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.
285 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 285
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
2013
Scene of the Crime
1970
Polizeiruf 110
1971
Chuck
2007
Morgenmagazin
1992
Nash Bridges
1996
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
V.I.P.
1998
NDR Talk Show
1979
seaQuest DSV
1993
The Sentinel
1996
Masters of Horror
2005
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998
Viper
1994
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
2010
The Batman
2004
Beckmann
1999
3 nach 9
1974
Zimmer frei!
1996
Hunters
2020
Dark Winds
2022
Red Shoe Diaries
1992
Der Fahnder
1984
Tietjen und Bommes
1997
Blade
1998
Justice League
2001
Exposé
1976
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
1994
The Secret Agent
2025
Beware the Batman
2013
Armageddon
1998
Boulevard Bio
1991
G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten
2005
Brisant
1994
The Kingdom
1994
The Story of O
1975
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1994
Evening Urgant
2012
Doppelter Einsatz
1994
Fifty Shades of Erotica
2015
Through the Night with...
2002
Downsizing
2017
Dogville
2003
End of Days
1999
Rosa Roth
1994
Halloween
2007
Suspiria
1977
Berlin Alexanderplatz
1980
Die Männer vom K3
1988
Thadeusz
2005
Sonderdezernat K1
1972
Grindhouse
2007
Melancholia
2011
Brawl in Cell Block 99
2017
Dragged Across Concrete
2019
Major Lazer
2015
Johnny Mnemonic
1995
Dancer in the Dark
2000
Iron Sky
2012
Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin
2022
My Own Private Idaho
1991
Iron Sky: The Coming Race
2019
Breaking the Waves
1996
American Animals
2018
For Love or Money
1993
Die Gang
1997
Surviving Christmas
2004
BloodRayne
2005
Barb Wire
1996
The Mountain
2019
Old Money
2015
The Painted Bird
2019
Flesh for Frankenstein
1973
The Lords of Salem
2013
Lola
1981
By Design
2026
Bacurau
2019
Kir Royal
1986
FearDotCom
2002
Manderlay
2005
M - A City Hunts a Murderer
2019
Dracula 3000
2004
Shadow of the Vampire
2000
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
2018
Gestern gelesen
1969
Last Moment of Clarity
2020
Europa
1991
1½ Ritter - Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde
2008
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1996
Prince Valiant
1997
The Kingdom
1994
Far Cry
2008
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010
Willemsens Woche
1995
Spermula
1976
4 Against Z
2005
One Point O
2004
Beethoven's Treasure Tail
2014
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
2001
A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love
2022
Metropia
2009
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2017
The Kingdom II
1998
Modern Vampires
1998
Blood for Dracula
1974
Modigliani
2004
Joseph Balsamo
1973
Chompy & the Girls
2021
Provocation
1971
Revelation
2001
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
2018
The End of Violence
1997
Soul Kitchen
2009
Crusade in Jeans
2006
Gespenstergeschichten
1985
Lili Marleen
1981
Swan Song
2021
Medea
1989
Fall Down Dead
2007
Bad Painter
2025
Invincible
2001
Ice
1998
The Mother of Tears
2007
Headspace
2005
The Stationmaster’s Wife
1977
Final Run
1999
Pars: Operation Cherry
2007
Love Object
2004
Josh & S.A.M.
1993
The Forbidden Room
2015
Talk 2000
1997
Mark of the Devil
1970
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
2018
The Ark: An Iron Sky Story
—
Lulu
1980
Cigarette Burns
2005
House of Boys
2009
There's No Fish Food in Heaven
1998
Spy Games
1999
Sex
1992
Dr. med. Mark Wedmann - Detektiv inbegriffen
1974
Critical Mass
2001
All the Queen's Men
2001
My Own Private River
2012
The Debtors
1999
Skeletons in the Closet
2024
Holly
2006
Seduction: The Cruel Woman
1986
Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho
1988
The Beginner
1985
Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween
2008
30 Days Until I'm Famous
2004
Seances
2016
Dimension
2010
He Sees You When You're Sleeping
2002
Tattoos: A Scarred History
2009
Night of the Templar
2012
Possessed
1999
Von Trier's 100 Eyes
2000
Double Deception
2000
Red Letters
2000
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
2020
Coconut Hero
2015
A Trick of the Light
1995
Keyhole
2011
Blood of 1000 Virgins
2013
The German Chainsaw Massacre
1990
The Third Generation
1979
11 Colours of the Bird
2020
My Neighbor Adolf
2022
The Editor
2014
Epidemic
1987
American Exit
2019
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
1981
Jack Reed: Badge of Honor
1993
Duke of Groove
1996
Daughter of Mine
2018
The Salzburg Connection
1972
Jargo
2004
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
2001
Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture
2001
Die wilden Fünfziger
1983
13 Graves
2006
The Killing Grounds
2007
Terror 2000
1993
Killer Deal
1999
Life Is Too Long
2010
The Blazing World
2021
The Last Minute
2002
Skin Walker
2019
Lulu and Jimi
2009
The New Adventures of Pinocchio
1999
Nur über meine Leiche
1995
The Theatre Bizarre
2011
Courier X
2016
Hungarian Rhapsody
1979
Narcissus and Psyche
1980
Mrs. Meitlemeihr
2002
Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
2022
The Island of the Bloody Plantation
1983
100 Years Of Adolf Hitler: The Last Hour In The Führerbunker
1989
Pigs Will Fly
2003
Gold Flakes
1976
Lea
1996
The Praying Mantis
2001
Pray for Morning
2006
Auf Herz und Nieren
2001
Tell
2007
Am nächsten Morgen kehrte der Minister nicht an seinen Arbeitsplatz zurück
1986
Shameless
1968
The Barefoot Emperor
2020
Bel Canto or May a Hooker Sob?
1977
Stingers
1998
Egomania: Island Without Hope
1987
Theirs
—
Paradise Framed
1995
Season of the Senses
1969
Gate to Heaven
2003
Evil Eyes
2004
Schindler Space Architect
2024
Bacurau no Mapa
2019
Görünmeyen
2011
Haymaker
2021
Korn: Deuce
2002
The Sky Has Four Corners
2011
The Fifth Commandment
1978
Johnny Walker
2015
Doomsdayer
2001
Road to St. Tropez
1966
Conflict of Emotions
1971
Holy Beasts
2019
Instant Dreams
2017
The 120 Days of Bottrop
1997
Miss Diamond
1999
Return from Tomorrow
2026
Brother
2016
Just One Night
2000
Intangents
—
The Last Word
1975
United Trash
1996
Zero
2018
Pankow ’95
1983
Death of a World Star
1994
Anecdotes from 'Epidemic'
2005
The Material Boy
2015
Victor
1979
Pan
1973
Rotwang Must Go!
1994
Lines of the Hand
2015
UFO in Her Eyes
2011
La deuxième femme
2008
Memories of a Young Pianist
2009
És így s eképp tovább
1978
Madonna: The Making of SEX Book
1992
Phantasmagoria of the Interior
2015
The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence
2013
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2015
The Making of Europa
1991
Under the Palms
1999
The Berlin Project
2011
Ich - Udo
2012
Arteholic
2014
Betty
1997
Deutschland privat
1980
Unser Reigen
2006
The Last Trip to Harrisburg
1984
Sportliche Schatten – Kunst in Krisenzeiten
1982
Der Unbesiegbare
1985
Siblings
1982
Extinct
1995
Celluloid Horror
2004
Der wunderbare Udo Kier
2024
Betty - Schön wie der Tod
2003
Three Shake-a-Leg Steps to Heaven
1993
A Kilo of Blue (The Music)
2022
Mother's Mask
1988
Idiots' Battle
1986
Unter Druck
1995
Fear and Loathing in Materndorf
2004
Plötzlich und unerwartet - eine Déjà-Revue
1993
I Knew Andy Warhol
2018
Olifant
1973
Hur und Heilig
1984
Staging Death
2022