# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/klaus-kinski
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:56:31.284Z

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name: "Klaus Kinski"
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description: "A face that could scald through the screen — five Herzog collaborations, 130 roles across four decades, and a reputation for on-set explosions so violent his own director called him \"a great pestilence.\" The intensity wasn't method; it was volatility made career."
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deathDate: "1991-11-23"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski on 18 October 1926, he carved through 40 years of film — Spaghetti Westerns, krimi, horror — in multiple languages, wracking up over 130 roles between 1948 and 1988. The partnership with Werner Herzog produced Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Woyzeck, Fitzcarraldo, and Cobra Verde from 1972 to 1987, a combustible alliance Herzog later dissected in My Best Fiend. Off-screen he staged a one-man Jesus show, directed himself as Paganini, and recorded over twenty spoken word albums, all while leaving a trail of outbursts shadowed by mental illness. He died 23 November 1991; posthumous accusations of abuse by daughters Pola and Nastassja darkened what was already a legacy built on brilliance and wreckage.