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