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

Known For

NDR Talk Show

Spécial cinéma

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

The Hitchhiker

Faerie Tale Theatre

Fifty Shades of Erotica

For a Few Dollars More

Doctor Zhivago

All Movies (164)

• Othelo The Great2024 · as Self (archive footage)
• Gegen das Schweigen - Machtmissbrauch bei Theater und Film2024 · as Self (archive footage)
• Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire2022 · as Self (archive footage)
• Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained2021 · as Self - Actor (archive footage)
• The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus2021 · as Self (archive footage)
• Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life2021 · as Self (archive footage)
• AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.2020 · as (archive footage)
• The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault2020 · as (archive footage)
• Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau2019 · as Self (archive footage)
• Filming Silenzio2017 · as (archive footage)
• FantastiCozzi2016 · as Nosferatu (archive footage)
• Fifty Shades of Erotica2015 · as (archive footage)
• Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films2014 · as Self - Actor (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Peter Baumgartner, Filmkameramann2014 · as (archive footage)
• In Free Fall2010 · as Self (archive footage)
• Jesus Christ Saviour2008 · as Self
• Beloved Count2007 · as Renfield (archive footage)
• The Spaghetti West2005 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Western World of Ferdinando Baldi2005 · as Self (archive footage)
• Kinski rigando Paganini2003 · as Self
• Whiteface2002 · as (archive footage)
• Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor2000 · as Self (archive footage)
• My Best Fiend1999 · as Self (archive footage)
• Please Kill Mr. Kinski1999 · as Self (archive footage)
• Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook1991 · as Renfield (archive footage)
• Paganini1990 · as Niccolo Paganini
• White Hunter1990 · as Klaus Naginsky
• Nosferatu in Venice1988 · as Nosferatu
• Cobra Verde1987 · as Francisco Manoel da Silva aka Cobra Verde
• Timestalkers1987 · as Dr. Joseph Cole
• Location Africa1987 · as Self
• Crawlspace1986 · as Karl Gunther
• Portrait: Werner Herzog1986 · as Self (archive footage)
• Revenge of the Stolen Stars1986 · as Donald McBride
• Star Knight1985 · as Boetius
• Commando Leopard1985 · as Silveira
• Creature1985 · as Hans Rudy Hofner
• The Little Drummer Girl1984 · as Martin Kurtz
• Code Name: Wild Geese1984 · as Charleton
• Beauty and the Beast1984 · as Beast
• The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud1984 · as Dr. Max Bauer
• Diary1983 · as (archive footage)
• Android1982 · as Dr. Daniel
• Burden of Dreams1982 · as Self - Actor
• The Soldier1982 · as Dracha
• Fitzcarraldo1982 · as Fitzcarraldo
• Venom1981 · as Jacques Müller (Jacmel)
• Love & Money1981 · as Frederic Stockheinz
• Fruits of Passion1981 · as Sir Stephen
• Buddy Buddy1981 · as Dr. Hugo Zuckerbrot
• The Child Woman1980 · as Marcel
• Schizoid1980 · as Dr. Pieter Fales
• Haine1980 · as Le motard
• The Making of 'Nosferatu'1979 · as Self
• Woyzeck1979 · as Friedrich Johann Franz Woyzeck
• Zoo zéro1979 · as Yavé, le directeur du zoo
• I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog1979 · as Voice
• Nosferatu the Vampyre1979 · as Count Dracula
• The Song of Roland1978 · as Roland / Klaus
• Death of a Corrupt Man1977 · as Nicolas Tomski
• Operation Thunderbolt1977 · as Wilfried Boese
• Madame Claude1977 · as Alexander Zakis
• Golden Night1976 · as Michel Fournier
• Jack the Ripper1976 · as Dr. Dennis Orloff / Jack the Ripper
• The Net1975 · as Emilio Bossi
• A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot1975 · as Doc Foster
• Lifespan1975 · as Nicholas Ulrich
• Return of Shanghai Joe1975 · as Pat Barnes
• That Most Important Thing: Love1975 · as Karl-Heinz Zimmer
• Footprints on the Moon1975 · as Professor Blackmann
• Heroes in Hell1974 · as Gen. Kaufmann
• The Hand That Feeds the Dead1974 · as Prof. Nijinski
• Lover of the Monster1974 · as Dr. Alex Nijinski
• The Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe1973 · as Scalper Jack
• Death Smiles on a Murderer1973 · as Dr. Sturges
• The Bloody Hands of the Law1973 · as Vito Quattroni
• Aguirre, the Wrath of God1972 · as Don Lope de Aguirre
• A Noose Is Waiting for You Trinity1972 · as Scott
• Black Killer1971 · as James Webb / Black Killer
• Eye of the Spider1971 · as Hans Fischer
• The Price of Death1971 · as Chester Conway / Ray
• Web of the Spider1971 · as Edgar Allan Poe
• Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead1971 · as Dan Hogan
• Vengeance Is a Dish Served Cold1971 · as Virgil Prescott
• Slaughter Hotel1971 · as Dr. Francis Clay
• His Name Was King1971 · as Brian Foster
• Adios Compañeros1971 · as Reverend Cotton
• Coffin Full of Dollars1971 · as Dan Hagen / Slander
• The Beast1970 · as Johnny Laster
• Churchill's Leopards1970 · as Captain Holtz
• The Night of the Assassin1970 · as Evagoras
• Only the Cool1970 · as Pavel Richko / Torpédo I
• Count Dracula1970 · as Renfield
• And God Said to Cain1970 · as Gary Hamilton
• How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business?1970 · as Juan José Ignatio Rodriguez de Calderon / 'Sam'
• I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death1969 · as Chadeau / Holden / Hot Dead
• Venus in Furs1969 · as Ahmed Kortobawi
• Salt in the Wound1969 · as Cpl. Brian Haskins / Norman Carr
• Gangster's Law1969 · as Quintero
• Double Face1969 · as John Alexander
• Marquis de Sade: Justine1969 · as Marquis De Sade
• Five for Hell1969 · as SS Col. Hans Mueller
• The Great Silence1968 · as Loco (Tigrero)
• The Bastard1968 · as Adam
• The Vatican Affair1968 · as Clint Rogers
• Twice a Judas1968 · as Dingus
• If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death1968 · as Morgan
• Coplan Saves His Skin1968 · as Theler
• Psychopath1968 · as Periwinkle
• The Ruthless Four1968 · as Brent il Biondo
• Western, Italian Style1968 · as Self
• Man, Pride and Vengeance1967 · as Lt. Miguel Garcia
• Grand Slam1967 · as Erich Weiss
• Five Golden Dragons1967 · as Gert
• The Million Eyes of Sumuru1967 · as President Boong
• Creature with the Blue Hand1967 · as Dave Emerson / Richard Emerson
• A Bullet for the General1967 · as El Santo
• Target for Killing1966 · as Caporetti
• Where Are You Taking That Woman1966 · as Gomez (Rio segment)
• Our Man in Marrakesh1966 · as Jonquil
• Circus of Fear1966 · as Manfred
• Doctor Zhivago1965 · as Kostoyed Amourski
• For a Few Dollars More1965 · as Juan Wild - The Hunchback
• That Man in Istanbul1965 · as Schenck
• The Dirty Game1965 · as Russian Agent
• Again the Ringer1965 · as Edwards
• The Pleasure Girls1965 · as Nikko Stalmar
• Traitor's Gate1964 · as Kane
• Secret of the Chinese Carnation1964 · as Speranzo
• Last of the Renegades1964 · as David "Luke" Lucas
• The Curse of the Hidden Vault1964 · as George
• Mark of the Tortoise1964 · as Shapiro
• The Last Ride to Santa Cruz1964 · as Jose
• Piccadilly Zero Hour 121963 · as Whitey
• The Secret of the Black Widow1963 · as Boyd
• The Mystery of the Indian Temple1963
• Kali-Yug, Goddess of Vengeance1963 · as Saddhu
• Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse1963 · as Inspector Joe Wright
• The Indian Scarf1963 · as Peter Ross
• The Black Abbot1963 · as Thomas Fortuna
• The Black Cobra1963 · as Koks-Charley
• The Squeaker1963 · as Krishna
• Die Mondvögel1963 · as Valentin
• The Inn on the River1962 · as Gregor Gubanow
• The Door with Seven Locks1962 · as Pheeny
• The Red Pastures1962 · as Martin
• The Counterfeit Traitor1962 · as Kindler
• The Secret of the Red Orchid1962 · as Steve
• The Strange Countess1961 · as Bresset
• Die Kurve1961 · as Anton
• The Devil's Daffodil1961 · as Peter Keene
• Bankraub in der Rue Latour1961 · as Bex, Autor
• Dead Eyes of London1961 · as Edgar Strauss
• The Avenger1960 · as Lorenz Voss
• A Time to Love and a Time to Die1958 · as Gestapo Lieutenant
• Corinna Darling1956 · as Klaus Brockmann
• Waldwinter1956 · as Otto Hartwig
• Hanussen1955 · as Erik von Spazier / Mirko
• Sarajevo1955 · as Nedeljko Čabrinović
• Children, Mother, and the General1955 · as Leutnant, der nicht mehr lacht
• Ludwig II1955 · as Prince Otto von Bayern
• Fear1954 · as Cabaret Performer (uncredited)
• Decision Before Dawn1951 · as Whining Soldier (uncredited)
• Morituri1948 · as Dutch prisoner

All TV Shows (16)

• Sternstunde Kunst1998 · as Self
• Otto – The Series1995 · as Verschiedene
• Sonntagsgespräch1985 · as Self
• Zeit zu zweit1985 · as Self - Interviewee
• The Hitchhiker1983 · as Kurt Hoffman
• Faerie Tale Theatre1982 · as Beast
• Na sowas!1982 · as Self
• NDR Talk Show1979 · as Self
• Auf los geht's los1977 · as Self
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche1975 · as Self
• Spécial cinéma1974 · as Self
• Am laufenden Band1974 · as Self - Guest
• Je später der Abend1973 · as Self
• Die Drehscheibe1964 · as Self
• Weltspiegel1963 · as Self
• German Film Award1951 · as Self