Klaus Kinski

Born

October 18, 1926

Died

November 23, 1991 (aged 65)

Known as

screenwriter, film actor, stage actor, film director, actor, director

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, who would later chronicle their tumultuous relationship in the documentary My Best Fiend.

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