Udo Kier
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.
Filmography
Die Gang
1997 · 10.0
Pankow ’95
1983 · 10.0
Schindler Space Architect
2024 · 10.0
Der Unbesiegbare
1985 · 10.0
Pan
1973 · 10.0
The Fifth Commandment
1978 · 10.0
Paradise Framed
1995 · 10.0
Death of a World Star
1994 · 9.0
Am nächsten Morgen kehrte der Minister nicht an seinen Arbeitsplatz zurück
1986 · 9.0
Anecdotes from 'Epidemic'
2005 · 9.0
Gold Flakes
1976 · 8.4
Justice League
2001 · 8.2
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
2010 · 8.2
The Batman
2004 · 8.0
Sonderdezernat K1
1972 · 8.0
Gestern gelesen
1969 · 8.0
4 Against Z
2005 · 8.0
Dr. med. Mark Wedmann - Detektiv inbegriffen
1974 · 8.0
Joseph Balsamo
1973 · 8.0
Under the Palms
1999 · 8.0
Pigs Will Fly
2003 · 8.0
Three Shake-a-Leg Steps to Heaven
1993 · 8.0
Gate to Heaven
2003 · 8.0
Idiots' Battle
1986 · 8.0
Dancer in the Dark
2000 · 7.8
The Kingdom
1994 · 7.8
Dogville
2003 · 7.7
Chuck
2007 · 7.7
The Kingdom
1994 · 7.6
Bacurau
2019 · 7.6
The Kingdom II
1998 · 7.6
Dark Winds
2022 · 7.5
Berlin Alexanderplatz
1980 · 7.5
Korn: Deuce
2002 · 7.5
Season of the Senses
1969 · 7.5
Breaking the Waves
1996 · 7.5
Suspiria
1977 · 7.5
My Own Private River
2012 · 7.4
Extinct
1995 · 7.4
Der Fahnder
1984 · 7.3
Beware the Batman
2013 · 7.3
Europa
1991 · 7.3
Cigarette Burns
2005 · 7.3
The Praying Mantis
2001 · 7.3
The Sentinel
1996 · 7.2
Masters of Horror
2005 · 7.2
Melancholia
2011 · 7.1
The Secret Agent
2025 · 7.1
Hunters
2020 · 7.1
seaQuest DSV
1993 · 7.1
The Painted Bird
2019 · 7.1
My Own Private Idaho
1991 · 7.0
Grindhouse
2007 · 7.0
Kir Royal
1986 · 7.0
Bad Painter
2025 · 7.0
Modigliani
2004 · 7.0
Olifant
1973 · 7.0
Stingers
1998 · 7.0
Fifty Shades of Erotica
2015 · 7.0
Plötzlich und unerwartet - eine Déjà-Revue
1993 · 7.0
Gespenstergeschichten
1985 · 7.0
Hur und Heilig
1984 · 7.0
Killer Deal
1999 · 7.0
Bel Canto or May a Hooker Sob?
1977 · 7.0
Lines of the Hand
2015 · 7.0
Brawl in Cell Block 99
2017 · 7.0
Manderlay
2005 · 6.9
Soul Kitchen
2009 · 6.9
Lola
1981 · 6.9
Swan Song
2021 · 6.9
100 Years of Adolf Hitler – The Last Hour in the Führerbunker
1989 · 6.9
Blade
1998 · 6.9
Armageddon
1998 · 6.8
Major Lazer
2015 · 6.8
American Animals
2018 · 6.7
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
2013 · 6.7
Instant Dreams
2017 · 6.7
The Last Trip to Harrisburg
1984 · 6.7
Shadow of the Vampire
2000 · 6.7
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
2018 · 6.7
Nash Bridges
1996 · 6.6
Dragged Across Concrete
2019 · 6.6
Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin
2022 · 6.6
My Neighbor Adolf
2022 · 6.6
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1994 · 6.6
Medea
1989 · 6.5
Lili Marleen
1981 · 6.5
Staging Death
2022 · 6.5
UFO in Her Eyes
2011 · 6.4
Brother
2016 · 6.4
Nur über meine Leiche
1995 · 6.4
Narcissus and Psyche
1980 · 6.4
M - A City Hunts a Murderer
2019 · 6.3
Holly
2006 · 6.3
Hungarian Rhapsody
1979 · 6.3
Halloween
2007 · 6.2
Scene of the Crime
1970 · 6.2
Polizeiruf 110
1971 · 6.2
Viper
1994 · 6.2
Invincible
2001 · 6.2
For Love or Money
1993 · 6.2
Daughter of Mine
2018 · 6.2
House of Boys
2009 · 6.2
He Sees You When You're Sleeping
2002 · 6.2
A Trick of the Light
1995 · 6.2
End of Days
1999 · 6.1
Metropia
2009 · 6.1
Old Money
2015 · 6.1
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010 · 6.1
Mark of the Devil
1970 · 6.1
Jargo
2004 · 6.0
La deuxième femme
2008 · 6.0
The Third Generation
1979 · 6.0
Coconut Hero
2015 · 6.0
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2015 · 6.0
Mrs. Meitlemeihr
2002 · 6.0
Chompy & the Girls
2021 · 5.9
Love Object
2004 · 5.9
Crusade in Jeans
2006 · 5.9
By Design
2026 · 5.9
Jack Reed: Badge of Honor
1993 · 5.9
Shameless
1968 · 5.9
Red Shoe Diaries
1992 · 5.8
The Salzburg Connection
1972 · 5.8
Miss Diamond
1999 · 5.8
Johnny Mnemonic
1995 · 5.8
Flesh for Frankenstein
1973 · 5.8
Iron Sky
2012 · 5.7
One Point O
2004 · 5.7
Surviving Christmas
2004 · 5.7
Epidemic
1987 · 5.7
American Exit
2019 · 5.7
The Beginner
1985 · 5.7
Lulu and Jimi
2009 · 5.7
Tell
2007 · 5.7
Blood for Dracula
1974 · 5.6
Beethoven's Treasure Tail
2014 · 5.6
The Forbidden Room
2015 · 5.6
The New Adventures of Pinocchio
1999 · 5.6
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
2018 · 5.6
The Editor
2014 · 5.6
Final Run
1999 · 5.6
The Story of O
1975 · 5.5
Courier X
2016 · 5.5
Dimension
2010 · 5.5
Seduction: The Cruel Woman
1986 · 5.5
The Last Minute
2002 · 5.5
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
1981 · 5.5
The Barefoot Emperor
2020 · 5.5
The Lords of Salem
2013 · 5.5
Downsizing
2017 · 5.4
Keyhole
2011 · 5.4
The End of Violence
1997 · 5.4
Lea
1996 · 5.4
V.I.P.
1998 · 5.3
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1996 · 5.3
Egomania: Island Without Hope
1987 · 5.3
The Theatre Bizarre
2011 · 5.3
Ice
1998 · 5.2
Prince Valiant
1997 · 5.2
A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love
2022 · 5.2
Iron Sky: The Coming Race
2019 · 5.2
Headspace
2005 · 5.1
Last Moment of Clarity
2020 · 5.1
The Mountain
2019 · 5.1
Revelation
2001 · 5.1
Mother's Mask
1988 · 5.0
Rotwang Must Go!
1994 · 5.0
All the Queen's Men
2001 · 5.0
Life Is Too Long
2010 · 5.0
Memories of a Young Pianist
2009 · 5.0
Phantasmagoria of the Interior
2015 · 5.0
Just One Night
2000 · 5.0
Possessed
1999 · 4.9
Terror 2000
1993 · 4.9
Road to St. Tropez
1966 · 4.9
Josh & S.A.M.
1993 · 4.9
Exposé
1976 · 4.9
Pars: Operation Cherry
2007 · 4.9
Modern Vampires
1998 · 4.9
Deutschland privat
1980 · 4.9
Pray for Morning
2006 · 4.9
Double Deception
2000 · 4.9
Rosa Roth
1994 · 4.8
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
2018 · 4.8
Skin Walker
2019 · 4.8
The Last Word
1975 · 4.7
Doomsdayer
2001 · 4.7
30 Days Until I'm Famous
2004 · 4.7
Red Letters
2000 · 4.7
Spy Games
1999 · 4.6
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
2001 · 4.6
The Mother of Tears
2007 · 4.6
There's No Fish Food in Heaven
1998 · 4.5
Critical Mass
2001 · 4.5
Auf Herz und Nieren
2001 · 4.5
Skeletons in the Closet
2024 · 4.4
Holy Beasts
2019 · 4.4
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994 · 4.4
1½ Ritter - Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde
2008 · 4.3
Zero
2018 · 4.3
The Blazing World
2021 · 4.3
The Island of the Bloody Plantation
1983 · 4.3
United Trash
1996 · 4.2
Provocation
1971 · 4.2
The Debtors
1999 · 4.2
Lulu
1980 · 4.2
BloodRayne
2006 · 4.1
Spermula
1976 · 4.1
Barb Wire
1996 · 4.1
Betty
1997 · 4.0
The German Chainsaw Massacre
1990 · 4.0
Betty - Schön wie der Tod
2003 · 4.0
Fall Down Dead
2007 · 4.0
FearDotCom
2002 · 3.9
Night of the Templar
2012 · 3.8
The Roaring Fifties
1983 · 3.7
Far Cry
2008 · 3.7
The Killing Grounds
2007 · 3.6
Doppelter Einsatz
1994 · 3.4
Evil Eyes
2004 · 3.4
Haymaker
2021 · 3.2
Dracula 3000
2004 · 2.8
Conflict of Emotions
1971 · 2.8
Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho
1988 · 1.0
Die Männer vom K3
1988 · 0.0
Johnny Walker
2015 · 0.0
Intangents
— · 0.0
Citizens
— · 0.0
Görünmeyen
2011 · 0.0
Return from Tomorrow
2026 · 0.0
Theirs
— · 0.0
The Sky Has Four Corners
2011 · 0.0
A Kilo of Blue (The Music)
2022 · 0.0
The Berlin Project
2011 · 0.0
The Ark: An Iron Sky Story
— · 0.0
Fear and Loathing in Materndorf
2004 · 0.0
Sportliche Schatten – Kunst in Krisenzeiten
1982 · 0.0
The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence
2013 · 0.0
És így s eképp tovább
1978 · 0.0
Siblings
1982 · 0.0
Unser Reigen
2006 · 0.0