Klaus Kinski

Highest Rated: 100% The Great Silence (1968)

Lowest Rated: 17% Crawlspace (1986)

Birthday: Oct 18, 1926

Birthplace: Sopot, Free City of Danzig

Without a doubt one of the most intense actors ever to grace the silver screen, Klaus Kinski tapped into his dark inner reaches to deliver a number of spellbinding performances. Though he appeared in over 250 films, the five he made with German compatriot director Werner Herzog were the stuff of filmmaking legend. Their combative collaboration started with "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" (1972), and resumed years later with "Nosferatu the Vampyre" (1979), "Woyzeck" (1979) and "Fitzcarraldo" (1982). All throughout their partnership, both concurrently despised and needed one another, creating an artistic energy neither matched with any other collaborator. Their long-running partnership, which also was a stormy friendship, generated the best work either made in their careers - though often at great emotional, psychological and even physical harm - and ended 15 years after it began with "Cobra Verde" (1987). Though together for only a fraction of their creative outputs, it was impossible to talk of either one without mentioning the other. For Kinski, the collaboration with Herzog proved fruitful artistically.

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Movies

			Credit
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Jesus Christus Erlöser	Himself (Character), Writer	-	2008
80%	92%	Mon Ennemi Intime	Himself (archive footage) (Character)	$95.6K	1999
No Score Yet	44%	Paganini	Niccolo Paganini (Character), Director	-	1989
No Score Yet	19%	Vampire in Venice	Nosferatu (Character)	-	1988
No Score Yet	34%	Timestalkers	Dr. Joseph Cole (Character)	-	1987
82%	76%	Cobra Verde	Francisco Manoel da Silva (Character)	-	1987
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Codename: Wildgeese	Charleton (Character)	-	1986
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Revenge of the Stolen Stars	Donald McBride (Character)	-	1986
17%	21%	Crawlspace	Karl Gunther (Character)	-	1986
No Score Yet	19%	The Knight of the Dragon	Boetius (Character)	-	1985
40%	12%	Creature	Hans Rudy Hofner (Character)	-	1985
No Score Yet	0%	His Name Was King	Brian Foster (Character)	-	1985
No Score Yet	23%	Commando Leopard	Silveira (Character)	-	1985
71%	64%	The Little Drummer Girl	Martin Kurtz (Character)	-	1984
No Score Yet	50%	The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud	Dr. Max Bauer (Character)	-	1984
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Yoman	Unknown (Character)	-	1983
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	La Femme Enfant	Marcel (Character)	-	1982
94%	91%	Burden of Dreams	Fitzcarraldo/Himself (Character)	-	1982
No Score Yet	23%	The Soldier	Dracha (Character)	-	1982
78%	92%	Fitzcarraldo	Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo' (Character)	-	1982
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Love and Money	Frederic Stockheinz (Character)	-	1982
83%	38%	Android	Dr. Daniel (Character)	-	1982
63%	43%	Buddy Buddy	Dr. Hugo Zuckerbrot (Character)	-	1981
43%	31%	Venom	Jacques Müller (Character)	-	1981
No Score Yet	19%	Schizoid	Pieter Fales (Character)	-	1980
85%	77%	Woyzeck	Friedrich Johann Franz Woyzeck (Character)	-	1979
95%	83%	Nosferatu	Count Dracula (Character)	-	1979
No Score Yet	75%	Operation Thunderbolt	Wilfried Boese (Character)	-	1978
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The French Woman	Zakis (Character)	-	1977
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Death of a Corrupt Man	Nicolas Tomski (Character)	-	1977
No Score Yet	36%	Jack the Ripper	Dr. Dennis Orloff/Jack the Ripper (Character)	-	1976
No Score Yet	60%	Lifespan	Unknown (Character)	-	1976
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Return of Shanghai Joe	Pat Barnes (Character)	-	1975
No Score Yet	58%	A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot	Doc Foster (Character)	-	1975
No Score Yet	58%	Primal Impulse	Professor Blackmann (Character)	-	1974
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Bloody Hands of the Law	Vito Quattroni (Character)	-	1973
No Score Yet	68%	Death Smiles on a Murderer	Dr. Sturges (Character)	-	1973
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Heroes in Hell	Gen. Kaufmann (Character)	-	1973
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Salt in the Wound	Cpl. Brian Haskins/Norman Carr (Character)	-	1972
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe	Scalper Jack (Character)	-	1972
96%	91%	Aguirre: The Wrath of God	Don Lope de Aguirre (Character)	-	1972
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	There's A Noose Waiting For You...Trinity!	Scott (Character)	-	1972
No Score Yet	33%	Asylum of Blood	Unknown (Character)	-	1971
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead	Dan Hogan (Character)	-	1971
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Eye of the Spider	Unknown (Character)	-	1971
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Slaughter Hotel	Dr. Francis Clay (Character)	-	1971
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Price of Death	Chester Conway (Character)	-	1971
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	A Barrel Full of Dollars	Hagen (Character)	-	1971
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Black Killer	James Webb the lawyer (Character)	-	1971
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Vengeance Is a Dish Served Cold	Perkins (Character)	-	1971
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Coffin Full of Dollars	Hagen (Character)	-	1971
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Ballad of Django	Reverend Cotton (Character)	-	1971
No Score Yet	11%	Web of the Spider	Edgar Allan Poe (Character)	-	1970
No Score Yet	62%	And God Said to Cain	Gary Hamilton (Character)	-	1970
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Children of Mata Hari	Pavel Richko/Torpédo I (Character)	-	1970
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business?	Sam (Character)	-	1970
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Beast	Johnny Laster (Character)	-	1970
No Score Yet	44%	Count Dracula	Reinfierd (Character)	-	1970
No Score Yet	42%	Deadly Sanctuary	Marquis De Sade (Character)	-	1970
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	I Leopardi di Churchill (Churchill's Leopards) (Los Leopardos De Churchill)	Unknown (Character)	-	1970
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Twice a Judas	Dingus/Victor Barrett (Character)	-	1969
No Score Yet	56%	Venus in Furs	Ahmed Kortobawi (Character)	-	1969
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death	Hot Dead (Character)	-	1969
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Vatican Affair	Clint Rogers (Character)	-	1969
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Double Face	John Alexander (Character)	-	1969
No Score Yet	50%	Sartana	Morgan (Character)	-	1968
No Score Yet	43%	The Ruthless Four	Brent il Biondo (Character)	-	1968
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Bastard	Adam (Character)	-	1968
100%	90%	The Great Silence	Tigrero (Character)	$53.1K	1968
No Score Yet	38%	Five for Hell	SS Col. Hans Mueller (Character)	-	1967
No Score Yet	71%	Grand Slam	Erich Weiss (Character)	-	1967
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Five Golden Dragons	Gert (Character)	-	1967
No Score Yet	62%	Pride and Vengeance	Garcia (Character)	-	1967
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Creature With the Blue Hand	Dave Emerson/Richard Emerson (Character)	-	1967
No Score Yet	13%	The Million Eyes of Su-Muru	President Boong (Character)	-	1967
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	That Man in Istanbul	Schenck (Character)	-	1966
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Bang, Bang, You're Dead	Jonquil (Character)	-	1966
No Score Yet	73%	A Bullet for the General	El Santo (Character)	-	1966
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Target for Killing	Caporetti (Character)	-	1966
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Pleasure Girls	Nikko Stalmar (Character)	-	1965
92%	94%	For a Few Dollars More	Wild, the Hunchback (Character)	-	1965
84%	88%	Doctor Zhivago	Kostoyed Amourski (Character)	$87.1K	1965
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Black Cobra	Koks-Charly (Character)	-	1964
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Secret of the Black Widow	Boyd (Character)	-	1964
No Score Yet	50%	Last of the Renegades	David Lukas `Luke' (Character)	-	1964
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard	Inspector Joe Wright (Character)	-	1964
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Curse of the Hidden Vault	George (Character)	-	1964
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Mark of the Tortoise	Shapiro (Character)	-	1964
No Score Yet	88%	The Indian Scarf	Peter Ross (Character)	-	1963
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Vengeance of Kali	Saddhu (Character)	-	1963
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Black Abbot	Thomas Fortuna (Character)	-	1963
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Door With Seven Locks	Pheeny (Character)	-	1962
No Score Yet	84%	The Counterfeit Traitor	Kindler (Character)	-	1962
No Score Yet	69%	The Dead Eyes of London	Edgar Strauss (Character)	-	1961
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Avenger	Lorenz Voss (Character)	-	1960
No Score Yet	74%	A Time to Love and a Time to Die	Gestapo Lieutenant (Character)	-	1958
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Ludwig II	Prince Otto (Character)	-	1955

TV

			Credit
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Hitchhiker	Unknown (Character)	1984

QUOTES FROM Klaus Kinski CHARACTERS

Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald/Fitzcarraldo says: That slope may look insignificant but it's going to be my destiny.

Hans Rudy Hofner says: We found... a child's butterfly collection... but some of zees butterflies... were not too friendly...

Don Lope de Aguirre says: â??If I, Aguirre, want the birds to drop dead from the trees the birds will drop dead from the trees. I am the Wrath of God! The earth I walk upon sees me and quakes! But whoever follows me and the river, will win untold riches. But whoever deserts...

Don Lope de Aguirre says: If I, Aguirre, want the birds to drop dead from the trees the birds will drop dead from the trees. I am the Wrath of God! The earth I walk upon sees me and quakes! But whoever follows me and the river, will win untold riches. But whoever deserts...

Don Fernando de Guzman says: All the land to our left and all the land to our right now belongs to us. I solemnly and formally take possession of all this land. Our country is already six times larger than Spain, and everyday we drift makes it bigger.

Don Lope de Aguirre says: Have you seen any solid ground that would support your weight?

Don Lope de Aguirre says: I, the wrath of God, will marry my own daughter and with her I'll found the purest dynasty the earth has ever seen.

Don Lope de Aguirre says: I am the great traitor. There must be no other. Anyone who even thinks about deserting this mission will be cut up into 198 pieces. Those pieces will be stamped on until what is left can be used only to paint walls. Whoever takes one grain of corn or one drop of water... more than his ration, will be locked up for 155 years. If I, Aguirre, want the birds to drop dead from the trees... then the birds will drop dead from the trees. I am the wrath of god. The earth I pass will see me and tremble. But whoever follows me and the river, will win untold riches.

Don Lope de Aguirre says: That man is a head taller than me. That may change.

Don Lope de Aguirre says: I think he needs to be a head shorter.

The Man With No Name says: It's a small world.

The Hunchback says: Yes and very, very bad. Now, come on. You light another match.

The Man With No Name says: I generally smoke just after I eat. Why don't you come back in about ten minutes.

The Hunchback says: Ten minutes you'll be smokin' in hell!