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.
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Cologne, Germany
Birthday
14 October 1944
Dancer in the Dark
7.849
Breaking the Waves
7.508
Lili Marleen
6.449
My Own Private Idaho
7.058
Dogville
7.8
Halloween
6.228
Flesh for Frankenstein
5.8
Crusade in Jeans
5.9
Manderlay
6.9
Iron Sky
5.75
The Story of O
5.52
Dracula 3000
2.819
Shadow of the Vampire
6.661
Modern Vampires
4.941
The Kingdom
7.8
The Kingdom II
7.808
Possessed
4.875
Am nächsten Morgen kehrte der Minister nicht an seinen Arbeitsplatz zurück
9
Far Cry
3.708
Prince Valiant
5.195
All the Queen's Men
4.982
Barb Wire
4.132
Narcissus and Psyche
6.357
Lulu and Jimi
5.7
Europa
7.356
1½ Ritter - Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde
4.3
FearDotCom
3.794
Blood for Dracula
5.672
End of Days
6.091
Headspace
5.136
Evil Eyes
3.4
Johnny Mnemonic
5.771
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
4.375
The Last Trip to Harrisburg
8
Medea
6.49
Blade
6.8
Metropia
6.066
Ice
5.162
The Mother of Tears
4.5
The 120 Days of Bottrop
5.275
Holly
6.294
Surviving Christmas
5.73
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
6.1
Melancholia
7.157
Pray for Morning
4.861
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
5.531
Love Object
5.916
The End of Violence
5.39
One Point O
5.671
Doomsdayer
4.679
Exposé
4.951
Mark of the Devil
6.164
Bad Painter
7
Invincible
6.195
The Adventures of Pinocchio
5.3
A Trick of the Light
6.088
Görünmeyen
0
A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love
4.9
House of Boys
6.107
30 Days Until I'm Famous
4.688
The German Chainsaw Massacre
3.982
Pars: Operation Cherry
4.7
Life Is Too Long
5
A Kilo of Blue (The Music)
0
Von Trier's 100 Eyes
7.444
Just One Night
5.5
The Theatre Bizarre
5.3
Double Deception
5.333
Keyhole
5.3
United Trash
4.25
Revelation
5.071
The Killing Grounds
3.625
100 Years Of Adolf Hitler: The Last Hour In The Führerbunker
6.9
UFO in Her Eyes
6.4
Under the Palms
8
Night of the Templar
3.9
The Third Generation
5.971
I Knew Andy Warhol
0
Terror 2000
4.933
He Sees You When You're Sleeping
6.2
Critical Mass
4.5
Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho
1
Lulu
4.577
The Island of the Bloody Plantation
4.286
Shameless
5.889
The Praying Mantis
7.333
BloodRayne
4.146
Duke of Groove
5.5
Deutschland privat
4.857
Staging Death
6
Mrs. Meitlemeihr
6
Death of a World Star
9
Egomania: Island Without Hope
5.188
The New Adventures of Pinocchio
5.563
Jack Reed: Badge of Honor
5.857
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
6.7
Seduction: The Cruel Woman
5.5
Die wilden Fünfziger
3.667
The Stationmaster’s Wife
5.462
Rotwang Must Go!
5
The Beginner
5.62
Anecdotes from 'Epidemic'
9
Soul Kitchen
6.884
Tell
5.7
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
4.64
Season of the Senses
7.5
My Neighbor Adolf
6.527
Nur über meine Leiche
6.417
Red Letters
4.727
Road to St. Tropez
4.6
Extinct
7.125
The Editor
5.613
Iron Sky: The Coming Race
5.177
Auf Herz und Nieren
4.5
Provocation
4.556
Armageddon
6.83
The Forbidden Room
5.587
Fall Down Dead
4
Jargo
5.714
Beethoven's Treasure Tail
5.7
Sex
7.5
Cigarette Burns
7.3
Skeletons in the Closet
4.3
13 Graves
4.4
Arteholic
5
Coconut Hero
5.9
Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
0
The Sky Has Four Corners
0
Lea
5.5
The Berlin Project
0
Modigliani
7.038
Celluloid Horror
7.429
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
6.575
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
6
Unser Reigen
0
Gate to Heaven
9
Brother
6.4
Pigs Will Fly
8
Spy Games
4.563
Ich - Udo
6
Seances
6.7
Siblings
0
The Last Word
4.667
Downsizing
5.403
Blood of 1000 Virgins
5.4
Brawl in Cell Block 99
6.956
Hungarian Rhapsody
6.2
The Secret Agent
7.304
Courier X
5.5
Unter Druck
6
The Lords of Salem
5.445
Grindhouse
7.002
Final Run
5.625
Mother's Mask
5
Miss Diamond
5.75
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
6.7
The Last Minute
5.25
Gold Flakes
8.429
Korn: Deuce
7.458
Josh & S.A.M.
4.861
Phantasmagoria of the Interior
5
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
5.6
Lola
6.917
My Own Private River
7.5
The Painted Bird
7.096
The Making of Europa
6.667
Dragged Across Concrete
6.598
The Debtors
4.25
Olifant
7
Johnny Walker
0
American Animals
6.743
Zero
4.8
Instant Dreams
6.7
Daughter of Mine
6.2
Lines of the Hand
7
La deuxième femme
6
The Salzburg Connection
5.821
Betty
5
Bel Canto or May a Hooker Sob?
7
Victor
10
Stingers
7
Hur und Heilig
7
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
4.857
Conflict of Emotions
3.2
The Mountain
5.1
Bacurau
7.647
Fifty Shades of Erotica
7
The Barefoot Emperor
5.5
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
7
Last Moment of Clarity
5.2
Epidemic
5.706
American Exit
5.7
Holy Beasts
4.4
Der Unbesiegbare
10
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2
The Material Boy
0
Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture
8
Dimension
5.455
Skin Walker
4.8
The Fifth Commandment
10
Pankow ’95
10
Chompy & the Girls
5.759
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
6
Memories of a Young Pianist
5
Spermula
4.177
Bacurau no Mapa
8
Suspiria
7.5
Paradise Framed
10
For Love or Money
6.191
Killer Deal
7
Sportliche Schatten – Kunst in Krisenzeiten
0
Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween
6.955
Pan
10
Fear and Loathing in Materndorf
0
11 Colours of the Bird
7.2
Plötzlich und unerwartet - eine Déjà-Revue
7
Haymaker
3.2
The Blazing World
4.4
És így s eképp tovább
0
Swan Song
6.8
There's No Fish Food in Heaven
4.5
Idiots' Battle
8
By Design
5
The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence
0
Der wunderbare Udo Kier
0
Tattoos: A Scarred History
0
Three Shake-a-Leg Steps to Heaven
8
Schindler Space Architect
10
Madonna: The Making of SEX Book
0
Return from Tomorrow
0