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Acting

Klaus Kinski

Career: Active from 1955 to 2020, with a break from 1991 to 2006, busiest in 1971 with 10 main titles.

Leading roles: 77
top three billing

Average score: 58/100

Highest rated: The Great Silence
90/100

Characters

2

The characters Klaus Kinski played, best-known titles first.

Klaus Kinski as Don Lope de Aguirre

Klaus Kinski as Jacques Müller (Jacmel)

Character images: TheTVDB

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 79 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Klaus Kinski Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
1.6, average 5.4
Wholesome
1.4, average 3.4
Coming of Age
1.1, average 3.0
Family Dynamics
2.9, average 4.8

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Spaghetti Western 9
Cult Classic 7
Revenge 6
Moral Ambiguity 5
Political Intrigue 5
Social Commentary 5
Historical Setting 5
Gothic Horror 5
Exploitation 4
Historical Drama 4
Psychological Thriller 4
Violence 4

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

147

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

2 titles

The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault

as (archive footage)

AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.

as (archive footage)

2010s

4 titles

Filming Silenzio

as (archive footage)

FantastiCozzi

as Nosferatu (archive footage)

Fifty Shades of Erotica

as (archive footage)

Peter Baumgartner, Filmkameramann

as (archive footage)

2000s

3 titles · average score 73

Jesus Christ Saviour

73

Writer

Beloved Count

as Renfield (archive footage)

Whiteface

as (archive footage)

1990s

5 titles · average score 66

Storyville

80

TV show

Otto – The Series

TV show · as Verschiedene

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

as Renfield (archive footage)

Paganini

51

as Niccolo Paganini

White Hunter

as Klaus Naginsky

1980s

25 titles · average score 56

Nosferatu in Venice

46

as Nosferatu

Cobra Verde

70

as Francisco Manoel da Silva aka Cobra Verde

Crawlspace

54

as Karl Gunther

Star Knight

39

as Boetius

The Little Drummer Girl

50

as Martin Kurtz

Code Name: Wild Geese

54

as Charleton

Fitzcarraldo

80

as Fitzcarraldo

Android

68

as Dr. Daniel

Fruits of Passion

56

as Sir Stephen

Venom

58

as Jacques Müller (Jacmel)

Haine

55

as Le motard

Schizoid

43

as Dr. Pieter Fales

1970s

41 titles · average score 58

Nosferatu the Vampyre

81

as Count Dracula

Woyzeck

78

as Friedrich Johann Franz Woyzeck

Jack the Ripper

50

as Dr. Dennis Orloff / Jack the Ripper

Death Smiles on a Murderer

60

as Dr. Sturges

The Fighting Fist of Shanghai Joe

56

as Scalper Jack

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

88

as Don Lope de Aguirre

Slaughter Hotel

51

as Dr. Francis Clay

Web of the Spider

47

as Edgar Allan Poe

Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead

62

as Dan Hogan

Coffin Full of Dollars

56

as Dan Hagen / Slander

Count Dracula

53

as Renfield

And God Said to Cain

65

as Gary Hamilton

1960s

57 titles · average score 61

Marquis de Sade: Justine

53

as Marquis De Sade

I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death

64

as Chadeau / Holden / Hot Dead

Five for Hell

51

as SS Col. Hans Mueller

The Great Silence

90

as Tigrero

A Bullet for the General

70

as El Santo

Man, Pride and Vengeance

60

as Lt. Miguel Garcia

Grand Slam

69

as Erich Weiss

Creature with the Blue Hand

61

as Dave Emerson / Richard Emerson

For a Few Dollars More

78

as Juan Wild - The Hunchback

Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse

60

as Inspector Joe Wright

The Indian Scarf

73

as Peter Ross

The Devil's Daffodil

57

as Peter Keene

1950s

9 titles · average score 70

A Time to Love and a Time to Die

75

as Gestapo Lieutenant

Waldwinter

as Otto Hartwig

Corinna Darling

as Klaus Brockmann

Ludwig II

69

as Prince Otto von Bayern

Hanussen

as Erik von Spazier / Mirko

Children, Mother, and the General

66

as Leutnant, der nicht mehr lacht

Sarajevo

as Nedeljko Čabrinović

Fear

57

as Cabaret Performer (uncredited)

Decision Before Dawn

85

as Whining Soldier (uncredited)

1940s

1 title

Morituri

as Dutch prisoner