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Birthday:
October 18, 1926
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Klaus Kinski
Biography
Nikolaus Karl Günther Nakszyński, best known as Klaus Kinski (18 October 1926 – 23 November 1991), was a German actor. He appeared in over 130 films, and is perhaps best-remembered as a leading role actor in Werner Herzog films: Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Nosferatu (1979), Woyzeck (1979), Fitzcarraldo (1982) and Cobra Verde (1987).
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Othelo The Great | Self (archive footage) |
| 2024 | Gegen das Schweigen - Machtmissbrauch bei Theater und Film | Self (archive footage) |
| 2024 | Kinski | Self (archive footage) |
| 2022 | Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire | Self (archive footage) |
| 2021 | Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life | Self (archive footage) |
| 2021 | The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus | Self (archive footage) |
| 2021 | Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained | Self - Actor (archive footage) |
| 2020 | AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A. | (archive footage) |
| 2020 | The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault | (archive footage) |
| 2019 | Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau | Self (archive footage) |
| 2017 | Filming Silenzio | (archive footage) |
| 2016 | FantastiCozzi | Nosferatu (archive footage) |
| 2015 | Fifty Shades of Erotica | (archive footage) |
| 2014 | Peter Baumgartner, Filmkameramann | (archive footage) |
| 2014 | Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films | Self - Actor (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2008 | Jesus Christ Saviour | Self |
| 2007 | Beloved Count | Renfield (archive footage) |
| 2005 | The Western World of Ferdinando Baldi | Self (archive footage) |
| 2005 | The Spaghetti West | Self (archive footage) |
| 2003 | Kinski rigando Paganini | Self |
| 2002 | Whiteface | (archive footage) |
| 2000 | Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor | Self (archive footage) |
| 1999 | My Best Fiend | Self (archive footage) |
| 1999 | Please Kill Mr. Kinski | Self (archive footage) |
| 1991 | Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook | Renfield (archive footage) |
| 1990 | Paganini | Niccolo Paganini |
| 1990 | White Hunter | Klaus Naginsky |
| 1988 | Nosferatu in Venice | Nosferatu |
| 1987 | Cobra Verde | Francisco Manoel da Silva aka Cobra Verde |
| 1987 | Timestalkers | Dr. Joseph Cole |
| 1987 | Location Africa | Self |
| 1986 | Crawlspace | Karl Gunther |
| 1986 | Revenge of the Stolen Stars | Donald McBride |
| 1986 | Portrait: Werner Herzog | Self (archive footage) |
| 1985 | Star Knight | Boetius |
| 1985 | Creature | Hans Rudy Hofner |
| 1985 | Commando Leopard | Silveira |
| 1984 | The Little Drummer Girl | Martin Kurtz |
| 1984 | Code Name: Wild Geese | Charleton |
| 1984 | Beauty and the Beast | Beast |
| 1984 | The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud | Dr. Max Bauer |
| 1983 | Diary | (archive footage) |
| 1982 | Fitzcarraldo | Fitzcarraldo |
| 1982 | Burden of Dreams | Self - Actor |
| 1982 | Android | Dr. Daniel |
| 1982 | The Soldier | Dracha |
| 1981 | Venom | Jacques Müller (Jacmel) |
| 1981 | Buddy Buddy | Dr. Hugo Zuckerbrot |
| 1981 | Fruits of Passion | Sir Stephen |
| 1981 | Love & Money | Frederic Stockheinz |
| 1980 | Schizoid | Dr. Pieter Fales |
| 1980 | The Child Woman | Marcel |
| 1980 | Haine | Le motard |
| 1979 | Woyzeck | Friedrich Johann Franz Woyzeck |
| 1979 | Nosferatu the Vampyre | Count Dracula |
| 1979 | Zoo zéro | Yavé, le directeur du zoo |
| 1979 | I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog | Voice |
| 1979 | The Making of 'Nosferatu' | Self |
| 1978 | The Song of Roland | Roland / Klaus |
| 1977 | Operation Thunderbolt | Wilfried Boese |
| 1977 | Death of a Corrupt Man | Nicolas Tomski |
| 1977 | Madame Claude | Alexander Zakis |
| 1976 | Golden Night | Michel Fournier |
| 1976 | Jack the Ripper | Dr. Dennis Orloff / Jack the Ripper |
| 1975 | That Most Important Thing: Love | Karl-Heinz Zimmer |
| 1975 | A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot | Doc Foster |
| 1975 | Footprints on the Moon | Professor Blackmann |
| 1975 | Lifespan | Nicholas Ulrich |
| 1975 | Return of Shanghai Joe | Pat Barnes |
| 1975 | The Net | Emilio Bossi |
| 1974 | The Hand That Feeds the Dead | Prof. Nijinski |
| 1974 | Heroes in Hell | Gen. Kaufmann |
| 1974 | Lover of the Monster | Dr. Alex Nijinski |
| 1973 | Death Smiles on a Murderer | Dr. Sturges |
| 1973 | The Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe | Scalper Jack |
| 1973 | The Bloody Hands of the Law | Vito Quattroni |
| 1972 | Aguirre, the Wrath of God | Don Lope de Aguirre |
| 1972 | A Noose Is Waiting for You Trinity | Scott |
| 1971 | Slaughter Hotel | Dr. Francis Clay |
| 1971 | Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead | Dan Hogan |
| 1971 | Web of the Spider | Edgar Allan Poe |
| 1971 | Eye of the Spider | Hans Fischer |
| 1971 | Black Killer | James Webb / Black Killer |
| 1971 | Vengeance Is a Dish Served Cold | Virgil Prescott |
| 1971 | The Price of Death | Chester Conway / Ray |
| 1971 | Adios Compañeros | Reverend Cotton |
| 1971 | Coffin Full of Dollars | Dan Hagen / Slander |
| 1971 | His Name Was King | Brian Foster |
| 1970 | Count Dracula | Renfield |
| 1970 | And God Said to Cain | Gary Hamilton |
| 1970 | The Beast | Johnny Laster |
| 1970 | The Night of the Assassin | Evagoras |
| 1970 | How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business? | Juan José Ignatio Rodriguez de Calderon / 'Sam' |
| 1970 | Churchill's Leopards | Captain Holtz |
| 1970 | Only the Cool | Pavel Richko / Torpédo I |
| 1969 | Venus in Furs | Ahmed Kortobawi |
| 1969 | I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death | Chadeau / Holden / Hot Dead |
| 1969 | Marquis de Sade: Justine | Marquis De Sade |
| 1969 | Five for Hell | SS Col. Hans Mueller |
| 1969 | Salt in the Wound | Cpl. Brian Haskins / Norman Carr |
| 1969 | Double Face | John Alexander |
| 1969 | Gangster's Law | Quintero |
| 1968 | The Great Silence | Loco (Tigrero) |
| 1968 | Coplan Saves His Skin | Theler |
| 1968 | If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death | Morgan |
| 1968 | The Ruthless Four | Brent il Biondo |
| 1968 | The Bastard | Adam |
| 1968 | Twice a Judas | Dingus |
| 1968 | Western, Italian Style | Self |
| 1968 | Psychopath | Periwinkle |
| 1968 | The Vatican Affair | Clint Rogers |
| 1967 | A Bullet for the General | El Santo |
| 1967 | Creature with the Blue Hand | Dave Emerson / Richard Emerson |
| 1967 | The Million Eyes of Sumuru | President Boong |
| 1967 | Five Golden Dragons | Gert |
| 1967 | Grand Slam | Erich Weiss |
| 1967 | Man, Pride and Vengeance | Lt. Miguel Garcia |
| 1966 | Circus of Fear | Manfred |
| 1966 | Our Man in Marrakesh | Jonquil |
| 1966 | Target for Killing | Caporetti |
| 1966 | Where Are You Taking That Woman | Gomez (Rio segment) |
| 1965 | Doctor Zhivago | Kostoyed Amourski |
| 1965 | That Man in Istanbul | Schenck |
| 1965 | Again the Ringer | Edwards |
| 1965 | The Pleasure Girls | Nikko Stalmar |
| 1965 | The Dirty Game | Russian Agent |
| 1965 | For a Few Dollars More | Juan Wild - The Hunchback |
| 1964 | The Last Ride to Santa Cruz | Jose |
| 1964 | Last of the Renegades | David "Luke" Lucas |
| 1964 | Mark of the Tortoise | Shapiro |
| 1964 | Traitor's Gate | Kane |
| 1964 | The Curse of the Hidden Vault | George |
| 1964 | Secret of the Chinese Carnation | Speranzo |
| 1963 | Die Mondvögel | Valentin |
| 1963 | The Black Abbot | Thomas Fortuna |
| 1963 | The Indian Scarf | Peter Ross |
| 1963 | Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse | Inspector Joe Wright |
| 1963 | Piccadilly Zero Hour 12 | Whitey |
| 1963 | Kali-Yug, Goddess of Vengeance | Saddhu |
| 1963 | The Secret of the Black Widow | Boyd |
| 1963 | The Black Cobra | Koks-Charley |
| 1963 | The Squeaker | Krishna |
| 1963 | The Mystery of the Indian Temple | |
| 1962 | Secret of the Red Orchid | Steve |
| 1962 | The Inn on the River | Gregor Gubanow |
| 1962 | The Counterfeit Traitor | Kindler |
| 1962 | The Door with Seven Locks | Pheeny |
| 1962 | The Red Pastures | Martin |
| 1961 | The Devil's Daffodil | Peter Keene |
| 1961 | The Strange Countess | Bresset |
| 1961 | Dead Eyes of London | Edgar Strauss |
| 1961 | Bankraub in der Rue Latour | Bex, Autor |
| 1961 | Die Kurve | Anton |
| 1960 | The Avenger | Lorenz Voss |
| 1958 | A Time to Love and a Time to Die | Gestapo Lieutenant |
| 1956 | Waldwinter | Otto Hartwig |
| 1956 | Corinna Darling | Klaus Brockmann |
| 1955 | Ludwig II | Prince Otto von Bayern |
| 1955 | Children, Mother, and the General | Leutnant, der nicht mehr lacht |
| 1955 | Hanussen | Erik von Spazier / Mirko |
| 1955 | Sarajevo | Nedeljko Čabrinović |
| 1954 | Fear | Cabaret Performer |
| 1951 | Decision Before Dawn | Whining Soldier (uncredited) |
| 1948 | Morituri | Dutch prisoner |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Sonntagsgespräch | Self |
| 1985 | Zeit zu zweit | Self - Interviewee |
| 1983 | The Hitchhiker | Kurt Hoffman |
| 1982 | Faerie Tale Theatre | Beast |
| 1982 | Na sowas! | Self |
| 1979 | NDR Talk Show | Self |
| 1977 | Auf los geht's los | Self |
| 1975 | Les Rendez-vous du dimanche | Self |
| 1974 | Am laufenden Band | Self - Guest |
| 1974 | Spécial cinéma | Self |
| 1973 | Je später der Abend | Self |
| 1964 | Die Drehscheibe | Self |
| 1963 | Weltspiegel | Self |
| 1951 | German Film Award | Self |