Udo Kier
Born October 14, 1944 · Cologne, Germany
Udo Kierspe (October 14, 1944 – November 23, 2025), known professionally as Udo Kier, was a German actor. Known primarily as a cult character actor who portrayed eccentric and deviant figures, he appeared in more than 220 films in both leading and supporting roles throughout Europe and the Americas. He collaborated with acclaimed filmmakers such as Lars von Trier, Gus Van Sant, Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Walerian Borowczyk, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Dario Argento, Tom Shadyac, Charles Matton, Guy Maddin, Alexander Payne, and Paul Morrissey.
Notable Appearances
Movies
Blade
The Story of O
The Secret Agent
Armageddon
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
End of Days
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Dogville
Suspiria
Downsizing
Halloween
Johnny Mnemonic
Chompy & the Girls
Exposé
Dancer in the Dark
Melancholia
Iron Sky
Barb Wire
Grindhouse
Dragged Across Concrete
My Own Private Idaho
Brawl in Cell Block 99
Skin Walker
Iron Sky: The Coming Race
Am nächsten Morgen kehrte der Minister nicht an seinen Arbeitsplatz zurück
Breaking the Waves
Plötzlich und unerwartet - eine Déjà-Revue
Last Moment of Clarity
For Love or Money
FearDotCom
Provocation
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
American Animals
Manderlay
The Painted Bird
Conflict of Emotions
Surviving Christmas
TV Shows
Polizeiruf 110
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
Nash Bridges
NDR Talk Show
Hunters
Morgenmagazin
seaQuest DSV
The Batman
Viper
The Sentinel
Red Shoe Diaries
Justice League
Masters of Horror
Der Fahnder
Beckmann
Zimmer frei!
The Kingdom
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
Through the Night with...
Beware the Batman
Boulevard Bio
Brisant
Die Männer vom K3
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Rosa Roth
Evening Urgant
Doppelter Einsatz
Major Lazer
Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin
Old Money
Kir Royal
4 Against Z
M - A City Hunts a Murderer
Joseph Balsamo
Talk 2000
Gespenstergeschichten
More Movies
Shadow of the Vampire
Johnny Walker
The Lords of Salem
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Metropia
Lola
Bacurau
Dracula 3000
BloodRayne
Invincible
Far Cry
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Modigliani
Prince Valiant
Swan Song
One Point O
House of Boys
Flesh for Frankenstein
Fifty Shades of Erotica
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
The Forbidden Room
Seduction: The Cruel Woman
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
Beethoven's Treasure Tail
Medea
La deuxième femme
Blood for Dracula
Daughter of Mine
Soul Kitchen
Ice
Holly
Terror 2000
Mark of the Devil
Europa
Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
By Design
The Material Boy
Dimension
Zero
Possessed
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
Crusade in Jeans
Lili Marleen
The End of Violence
A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love
Keyhole
Spermula
Pankow ’95
The Kingdom II
Haymaker
Tattoos: A Scarred History
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
There's No Fish Food in Heaven
Road to St. Tropez
A Kilo of Blue (The Music)
Headspace
Korn: Deuce
The New Adventures of Pinocchio
Betty
Spy Games
Lulu
Love Object
A Trick of the Light
The Kingdom
1½ Ritter - Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde
Epidemic
Sex
My Neighbor Adolf
The Blazing World
Modern Vampires
Revelation
Duke of Groove
Josh & S.A.M.
Jack Reed: Badge of Honor
United Trash
Cigarette Burns
Schindler Space Architect
The German Chainsaw Massacre
30 Days Until I'm Famous
Killer Deal
Pars: Operation Cherry
The Debtors
Arteholic
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
Return from Tomorrow
The Last Word
The Sky Has Four Corners
Mother's Mask
The Mountain
Phantasmagoria of the Interior
The Salzburg Connection
Fall Down Dead
Bad Painter
Gold Flakes
UFO in Her Eyes
11 Colours of the Bird
Stingers
Unreleased
The Ark: An Iron Sky Story
Final Run
Red Letters
Blood of 1000 Virgins
Courier X
The Island of the Bloody Plantation
Staging Death
Görünmeyen
The Third Generation
Der wunderbare Udo Kier
The Roaring Fifties
Night of the Templar
The Beginner
Critical Mass
Evil Eyes
He Sees You When You're Sleeping
The Mother of Tears
És így s eképp tovább
Unreleased
Intangents
All the Queen's Men
Unreleased
Theirs
Skeletons in the Closet
Jargo
The Editor
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
The Theatre Bizarre
Hungarian Rhapsody
The Last Minute
Just One Night
My Own Private River
Lea
Madonna: The Making of SEX Book
American Exit
13 Graves
Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween
The 120 Days of Bottrop
The Killing Grounds
Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho
The Berlin Project
Double Deception
The Stationmaster’s Wife
Deutschland privat
Ich - Udo
Coconut Hero
Extinct
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
Doomsdayer
Von Trier's 100 Eyes
100 Years of Adolf Hitler – The Last Hour in the Führerbunker
The Barefoot Emperor
Holy Beasts
Celluloid Horror
Death of a World Star
Egomania: Island Without Hope
Season of the Senses
Hur und Heilig
Under the Palms
Three Shake-a-Leg Steps to Heaven
Gate to Heaven
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence
Lulu and Jimi
Brother
Life Is Too Long
Instant Dreams
Shameless
Idiots' Battle
Pray for Morning
The Last Trip to Harrisburg
The Praying Mantis
Bel Canto or May a Hooker Sob?
Miss Diamond
Narcissus and Psyche
Sportliche Schatten – Kunst in Krisenzeiten
Nur über meine Leiche
Auf Herz und Nieren
I Knew Andy Warhol
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
Pigs Will Fly
Paradise Framed
The Fifth Commandment
Mrs. Meitlemeihr
Bacurau no Mapa
Tell
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