
Klaus Kinski
Department: Acting
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

Doctor Zhivago
1965

That Most Important Thing: Love
1975

Woyzeck
1979

Secret of the Red Orchid
1962

The Last Ride to Santa Cruz
1964

Aguirre, the Wrath of God
1972

Jesus Christ Saviour
2008

Last of the Renegades
1964

Die Mondvögel
1963

A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
1975

Death Smiles on a Murderer
1973

That Man in Istanbul
1965

Count Dracula
1970

Cobra Verde
1987

Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979

The Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe
1973

The Black Abbot
1963

The Inn on the River
1962

Venom
1981

My Best Fiend
1999

The Little Drummer Girl
1984

The Great Silence
1968

Golden Night
1976

Fitzcarraldo
1982

Operation Thunderbolt
1977

The Indian Scarf
1963

Again the Ringer
1965

Slaughter Hotel
1971

Nosferatu in Venice
1988

Venus in Furs
1969

Buddy Buddy
1981

Burden of Dreams
1982

Peter Baumgartner, Filmkameramann
2014

Filming Silenzio
2017

Circus of Fear
1966

The Counterfeit Traitor
1962

A Bullet for the General
1967

The Pleasure Girls
1965

Paganini
1990

Creature with the Blue Hand
1967

The Million Eyes of Sumuru
1967

Fruits of Passion
1981

I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death
1969

Android
1982

Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
2022

The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
2021

Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
2021

Jack the Ripper
1976

Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead
1971

Love & Money
1981

Coplan Saves His Skin
1968

Web of the Spider
1971

Zoo zéro
1979

Our Man in Marrakesh
1966

Mark of the Tortoise
1964

Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse
1963

The Devil's Daffodil
1961

The Strange Countess
1961

Traitor's Gate
1964

Death of a Corrupt Man
1977

Timestalkers
1987

The Curse of the Hidden Vault
1964

Footprints on the Moon
1975

Eye of the Spider
1971

Marquis de Sade: Justine
1969

Star Knight
1985

Black Killer
1971

Vengeance Is a Dish Served Cold
1971

A Noose Is Waiting for You Trinity
1972

If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
1968

Five for Hell
1969

The Price of Death
1971

A Time to Love and a Time to Die
1958

Crawlspace
1986

The Door with Seven Locks
1962

Five Golden Dragons
1967

The Ruthless Four
1968

Grand Slam
1967

The Soldier
1982

And God Said to Cain
1970

Salt in the Wound
1969

Creature
1985

Schizoid
1980

The Hand That Feeds the Dead
1974

The Bastard
1968

Twice a Judas
1968

The Bloody Hands of the Law
1973

The Beast
1970

Piccadilly Zero Hour 12
1963

The Night of the Assassin
1970

Lifespan
1975

Adios Compañeros
1971

Man, Pride and Vengeance
1967

Coffin Full of Dollars
1971

His Name Was King
1971

Commando Leopard
1985

The Avenger
1960

The Red Pastures
1962

Western, Italian Style
1968

The Western World of Ferdinando Baldi
2005

Return of Shanghai Joe
1975

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991

Please Kill Mr. Kinski
1999

Kinski rigando Paganini
2003

Double Face
1969

Code Name: Wild Geese
1984

The Song of Roland
1978

Revenge of the Stolen Stars
1986

Target for Killing
1966

The Net
1975

Ludwig II
1955

Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
2019

Madame Claude
1977

Psychopath
1968

Secret of the Chinese Carnation
1964

How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business?
1970

Churchill's Leopards
1970

The Child Woman
1980

Haine
1980

Kali-Yug, Goddess of Vengeance
1963

Waldwinter
1956

Only the Cool
1970

Dead Eyes of London
1961

The Secret of the Black Widow
1963

Children, Mother, and the General
1955

Corinna Darling
1956

Morituri
1948

Whiteface
2002

The Dirty Game
1965

Gangster's Law
1969

Othelo The Great
2024

The Black Cobra
1963

Bankraub in der Rue Latour
1961

The Vatican Affair
1968

Hanussen
1955

Where Are You Taking That Woman
1966

Sarajevo
1955

Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
2000

I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
1979

Fear
1954

Heroes in Hell
1974

White Hunter
1990

The Making of 'Nosferatu'
1979

Gegen das Schweigen - Machtmissbrauch bei Theater und Film
2024

Beauty and the Beast
1984

Portrait: Werner Herzog
1986

The Squeaker
1963

FantastiCozzi
2016

Diary
1983

The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
1984

Location Africa
1987

Fifty Shades of Erotica
2015

For a Few Dollars More
1965

The Mystery of the Indian Temple
1963

Die Kurve
1961

Decision Before Dawn
1951

Lover of the Monster
1974

AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
2020

Beloved Count
2007

The Spaghetti West
2005

Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
2021

The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2020

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014

In Free Fall
2010

Sonntagsgespräch
1985

The Hitchhiker
1983

Am laufenden Band
1974

Zeit zu zweit
1985

Faerie Tale Theatre
1982

Spécial cinéma
1974

German Film Award
1951

Auf los geht's los
1977

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975

NDR Talk Show
1979

Je später der Abend
1973

Na sowas!
1982

Die Drehscheibe
1964

Weltspiegel
1963