1950s - 1970s

Kinski spent the fifties being introduced to film. I worked on several German pictures and continued working on stage. He was a common sight in clubs reciting poetry and performing Dostoevsky on stage. Kinski was perfecting his craft, using the raw emotion and his life experiences, Kinski was becoming recognized.

Kinski's physical appearance: bulging eyes and creepy smirk, helped him take a niche as the perennial villain. The Edgar Wallace films made in Germany was where Kinski was found in the early sixties. Though they were supporting roles, Kinski was stealing the pictures away from the handsome leads and starlets.

Kinski's personal life was also changing. He was married and with child: Biggi, his wife, and Natassja, his daughter. However, Kinski's excesses with other women did not cease. In his autobiography, "Kinski Uncut", his affairs are constant and never ending. Biggi and Klaus divorce early on with Kinski leaving Natassja with her mother.

The 1960's represented a decade of things to come for Kinski. His life is a never-ending ride from one film to another and one woman to another. Kinski's choice of movies, at first which are thought out, soon become just opportunities for money. Great films, like "Dr. Zhivago" and "For a Few Dollars More" are mixed in with flops and horrible cinema. Klaus Kinski does over 60 films, alone, in the 1960's, and never looks back once.

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