Klaus Kinski

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Known For Acting

Known Credits 176

Gender Male

Birthday October 18, 1926

Day of Death November 23, 1991 (65 years old)

Place of Birth Zoppot, Free City of Danzig [now Sopot, Pomorskie, Poland]

Also Known As

Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski
Klaus Kinsky
Клаус Кински

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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

Acting

2024		Othelo The Great as Ele Mesmo (Imagem de Arquivo)
2024		Kinski as Self (Archive Footage)
2024		Gegen das Schweigen - Machtmissbrauch bei Theater und Film as Self (archive footage)

2022

as Self (archive footage)

2021		The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus as Self (archive footage)
2021		Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life as Self (archive footage)

2020

as Self

2019

as Self (archive footage)

2017

as (archive footage)

2016

as Nosferatu (archive footage)

2015

2014

as (archive footage)

2008

as Self

2007

as Renfield (archive footage)

2005		The Spaghetti West as Self (archive footage)
2005		Filmlegenden. Deutsch as Self (archive footage)
2005		The Western World of Ferdinando Baldi as Self (archive footage)

2003

as Self

2002

as (archive footage)

2000

as Self (archive footage)

1999		My Best Fiend as Self (archive footage)
1999		Please Kill Mr. Kinski as Self

1991

as Renfield (archive footage)

1990		Paganini as Niccolo Paganini
1990		White Hunter as Klaus Naginsky

1988

as Nosferatu

1987		Cobra Verde as Francisco Manoel da Silva aka Cobra Verde
1987		Timestalkers as Dr. Joseph Cole
1987		Location Africa as Self

1986		Crawlspace as Karl Gunther
1986		Portrait: Werner Herzog as Self (archive footage)
1986		Revenge of the Stolen Stars as Donald McBride

1985		Star Knight as Boetius
1985		Commando Leopard as Silveira
1985		Creature as Hans Rudy Hofner
1985		Sonntagsgespräch (1 episode) as Self
1985		Zeit zu zweit (1 episode) as Self - Interviewee

1984		The Little Drummer Girl as Martin Kurtz
1984		Code Name: Wild Geese as Charleton
1984		Beauty and the Beast as Beast
1984		The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud as Dr. Max Bauer

1983		The Hitchhiker (1 episode) as Kurt Hoffman
1983		Diary as (archive footage)

1982		Android as Dr. Daniel
1982		Burden of Dreams as Self - Actor
1982		Faerie Tale Theatre (1 episode) as Beast
1982		The Soldier as Dracha
1982		Na sowas! (1 episode) as Self
1982		Fitzcarraldo as Fitzcarraldo

1981		Venom as Jacques Müller (Jacmel)
1981		Love and Money as Frederic Stockheinz
1981		Fruits of Passion as Sir Stephen
1981		Buddy Buddy as Dr. Hugo Zuckerbrot

1980		The Child Woman as Marcel
1980		Schizoid as Dr. Pieter Fales
1980		Haine as Le motard

1979		The Making of 'Nosferatu' as Self
1979		Woyzeck as Friedrich Johann Franz Woyzeck
1979		Zoo zéro as Yavé, le directeur du zoo
1979		I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog as Voice
1979		NDR Talk Show (1 episode) as Self
1979		Nosferatu the Vampyre as Count Dracula

1978

as Roland / Klaus

1977		Death of a Corrupt Man as Nicolas Tomski
1977		Operation Thunderbolt as Wilfried Boese
1977		Madame Claude as Alexander Zakis
1977		Auf los geht's los (1 episode) as Self

1976		Golden Night as Michel Fournier
1976		Jack the Ripper as Dr. Dennis Orloff / Jack the Ripper

1975		The Net as Emilio Bossi
1975		A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot as Doc Foster
1975		Lifespan as Nicholas Ulrich
1975		Return of Shanghai Joe as Pat Barnes
1975		That Most Important Thing: Love as Karl-Heinz Zimmer
1975		Footprints on the Moon as Professor Blackmann
1975		Les Rendez-vous du dimanche (5 episodes) as Self

1974		Spécial cinéma (1 episode) as Self
1974		Heroes in Hell
1974		The Hand That Feeds the Dead as Prof. Nijinski
1974		Lover of the Monster as Dr. Alex Nijinski
1974		Am laufenden Band (1 episode) as Self - Guest

1973		The Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe as Scalper Jack
1973		Death Smiles on a Murderer as Dr. Sturges
1973		Je später der Abend (1 episode) as Self
1973		The Bloody Hands of the Law as Vito Quattroni

1972		Aguirre, the Wrath of God as Don Lope de Aguirre
1972		A Noose Is Waiting for You Trinity as Scott

1971		Black Killer as James Webb / Black Killer
1971		Eye of the Spider as Hans Fischer
1971		The Price of Death as Chester Conway / Ray
1971		Web of the Spider as Edgar Allan Poe
1971		Vengeance Is a Dish Served Cold as Virgil Prescott
1971		Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead as Dan Hogan
1971		Slaughter Hotel as Dr. Francis Clay
1971		His Name Was King as Brian Foster
1971		Adios Compañeros as Reverend Cotton
1971		Coffin Full of Dollars as Dan Hagen / Slander

1970		The Beast as Johnny Laster
1970		Churchill's Leopards as Captain Holtz
1970		The Night of the Assassin as Evagoras
1970		Only the Cool as Pavel Richko / Torpédo I
1970		Count Dracula as Renfield
1970		And God Said to Cain as Gary Hamilton
1970		How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business? as Juan José Ignatio Rodriguez de Calderon / 'Sam'

1969		I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death as Chadeau / Holden / Hot Dead
1969		Venus in Furs as Ahmed Kortobawi
1969		Salt in the Wound as Cpl. Brian Haskins / Norman Carr
1969		Gangster's Law as Quintero
1969		Double Face as John Alexander
1969		Marquis de Sade: Justine as Marquis De Sade
1969		Five for Hell as SS Col. Hans Mueller

1968		The Great Silence as Loco (Tigrero)
1968		The Bastard as Adam
1968		The Vatican Affair as Clint Rogers
1968		Twice a Judas as Dingus
1968		If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death as Morgan
1968		Coplan Saves His Skin as Theler
1968		Psychopath as Periwinkle
1968		The Ruthless Four as Brent il Biondo
1968		Western, Italian Style as Self

1967		Man, Pride and Vengeance as Lt. Miguel Garcia
1967		Grand Slam as Erich Weiss
1967		Five Golden Dragons as Gert
1967		The Million Eyes of Sumuru as President Boong
1967		Creature with the Blue Hand as Dave Emerson / Richard Emerson
1967		A Bullet for the General as El Santo

1966		Target for Killing as Caporetti
1966		Where Are You Taking That Woman as Gomez (Rio segment)
1966		Our Man in Marrakesh as Jonquil
1966		Circus of Fear as Manfred

1965		Doctor Zhivago as Kostoyed Amourski
1965		For a Few Dollars More as Juan Wild - The Hunchback
1965		That Man in Istanbul as Schenck
1965		The Dirty Game as russischer Agent
1965		Again the Ringer as Edwards
1965		The Pleasure Girls as Nikko Stalmar

1964		Traitor's Gate as Kane
1964		Secret of the Chinese Carnation as Speranzo
1964		Last of the Renegades as David "Luke" Lucas
1964		The Curse of the Hidden Vault as George
1964		Mark of the Tortoise as Shapiro
1964		Die Drehscheibe (1 episode) as Self
1964		The Last Ride to Santa Cruz as Jose

1963		Piccadilly Zero Hour 12 as Whitey
1963		The Secret of the Black Widow as Boyd
1963		The Mystery of the Indian Temple
1963		Kali-Yug, Goddess of Vengeance as Saddhu
1963		Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard as Inspector Joe Wright
1963		The Indian Scarf as Peter Ross
1963		The Black Abbot as Thomas Fortuna
1963		The Black Cobra as Koks-Charley
1963		The Squeaker as Krishna
1963		Weltspiegel (1 episode) as Self
1963		Die Mondvögel as Valentin

1962		The Inn on the River as Gregor Gubanow
1962		The Door with Seven Locks as Pheeny
1962		The Red Pastures as Martin
1962		The Counterfeit Traitor as Kindler
1962		Secret of the Red Orchid as Steve

1961		The Strange Countess as Bresset
1961		Die Kurve as Anton
1961		Bankraub in der Rue Latour as Bex, Autor
1961		The Devil's Daffodil as Peter Keene
1961		Dead Eyes of London as Edgar Strauss

1960

as Lorenz Voss

1958

as Gestapo Lieutenant

1956		Corinna Darling as Klaus Brockmann
1956		Waldwinter as Otto Hartwig

1955		Hanussen as Erik von Spazier / Mirko
1955		Sarajevo as Nedeljko Čabrinović
1955		Children, Mother, and the General as Leutnant, der nicht mehr lacht
1955		Ludwig II as Prince Otto von Bayern

1954

as Cabaret Performer

1951		Decision Before Dawn as Whining Soldier (uncredited)
1951		Deutscher Filmpreis (1 episode) as Self

1948

as Dutch prisoner

Writing

2008

… Writer

1990

… Writer

Editing

1990

… Editor

Directing

1990

… Director

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