
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
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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/ |
- | 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/ |
- | 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/ |
- | 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/ |
- | 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/ |
- | 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/ |
- | 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
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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!