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19 unusual facts about Klaus Kinski


All I Need Is Love

In the book Herzog on Herzog, Werner Herzog describes the book as "highly fictitious", and that Kinski did not grow up in abject poverty.

When the 1988 edition was published, Klaus Kinski's daughter, Nastassja Kinski, sued her father for libel but the lawsuit was quickly withdrawn.

All I Need Is Love: A Memoir is the autobiography of the German actor Klaus Kinski first published in 1988.

Bruce Baron

Baron also appeared as the villain in Ruggero Deodato's sci-fi actioner The Atlantis Interceptors (1983), in Code Name: Wild Geese (1984), directed by Antonio Margheriti starring Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine and Klaus Kinski, and in Overdose (1987), by French softcore/exploitation director Jean-Marie Pallardy.

Count Orlok

Dracula was portrayed by Klaus Kinski as a pathetic, lonely creature yearning for human love.

Death Dealer

Death's Dealer, also known as Vengeance Is a Dish Served Cold, a Spaghetti Western film starring Klaus Kinski

Debora Caprioglio

Internationally, she is best known for playing the title character in the 1991 film Paprika by Tinto Brass and for being Klaus Kinski's girlfriend from 1987–1989.

Klaus Kinski

He appeared in several German Edgar Wallace movies, and had bit parts in the American war films Decision Before Dawn (1951) and A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958).

Kinski co-starred as a violently evil killer from the future in a 1987 Sci-Fi based TV film Timestalkers, with William Devane and Lauren Hutton.

La Asunción

An interesting display in the museum is a sculpture of the tyrant ruler Loe de Aguierre who had terrorized the islanders during 1561; this event is featured in the picture titled Aguierre, the wrath of God produced by Warner Herzog with Klaus Kinski in the lead role.

Nikolai Kinski

Nikolai first had a role at the age of 13 alongside his father in the film Kinski Paganini (1989).

Pola Kinski

Born Pola Nakszynski, she is the daughter of Klaus Kinski, who became a renowned German actor, and his first wife, the singer Gislinde Kühlbeck.

Pongo de Mainique

The rapids of the Pongo de Mainique were used as a filming location for key scenes of Werner Herzog's 1982 film Fitzcarraldo starring Klaus Kinski.

Preeti Chandrakant

A Goat To The Gods (as Preeti von Roma) is a video collage of behind-the-scenes 'found objects' with Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog, which depicts "an absurd journey into a jungle of veiled madness" revealing the 'doings' of Kinski and Herzog against the backdrop of real Africa.

Red Circuit

According to the band, the album's lyrics were inspired by a volume of poetry by Klaus Kinski.

Sybil Danning

In 1977, she was praised for her role as a sadistic terrorist headed for Entebbe in the Best Foreign Film Oscar nominated Operation Thunderbolt with Klaus Kinski.

Vonetta McGee

In the same year she performed alongside Jean-Louis Trintignant and Klaus Kinski in the Western The Great Silence, but became well known for her parts in the 1972 Blaxploitation films Melinda and Hammer.

Web of the Spider

The film is narrated by a troubled Edgar Allan Poe (Klaus Kinski).

Zoo zéro

Zoo zéro is a 1979 French film directed by Alain Fleischer and starring Klaus Kinski.


A Bullet for the General

A Bullet for the General (It. Quién sabe?), is a 1966 Italian film which stars Gian Maria Volonté, Klaus Kinski, Lou Castel and Martine Beswick.

Portrait Werner Herzog

In another section, he talks with mountaineer Reinhold Messner, in which they discuss a potential film project in the Himalayas to star Klaus Kinski.

Sanger, California

In downtown Sanger is a mural of German born actress Nastassja Kinski, daughter of actor Klaus Kinski.

Vampire in Venice

Vampire in Venice (Original title: Nosferatu a Venezia), also known as Nosferatu in Venice, is a 1988 Italian horror film directed by Augusto Caminito and starring Klaus Kinski, Christopher Plummer, Donald Pleasence and Barbara De Rossi.

Wilfried Böse

He is played by German actor Klaus Kinski in the film Operation Thunderbolt, Helmut Berger in Victory at Entebbe, Horst Buchholz in the film Raid on Entebbe, and by Aljoscha Stadelmann in the miniseries Carlos (2010).