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