Klaus Kinski Movies and Career Information

Nikolaus Karl Günther Nakszyński, best known as Klaus Kinski (18 October 1926 – 23 November 1991), was a German actor. He appeared in over 130 films, and is perhaps best-remembered for appearing in several Spaghetti Westerns, and for his collaborations with director Werner Herzog. Klaus Kinski was born in Zoppot, in the Free City of Danzig. He was the son of a German father of Polish descent, Bruno Nakszyński, a pharmacist and a failed opera singer, and a German mother Susanne (née Lutze), a nurse and a daughter of a local pastor. He had three older siblings: Inge, Arne and Hans-Joachim. Because of the depression the very poor family was unable to make a living in Danzig, and was forced to move to Berlin in 1931. They settled in a flat in the Wartburgstraße 3, in the suburb of Schöneberg, and took German citizenships. From 1936 on, Kinski attended the Prinz-Heinrich-Gymnasium in Schöneberg. Kinski was conscripted into the German Wehrmacht sometime in 1943, serving in the Heer. He saw no action until the winter of 1944, when his unit was transferred to the Netherlands. His obituary in Variety Magazine states that there he was wounded and captured by the British on the second day of