Klaus Kinski

[dcj2112]

Anyone know how Many American films he was actually in? Of course his German stuff with Herzog is regarded as his best, but am curious about films he did in English as well. It seems like with a lot of the non-Herzog films you can only find dubbed versions if you can find them at all. But I figure movies made originally in English won’t have that problem :)

Also, any other thoughts on this dude?

[Alex]

To say he is a bit unhinged would be a bit of an understatement, although I have always enjoyed seeing him on screen. I have never found him dull on screen.

[LilCerberus]

So far, I've been lucky to get one or two student films a year since I started acting about ten years ago.

Still, when people ask me what kind of actor I want to be, It's always Klaus Kinski, not just in terms of volume, but in terms of the diversity of films, from artsey fartsey movies, to the spectrum of b movies and TV movies, even a spaghetti western....

I'd love to be the kind of actor who's just constantly busy.

[Svengoolie 3]

I think he was in "creature", AKA "titan find". ANd boy did he play a nutjob...

[FatFreddysCat]

He was great in "Creature," and if memory serves he was also in the cheesy 80s sci-fi fantasy mashup "Star Knight" with Harvey Keitel.

I remember reading somewhere that he turned down an offer to play one of the German bad guys in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" because he thought the script was "moronically s**tty." Great career move there, Klaus.

[Dr. Whom]

According to imdb, he was in Buddy Buddy (indeed, the one with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau). He first impressed me in Operation Thunderbolt, which I saw way back at that time, and that impression has stayed with me ever since.

[Trevor]

I most remember him as the character Dracha in The Soldier (1982),

[Svengoolie 3]

I think he should have played the bad guy in Saturn 3 instead of using a dubbed Harvey keitel.

[dcj2112]

He was great in "Creature," and if memory serves he was also in the cheesy 80s sci-fi fantasy mashup "Star Knight" with Harvey Keitel.

I remember reading somewhere that he turned down an offer to play one of the German bad guys in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" because he thought the script was "moronically s**tty." Great career move there, Klaus.

That’s often cited as fact and Kinski did say that about the script. However, I’ve heard he also had a higher paying role lined up which is why he actually didn’t do Raiders.

Of course Raiders would have been the better career move, but I’m not sure how much Kinski thought about stuff like that anyway. At any rate between Kinski being dead less than a decade later and his erratic behavior I’m not sure how many more mainstream movies an appearance in Raiders would have led to anyway.

[FatFreddysCat]

However, I’ve heard he also had a higher paying role lined up which is why he actually didn’t do Raiders.

If memory serves, that higher-paying gig was the killer-snake movie "VENOM"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084854/?ref_=nv_sr_4

[RCMerchant]

I saw him as a psycho psychitrist in CRAWLSPACE (1986)

[dcj2112]

I saw him as a psycho psychitrist in CRAWLSPACE (1986)

Haha, that was the second most recently viewed movies of his I watched. The director, David Schmoeller disliked working with Kinski so much on that one that he made a short documentary called, Please Killed Mr. Kinski. I think it is a film that really keeps you interested throughout the duration though and is quite unique. I'd say it's the best thing I've seen Kinski star in (not just a bit part) where the original dialogue was in English.

The most recent thing I've watched Kinski in was the English dubbed version of Jack the Ripper (1976). For what it is I thought that film was really well made as well. Although it is weird in the dubbed version hearing Kinski sound like an English professor.

[RCMerchant]

I saw him as a psycho psychitrist in CRAWLSPACE (1986)

Haha, that was the second most recently viewed movies of his I watched. The director, David Schmoeller disliked working with Kinski so much on that one that he made a short documentary called, Please Killed Mr. Kinski. I think it is a film that really keeps you interested throughout the duration though and is quite unique. I'd say it's the best thing I've seen Kinski star in (not just a bit part) where the original dialogue was in English.

The most recent thing I've watched Kinski in was the English dubbed version of Jack the Ripper (1976). For what it is I thought that film was really well made as well. Although it is weird in the dubbed version hearing Kinski sound like an English professor.

I liked it!
I mean-it's Kinski!
My favorite movie of his is NOSFERATU (1979), of course.
After that-FITZCARRALDO (1982).
But any movie he is in is better.

[lester1/2jr]

I liked in My friend Klaus kinski when herzog talks abuot meeting him. Kinski was living in the attic of a house and was totally nude under a foot of leaves

[messedup]

Last I saw him was in one of those free movies you can legally find on youtube. According to IMDB it's called "Revenge of the stolen stars" and Klaus Kinski gets killed in the beginning and spends the rest of the movie as a ghost helping his relative looking for mysterious rubies.

The ghost of Duncan McBride, the murdered owner of a plantation and ruby mine on the island of Sunanow, in the South China sea, returns. The mine, and the curse which killed his uncle, are inherited by the inept Gene who comes from San Francisco to look for the Six Stars, (missing rubies) accompanied by the lovely Kelly Scanlon and pursued by the villainous Alex and Lupe.

Let's just say Kinski was the best thing in it.