Udo Kier
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 (285)
By Design
Return from Tomorrow
The Secret Agent
Bad Painter
Schindler Space Architect
Skeletons in the Closet
Der wunderbare Udo Kier
Dark Winds
Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin
My Neighbor Adolf
Staging Death
A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love
A Kilo of Blue (The Music)
Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
Swan Song
Chompy & the Girls
The Blazing World
Haymaker
11 Colours of the Bird
Hunters
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
The Barefoot Emperor
Last Moment of Clarity
Bacurau no Mapa
Bacurau
The Painted Bird
Dragged Across Concrete
M - A City Hunts a Murderer
American Exit
Iron Sky: The Coming Race
The Mountain
Skin Walker
Holy Beasts
American Animals
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Daughter of Mine
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
Zero
I Knew Andy Warhol
Brawl in Cell Block 99
Instant Dreams
Downsizing
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
Seances
Brother
Courier X
Lines of the Hand
Fifty Shades of Erotica
Major Lazer
Old Money
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
Coconut Hero
The Forbidden Room
Phantasmagoria of the Interior
Johnny Walker
The Material Boy
Beethoven's Treasure Tail
The Editor
Arteholic
Beware the Batman
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
The Lords of Salem
Blood of 1000 Virgins
The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence
My Own Private River
Evening Urgant
Ich - Udo
Iron Sky
Night of the Templar
Melancholia
UFO in Her Eyes
The Theatre Bizarre
Keyhole
Görünmeyen
The Sky Has Four Corners
The Berlin Project
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Dimension
Life Is Too Long
Soul Kitchen
House of Boys
Metropia
Lulu and Jimi- Memories of a Young Pianist
Tattoos: A Scarred History
Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween
La deuxième femme
1½ Ritter - Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde
Far Cry
Chuck
Grindhouse
Halloween
Tell
Pars: Operation Cherry
The Mother of Tears
Fall Down Dead
The Killing Grounds
Holly
Crusade in Jeans
Pray for Morning
13 Graves- Unser Reigen
- Anecdotes from 'Epidemic'
4 Against Z
Cigarette Burns
Masters of Horror
Manderlay- Thadeusz
Headspace
BloodRayne- G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten
The Batman
Celluloid Horror
Modigliani
Jargo
Love Object
Surviving Christmas
One Point O
30 Days Until I'm Famous
Evil Eyes
Dracula 3000- Fear and Loathing in Materndorf
Gate to Heaven
Pigs Will Fly
Dogville- Betty - Schön wie der Tod
Through the Night with...
Korn: Deuce
He Sees You When You're Sleeping
Mrs. Meitlemeihr
The Last Minute
FearDotCom
Justice League- Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture
The Praying Mantis
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
Invincible
Revelation
All the Queen's Men
Doomsdayer
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
Critical Mass
Auf Herz und Nieren
Dancer in the Dark
Von Trier's 100 Eyes
Shadow of the Vampire
Just One Night
Double Deception
Red Letters
Under the Palms
Killer Deal
End of Days
Miss Diamond
Final Run
The New Adventures of Pinocchio
Possessed
Spy Games
Beckmann
The Debtors
The Kingdom II- The Johannes B. Kerner Show
Stingers
Blade
Armageddon
V.I.P.
Ice
Modern Vampires
There's No Fish Food in Heaven- Die Gang
- Tietjen und Bommes
The End of Violence
The 120 Days of Bottrop
Prince Valiant
Betty
Talk 2000
Breaking the Waves
The Sentinel
Zimmer frei!
Nash Bridges
Lea
Duke of Groove
The Adventures of Pinocchio
United Trash
Barb Wire
Paradise Framed- Willemsens Woche
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Extinct
Nur über meine Leiche
A Trick of the Light
Unter Druck
Johnny Mnemonic
Death of a World Star
The Kingdom
The Kingdom
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Brisant
Viper
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio- Rotwang Must Go!
Rosa Roth
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Doppelter Einsatz
Three Shake-a-Leg Steps to Heaven
seaQuest DSV
Plötzlich und unerwartet - eine Déjà-Revue
For Love or Money
Jack Reed: Badge of Honor
Terror 2000
Josh & S.A.M.
Sex
Red Shoe Diaries
Morgenmagazin
Madonna: The Making of SEX Book
Europa
My Own Private Idaho
Boulevard Bio- The Making of Europa
The German Chainsaw Massacre
100 Years Of Adolf Hitler: The Last Hour In The Führerbunker
Medea
Mother's Mask
Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho
Die Männer vom K3
Epidemic
Egomania: Island Without Hope
Am nächsten Morgen kehrte der Minister nicht an seinen Arbeitsplatz zurück
Idiots' Battle
Kir Royal
Seduction: The Cruel Woman- Der Unbesiegbare
Gespenstergeschichten
The Beginner
Der Fahnder
Hur und Heilig
The Last Trip to Harrisburg
Pankow ’95
The Island of the Bloody Plantation
The Roaring Fifties- Siblings
Sportliche Schatten – Kunst in Krisenzeiten
Lola
Lili Marleen
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Narcissus and Psyche
Deutschland privat
Lulu- Victor
NDR Talk Show
Hungarian Rhapsody
The Third Generation
The Fifth Commandment
És így s eképp tovább
Suspiria
Bel Canto or May a Hooker Sob?
The Stationmaster’s Wife
Gold Flakes
Exposé
Spermula
The Story of O
The Last Word- Dr. med. Mark Wedmann - Detektiv inbegriffen
- 3 nach 9
Blood for Dracula- Pan
Joseph Balsamo- Olifant
Flesh for Frankenstein- Sonderdezernat K1
The Salzburg Connection
Polizeiruf 110
Provocation
Conflict of Emotions
Mark of the Devil
Scene of the Crime- Gestern gelesen
Season of the Senses
Shameless
Road to St. Tropez
Theirs
The Ark: An Iron Sky Story
Intangents