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