Klaus Kinski
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday18 October 1926
Died23 November 1991 (age 65)
Known credits181
Biography
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 would later chronicle their tumultuous relationship in the documentary My Best F…
Al borde del abismo: la aventura peruana de Werner Herzog
2026
Othelo The Great
2024 · Self (archive footage)
Gegen das Schweigen - Machtmissbrauch bei Theater und Film
2024 · Self (archive footage)
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
2022 · Self (archive footage)
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
2021 · Self - Actor (archive footage)
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
2021 · Self (archive footage)
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
2020 · (archive footage)
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2020 · (archive footage)
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
2019 · Self (archive footage)
Filming Silenzio
2017 · (archive footage)
FantastiCozzi
2016 · Nosferatu (archive footage)
Fifty Shades of Erotica
2015 · (archive footage)
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014 · Self - Actor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Peter Baumgartner, Filmkameramann
2014 · (archive footage)
In Free Fall
2010 · Self (archive footage)
Jesus Christ Saviour
2008 · Self
Jesus Christ Saviour
2008 · Writer
Beloved Count
2007 · Renfield (archive footage)
The Spaghetti West
2005 · Self (archive footage)
The Western World of Ferdinando Baldi
2005 · Self (archive footage)
Kinski rigando Paganini
2003 · Self
Whiteface
2002 · (archive footage)
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
2000 · Self (archive footage)
My Best Fiend
1999 · Self (archive footage)
Please Kill Mr. Kinski
1999 · Self (archive footage)
Sternstunde Kunst
1998 · Self
Otto – The Series
1995 · Verschiedene
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991 · Renfield (archive footage)
Paganini
1990 · Niccolo Paganini
Paganini
1990 · Director
Paganini
1990 · Writer
Paganini
1990 · Editor
Paganini
1990 · Story
Paganini
1990 · Screenplay
White Hunter
1990 · Klaus Naginsky
Nosferatu in Venice
1988 · Nosferatu
Cobra Verde
1987 · Francisco Manoel da Silva aka Cobra Verde
Timestalkers
1987 · Dr. Joseph Cole
Location Africa
1987 · Self
Crawlspace
1986 · Karl Gunther
Portrait: Werner Herzog
1986 · Self (archive footage)
Revenge of the Stolen Stars
1986 · Donald McBride
Star Knight
1985 · Boetius
Commando Leopard
1985 · Silveira
Creature
1985 · Hans Rudy Hofner
Sonntagsgespräch
1985 · Self
Zeit zu zweit
1985 · Self - Interviewee
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