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