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