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Klaus Kinski
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Actor Born: October 8, 1926 in Sopot, Poland Death: November 23, 1991 in Lagunitas, CA Biography:Though he invariably looked sickly and tubercular, Polish/German actor "Klaus Kinski" rose to fame in roles calling for near-manic aggressiveness. His war career consisted primarily of a year and a half in a British POW camp. After this experience, Kinski took to the theater, where he rapidly built a reputation for on-stage brilliance and off-stage emotional instability. He made his first German film, "Morituri", in 1948; three years later, he made his English-language movie debut with a fleeting bit in Decision Before Dawn (1951). Villainy was Kinski's film stock in trade during the 1950s and '60s, with several appearances in Germany's "Edgar Wallace" second-feature series and in such Italian spaghetti Westerns as "For a Few Dollars More" (1965). International stardom came Kinski's way via his off-the-beam appearances in the films of director Werner Herzog, notably "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" (1973),... Full Biography
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