Portrait of Klaus Kinski

Klaus Kinski

Acting

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.

Born: October 18, 1926

Filmography

2024
Othelo The Great

as Self (archive footage)

2024
Kinski

as Self (archive footage)

2022
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire

as Self (archive footage)

2021
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

2021
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life

as Self (archive footage)

2020
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault

as (archive footage)

2019
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau

as Self (archive footage)

2016
FantastiCozzi

as Nosferatu (archive footage)

2015
Fifty Shades of Erotica

as (archive footage)

2014
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

as Self - Actor (archive footage) (uncredited)

2007
Beloved Count

as Renfield (archive footage)

2005
The Spaghetti West

as Self (archive footage)

2002
Whiteface

as (archive footage)

1999
My Best Fiend

as Self (archive footage)

1999
Please Kill Mr. Kinski

as Self (archive footage)

1991
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

as Renfield (archive footage)

1990
Paganini

as Niccolo Paganini

1990
White Hunter

as Klaus Naginsky

1988
1987
Cobra Verde

as Francisco Manoel da Silva aka Cobra Verde

1987
Timestalkers

as Dr. Joseph Cole

1987
1986
Crawlspace

as Karl Gunther

1986
Portrait: Werner Herzog

as Self (archive footage)

1986
1985
Star Knight

as Boetius

1985
Commando Leopard

as Silveira

1985
Creature

as Hans Rudy Hofner

1984
1984
1983
The Hitchhiker

as Kurt Hoffman

1983
Diary

as (archive footage)

1982
Android

as Dr. Daniel

1982
Burden of Dreams

as Self - Actor

1982
The Soldier

as Dracha

1982
Fitzcarraldo

as Fitzcarraldo

1981
Venom

as Jacques Müller (Jacmel)

1981
Love & Money

as Frederic Stockheinz

1981
Fruits of Passion

as Sir Stephen

1981
Buddy Buddy

as Dr. Hugo Zuckerbrot

1980
1980
Schizoid

as Dr. Pieter Fales

1980
Haine

as Le motard

1979
Woyzeck

as Friedrich Johann Franz Woyzeck

1979
Zoo zéro

as Yavé, le directeur du zoo

1979
1979
Nosferatu the Vampyre

as Count Dracula

1978
The Song of Roland

as Roland / Klaus

1977
Death of a Corrupt Man

as Nicolas Tomski

1977
Operation Thunderbolt

as Wilfried Boese

1977
Madame Claude

as Alexander Zakis

1976
Golden Night

as Michel Fournier

1976
Jack the Ripper

as Dr. Dennis Orloff / Jack the Ripper

1975
The Net

as Emilio Bossi

1975
Lifespan

as Nicholas Ulrich

1975
1975
1975
Footprints on the Moon

as Professor Blackmann

1974
1974
Heroes in Hell

as Gen. Kaufmann

1974
1974
Lover of the Monster

as Dr. Alex Nijinski

1974
Am laufenden Band

as Self - Guest

1973
1973
1972
Aguirre, the Wrath of God

as Don Lope de Aguirre

1971
Black Killer

as James Webb / Black Killer

1971
Eye of the Spider

as Hans Fischer

1971
The Price of Death

as Chester Conway / Ray

1971
Web of the Spider

as Edgar Allan Poe

1971
1971
Slaughter Hotel

as Dr. Francis Clay

1971
His Name Was King

as Brian Foster

1971
Adios Compañeros

as Reverend Cotton

1971
Coffin Full of Dollars

as Dan Hagen / Slander

1970
The Beast

as Johnny Laster

1970
Churchill's Leopards

as Captain Holtz

1970
Only the Cool

as Pavel Richko / Torpédo I

1970
Count Dracula

as Renfield

1970
And God Said to Cain

as Gary Hamilton

1970
How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business?

as Juan José Ignatio Rodriguez de Calderon / 'Sam'

1969
I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death

as Chadeau / Holden / Hot Dead

1969
Venus in Furs

as Ahmed Kortobawi

1969
Salt in the Wound

as Cpl. Brian Haskins / Norman Carr

1969
Gangster's Law

as Quintero

1969
Double Face

as John Alexander

1969
Marquis de Sade: Justine

as Marquis De Sade

1969
Five for Hell

as SS Col. Hans Mueller

1968
The Great Silence

as Loco (Tigrero)

1968
1968
The Vatican Affair

as Clint Rogers

1968
Twice a Judas

as Dingus

1968
Psychopath

as Periwinkle

1968
The Ruthless Four

as Brent il Biondo

1967
Man, Pride and Vengeance

as Lt. Miguel Garcia

1967
Grand Slam

as Erich Weiss

1967
The Million Eyes of Sumuru

as President Boong

1967
Creature with the Blue Hand

as Dave Emerson / Richard Emerson

1966
Target for Killing

as Caporetti

1966
Where Are You Taking That Woman

as Gomez (Rio segment)

1966
1966
Circus of Fear

as Manfred

1965
Doctor Zhivago

as Kostoyed Amourski

1965
For a Few Dollars More

as Juan Wild - The Hunchback

1965
1965
The Dirty Game

as Russian Agent

1965
1965
The Pleasure Girls

as Nikko Stalmar

1964
1964
Last of the Renegades

as David "Luke" Lucas

1964
1963
Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse

as Inspector Joe Wright

1963
The Indian Scarf

as Peter Ross

1963
The Black Abbot

as Thomas Fortuna

1963
The Black Cobra

as Koks-Charley

1963
The Squeaker

as Krishna

1962
The Inn on the River

as Gregor Gubanow

1962
1961
1961
The Devil's Daffodil

as Peter Keene

1961
Dead Eyes of London

as Edgar Strauss

1960
The Avenger

as Lorenz Voss

1958
1956
Corinna Darling

as Klaus Brockmann

1956
Waldwinter

as Otto Hartwig

1955
Hanussen

as Erik von Spazier / Mirko

1955
Sarajevo

as Nedeljko Čabrinović

1955
Children, Mother, and the General

as Leutnant, der nicht mehr lacht

1955
Ludwig II

as Prince Otto von Bayern

1954
Fear

as Cabaret Performer

1951
Decision Before Dawn

as Whining Soldier (uncredited)

1948
Morituri

as Dutch prisoner