Udo Kier
Acting
- Born:
- 1944-10-14
- Died:
- 2025-11-23
- Place of birth:
- Cologne, Germany
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Return from Tomorrow
By Design
The Secret Agent
Bad Painter
Schindler Space Architect
Der wunderbare Udo Kier
Skeletons in the Closet
Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin
Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
My Neighbor Adolf
Dark Winds
Staging Death
A Kilo of Blue (The Music)
A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love
The Blazing World
Chompy & the Girls
Swan Song
Haymaker
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
Last Moment of Clarity
11 Colours of the Bird
The Barefoot Emperor
Hunters
Bacurau no Mapa
Skin Walker
The Painted Bird
Bacurau
Holy Beasts
The Mountain
American Exit
Dragged Across Concrete
M - A City Hunts a Murderer
Iron Sky: The Coming Race
I Knew Andy Warhol
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
American Animals
Zero
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Daughter of Mine
Downsizing
Instant Dreams
Brawl in Cell Block 99
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
Courier X
Brother
The Forbidden Room
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
Coconut Hero
Johnny Walker
Phantasmagoria of the Interior
Major Lazer
Fifty Shades of Erotica
Old Money
The Material Boy
Lines of the Hand
Arteholic
Beethoven's Treasure Tail
The Editor
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence
Beware the Batman
Blood of 1000 Virgins
The Lords of Salem
Night of the Templar
Evening Urgant
Iron Sky
Ich - Udo
My Own Private River
Görünmeyen
The Berlin Project
UFO in Her Eyes
Keyhole
The Theatre Bizarre
The Sky Has Four Corners
Melancholia
Life Is Too Long
Dimension
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
House of Boys
Memories of a Young Pianist
Metropia
Soul Kitchen
Tattoos: A Scarred History
Lulu and Jimi
1½ Ritter - Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde
La deuxième femme
Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween
Far Cry
Tell
The Mother of Tears
Chuck
Halloween
Fall Down Dead
The Killing Grounds
Pars: Operation Cherry
Grindhouse
Unser Reigen
13 Graves
Crusade in Jeans
Holly
Pray for Morning
BloodRayne
Cigarette Burns
Thadeusz
Masters of Horror
Headspace
Anecdotes from 'Epidemic'
Manderlay
4 Against Z
G&G - Gesichter und Geschichten
Fear and Loathing in Materndorf
Surviving Christmas
The Batman
Dracula 3000
Evil Eyes
Modigliani
30 Days Until I'm Famous
One Point O
Love Object
Jargo
Celluloid Horror
Gate to Heaven
Dogville
Betty - Schön wie der Tod
Pigs Will Fly
He Sees You When You're Sleeping
Mrs. Meitlemeihr
The Last Minute
FearDotCom
Korn: Deuce
Through the Night with...
Invincible
Auf Herz und Nieren
Justice League
All the Queen's Men
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
Critical Mass
Revelation
The Praying Mantis
Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture
Doomsdayer
Von Trier's 100 Eyes
Just One Night
Dancer in the Dark
Shadow of the Vampire
Red Letters
Double Deception
Miss Diamond
End of Days
The New Adventures of Pinocchio
Final Run
Under the Palms
The Debtors
Spy Games
Possessed
Killer Deal
Beckmann
Stingers
Modern Vampires
There's No Fish Food in Heaven
V.I.P.
Blade
Ice
The Kingdom II
Armageddon
Die Johannes B. Kerner Show
The 120 Days of Bottrop
Talk 2000
The End of Violence
Prince Valiant
Tietjen und Bommes
Die Gang
Betty
Lea
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Zimmer frei!
Breaking the Waves
Duke of Groove
Barb Wire
Nash Bridges
The Sentinel
United Trash
Die Harald Schmidt Show
A Trick of the Light
Unter Druck
Extinct
Nur über meine Leiche
Johnny Mnemonic
Paradise Framed
Willemsens Woche
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
The Kingdom
The Kingdom
Rosa Roth
Rotwang Must Go!
Doppelter Einsatz
Death of a World Star
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Brisant
Viper
Josh & S.A.M.
Jack Reed: Badge of Honor
For Love or Money
seaQuest DSV
Three Shake-a-Leg Steps to Heaven
Terror 2000
Plötzlich und unerwartet - eine Déjà-Revue
Sex
Madonna: The Making of SEX Book
Morgenmagazin
Red Shoe Diaries
The Making of Europa
Boulevard Bio
Europa
My Own Private Idaho
The German Chainsaw Massacre
Medea
100 Years of Adolf Hitler – The Last Hour in the Führerbunker
Mother's Mask
Die Männer vom K3
Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho
Epidemic
Egomania: Island Without Hope
Kir Royal
Am nächsten Morgen kehrte der Minister nicht an seinen Arbeitsplatz zurück
Seduction: The Cruel Woman
Idiots' Battle
The Beginner
Der Unbesiegbare
Gespenstergeschichten
The Last Trip to Harrisburg
Der Fahnder
Hur und Heilig
Pankow ’95
The Roaring Fifties
The Island of the Bloody Plantation
Sportliche Schatten – Kunst in Krisenzeiten
Siblings
Lola
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
Lili Marleen
Narcissus and Psyche
Deutschland privat
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Lulu
Hungarian Rhapsody
The Third Generation
NDR Talk Show
Victor
The Fifth Commandment
És így s eképp tovább
Bel Canto or May a Hooker Sob?
The Stationmaster’s Wife
Suspiria
Spermula
Gold Flakes
Exposé
The Story of O
The Last Word
3 nach 9
Dr. med. Mark Wedmann - Detektiv inbegriffen
Blood for Dracula
Flesh for Frankenstein
Pan
Joseph Balsamo
Olifant
Sonderdezernat K1
The Salzburg Connection
Conflict of Emotions
Polizeiruf 110
Provocation
Scene of the Crime
Mark of the Devil
Season of the Senses
Gestern gelesen
Shameless
Road to St. Tropez
Theirs
The Ark: An Iron Sky Story
Intangents
Monty and the Movies
Citizens