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 286
Scene of the Crime
1970
Morgenmagazin
1992
Polizeiruf 110
1971
Dark Winds
2022
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
V.I.P.
1998
NDR Talk Show
1979
Chuck
2007
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
2010
3 nach 9
1974
Nash Bridges
1996
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998
seaQuest DSV
1993
G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten
2005
Zimmer frei!
1996
Blade
1998
Beckmann
1999
The Sentinel
1996
Tietjen und Bommes
1997
Hunters
2020
Brisant
1994
Red Shoe Diaries
1992
Viper
1994
The Batman
2004
The Story of O
1975
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
1994
The Secret Agent
2025
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
2013
Der Fahnder
1984
Armageddon
1998
Masters of Horror
2005
Justice League
2001
Boulevard Bio
1991
The Kingdom
1994
Through the Night with...
2002
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1994
Thadeusz
2005
Beware the Batman
2013
End of Days
1999
Die Männer vom K3
1988
Chompy & the Girls
2021
Suspiria
1977
Dragged Across Concrete
2019
Rosa Roth
1994
Doppelter Einsatz
1994
Berlin Alexanderplatz
1980
Halloween
2007
Melancholia
2011
Grindhouse
2007
Dogville
2003
Downsizing
2017
Old Money
2015
Major Lazer
2015
Johnny Mnemonic
1995
Iron Sky
2012
Evening Urgant
2012
Kir Royal
1986
Lola
1981
My Own Private Idaho
1991
Brawl in Cell Block 99
2017
Provocation
1971
Sonderdezernat K1
1972
Dancer in the Dark
2000
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994
Barb Wire
1996
Johnny Walker
2015
Iron Sky: The Coming Race
2019
For Love or Money
1993
Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin
2022
Seances
2016
Zero
2018
Betty - Schön wie der Tod
2003
Breaking the Waves
1996
Plötzlich und unerwartet - eine Déjà-Revue
1993
Exposé
1976
Bacurau
2019
Invincible
2001
Gestern gelesen
1969
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1996
FearDotCom
2002
Conflict of Emotions
1971
Manderlay
2005
4 Against Z
2005
Am nächsten Morgen kehrte der Minister nicht an seinen Arbeitsplatz zurück
1986
Fifty Shades of Erotica
2015
American Animals
2018
The Lords of Salem
2013
The Painted Bird
2019
Pankow ’95
1983
BloodRayne
2005
Far Cry
2008
Shadow of the Vampire
2000
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
2018
Last Moment of Clarity
2020
The Material Boy
2015
Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
2022
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2017
Surviving Christmas
2004
Metropia
2009
The Forbidden Room
2015
La deuxième femme
2008
Die Gang
1997
Medea
1989
Modigliani
2004
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010
M - A City Hunts a Murderer
2019
Seduction: The Cruel Woman
1986
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
2018
Holly
2006
Europa
1991
Mark of the Devil
1970
Dimension
2010
Beethoven's Treasure Tail
2014
Flesh for Frankenstein
1973
Dracula 3000
2004
By Design
2026
Haymaker
2021
UFO in Her Eyes
2011
Blood for Dracula
1974
Joseph Balsamo
1973
Swan Song
2021
Possessed
1999
Tattoos: A Scarred History
2009
House of Boys
2009
A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love
2022
Willemsens Woche
1995
Ice
1998
Crusade in Jeans
2006
Spermula
1976
Dr. med. Mark Wedmann - Detektiv inbegriffen
1974
Prince Valiant
1997
Sex
1992
Betty
1997
Lili Marleen
1981
My Neighbor Adolf
2022
Soul Kitchen
2009
Spy Games
1999
The End of Violence
1997
There's No Fish Food in Heaven
1998
Pars: Operation Cherry
2007
Road to St. Tropez
1966
One Point O
2004
Arteholic
2014
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
2018
Bad Painter
2025
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
2001
The Kingdom II
1998
All the Queen's Men
2001
Daughter of Mine
2018
Cigarette Burns
2005
Jack Reed: Badge of Honor
1993
Intangents
The Ark: An Iron Sky Story
Blood of 1000 Virgins
2013
Revelation
2001
Headspace
2005
Olifant
1973
Jargo
2004
The Sky Has Four Corners
2011
The Mother of Tears
2007
Epidemic
1987
Keyhole
2011
A Kilo of Blue (The Music)
2022
Skeletons in the Closet
2024
Courier X
2016
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
1981
The Kingdom
1994
Rotwang Must Go!
1994
Love Object
2004
Duke of Groove
1996
Terror 2000
1993
The Blazing World
2021
Modern Vampires
1998
Ich - Udo
2012
Korn: Deuce
2002
1½ Ritter - Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde
2008
Anecdotes from 'Epidemic'
2005
The New Adventures of Pinocchio
1999
Talk 2000
1997
The Debtors
1999
My Own Private River
2012
The Theatre Bizarre
2011
Schindler Space Architect
2024
The Third Generation
1979
The Mountain
2019
Mother's Mask
1988
Josh & S.A.M.
1993
The German Chainsaw Massacre
1990
Görünmeyen
2011
Lulu
1980
The Editor
2014
Final Run
1999
The Berlin Project
2011
Night of the Templar
2012
Phantasmagoria of the Interior
2015
Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween
2008
The Last Word
1975
30 Days Until I'm Famous
2004
The Roaring Fifties
1983
Staging Death
2022
Der wunderbare Udo Kier
2024
Theirs
The Making of Europa
1991
The Island of the Bloody Plantation
1983
He Sees You When You're Sleeping
2002
Fall Down Dead
2007
13 Graves
2006
Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho
1988
Critical Mass
2001
Return from Tomorrow
2026
És így s eképp tovább
1978
The Salzburg Connection
1972
Von Trier's 100 Eyes
2000
A Trick of the Light
1995
Red Letters
2000
American Exit
2019
Skin Walker
2019
Evil Eyes
2004
Gold Flakes
1976
Stingers
1998
The Killing Grounds
2007
Der Unbesiegbare
1985
Extinct
1995
United Trash
1996
Memories of a Young Pianist
2009
11 Colours of the Bird
2020
Gespenstergeschichten
1985
Just One Night
2000
Death of a World Star
1994
The Last Minute
2002
Egomania: Island Without Hope
1987
Double Deception
2000
Under the Palms
1999
Pan
1973
The Praying Mantis
2001
Fear and Loathing in Materndorf
2004
Life Is Too Long
2010
Hur und Heilig
1984
The 120 Days of Bottrop
1997
Lulu and Jimi
2009
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
2001
I Knew Andy Warhol
2018
The Beginner
1985
Madonna: The Making of SEX Book
1992
The Last Trip to Harrisburg
1984
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2015
Gate to Heaven
2003
Deutschland privat
1980
Doomsdayer
2001
Coconut Hero
2015
Brother
2016
Pray for Morning
2006
Hungarian Rhapsody
1979
Holy Beasts
2019
Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture
2001
Season of the Senses
1969
The Fifth Commandment
1978
Sportliche Schatten – Kunst in Krisenzeiten
1982
Nur über meine Leiche
1995
Celluloid Horror
2004
Shameless
1968
Instant Dreams
2017
Auf Herz und Nieren
2001
Idiots' Battle
1986
The Barefoot Emperor
2020
Lines of the Hand
2015
Killer Deal
1999
Lea
1996
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
2020
Tell
2007
Allegro Barbaro
1979
The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence
2013
Mrs. Meitlemeihr
2002
Miss Diamond
1999
100 Years of Adolf Hitler – The Last Hour in the Führerbunker
1989
Bel Canto or May a Hooker Sob?
1977
Bacurau no Mapa
2019
The Stationmaster’s Wife
1977
Unter Druck
1995
Narcissus and Psyche
1980
Three Shake-a-Leg Steps to Heaven
1993
Paradise Framed
1995
Pigs Will Fly
2003
Victor
1979
Unser Reigen
2006
Siblings
1982
