Movie Credits
Kinski Paganini	(1989)
Nosferatu a Venezia	(1988)
[ Christopher Plummer ][ Donald Pleasence ]
Cobra Verde	(1987)
[ Werner Herzog ]
Timestalkers	(1987)
[ John Ratzenberger ][ James Avery ][ William Devane ][ Tracey Walter ][ Tim Russ ]
Crawlspace	(1986)
Caballero del dragón, El	(1985)
[ Harvey Keitel ]
Kommando Leopard	(1985)
Creature	(1985)
Revenge of the Stolen Stars	(1985)
Code Name: Wild Geese	(1984)
[ Ernest Borgnine ][ Lee Van Cleef ]
The Little Drummer Girl	(1984)
[ Bill Nighy ][ Moti Shirin ][ Boy George ][ David Suchet ]
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud	(1984)
[ Dick Shawn ][ Bud Cort ]
Love and Money	(1982)
[ Terry Jastrow ][ Armand Assante ]
Android	(1982)
The Soldier	(1982)
[ Jeffrey Jones ][ Joaquim de Almeida ]
Fitzcarraldo	(1982)
[ Werner Herzog ]
Buddy Buddy	(1981)
[ Jack Lemmon ][ Walter Matthau ][ Ed Begley Jr. ][ Billy Wilder ][ Dana Elcar ]
Venom	(1981)
[ Oliver Reed ][ Sterling Hayden ][ Michael Gough ][ Tobe Hooper ]
Fruits de la passion, Les	(1981)
Schizoid	(1980)
[ Craig Wasson ][ Christopher Lloyd ]
Femme enfant, La	(1980)
Haine	(1980)
Woyzeck	(1979)
[ Werner Herzog ]
Zoo zéro	(1979)
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht	(1979)
[ Werner Herzog ][ Bruno Ganz ]
Chanson de Roland, La	(1978)
Mort d'un pourri	(1977)
[ Alain Delon ]
Madame Claude	(1977)
Mivtsa Yonatan	(1977)
Nuit d'or	(1976)
Jack the Ripper	(1976)
[ Jesus Franco ]
Netz, Das	(1975)
[ Mel Ferrer ]
Genio, due compari, un pollo, Un	(1975)
[ Patrick McGoohan ][ Terence Hill ]
Ritorno di Shanghai Joe, Il	(1975)
Important c'est d'aimer, L'	(1975)
[ Fabio Testi ]
Orme, Le	(1975)
Amanti del mostro, Le	(1974)
Mano che nutre la morte, La	(1974)
Chi ha rubato il tesoro dello scia?	(1974)
Lifespan	(1974)
Morte ha sorriso all'assassino, La	(1973)
Rivelazioni di uno psichiatra sul mondo perverso del sesso	(1973)
Mano spietata della legge, La	(1973)
Eroi all'inferno	(1973)
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes	(1972)
[ Werner Herzog ]
Ritorno di Clint il solitario, Il	(1972)
Mio nome è Shanghai Joe, Il	(1972)
Black Killer	(1971)
Venditore di morte, Il	(1971)
Nella stretta morsa del ragno	(1971)
Vendetta è un piatto che si serve freddo, La	(1971)
Prega il morto e ammazza il vivo	(1971)
Bestia uccide a sangue freddo, La	(1971)
Lo chiamavano King	(1971)
Per una bara piena di dollari	(1971)
Occhio del ragno, L'	(1971)
[ Van Johnson ]
Giù la testa... hombre	(1971)
Mir hat es immer Spaß gemacht	(1970)
Belva, La	(1970)
Leopardi di Churchill, I	(1970)
Appuntamento col disonore	(1970)
[ George Sanders ]
Peau de torpedo, La	(1970)
Count Dracula	(1970)
[ Christopher Lee ][ Jesus Franco ][ Herbert Lom ]
E Dio disse a Caino	(1970)
Paroxismus	(1969)
[ Jesus Franco ]
Dito nella piaga, Il	(1969)
Legge dei gangsters, La	(1969)
A doppia faccia	(1969)
Se incontri Sartana prega per la tua morte	(1969)
Dos veces Judas	(1969)
Marquis de Sade: Justine	(1969)
[ Jack Palance ][ Jesus Franco ]
Cinque per l'inferno	(1969)
Sono Sartana, il vostro becchino	(1969)
[ Frank Wolff ]
Mister Zehn Prozent - Miezen und Moneten	(1968)
Grande silenzio, Il	(1968)
Bastardi, I	(1968)
A qualsiasi prezzo	(1968)
Uomo, l'orgoglio, la vendetta, L'	(1968)
[ Franco Nero ]
Ognuno per se	(1968)
Coplan sauve sa peau	(1968)
Ad ogni costo	(1967)
Five Golden Dragons	(1967)
[ Christopher Lee ]
The Million Eyes of Sumuru	(1967)
[ George Nader ]
Blaue Hand, Die	(1967)
Chuncho, quién sabe?, El	(1967)
Geheimnis der gelben Mönche, Das	(1966)
Our Man in Marrakesh	(1966)
[ Tony Randall ][ Herbert Lom ]
Carnaval des barbouzes, Le	(1966)
[ Lex Barker ]
Circus of Fear	(1966)
[ Christopher Lee ]
Doctor Zhivago	(1965)
[ Tom Courtenay ][ Omar Sharif ][ Alec Guinness ][ Rod Steiger ]
Per qualche dollaro in più	(1965)
[ Clint Eastwood ][ Lee Van Cleef ]
The Pleasure Girls	(1965)
[ Ian McShane ]
Estambul 65	(1965)
The Dirty Game	(1965)
[ Henry Fonda ][ Robert Ryan ]
Neues vom Hexer	(1965)
Verrätertor, Das	(1964)
Geheimnis der chinesischen Nelke, Das	(1964)
Winnetou - 2. Teil	(1964)
[ Lex Barker ][ Terence Hill ]
Gruft mit dem Rätselschloß, Die	(1964)
Wartezimmer zum Jenseits	(1964)
Letzte Ritt nach Santa Cruz, Der	(1964)
Piccadilly null Uhr zwölf	(1963)
Geheimnis der schwarzen Witwe, Das	(1963)
Kali Yug, la dea della vendetta	(1963)
[ Lex Barker ]
Scotland Yard jagt Dr. Mabuse	(1963)
Indische Tuch, Das	(1963)
Schwarze Abt, Der	(1963)
Schwarze Kobra, Die	(1963)
Zinker, Der	(1963)
Mondvögel, Die	(1963)
Tür mit den 7 Schlössern, Die	(1962)
Rote Rausch, Der	(1962)
The Counterfeit Traitor	(1962)
[ William Holden ]
Rätsel der roten Orchidee, Das	(1962)
[ Christopher Lee ]
Gasthaus an der Themse, Das	(1962)
Seltsame Gräfin, Die	(1961)
Kurve, Die	(1961)
Bankraub in der Rue Latour	(1961)
Geheimnis der gelben Narzissen, Das	(1961)
[ Christopher Lee ]
Toten Augen von London, Die	(1961)
Rächer, Der	(1960)
A Time to Love and a Time to Die	(1958)
[ Keenan Wynn ]
Waldwinter	(1956)
Geliebte Corinna	(1956)
Um Thron und Liebe	(1955)
Hanussen	(1955)
Kinder, Mütter und ein General	(1955)
[ Maximilian Schell ]
Ludwig II.	(1955)
Paura, La	(1954)
Decision Before Dawn	(1951)
Morituri	(1948)

Though he invariably looked sickly and tubercular, Polish/German actor Klaus Kinski rose to fame in roles calling for near-manic aggressiveness. His war career consisted primarily of a year and a half in a British POW camp. After this experience, Kinski took to the theater, where he rapidly built a reputation for on-stage brilliance and off-stage emotional instability. He made his first German film, Morituri, in 1948; three years later, he made his English-language movie debut with a fleeting bit in Decision Before Dawn (1951). Villainy was Kinski's film stock in trade during the 1950s and '60s, with several appearances in Germany's Edgar Wallace second-feature series and in such Italian spaghetti Westerns as For a Few Dollars More (1965). International stardom came Kinski's way via his off-the-beam appearances in the films of director Werner Herzog, notably Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1973), Woyzeck (1978), Nosferatu (1979), and Fitzcarraldo (1982). With 1989's Paganini, Kinski proved to be as colorful and chaotic a director as he was an actor. Kinski was the father of actress Nastassja Kinski, though the two seldom saw each other and were never close. He died in 1991.