Klaus Kinski
Klaus Kinski
Person

Klaus Kinski

Actor 1926-10-18

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 ...

Known for

FILMOGRAPHY
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For a Few Dollars More

For a Few Dollars More

1965 · Juan Wild - The Hunchback

Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago

1965 · Kostoyed Amourski

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

1972 · Don Lope de Aguirre

Nosferatu the Vampyre

Nosferatu the Vampyre

1979 · Count Dracula

Fitzcarraldo

Fitzcarraldo

1982 · Fitzcarraldo

The Great Silence

The Great Silence

1968 · Tigrero

My Best Fiend

My Best Fiend

1999 · Self (archive footage)

Woyzeck

Woyzeck

1979 · Friedrich Johann Franz Woyzeck

A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot

A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot

1975 · Doc Foster

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

2014 · Self - Actor (archive footage) (uncredited)

Cobra Verde

Cobra Verde

1987 · Francisco Manoel da Silva aka Cobra Verde

Burden of Dreams

Burden of Dreams

1982 · Self - Actor

A Bullet for the General

A Bullet for the General

1967 · El Santo

That Most Important Thing: Love

That Most Important Thing: Love

1975 · Karl-Heinz Zimmer

Last of the Renegades

Last of the Renegades

1964 · David "Luke" Lucas

Count Dracula

Count Dracula

1970 · Renfield

Creature

Creature

1985 · Hans Rudy Hofner

Buddy Buddy

Buddy Buddy

1981 · Dr. Hugo Zuckerbrot

Death of a Corrupt Man

Death of a Corrupt Man

1977 · Nicolas Tomski

Crawlspace

Crawlspace

1986 · Karl Gunther