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Klaus Kinski
6 films · 378 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1965–1979
Born 18 October 1926 · died 23 November 1991
Klaus Kinski was a German actor. Equally renowned for his intense performance style and his notoriously eccentric and volatile personality off-screen, he appeared in over 130 film roles in a career that spanned 40 years, from 1948 to 1988. He is best known for starring in five films directed by Werner Herzog from 1972 to 1987 (Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Nosferatu the Vampyre; Woyzeck; Fitzcarraldo; and Cobra Verde), who would later chronicle their tumultuous relationship in the documentary My Best Fiend.
Kinski's roles spanned multiple genres, languages, and nationalities, including Spaghetti Westerns, horror films, war films, dramas, and Edgar Wallace krimi films.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 378 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1965–1979
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres1986
How their films are shot
Measured across 378 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Klaus takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 6 films we hold, 64% of their frames are day, 57% natural — the look of the work Klaus takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Nosferatu the Vampyre (Nosferatu Phantom Der Nacht)
1979 · Count Dracula
Woyzeck
1979 · Friedrich Johann Franz Woyzeck
Aguirre, The Wrath Of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes)
1972 · Don Lope de Aguirre
The Great Silence
1968 · Loco (Tigrero)
Footprints (Le Orme)
1975 · Professor Blackmann
For A Few Dollars More
1965 · Juan Wild - The Hunchback
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Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
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