Nickname:	Klaus Kinski / Klaus Kinsky /
Known for:	Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo, Nosferatu the Vampyre
Birth name:	Nikolaus Günther Nakszynski
Birthday:	18 October 1926, Zoppot, Free City of Danzig [now Sopot, Poland]
Height:	5' 8" (1.73 m)

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Free Image Hosting - Upload your favorite celebrity pictures. Father, with Ruth Tocki, of Nastassja Kinski. Father of Nikolai Kinski. For a brief time he lived in an apartment in Munich which he shared with several other people. One of the children living there was thirteen-year-old Werner Herzog. They later collaborated in five movies: Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972), Woyzeck (1979), Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979), Fitzcarraldo (1982) and Cobra Verde (1987). His countenance and screen persona gave his film career a boost in the 1960s when he was cast in a number of German productions based upon the thrillers of Edgar Wallace. Son of Bruno Nakszynski, a Polish-German pharmacist, and his wife Susanne Lutze, daughter of a German pastor from Danzig. Turned down the role of a German villain in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), although he wanted to do a movie with Steven Spielberg, but thought "the script is as moronically shitty as so many other flicks of its ilk.". He was recently honored by his city of birth, Sopot. His father was a struggling opera singer who abandoned Kinski and his family when Kinski was still a child. Was announced to play Dr. Hans Fallanda in Lifeforce (1985), but dropped out.

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