Klaus Kinski

ActorWriterDirectorEditor Oct 18 (died age 65) 1948–2024 (76 year career)

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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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Klaus Kinski, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Film

For a Few Dollars More

Juan Wild - The Hunchback

Film

Doctor Zhivago

Kostoyed Amourski

Film

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Don Lope de Aguirre

Film

Fitzcarraldo

Film

Nosferatu the Vampyre

Count Dracula

Film

The Great Silence

Loco (Tigrero)

Film

My Best Fiend

Self (archive footage)

Film

Burden of Dreams

Self - Actor

Filmography

Acting (179)

Movies (165)

Othelo The Great

2024

as Self (archive footage)

Kinski

2024

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

Gegen das Schweigen - Machtmissbrauch bei Theater und Film

2024

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire

2022

as Self (archive footage)

4.8

The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus

2021

as Self (archive footage)

Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained

2021

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

7.0

Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life

2021

as Self (archive footage)

The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault

2020

as (archive footage)

AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.

2020

as (archive footage)

Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau

2019

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

Filming Silenzio

2017

as (archive footage)

FantastiCozzi

2016

as Nosferatu (archive footage)

6.0

Fifty Shades of Erotica

2015

as (archive footage)

7.0

Peter Baumgartner, Filmkameramann

2014

as (archive footage)

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

2014

as Self - Actor (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.2

In Free Fall

2010

as Self (archive footage)

Jesus Christ Saviour

2008

as Self

7.1

Beloved Count

2007

as Renfield (archive footage)

The Western World of Ferdinando Baldi

2005

as Self (archive footage)

The Spaghetti West

2005

as Self (archive footage)

5.8

Kinski rigando Paganini

as Self

Whiteface

as (archive footage)

Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor

2000

as Self (archive footage)

My Best Fiend

1999

as Self (archive footage)

7.3

Please Kill Mr. Kinski

1999

as Self (archive footage)

6.4

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

1991

as Renfield (archive footage)

White Hunter

as Klaus Naginsky

Paganini

as Niccolo Paganini

Nosferatu in Venice

as Nosferatu

Cobra Verde

as Francisco Manoel da Silva aka Cobra Verde

6.9

Location Africa

1987

as Self

Timestalkers

as Dr. Joseph Cole

Crawlspace

as Karl Gunther

Portrait: Werner Herzog

1986

as Self (archive footage)

7.1

Revenge of the Stolen Stars

as Donald McBride

Star Knight

as Boetius

Creature

as Hans Rudy Hofner

Commando Leopard

as Silveira

Code Name: Wild Geese

as Charleton

Beauty and the Beast

as Beast

The Little Drummer Girl

1984

as Martin Kurtz

5.4

The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud

as Dr. Max Bauer

Diary

as (archive footage)

Fitzcarraldo

as Fitzcarraldo

The Soldier

as Dracha

Android

as Dr. Daniel

Burden of Dreams

as Self - Actor

Fruits of Passion

as Sir Stephen

Buddy Buddy

as Dr. Hugo Zuckerbrot

6.1

Love & Money

1981

as Frederic Stockheinz

4.6

Venom

1981

as Jacques Müller (Jacmel)

Schizoid

as Dr. Pieter Fales

Haine

as Le motard

The Child Woman

as Marcel

Nosferatu the Vampyre

1979

as Count Dracula

7.3

Zoo zéro

1979

as Yavé, le directeur du zoo

4.8

Woyzeck

1979

as Friedrich Johann Franz Woyzeck

6.6

The Making of 'Nosferatu'

1979

as Self

6.3

I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog

as Voice

The Song of Roland

as Roland / Klaus

Death of a Corrupt Man

as Nicolas Tomski

Madame Claude

as Alexander Zakis

Operation Thunderbolt

1977

as Wilfried Boese

5.9

Jack the Ripper

1976

as Dr. Dennis Orloff / Jack the Ripper

Golden Night

as Michel Fournier

Lifespan

as Nicholas Ulrich

That Most Important Thing: Love

1975

as Karl-Heinz Zimmer

7.0

Return of Shanghai Joe

1975

as Pat Barnes

5.2

A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot

1975

as Doc Foster

6.3

Footprints on the Moon

1975

as Professor Blackmann

The Net

as Emilio Bossi

Lover of the Monster

as Dr. Alex Nijinski

Heroes in Hell

as Gen. Kaufmann

The Hand That Feeds the Dead

1974

as Prof. Nijinski

4.2

Death Smiles on a Murderer

1973

as Dr. Sturges

5.8

The Bloody Hands of the Law

1973

as Vito Quattroni

6.7

The Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe

1973

as Scalper Jack

5.0

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

1972

as Don Lope de Aguirre

7.5

A Noose Is Waiting for You Trinity

1972

as Scott

5.6

The Price of Death

1971

as Chester Conway / Ray

5.9

Black Killer

1971

as James Webb / Black Killer

Slaughter Hotel

as Dr. Francis Clay

His Name Was King

as Brian Foster

Adios Compañeros

as Reverend Cotton

Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead

as Dan Hogan

Eye of the Spider

as Hans Fischer

Web of the Spider

as Edgar Allan Poe

Coffin Full of Dollars

1971

as Dan Hagen / Slander

5.3

Vengeance Is a Dish Served Cold

as Virgil Prescott

Churchill's Leopards

as Captain Holtz

The Beast

as Johnny Laster

Count Dracula

as Renfield

And God Said to Cain

as Gary Hamilton

How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business?

1970

as Juan José Ignatio Rodriguez de Calderon / 'Sam'

2.1

Only the Cool

1970

as Pavel Richko / Torpédo I

5.0

The Night of the Assassin

1970

as Evagoras

Five for Hell

1969

as SS Col. Hans Mueller

4.7

Marquis de Sade: Justine

as Marquis De Sade

Venus in Furs

as Ahmed Kortobawi

Double Face

as John Alexander

I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death

1969

as Chadeau / Holden / Hot Dead

6.2

Salt in the Wound

1969

as Cpl. Brian Haskins / Norman Carr

6.2

Gangster's Law

1969

as Quintero

5.5

If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death

as Morgan

The Great Silence

as Loco (Tigrero)

Western, Italian Style

as Self

The Ruthless Four

as Brent il Biondo

The Bastard

as Adam

Coplan Saves His Skin

as Theler

Psychopath

as Periwinkle

Twice a Judas

as Dingus

The Vatican Affair

as Clint Rogers

Five Golden Dragons

as Gert

A Bullet for the General

1967

as El Santo

6.6

Man, Pride and Vengeance

as Lt. Miguel Garcia

Grand Slam

as Erich Weiss

The Million Eyes of Sumuru

1967

as President Boong

4.2

Creature with the Blue Hand

1967

as Dave Emerson / Richard Emerson

Circus of Fear

as Manfred

Our Man in Marrakesh

as Jonquil

Target for Killing

as Caporetti

Where Are You Taking That Woman

1966

as Gomez (Rio segment)

7.0

For a Few Dollars More

1965

as Juan Wild - The Hunchback

Doctor Zhivago

as Kostoyed Amourski

The Dirty Game

as Russian Agent

That Man in Istanbul

as Schenck

The Pleasure Girls

as Nikko Stalmar

Again the Ringer

as Edwards

Last of the Renegades

1964

as David "Luke" Lucas

Traitor's Gate

as Kane

Mark of the Tortoise

as Shapiro

The Last Ride to Santa Cruz

1964

as Jose

6.2

The Curse of the Hidden Vault

1964

as George

5.8

Secret of the Chinese Carnation

1964

as Speranzo

5.0

The Secret of the Black Widow

as Boyd

The Black Cobra

as Koks-Charley

Die Mondvögel

as Valentin

The Indian Scarf

as Peter Ross

The Squeaker

as Krishna

The Black Abbot

as Thomas Fortuna

The Mystery of the Indian Temple

1963

4.3

Kali-Yug, Goddess of Vengeance

1963

as Saddhu

4.0

Piccadilly Zero Hour 12

1963

as Whitey

6.9

Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse

1963

as Inspector Joe Wright

6.3

The Red Pastures

1962

as Martin

6.5

The Counterfeit Traitor

as Kindler

The Inn on the River

as Gregor Gubanow

The Door with Seven Locks

1962

as Pheeny

6.4

Secret of the Red Orchid

as Steve

The Devil's Daffodil

as Peter Keene

Dead Eyes of London

as Edgar Strauss

Die Kurve

as Anton

The Strange Countess

1961

as Bresset

6.5

Bankraub in der Rue Latour

as Bex, Autor

The Avenger

as Lorenz Voss

A Time to Love and a Time to Die

1958

as Gestapo Lieutenant

7.2

Waldwinter

1956

as Otto Hartwig

Corinna Darling

1956

as Klaus Brockmann

6.0

Hanussen

1955

as Erik von Spazier / Mirko

Sarajevo

1955

as Nedeljko Čabrinović

5.5

Children, Mother, and the General

1955

as Leutnant, der nicht mehr lacht

5.8

Ludwig II

1955

as Prince Otto von Bayern

Fear

as Cabaret Performer

Decision Before Dawn

as Whining Soldier (uncredited)

6.7

Morituri

1948

as Dutch prisoner

5.5

Television (14)

Zeit zu zweit

1985

as Self - Interviewee

Sonntagsgespräch

1985

as Self

The Hitchhiker

as Kurt Hoffman

Faerie Tale Theatre

as Beast

Na sowas!

as Self

NDR Talk Show

as Self

Auf los geht's los

as Self

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

1975

as Self

6.0

Spécial cinéma

1974

as Self

Am laufenden Band

1974

as Self - Guest

6.5

Je später der Abend

1973

as Self

Die Drehscheibe

1964

as Self

6.0

Weltspiegel

1963

as Self

German Film Award

1951

as Self

6.0

Crew (6)

Movies (6)

Jesus Christ Saviour

Writer

Paganini

Director

Paganini

Editor

Paganini

Screenplay

Paganini

Story

Paganini

Writer