Udo Kier
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1944-10-14
Place of Birth: Cologne, Germany
Popularity: 1.9
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.
Known For Filmography
Scene of the Crime
1970
Morgenmagazin
1992
Polizeiruf 110
1971
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
Chuck
2007
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
2013
NDR Talk Show
1979
Nash Bridges
1996
V.I.P.
1998No Photo
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
2010
The Sentinel
1996
seaQuest DSV
1993No Photo
3 nach 9
1974
The Batman
2004
Beckmann
1999
Viper
1994
Zimmer frei!
1996
Dark Winds
2022
Red Shoe Diaries
1992
Hunters
2020No Photo
Tietjen und Bommes
1997
Der Fahnder
1984
Masters of Horror
2005No Photo
G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten
2005
Justice League
2001
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
1994
Blade
1998
The Story of O
1975
Brisant
1994
Boulevard Bio
1991
Beware the Batman
2013
Armageddon
1998
Through the Night with...
2002
The Kingdom
1994
The Secret Agent
2025No Photo
Thadeusz
2005
Evening Urgant
2012
Die Männer vom K3
1988
Dogville
2003
Fifty Shades of Erotica
2015
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1994
Suspiria
1977
Berlin Alexanderplatz
1980
Downsizing
2017
Doppelter Einsatz
1994
Rosa Roth
1994
Halloween
2007
End of Days
1999
Brawl in Cell Block 99
2017
Exposé
1976
Grindhouse
2007
Dancer in the Dark
2000
The Painted Bird
2019
Melancholia
2011
Johnny Mnemonic
1995
Major Lazer
2015
My Own Private Idaho
1991No Photo
Sonderdezernat K1
1972
Dracula 3000
2004
Barb Wire
1996
Iron Sky
2012
Dragged Across Concrete
2019
Breaking the Waves
1996
Iron Sky: The Coming Race
2019
Europa
1991No Photo
Die Gang
1997No Photo
Gestern gelesen
1969
Love Object
2004
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1996
American Animals
2018
Kir Royal
1986
Shadow of the Vampire
2000
Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin
2022
Surviving Christmas
2004
Prince Valiant
1997
Bacurau
2019
4 Against Z
2005
Far Cry
2008
Lola
1981
Last Moment of Clarity
2020
BloodRayne
2005
M - A City Hunts a Murderer
2019
By Design
2026
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
2018
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994
For Love or Money
1993
Manderlay
2005
FearDotCom
2002
Swan Song
2021
Old Money
2015
The Lords of Salem
2013
Flesh for Frankenstein
1973
A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love
2022
Josh & S.A.M.
1993No Photo
Willemsens Woche
1995
Seduction: The Cruel Woman
1986
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010
Joseph Balsamo
1973
The Kingdom
1994
Cigarette Burns
2005
Spermula
1976
The Killing Grounds
2007
Lili Marleen
1981
Sex
1992
Beethoven's Treasure Tail
2014
The Kingdom II
1998
Ice
1998
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
2001
One Point O
2004
Soul Kitchen
2009
Blood for Dracula
1974
13 Graves
2006
Metropia
2009
Mark of the Devil
1970
Modigliani
2004
Blood of 1000 Virgins
2013
Red Letters
2000
Modern Vampires
1998
The End of Violence
1997
The Debtors
1999
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
2018
Chompy & the Girls
2021
Headspace
2005
Spy Games
1999
Final Run
1999
Critical Mass
2001
There's No Fish Food in Heaven
1998
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
2018
Revelation
2001
Crusade in Jeans
2006
1½ Ritter - Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde
2008
Seances
2016
Gespenstergeschichten
1985
The Forbidden Room
2015
30 Days Until I'm Famous
2004
Invincible
2001
Night of the Templar
2012
All the Queen's Men
2001
The Beginner
1985
Fall Down Dead
2007
The Editor
2014
Just One Night
2000
Conflict of Emotions
1971
House of Boys
2009
My Own Private River
2012
The Mountain
2019
Tattoos: A Scarred History
2009
Double Deception
2000
American Exit
2019
Lulu
1980
Daughter of Mine
2018
Holly
2006
The Ark: An Iron Sky Story
N/A
Lulu and Jimi
2009
Doomsdayer
2001
Duke of Groove
1996
11 Colours of the Bird
2020
Jack Reed: Badge of Honor
1993
The Last Minute
2002
Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
2022
Keyhole
2011
My Neighbor Adolf
2022
Provocation
1971
Haymaker
2021
The Stationmaster’s Wife
1977
Talk 2000
1997
Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween
2008
Bad Painter
2025
The Third Generation
1979
The Mother of Tears
2007
Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho
1988
Killer Deal
1999
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
2001
The Theatre Bizarre
2011
Epidemic
1987
Betty
1997
100 Years Of Adolf Hitler: The Last Hour In The Führerbunker
1989
Hungarian Rhapsody
1979
Medea
1989
The Roaring Fifties
1983
Korn: Deuce
2002
The New Adventures of Pinocchio
1999
The Blazing World
2021
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
2020
Miss Diamond
1999
The Island of the Bloody Plantation
1983
United Trash
1996
A Trick of the Light
1995
Egomania: Island Without Hope
1987
Courier X
2016
He Sees You When You're Sleeping
2002
Possessed
1999
Pars: Operation Cherry
2007
Instant Dreams
2017
Evil Eyes
2004
Nur über meine Leiche
1995
Pray for Morning
2006
Holy Beasts
2019
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2017
Coconut Hero
2015
Lea
1996
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
1981No Photo
Dr. med. Mark Wedmann - Detektiv inbegriffen
1974
Johnny Walker
2015
Schindler Space Architect
2024
The Fifth Commandment
1978
Gate to Heaven
2003
Return from Tomorrow
2026
Jargo
2004
Skin Walker
2019
Von Trier's 100 Eyes
2000
Life Is Too Long
2010
Bacurau no Mapa
2019
The Salzburg Connection
1972
Theirs
N/A
Stingers
1998
Under the Palms
1999No Photo
Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture
2001
Skeletons in the Closet
2024
The 120 Days of Bottrop
1997
The Berlin Project
2011
Death of a World Star
1994
Celluloid Horror
2004
Paradise Framed
1995
Season of the Senses
1969
Brother
2016
Lines of the Hand
2015
Extinct
1995
Dimension
2010
UFO in Her Eyes
2011
Narcissus and Psyche
1980
Der wunderbare Udo Kier
2024
Pankow ’95
1983
Intangents
N/A
A Kilo of Blue (The Music)
2022
Madonna: The Making of SEX Book
1992
The German Chainsaw Massacre
1990
Bel Canto or May a Hooker Sob?
1977
Shameless
1968
Arteholic
2014
Terror 2000
1993No Photo
Rotwang Must Go!
1994
Mother's Mask
1988
The Last Word
1975
Mrs. Meitlemeihr
2002No Photo
Unser Reigen
2006
Ich - Udo
2012
The Last Trip to Harrisburg
1984
The Barefoot Emperor
2020
Road to St. Tropez
1966
Auf Herz und Nieren
2001
The Sky Has Four Corners
2011
La deuxième femme
2008
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2015No Photo
Siblings
1982
The Praying Mantis
2001No Photo
Betty - Schön wie der Tod
2003
Pigs Will Fly
2003No Photo
Victor
1979
Görünmeyen
2011
Am nächsten Morgen kehrte der Minister nicht an seinen Arbeitsplatz zurück
1986
Unter Druck
1995No Photo
Memories of a Young Pianist
2009
Deutschland privat
1980
The Material Boy
2015No Photo
Pan
1973
Tell
2007
Plötzlich und unerwartet - eine Déjà-Revue
1993
Hur und Heilig
1984
Idiots' Battle
1986
Gold Flakes
1976
Staging Death
2022
The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence
2013
Zero
2018No Photo
Olifant
1973
Three Shake-a-Leg Steps to Heaven
1993No Photo
Der Unbesiegbare
1985No Photo
The Making of Europa
1991No Photo
Anecdotes from 'Epidemic'
2005
I Knew Andy Warhol
2018
Phantasmagoria of the Interior
2015
És így s eképp tovább
1978No Photo
Fear and Loathing in Materndorf
2004