Cast
Klaus Kinski
Acting
Cast
Klaus Kinski
Known for
Acting
Born
1926-10-18
Died
1991-11-23
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 Fiend. Kinski's roles spanned multiple genres, languages, and nationalities, including Spaghetti Westerns, horror films, war films, dramas, and Edgar Wallace krimi films. His infamy was elevated by a number of eccentric creative endeavors, including a one-man show based on the life of Jesus Christ, a biopic of violinist Niccolò Paganini directed by and starring himself, and over twenty spoken word albums. Kinski was prone to emotional and often violent outbursts aimed at his directors and fellow cast members, issues complicated by a history of mental illness. Herzog described him as "one of the greatest actors of the century, but also a monster and a great pestilence." Posthumously, he was accused of having physically and sexually abused his daughters Pola and Nastassja. His notoriety and prolific output have developed into a widespread cult following and a reputation as a popular icon. Description above from the Wikipedia article Klaus Kinski, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
★8.0
MOVIE1965
For a Few Dollars More
as Juan Wild - The Hunchback
★7.0
MOVIE2015
Fifty Shades of Erotica
as (archive footage)
★5.1
MOVIE1981
Love & Money
as Frederic Stockheinz
★7.6
MOVIE1965
Doctor Zhivago
as Kostoyed Amourski
★5.1
MOVIE1969
Marquis de Sade: Justine
as Marquis De Sade
★7.3
MOVIE1979
Nosferatu the Vampyre
as Count Dracula
★5.2
MOVIE1967
Five Golden Dragons
as Gert
★7.4
MOVIE1972
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
as Don Lope de Aguirre
★6.0
MOVIE2016
FantastiCozzi
as Nosferatu (archive footage)
★5.3
MOVIE1981
Fruits of Passion
as Sir Stephen
MOVIE2007
Beloved Count
as Renfield (archive footage)
★6.9
MOVIE1987
Cobra Verde
as Francisco Manoel da Silva aka Cobra Verde
★6.7
MOVIE1964
Last of the Renegades
as David "Luke" Lucas
★5.5
MOVIE1980
Haine
as Le motard
★10.0
MOVIE1963
Die Mondvögel
as Valentin
★7.0
MOVIE1971
Adios Compañeros
as Reverend Cotton
★7.6
MOVIE1982
Fitzcarraldo
as Fitzcarraldo
★5.0
MOVIE1990
White Hunter
as Klaus Naginsky
★5.2
MOVIE1968
Coplan Saves His Skin
as Theler
★7.0
MOVIE2002
Whiteface
as (archive footage)
★5.8
MOVIE1988
Nosferatu in Venice
as Nosferatu
★5.8
MOVIE2005
The Spaghetti West
as Self (archive footage)
★5.3
MOVIE1990
Paganini
as Niccolo Paganini
★7.3
MOVIE1999
My Best Fiend
as Self (archive footage)
★4.9
MOVIE1977
Madame Claude
as Alexander Zakis
★7.5
MOVIE1968
The Great Silence
as Loco (Tigrero)
★5.2
MOVIE1979
Zoo zéro
as Yavé, le directeur du zoo
★5.4
MOVIE1986
Crawlspace
as Karl Gunther
★6.7
MOVIE1970
And God Said to Cain
as Gary Hamilton
★6.4
MOVIE1984
Beauty and the Beast
as Beast
★5.3
MOVIE1984
Code Name: Wild Geese
as Charleton
★6.8
MOVIE1951
Decision Before Dawn
as Whining Soldier (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1977
Death of a Corrupt Man
as Nicolas Tomski
★5.3
MOVIE1982
The Soldier
as Dracha
★5.9
MOVIE1966
Our Man in Marrakesh
as Jonquil
★6.3
MOVIE1979
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
as Self
★6.6
MOVIE1961
The Strange Countess
as Bresset
★5.8
MOVIE1968
The Bastard
as Adam
★5.1
MOVIE1976
Golden Night
as Michel Fournier
★6.2
MOVIE1965
Again the Ringer
as Edwards
★5.6
MOVIE1965
The Pleasure Girls
as Nikko Stalmar
★6.0
MOVIE1964
Traitor's Gate
as Kane
MOVIE2017
Filming Silenzio
as (archive footage)
★6.2
MOVIE1981
Buddy Buddy
as Dr. Hugo Zuckerbrot
★7.2
MOVIE2014
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
as Self - Actor (archive footage) (uncredited)
★5.6
MOVIE1984
The Little Drummer Girl
as Martin Kurtz
MOVIE2020
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
as (archive footage)
★6.0
MOVIE1968
If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
as Morgan
★5.8
MOVIE1967
Man, Pride and Vengeance
as Lt. Miguel Garcia
★5.0
MOVIE1971
Black Killer
as James Webb / Black Killer
★7.1
MOVIE1967
Grand Slam
as Erich Weiss
★5.9
MOVIE1964
The Curse of the Hidden Vault
as George
★7.2
MOVIE1958
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
as Gestapo Lieutenant
★6.5
MOVIE1962
The Counterfeit Traitor
as Kindler
★5.5
MOVIE1978
The Song of Roland
as Roland / Klaus
★5.9
MOVIE1969
Double Face
as John Alexander
★5.7
MOVIE1971
Vengeance Is a Dish Served Cold
as Virgil Prescott
★7.1
MOVIE1986
Portrait: Werner Herzog
as Self (archive footage)
★4.1
MOVIE1985
Star Knight
as Boetius
★7.0
MOVIE1975
That Most Important Thing: Love
as Karl-Heinz Zimmer
★7.6
MOVIE1982
Burden of Dreams
as Self - Actor
★6.3
MOVIE1975
A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
as Doc Foster
★5.9
MOVIE1970
Count Dracula
as Renfield
★4.8
MOVIE1971
Slaughter Hotel
as Dr. Francis Clay
★5.9
MOVIE1973
Death Smiles on a Murderer
as Dr. Sturges
★4.7
MOVIE1985
Creature
as Hans Rudy Hofner
★4.5
MOVIE1974
Heroes in Hell
as Gen. Kaufmann
★5.7
MOVIE1981
Venom
as Jacques Müller (Jacmel)
★6.7
MOVIE1960
The Avenger
as Lorenz Voss
★6.5
MOVIE1969
I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death
as Chadeau / Holden / Hot Dead
★5.4
MOVIE1969
Venus in Furs
as Ahmed Kortobawi
★5.5
MOVIE1982
Android
as Dr. Daniel
★6.6
MOVIE1967
A Bullet for the General
as El Santo
★5.8
MOVIE1980
The Child Woman
as Marcel
★6.0
MOVIE1968
Twice a Judas
as Dingus
★6.4
MOVIE1954
Fear
as Cabaret Performer (uncredited)
★6.6
MOVIE1979
Woyzeck
as Friedrich Johann Franz Woyzeck
★6.3
MOVIE1975
Footprints on the Moon
as Professor Blackmann
★5.3
MOVIE1980
Schizoid
as Dr. Pieter Fales
★6.6
MOVIE1968
Western, Italian Style
as Self
★5.9
MOVIE1976
Jack the Ripper
as Dr. Dennis Orloff / Jack the Ripper
★5.8
MOVIE1961
The Devil's Daffodil
as Peter Keene
★6.6
MOVIE1969
Salt in the Wound
as Cpl. Brian Haskins / Norman Carr
★6.5
MOVIE1962
The Door with Seven Locks
as Pheeny
★6.1
MOVIE1970
The Beast
as Johnny Laster
★6.1
MOVIE1961
Dead Eyes of London
as Edgar Strauss
★6.2
MOVIE1967
Creature with the Blue Hand
as Dave Emerson / Richard Emerson
★5.7
MOVIE1972
A Noose Is Waiting for You Trinity
as Scott
★5.8
MOVIE1971
Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead
as Dan Hogan
★7.0
MOVIE2005
The Western World of Ferdinando Baldi
as Self (archive footage)
★6.6
MOVIE1966
Target for Killing
as Caporetti
★6.9
MOVIE2008
Jesus Christ Saviour
as Self
★2.9
MOVIE1970
How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business?
as Juan José Ignatio Rodriguez de Calderon / 'Sam'
★5.7
MOVIE1971
His Name Was King
as Brian Foster
★6.0
MOVIE1971
The Price of Death
as Chester Conway / Ray
★5.9
MOVIE1968
The Ruthless Four
as Brent il Biondo
★6.2
MOVIE1985
Commando Leopard
as Silveira
★5.8
MOVIE1975
Return of Shanghai Joe
as Pat Barnes
★4.6
MOVIE1974
The Hand That Feeds the Dead
as Prof. Nijinski
★5.7
MOVIE1965
That Man in Istanbul
as Schenck
★4.3
MOVIE1967
The Million Eyes of Sumuru
as President Boong
★7.1
MOVIE1983
Diary
as (archive footage)
★6.0
MOVIE1965
The Dirty Game
as Russian Agent
★6.4
MOVIE1955
Children, Mother, and the General
as Leutnant, der nicht mehr lacht
★5.5
MOVIE1966
Circus of Fear
as Manfred
MOVIE2024
Othelo The Great
as Self (archive footage)
★7.0
MOVIE2021
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
★4.5
MOVIE1971
Eye of the Spider
as Hans Fischer
★5.9
MOVIE1970
Only the Cool
as Pavel Richko / Torpédo I
★7.0
MOVIE1970
The Night of the Assassin
as Evagoras
★5.4
MOVIE1987
Timestalkers
as Dr. Joseph Cole
★6.8
MOVIE1962
The Inn on the River
as Gregor Gubanow
★7.5
MOVIE1963
The Black Cobra
as Koks-Charley
★4.8
MOVIE2022
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
as Self (archive footage)
★5.7
MOVIE1971
Coffin Full of Dollars
as Dan Hagen / Slander
★6.7
MOVIE1969
Gangster's Law
as Quintero
★5.8
MOVIE1971
Web of the Spider
as Edgar Allan Poe
★6.5
MOVIE1999
Please Kill Mr. Kinski
as Self (archive footage)
★6.3
MOVIE1975
The Net
as Emilio Bossi
★5.0
MOVIE1969
Five for Hell
as SS Col. Hans Mueller
★6.8
MOVIE1963
The Indian Scarf
as Peter Ross
★6.1
MOVIE1977
Operation Thunderbolt
as Wilfried Boese
★8.0
MOVIE2003
Kinski rigando Paganini
as Self
★6.5
MOVIE1963
The Squeaker
as Krishna
★7.2
MOVIE1973
The Bloody Hands of the Law
as Vito Quattroni
★6.9
MOVIE1963
Piccadilly Zero Hour 12
as Whitey
★5.1
MOVIE1973
The Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe
as Scalper Jack
★5.0
MOVIE1963
Kali-Yug, Goddess of Vengeance
as Saddhu
★5.6
MOVIE1970
Churchill's Leopards
as Captain Holtz
MOVIE2020
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
as (archive footage)
★9.5
MOVIE1991
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
as Renfield (archive footage)
★5.3
MOVIE1963
The Mystery of the Indian Temple
★6.4
MOVIE1963
Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse
as Inspector Joe Wright
★8.0
MOVIE1979
I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
as Voice
★5.8
MOVIE1962
The Secret of the Red Orchid
as Steve
★7.2
MOVIE1955
Ludwig II
as Prince Otto von Bayern
★6.7
MOVIE1962
The Red Pastures
as Martin
★3.8
MOVIE1968
The Vatican Affair
as Clint Rogers
★6.2
MOVIE1963
The Black Abbot
as Thomas Fortuna
★7.0
MOVIE2019
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
as Self (archive footage)
★6.2
MOVIE1963
The Secret of the Black Widow
as Boyd
★7.0
MOVIE1987
Location Africa
as Self
★8.5
MOVIE1961
Bankraub in der Rue Latour
as Bex, Autor
★6.5
MOVIE1964
Mark of the Tortoise
as Shapiro
★6.7
MOVIE1956
Corinna Darling
as Klaus Brockmann
★7.0
MOVIE1964
The Last Ride to Santa Cruz
as Jose
★7.4
MOVIE1966
Where Are You Taking That Woman
as Gomez (Rio segment)
★6.0
MOVIE1964
Secret of the Chinese Carnation
as Speranzo
MOVIE2021
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
as Self (archive footage)
★7.0
MOVIE1955
Sarajevo
as Nedeljko Čabrinović
MOVIE2000
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
as Self (archive footage)
★5.0
MOVIE1975
Lifespan
as Nicholas Ulrich
★6.7
MOVIE1948
Morituri
as Dutch prisoner
MOVIE2010
In Free Fall
as Self (archive footage)
★4.0
MOVIE1986
Revenge of the Stolen Stars
as Donald McBride
★4.6
MOVIE1984
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
as Dr. Max Bauer
★8.5
MOVIE1968
Psychopath
as Periwinkle
★10.0
MOVIE1956
Waldwinter
as Otto Hartwig
★8.0
MOVIE1961
Die Kurve
as Anton
★8.0
MOVIE1955
Hanussen
as Erik von Spazier / Mirko
MOVIE2021
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE2014
Peter Baumgartner, Filmkameramann
as (archive footage)
★6.0
MOVIE2024
Gegen das Schweigen - Machtmissbrauch bei Theater und Film
as Self (archive footage)