Udo Kier
Born: 1944-10-14
• 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.
Filmography
By Design
The Secret Agent
Bad Painter
Schindler Space Architect
Der wunderbare Udo Kier
Skeletons in the Closet
Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
My Neighbor Adolf
Staging Death
A Kilo of Blue (The Music)
A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love
The Blazing World
Chompy & the Girls
Swan Song
Haymaker
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
Last Moment of Clarity
11 Colours of the Bird
The Barefoot Emperor
Bacurau no Mapa
Skin Walker
The Painted Bird
Bacurau
Holy Beasts
The Mountain
American Exit
Dragged Across Concrete
Iron Sky: The Coming Race
I Knew Andy Warhol
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
American Animals
Zero
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Daughter of Mine
Downsizing
Instant Dreams
Brawl in Cell Block 99
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
Courier X
Seances
Brother
The Forbidden Room
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
Coconut Hero
Johnny Walker
Phantasmagoria of the Interior
Fifty Shades of Erotica
The Material Boy
Lines of the Hand
Arteholic
Beethoven's Treasure Tail
The Editor
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence
Blood of 1000 Virgins
The Lords of Salem
Night of the Templar
Iron Sky
Ich - Udo
My Own Private River
Görünmeyen
The Berlin Project
UFO in Her Eyes
Keyhole
The Theatre Bizarre
Melancholia
The Sky Has Four Corners
Life Is Too Long
Dimension
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
House of Boys
No Image
Memories of a Young Pianist
Metropia
Soul Kitchen
Tattoos: A Scarred History
Lulu and Jimi
1½ Ritter - Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde
La deuxième femme
Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween
Far Cry
Tell
The Mother of Tears
Halloween
Fall Down Dead
The Killing Grounds
Pars: Operation Cherry
Grindhouse
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Unser Reigen
13 Graves
Crusade in Jeans
Holly
Pray for Morning
Cigarette Burns
BloodRayne
Headspace
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Anecdotes from 'Epidemic'
Manderlay
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Fear and Loathing in Materndorf
Surviving Christmas