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