Udo Kier
Known for: Acting
Born: October 14, 1944
Died: November 23, 2025
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…
Known for
Am nächsten Morgen kehrte der Minister nicht an seinen Arbeitsplatz zurück
1986
Blood for Dracula
1974
The Last Trip to Harrisburg
1984
Medea
1989
Pray for Morning
2006
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
1981
Exposé
1976
Bad Painter
2025
A Trick of the Light
1995
The Theatre Bizarre
2011
United Trash
1996
100 Years Of Adolf Hitler: The Last Hour In The Führerbunker
1989
I Knew Andy Warhol
2018
The Island of the Bloody Plantation
1983
Shameless
1968
Deutschland privat
1980
Staging Death
2022
Mrs. Meitlemeihr
2002
Death of a World Star
1994
Egomania: Island Without Hope
1987
Seduction: The Cruel Woman
1986
Rotwang Must Go!
1994
Season of the Senses
1969
Auf Herz und Nieren
2001
Provocation
1971
Arteholic
2014
Ich - Udo
2012
Courier X
2016
Olifant
1973
Johnny Walker
2015
Zero
2018
Intangents
Hur und Heilig
1984
Conflict of Emotions
1971
Der Unbesiegbare
1985
Pankow ’95
1983
Paradise Framed
1995
Sportliche Schatten – Kunst in Krisenzeiten
1982
Fear and Loathing in Materndorf
2004
Plötzlich und unerwartet - eine Déjà-Revue
1993
Swan Song
2021
Idiots' Battle
1986
The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence
2013
Der wunderbare Udo Kier
2024
Three Shake-a-Leg Steps to Heaven
1993
Flesh for Frankenstein
1973
The Story of O
1975
Possessed
1999
Narcissus and Psyche
1980
One Point O
2004
Doomsdayer
2001
Mark of the Devil
1970
The Killing Grounds
2007
UFO in Her Eyes
2011
Night of the Templar
2012
The Praying Mantis
2001
The New Adventures of Pinocchio
1999
My Neighbor Adolf
2022
Road to St. Tropez
1966
Extinct
1995
Fall Down Dead
2007
Jargo
2004
Cigarette Burns
2005
Pigs Will Fly
2003
Siblings
1982
Phantasmagoria of the Interior
2015
The Making of Europa
1991
Lines of the Hand
2015
Stingers
1998
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
2018
Holy Beasts
2019
Skin Walker
2019
Spermula
1976
The Blazing World
2021
Schindler Space Architect
2024
Betty - Schön wie der Tod
2003
Shadow of the Vampire
2000
Far Cry
2008
Europa
1991
Evil Eyes
2004
Metropia
2009
Love Object
2004
Invincible
2001
A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love
2022
House of Boys
2009
Just One Night
2000
Keyhole
2011
Under the Palms
1999
Terror 2000
1993
Critical Mass
2001
The Berlin Project
2011
Betty
1997
Victor
1979
Bel Canto or May a Hooker Sob?
1977
American Exit
2019
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
2020
Memories of a Young Pianist
2009
Bacurau no Mapa
2019
És így s eképp tovább
1978
OD: Knock
Iron Sky
2012
Lulu and Jimi
2009
FearDotCom
2002
The 120 Days of Bottrop
1997
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1996
Görünmeyen
2011
Von Trier's 100 Eyes
2000
Double Deception
2000
Anecdotes from 'Epidemic'
2005
Tell
2007
The Forbidden Room
2015
Sex
1992
Skeletons in the Closet
2024
Theirs
The Sky Has Four Corners
2011
Gate to Heaven
2003
Spy Games
1999
Brawl in Cell Block 99
2017
Hungarian Rhapsody
1979
Miss Diamond
1999
The Painted Bird
2019
The Debtors
1999
Daughter of Mine
2018
Epidemic
1987
The Material Boy
2015
Dimension
2010
Pan
1973
Haymaker
2021
Prince Valiant
1997
Barb Wire
1996
1½ Ritter - Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde
2008
Holly
2006
30 Days Until I'm Famous
2004
A Kilo of Blue (The Music)
2022
Revelation
2001
Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho
1988
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
2001
Coconut Hero
2015
Lea
1996
Celluloid Horror
2004
Brother
2016
The Last Word
1975
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
2018
Instant Dreams
2017
The Mountain
2019
Bacurau
2019
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2017
The Fifth Commandment
1978
Headspace
2005
Blade
1998
Ice
1998
The Third Generation
1979
He Sees You When You're Sleeping
2002
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
2013
Nur über meine Leiche
1995
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2015
Unser Reigen
2006
Blood of 1000 Virgins
2013
The Secret Agent
2025
Unter Druck
1995
All the Queen's Men
2001
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010
Duke of Groove
1996
The Stationmaster’s Wife
1977
Iron Sky: The Coming Race
2019
Modigliani
2004
Downsizing
2017
Final Run
1999
The Last Minute
2002
American Animals
2018
Chompy & the Girls
2021
Madonna: The Making of SEX Book
1992
Breaking the Waves
1996
Dracula 3000
2004
Surviving Christmas
2004
BloodRayne
2005
Red Letters
2000
Mother's Mask
1988
Korn: Deuce
2002
The Ark: An Iron Sky Story
La deuxième femme
2008
The Salzburg Connection
1972
The Barefoot Emperor
2020
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
2001
There's No Fish Food in Heaven
1998
Halloween
2007
Crusade in Jeans
2006
Johnny Mnemonic
1995
The Mother of Tears
2007
The German Chainsaw Massacre
1990
Pars: Operation Cherry
2007
Lulu
1980
The Editor
2014
Beethoven's Treasure Tail
2014
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1994
Gold Flakes
1976
Josh & S.A.M.
1993
My Own Private River
2012
Fifty Shades of Erotica
2015
Last Moment of Clarity
2020
Suspiria
1977
Lili Marleen
1981
End of Days
1999
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
2018
Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture
2001
Killer Deal
1999
Melancholia
2011
The End of Violence
1997
Life Is Too Long
2010
The Beginner
1985
Return from Tomorrow
2026
Dancer in the Dark
2000
My Own Private Idaho
1991
Dragged Across Concrete
2019
11 Colours of the Bird
2020
Modern Vampires
1998
Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
2022
Jack Reed: Badge of Honor
1993
Soul Kitchen
2009
Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween
2008
The Kingdom
1994
The Kingdom II
1998
13 Graves
2006
Seances
2016
Tattoos: A Scarred History
2009
For Love or Money
1993
Dogville
2003
Manderlay
2005
By Design
2026
Lola
1981
The Lords of Salem
2013
The Roaring Fifties
1983
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994
Armageddon
1998
Grindhouse
2007
Nash Bridges
1996
seaQuest DSV
1993
The Batman
2004
Masters of Horror
2005
Red Shoe Diaries
1992
Justice League
2001
4 Against Z
2005
Scene of the Crime
1970
Kir Royal
1986
Polizeiruf 110
1971
Die Männer vom K3
1988
Chuck
2007
Doppelter Einsatz
1994
Rosa Roth
1994
Old Money
2015
Sonderdezernat K1
1972
Der Fahnder
1984
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
Gestern gelesen
1969
Dr. med. Mark Wedmann - Detektiv inbegriffen
1974
Viper
1994
Evening Urgant
2012
Hunters
2020
Through the Night with...
2002
Beware the Batman
2013
Joseph Balsamo
1973
Die Gang
1997
Gespenstergeschichten
1985
Talk 2000
1997
M - A City Hunts a Murderer
2019
Major Lazer
2015
Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin
2022
Zimmer frei!
1996
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
1994
Tietjen und Bommes
1997
Boulevard Bio
1991
The Sentinel
1996
NDR Talk Show
1979
3 nach 9
1974
Beckmann
1999
G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten
2005
Willemsens Woche
1995
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
2010
The Kingdom
1994
V.I.P.
1998
Thadeusz
2005
Brisant
1994
Morgenmagazin
1992
Berlin Alexanderplatz
1980
Dark Winds
2022