German actor (1926–1991)
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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.
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.…
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I don't try to justify myself or defend myself. I've always done what I had to. She should know for herself that I love her, that I've loved her always, always.
I saw Stay as You Are and Tess only. I didn't ask her if she saw every movie I did. I could never think about that. Why do I have to see every movie she did? Why?
I have made many things wrong in my life. I should have made many things better in my life, not only to Nastassja but many things.
I've come here to tell the most exciting story in the history of mankind: the life of Jesus Christ. I'm not talking about the Jesus in those horribly gaudy pictures.
I am not the official Church Jesus who is accepted by policemen, bankers, judges, executioners, officers, church bosses, politicians and similar representatives of power.
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