Udo Kier
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.
As actor 287
Scene of the Crime
1970
Morgenmagazin
1992
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
NDR Talk Show
1979
V.I.P.
1998
Chuck
2007
G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten
2005
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998
3 nach 9
1974
Zimmer frei!
1996
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
2010
Nash Bridges
1996
Polizeiruf 110
1971
Beckmann
1999
Dark Winds
2022
seaQuest DSV
1993
Brisant
1994
The Batman
2004
Tietjen und Bommes
1997
The Sentinel
1996
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
1994
Hunters
2020
Viper
1994
Blade
1998
Through the Night with...
2002
Masters of Horror
2005
The Kingdom
1994
Justice League
2001
Armageddon
1998
Red Shoe Diaries
1992
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
2013
The Secret Agent
2025
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1994
The Story of O
1975
Boulevard Bio
1991
Berlin Alexanderplatz
1980
Thadeusz
2005
Beware the Batman
2013
End of Days
1999
Halloween
2007
Iron Sky
2012
Downsizing
2017
Die Männer vom K3
1988
Dogville
2003
Brawl in Cell Block 99
2017
Melancholia
2011
Der Fahnder
1984
Johnny Mnemonic
1995
Doppelter Einsatz
1994
My Own Private Idaho
1991
Major Lazer
2015
Suspiria
1977
Grindhouse
2007
Dragged Across Concrete
2019
Kir Royal
1986
Dancer in the Dark
2000
Barb Wire
1996
American Animals
2018
Iron Sky: The Coming Race
2019
FearDotCom
2002
The Lords of Salem
2013
Evening Urgant
2012
Rosa Roth
1994
Gestern gelesen
1969
Breaking the Waves
1996
Conflict of Emotions
1971
Shadow of the Vampire
2000
For Love or Money
1993
Manderlay
2005
Sonderdezernat K1
1972
The Painted Bird
2019
Dracula 3000
2004
BloodRayne
2006
Old Money
2015
Metropia
2009
Monty and the Movies
Seduction: The Cruel Woman
1986
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
2018
Bacurau
2019
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010
Far Cry
2008
4 Against Z
2005
Citizens
Am nächsten Morgen kehrte der Minister nicht an seinen Arbeitsplatz zurück
1986
Johnny Walker
2015
Europa
1991
Last Moment of Clarity
2020
Surviving Christmas
2004
Prince Valiant
1997
Provocation
1971
Lili Marleen
1981
Invincible
2001
Swan Song
2021
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1996
Crusade in Jeans
2006
Ich - Udo
2012
Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin
2022
By Design
2026
Flesh for Frankenstein
1973
Lola
1981
Beethoven's Treasure Tail
2014
Betty - Schön wie der Tod
2003
Bad Painter
2025
The Mountain
2019
Chompy & the Girls
2021
Exposé
1976
La deuxième femme
2008
A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love
2022
Blood for Dracula
1974
Fifty Shades of Erotica
2015
Spy Games
1999
The End of Violence
1997
Soul Kitchen
2009
Medea
1989
Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
2022
Joseph Balsamo
1973
Mark of the Devil
1970
Holly
2006
One Point O
2004
M - A City Hunts a Murderer
2019
Willemsens Woche
1995
Possessed
1999
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994
Plötzlich und unerwartet - eine Déjà-Revue
1993
House of Boys
2009
Modern Vampires
1998
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2017
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
2018
The Kingdom II
1998
Epidemic
1987
Daughter of Mine
2018
Jack Reed: Badge of Honor
1993
The Debtors
1999
Die Gang
1997
The Kingdom
1994
Spermula
1976
Cigarette Burns
2005
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
2001
Dimension
2010
Modigliani
2004
Ice
1998
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
1981
The Salzburg Connection
1972
United Trash
1996
The Last Word
1975
Haymaker
2021
American Exit
2019
The Material Boy
2015
Love Object
2004
Headspace
2005
Fall Down Dead
2007
The Blazing World
2021
Zero
2018
My Neighbor Adolf
2022
The Theatre Bizarre
2011
Sex
1992
Pankow ’95
1983
Korn: Deuce
2002
Betty
1997
The Forbidden Room
2015
A Trick of the Light
1995
Keyhole
2011
Dr. med. Mark Wedmann - Detektiv inbegriffen
1974
1½ Ritter - Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde
2008
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
2018
Deutschland privat
1980
The Sky Has Four Corners
2011
Staging Death
2022
Theirs
Life Is Too Long
2010
Josh & S.A.M.
1993
Arteholic
2014
The New Adventures of Pinocchio
1999
Critical Mass
2001
Der Unbesiegbare
1985
Skin Walker
2019
Return from Tomorrow
2026
The Fifth Commandment
1978
Mother's Mask
1988
Pars: Operation Cherry
2007
The Mother of Tears
2007
Terror 2000
1993
Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho
1988
Revelation
2001
The Roaring Fifties
1983
Intangents
Hungarian Rhapsody
1979
The Last Minute
2002
The Third Generation
1979
Schindler Space Architect
2024
Final Run
1999
Duke of Groove
1996
The Ark: An Iron Sky Story
Gespenstergeschichten
1985
Road to St. Tropez
1966
Courier X
2016
11 Colours of the Bird
2020
Görünmeyen
2011
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
2020
Tattoos: A Scarred History
2009
Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween
2008
Der wunderbare Udo Kier
2024
All the Queen's Men
2001
Gold Flakes
1976
Rotwang Must Go!
1994
Memories of a Young Pianist
2009
There's No Fish Food in Heaven
1998
Double Deception
2000
The Beginner
1985
Talk 2000
1997
30 Days Until I'm Famous
2004
Pan
1973
Killer Deal
1999
Gate to Heaven
2003
Red Letters
2000
Lulu
1980
Olifant
1973
Extinct
1995
100 Years of Adolf Hitler – The Last Hour in the Führerbunker
1989
Egomania: Island Without Hope
1987
Jargo
2004
The German Chainsaw Massacre
1990
The Berlin Project
2011
The Killing Grounds
2007
Evil Eyes
2004
Death of a World Star
1994
Skeletons in the Closet
2024
The Praying Mantis
2001
Night of the Templar
2012
Blood of 1000 Virgins
2013
The Barefoot Emperor
2020
Just One Night
2000
Tell
2007
The 120 Days of Bottrop
1997
Lulu and Jimi
2009
Stingers
1998
Bacurau no Mapa
2019
The Stationmaster’s Wife
1977
Von Trier's 100 Eyes
2000
He Sees You When You're Sleeping
2002
The Editor
2014
Nur über meine Leiche
1995
My Own Private River
2012
Under the Palms
1999
Pigs Will Fly
2003
Pray for Morning
2006
Miss Diamond
1999
Auf Herz und Nieren
2001
És így s eképp tovább
1978
Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture
2001
Anecdotes from 'Epidemic'
2005
Coconut Hero
2015
The Making of Europa
1991
13 Graves
2006
Holy Beasts
2019
The Island of the Bloody Plantation
1983
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2015
A Kilo of Blue (The Music)
2022
Lea
1996
Season of the Senses
1969
Celluloid Horror
2004
Narcissus and Psyche
1980
Doomsdayer
2001
UFO in Her Eyes
2011
Hur und Heilig
1984
Mrs. Meitlemeihr
2002
I Knew Andy Warhol
2018
Shameless
1968
Phantasmagoria of the Interior
2015
Bel Canto or May a Hooker Sob?
1977
Unter Druck
1995
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
2001
Instant Dreams
2017
The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence
2013
Paradise Framed
1995
Unser Reigen
2006
Madonna: The Making of SEX Book
1992
Lines of the Hand
2015
Sportliche Schatten – Kunst in Krisenzeiten
1982
The Last Trip to Harrisburg
1984
Brother
2016
Idiots' Battle
1986
Siblings
1982
Fear and Loathing in Materndorf
2004
Three Shake-a-Leg Steps to Heaven
1993
Victor
1979
Werewolf Women of the S.S.
2007
