: [klaʊs ˈkɪnski]; born Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski 18 October 1926 – 23 November 1991) was a German actor. Equally renowned for his intense performance style and his notoriously eccentric and volatile personality off-screen, he appeared in over 130 film roles in a career that spanned 40 years, from 1948 to 1988. He is best known for starring in five films directed by Werner Herzog from 1972 to 1987 (Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Nosferatu the Vampyre; Woyzeck; Fitzcarraldo; and Cobra Verde), who would later chronicle their tumultuous relationship in the documentary My Best Fiend. Kinski's roles spanned multiple genres, languages, and nationalities, including Spaghetti Westerns, horror films, war films, dramas, and Edgar Wallace krimi films. His infamy was elevated by a number of eccentric creative endeavors, including a one-man show based on the life of Jesus Christ, a biopic of violinist Niccolò Paganini directed by and starring himself, and over twenty spoken word albums. Kinski was prone to emotional and often violent outbursts aimed at his directors and fellow cast members, issues complicated by a history of mental illness. Herzog described him as "one of the greatest actors of the century, but also a monster and a great pestilence." Posthumously, he was accused of having physically and sexually abused his daughters Pola and Nastassja. His notoriety and prolific output have developed into a widespread cult following and a reputation as a popular icon. Description above from the Wikipedia article Klaus Kinski, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
Al borde del abismo: la aventura peruana de Werner Herzog
Movie
Othelo The Great
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Gegen das Schweigen - Machtmissbrauch bei Theater und Film
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
Movie · as Self - Actor (archive footage)
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
Movie · as (archive footage)
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
Movie · as (archive footage)
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Filming Silenzio
Movie · as (archive footage)
FantastiCozzi
Movie · as Nosferatu (archive footage)
Fifty Shades of Erotica
Movie · as (archive footage)
Peter Baumgartner, Filmkameramann
Movie · as (archive footage)
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Movie · as Self - Actor (archive footage) (uncredited)
In Free Fall
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Jesus Christ Saviour
Movie · as Self
Beloved Count
Movie · as Renfield (archive footage)
The Western World of Ferdinando Baldi
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Spaghetti West
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Kinski rigando Paganini
Movie · as Self
Whiteface
Movie · as (archive footage)
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
My Best Fiend
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Please Kill Mr. Kinski
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Sternstunde Kunst
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Storyville
TV · 1 ep
Otto – The Series
TV · as Verschiedene · 13 eps
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Movie · as Renfield (archive footage)
Paganini
Movie · as Niccolo Paganini
White Hunter
Movie · as Klaus Naginsky
Nosferatu in Venice
Movie · as Nosferatu
Cobra Verde
Movie · as Francisco Manoel da Silva aka Cobra Verde
Timestalkers
Movie · as Dr. Joseph Cole
Location Africa
Movie · as Self
Crawlspace
Movie · as Karl Gunther
Revenge of the Stolen Stars
Movie · as Donald McBride
Portrait: Werner Herzog
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Star Knight
Movie · as Boetius
Creature
Movie · as Hans Rudy Hofner
Commando Leopard
Movie · as Silveira
Sonntagsgespräch
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Zeit zu zweit
TV · as Self - Interviewee · 1 ep
The Little Drummer Girl
Movie · as Martin Kurtz
Code Name: Wild Geese
Movie · as Charleton
Beauty and the Beast
Movie · as Beast
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
Movie · as Dr. Max Bauer
Diary
Movie · as (archive footage)
The Hitchhiker
TV · as Kurt Hoffman · 1 ep
Fitzcarraldo
Movie · as Fitzcarraldo
Burden of Dreams
Movie · as Self - Actor
Android
Movie · as Dr. Daniel
The Soldier
Movie · as Dracha
Faerie Tale Theatre
TV · as Beast · 1 ep
Na sowas!
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Venom
Movie · as Jacques Müller (Jacmel)
Buddy Buddy
Movie · as Dr. Hugo Zuckerbrot
Fruits of Passion
Movie · as Sir Stephen
Love & Money
Movie · as Frederic Stockheinz
Schizoid
Movie · as Dr. Pieter Fales
The Child Woman
Movie · as Marcel
Haine
Movie · as Le motard
Woyzeck
Movie · as Friedrich Johann Franz Woyzeck
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Movie · as Count Dracula
Zoo zéro
Movie · as Yavé, le directeur du zoo
I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
Movie · as Voice
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
Movie · as Self
NDR Talk Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Song of Roland
Movie · as Roland / Klaus
Ciné regards
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Operation Thunderbolt
Movie · as Wilfried Boese
Death of a Corrupt Man
Movie · as Nicolas Tomski
Madame Claude
Movie · as Alexander Zakis
Auf los geht's los
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Golden Night
Movie · as Michel Fournier
Jack the Ripper
Movie · as Dr. Dennis Orloff / Jack the Ripper
That Most Important Thing: Love
Movie · as Karl-Heinz Zimmer
A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
Movie · as Doc Foster
Footprints on the Moon
Movie · as Professor Blackmann
Lifespan
Movie · as Nicholas Ulrich
Return of Shanghai Joe
Movie · as Pat Barnes
The Net
Movie · as Emilio Bossi
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV · as Self · 5 eps
The Hand That Feeds the Dead
Movie · as Prof. Nijinski
Heroes in Hell
Movie · as Gen. Kaufmann
Lover of the Monster
Movie · as Dr. Alex Nijinski
Am laufenden Band
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Spécial cinéma
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Death Smiles on a Murderer
Movie · as Dr. Sturges
The Fighting Fist of Shanghai Joe
Movie · as Scalper Jack
The Bloody Hands of the Law
Movie · as Vito Quattroni
Je später der Abend
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Movie · as Don Lope de Aguirre
A Noose Is Waiting for You Trinity
Movie · as Scott
Slaughter Hotel
Movie · as Dr. Francis Clay
Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead
Movie · as Dan Hogan
Web of the Spider
Movie · as Edgar Allan Poe
Eye of the Spider
Movie · as Hans Fischer
Black Killer
Movie · as James Webb / Black Killer
Vengeance Is a Dish Served Cold
Movie · as Virgil Prescott
The Price of Death
Movie · as Chester Conway / Ray
Adios Compañeros
Movie · as Reverend Cotton
Coffin Full of Dollars
Movie · as Dan Hagen / Slander
His Name Was King
Movie · as Brian Foster
Count Dracula
Movie · as Renfield
And God Said to Cain
Movie · as Gary Hamilton
The Beast
Movie · as Johnny Laster
The Night of the Assassin
Movie · as Evagoras
How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business?
Movie · as Juan José Ignatio Rodriguez de Calderon / 'Sam'
Churchill's Leopards
Movie · as Captain Holtz
Only the Cool
Movie · as Pavel Richko / Torpédo I
Venus in Furs
Movie · as Ahmed Kortobawi
I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death
Movie · as Chadeau / Holden / Hot Dead
Marquis de Sade: Justine
Movie · as Marquis De Sade
Five for Hell
Movie · as SS Col. Hans Mueller
Salt in the Wound
Movie · as Cpl. Brian Haskins / Norman Carr
Double Face
Movie · as John Alexander
Gangster's Law
Movie · as Quintero
The Great Silence
Movie · as Tigrero
Coplan Saves His Skin
Movie · as Theler
If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
Movie · as Morgan
The Ruthless Four
Movie · as Brent il Biondo
The Bastard
Movie · as Adam
Twice a Judas
Movie · as Dingus
Western, Italian Style
Movie · as Self
Psychopath
Movie · as Periwinkle
The Vatican Affair
Movie · as Clint Rogers
A Bullet for the General
Movie · as El Santo
Creature with the Blue Hand
Movie · as Dave Emerson / Richard Emerson
The Million Eyes of Sumuru
Movie · as President Boong
Five Golden Dragons
Movie · as Gert
Grand Slam
Movie · as Erich Weiss
Man, Pride and Vengeance
Movie · as Lt. Miguel Garcia
Circus of Fear
Movie · as Manfred
Our Man in Marrakesh
Movie · as Jonquil
Target for Killing
Movie · as Caporetti
Where Are You Taking That Woman
Movie · as Gomez (Rio segment)
Doctor Zhivago
Movie · as Kostoyed Amourski
That Man in Istanbul
Movie · as Schenck
Again the Ringer
Movie · as Edwards
The Pleasure Girls
Movie · as Nikko Stalmar
The Dirty Game
Movie · as Russian Agent
For a Few Dollars More
Movie · as Juan Wild - The Hunchback
The Last Ride to Santa Cruz
Movie · as Jose
Last of the Renegades
Movie · as David "Luke" Lucas
Mark of the Tortoise
Movie · as Shapiro
Traitor's Gate
Movie · as Kane
The Curse of the Hidden Vault
Movie · as George
Secret of the Chinese Carnation
Movie · as Speranzo
Die Drehscheibe
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Die Mondvögel
Movie · as Valentin
The Black Abbot
Movie · as Thomas Fortuna
The Indian Scarf
Movie · as Peter Ross
Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse
Movie · as Inspector Joe Wright
Piccadilly Zero Hour 12
Movie · as Whitey
Kali-Yug, Goddess of Vengeance
Movie · as Saddhu
The Secret of the Black Widow
Movie · as Boyd
The Black Cobra
Movie · as Koks-Charley
The Squeaker
Movie · as Krishna
The Mystery of the Indian Temple
Movie
Weltspiegel
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Secret of the Red Orchid
Movie · as Steve
The Inn on the River
Movie · as Gregor Gubanow
The Counterfeit Traitor
Movie · as Kindler
The Door with Seven Locks
Movie · as Pheeny
The Red Pastures
Movie · as Martin
The Devil's Daffodil
Movie · as Peter Keene
The Strange Countess
Movie · as Bresset
Dead Eyes of London
Movie · as Edgar Strauss
Bankraub in der Rue Latour
Movie · as Bex, Autor
Die Kurve
Movie · as Anton
The Avenger
Movie · as Lorenz Voss
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
Movie · as Gestapo Lieutenant
Waldwinter
Movie · as Otto Hartwig
Corinna Darling
Movie · as Klaus Brockmann
Ludwig II
Movie · as Prince Otto von Bayern
Children, Mother, and the General
Movie · as Leutnant, der nicht mehr lacht
Hanussen
Movie · as Erik von Spazier / Mirko
Sarajevo
Movie · as Nedeljko Čabrinović
Fear
Movie · as Cabaret Performer (uncredited)
Decision Before Dawn
Movie · as Whining Soldier (uncredited)
German Film Award
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Morituri
Movie · as Dutch prisoner