
Klaus Kinski
Acting • Born 1926-10-18 – Died 1991-11-23
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.
Filmography
179 credits
Doctor Zhivago
Movie • 1965
Kostoyed Amourski

Woyzeck
Movie • 1979
Friedrich Johann Franz Woyzeck

That Most Important Thing: Love
Movie • 1975
Karl-Heinz Zimmer

Secret of the Red Orchid
Movie • 1962
Steve

The Last Ride to Santa Cruz
Movie • 1964
Jose

Jesus Christ Saviour
Movie • 2008
Self

Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Movie • 1972
Don Lope de Aguirre

Last of the Renegades
Movie • 1964
David "Luke" Lucas

Die Mondvögel
Movie • 1963
Valentin

A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
Movie • 1975
Doc Foster

Death Smiles on a Murderer
Movie • 1973
Dr. Sturges

That Man in Istanbul
Movie • 1965
Schenck

Count Dracula
Movie • 1970
Renfield

Cobra Verde
Movie • 1987
Francisco Manoel da Silva aka Cobra Verde

Nosferatu the Vampyre
Movie • 1979
Count Dracula

The Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe
Movie • 1973
Scalper Jack

The Black Abbot
Movie • 1963
Thomas Fortuna

The Inn on the River
Movie • 1962
Gregor Gubanow

Venom
Movie • 1981
Jacques Müller (Jacmel)

My Best Fiend
Movie • 1999
Self (archive footage)

The Little Drummer Girl
Movie • 1984
Martin Kurtz

The Great Silence
Movie • 1968
Loco (Tigrero)

Golden Night
Movie • 1976
Michel Fournier

Fitzcarraldo
Movie • 1982
Fitzcarraldo

Operation Thunderbolt
Movie • 1977
Wilfried Boese

The Indian Scarf
Movie • 1963
Peter Ross

Again the Ringer
Movie • 1965
Edwards

Slaughter Hotel
Movie • 1971
Dr. Francis Clay

Nosferatu in Venice
Movie • 1988
Nosferatu

Venus in Furs
Movie • 1969
Ahmed Kortobawi

Buddy Buddy
Movie • 1981
Dr. Hugo Zuckerbrot

Burden of Dreams
Movie • 1982
Self - Actor

Peter Baumgartner, Filmkameramann
Movie • 2014
(archive footage)

Filming Silenzio
Movie • 2017
(archive footage)

Circus of Fear
Movie • 1966
Manfred

The Counterfeit Traitor
Movie • 1962
Kindler

A Bullet for the General
Movie • 1967
El Santo

The Pleasure Girls
Movie • 1965
Nikko Stalmar

Paganini
Movie • 1990
Niccolo Paganini

Creature with the Blue Hand
Movie • 1967
Dave Emerson / Richard Emerson

The Million Eyes of Sumuru
Movie • 1967
President Boong

Fruits of Passion
Movie • 1981
Sir Stephen

I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death
Movie • 1969
Chadeau / Holden / Hot Dead

Android
Movie • 1982
Dr. Daniel

Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)

The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)

Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)

Jack the Ripper
Movie • 1976
Dr. Dennis Orloff / Jack the Ripper

Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead
Movie • 1971
Dan Hogan

Love & Money
Movie • 1981
Frederic Stockheinz

Coplan Saves His Skin
Movie • 1968
Theler

Web of the Spider
Movie • 1971
Edgar Allan Poe

Zoo zéro
Movie • 1979
Yavé, le directeur du zoo

Our Man in Marrakesh
Movie • 1966
Jonquil

Mark of the Tortoise
Movie • 1964
Shapiro

Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse
Movie • 1963
Inspector Joe Wright

The Devil's Daffodil
Movie • 1961
Peter Keene

The Strange Countess
Movie • 1961
Bresset

Traitor's Gate
Movie • 1964
Kane

Death of a Corrupt Man
Movie • 1977
Nicolas Tomski

Timestalkers
Movie • 1987
Dr. Joseph Cole

The Curse of the Hidden Vault
Movie • 1964
George

Footprints on the Moon
Movie • 1975
Professor Blackmann

Eye of the Spider
Movie • 1971
Hans Fischer

Marquis de Sade: Justine
Movie • 1969
Marquis De Sade

Star Knight
Movie • 1985
Boetius

Black Killer
Movie • 1971
James Webb / Black Killer

Vengeance Is a Dish Served Cold
Movie • 1971
Virgil Prescott

A Noose Is Waiting for You Trinity
Movie • 1972
Scott

If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
Movie • 1968
Morgan

Five for Hell
Movie • 1969
SS Col. Hans Mueller

The Price of Death
Movie • 1971
Chester Conway / Ray

A Time to Love and a Time to Die
Movie • 1958
Gestapo Lieutenant

Crawlspace
Movie • 1986
Karl Gunther

The Door with Seven Locks
Movie • 1962
Pheeny

Five Golden Dragons
Movie • 1967
Gert

The Ruthless Four
Movie • 1968
Brent il Biondo

Grand Slam
Movie • 1967
Erich Weiss

The Soldier
Movie • 1982
Dracha

And God Said to Cain
Movie • 1970
Gary Hamilton

Salt in the Wound
Movie • 1969
Cpl. Brian Haskins / Norman Carr

Creature
Movie • 1985
Hans Rudy Hofner

Schizoid
Movie • 1980
Dr. Pieter Fales

The Hand That Feeds the Dead
Movie • 1974
Prof. Nijinski

The Bastard
Movie • 1968
Adam

Twice a Judas
Movie • 1968
Dingus

The Bloody Hands of the Law
Movie • 1973
Vito Quattroni

The Beast
Movie • 1970
Johnny Laster

Piccadilly Zero Hour 12
Movie • 1963
Whitey

The Night of the Assassin
Movie • 1970
Evagoras

Lifespan
Movie • 1975
Nicholas Ulrich

Man, Pride and Vengeance
Movie • 1967
Lt. Miguel Garcia

Adios Compañeros
Movie • 1971
Reverend Cotton

Coffin Full of Dollars
Movie • 1971
Dan Hagen / Slander

His Name Was King
Movie • 1971
Brian Foster

Commando Leopard
Movie • 1985
Silveira

The Avenger
Movie • 1960
Lorenz Voss

The Red Pastures
Movie • 1962
Martin

Western, Italian Style
Movie • 1968
Self

The Western World of Ferdinando Baldi
Movie • 2005
Self (archive footage)

Return of Shanghai Joe
Movie • 1975
Pat Barnes

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Movie • 1991
Renfield (archive footage)

Please Kill Mr. Kinski
Movie • 1999
Self (archive footage)

Kinski rigando Paganini
Movie • 2003
Self

Double Face
Movie • 1969
John Alexander

Code Name: Wild Geese
Movie • 1984
Charleton

The Song of Roland
Movie • 1978
Roland / Klaus

Revenge of the Stolen Stars
Movie • 1986
Donald McBride

Target for Killing
Movie • 1966
Caporetti

The Net
Movie • 1975
Emilio Bossi

Ludwig II
Movie • 1955
Prince Otto von Bayern

Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)

Madame Claude
Movie • 1977
Alexander Zakis

Psychopath
Movie • 1968
Periwinkle

Secret of the Chinese Carnation
Movie • 1964
Speranzo

How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business?
Movie • 1970
Juan José Ignatio Rodriguez de Calderon / 'Sam'

Churchill's Leopards
Movie • 1970
Captain Holtz

The Child Woman
Movie • 1980
Marcel

Haine
Movie • 1980
Le motard

Kali-Yug, Goddess of Vengeance
Movie • 1963
Saddhu

Waldwinter
Movie • 1956
Otto Hartwig

Only the Cool
Movie • 1970
Pavel Richko / Torpédo I

The Secret of the Black Widow
Movie • 1963
Boyd

Dead Eyes of London
Movie • 1961
Edgar Strauss

Children, Mother, and the General
Movie • 1955
Leutnant, der nicht mehr lacht

Corinna Darling
Movie • 1956
Klaus Brockmann

Morituri
Movie • 1948
Dutch prisoner

Whiteface
Movie • 2002
(archive footage)

The Dirty Game
Movie • 1965
Russian Agent

Gangster's Law
Movie • 1969
Quintero

Othelo The Great
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)

Bankraub in der Rue Latour
Movie • 1961
Bex, Autor

The Black Cobra
Movie • 1963
Koks-Charley

The Vatican Affair
Movie • 1968
Clint Rogers

Hanussen
Movie • 1955
Erik von Spazier / Mirko

Where Are You Taking That Woman
Movie • 1966
Gomez (Rio segment)

Sarajevo
Movie • 1955
Nedeljko Čabrinović

Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
Movie • 2000
Self (archive footage)

I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
Movie • 1979
Voice

Fear
Movie • 1954
Cabaret Performer

Heroes in Hell
Movie • 1974
Gen. Kaufmann

White Hunter
Movie • 1990
Klaus Naginsky

The Making of 'Nosferatu'
Movie • 1979
Self

Gegen das Schweigen - Machtmissbrauch bei Theater und Film
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)

Beauty and the Beast
Movie • 1984
Beast

Portrait: Werner Herzog
Movie • 1986
Self (archive footage)

The Squeaker
Movie • 1963
Krishna

FantastiCozzi
Movie • 2016
Nosferatu (archive footage)

Diary
Movie • 1983
(archive footage)

The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
Movie • 1984
Dr. Max Bauer

Location Africa
Movie • 1987
Self

Fifty Shades of Erotica
Movie • 2015
(archive footage)

For a Few Dollars More
Movie • 1965
Juan Wild - The Hunchback

The Mystery of the Indian Temple
Movie • 1963

Die Kurve
Movie • 1961
Anton

Decision Before Dawn
Movie • 1951
Whining Soldier (uncredited)

Lover of the Monster
Movie • 1974
Dr. Alex Nijinski

AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
Movie • 2020
(archive footage)

Beloved Count
Movie • 2007
Renfield (archive footage)

The Spaghetti West
Movie • 2005
Self (archive footage)

Kinski
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)

Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
Movie • 2021
Self - Actor (archive footage)

The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
Movie • 2020
(archive footage)

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Movie • 2014
Self - Actor (archive footage) (uncredited)

In Free Fall
Movie • 2010
Self (archive footage)

Sonntagsgespräch
TV • 1985
Self

The Hitchhiker
TV • 1983
Kurt Hoffman

Am laufenden Band
TV • 1974
Self - Guest

Zeit zu zweit
TV • 1985
Self - Interviewee

Faerie Tale Theatre
TV • 1982
Beast

Spécial cinéma
TV • 1974
Self

German Film Award
TV • 1951
Self

Auf los geht's los
TV • 1977
Self

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV • 1975
Self

NDR Talk Show
TV • 1979
Self

Je später der Abend
TV • 1973
Self

Na sowas!
TV • 1982
Self

Die Drehscheibe
TV • 1964
Self

Weltspiegel
TV • 1963
Self