Klaus Kinski

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.

Known For

For a Few Dollars More

as Juan Wild - The Hunchback

Doctor Zhivago

as Kostoyed Amourski

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

as Don Lope de Aguirre

Nosferatu the Vampyre

as Count Dracula

Fitzcarraldo

as Fitzcarraldo

The Great Silence

as Loco (Tigrero)

My Best Fiend

as Self (archive footage)

Woyzeck

as Friedrich Johann Franz Woyzeck

A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot

as Doc Foster

Cobra Verde

as Francisco Manoel da Silva aka Cobra Verde