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Udo Kier

Actor

Born: October 14, 1944 · Cologne, Germany
Died: November 23, 2025 (age 81)

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

Armageddon
July 1, 1998
Blade
August 21, 1998
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
February 4, 1994
Downsizing
December 22, 2017
Melancholia
March 16, 2011
Suspiria
February 1, 1977
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
December 25, 2013
Dogville
May 21, 2003
Halloween
August 31, 2007
End of Days
November 24, 1999
Dancer in the Dark
September 1, 2000
Grindhouse
April 6, 2007

Acting235

2026Return from Tomorrow as Tim Senior
2026By Design as Aldo Fabbri
2025The Secret Agent as Hans
2025Bad Painter as Ö
2024Schindler Space Architect as R.M. Schindler (voice)
2024Der wunderbare Udo Kier as Self
2024Skeletons in the Closet as Luc
2022Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus as Self / Big Brother
2022My Neighbor Adolf as Herman Herzog
2022Staging Death

2022A Kilo of Blue (The Music)

2022A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love as Michel

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2021The Blazing World as Lained
2021Chompy & the Girls as Chompy (voice)
2021Swan Song as Pat Pitsenbarger
2021Haymaker as David
2020Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence as Self (archive footage)
2020Last Moment of Clarity as Ivan Demisovski
202011 Colours of the Bird as Self
2020The Barefoot Emperor as Dr. Otto Kroll
2019Bacurau no Mapa as Self
2019Skin Walker as Claus
2019The Painted Bird as Miller
2019Bacurau as Michael
2019Holy Beasts as Henry
2019The Mountain as Frederick
2019American Exit as Anton
2019Dragged Across Concrete as Friedrich
2019Iron Sky: The Coming Race as Wolfgang Kortzfleisch / Adolf Hitler
2018I Knew Andy Warhol as Self
2018Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich as Andre Toulon
2018Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey as Alcyde
2018American Animals as Mr. Van Der Hoek
2018Zero as The lord of the world
2018Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot as Hans
2018Daughter of Mine as Bruno
2017Downsizing as Konrad
2017Instant Dreams as The Docter (Cameo)
2017Brawl in Cell Block 99 as The Placid Man
2017Ballad of a Righteous Merchant as Self
2016Courier X as Nathan Vogel
2016Brother as Frank Solek
2015The Forbidden Room as Count Yugh / Butler / Dead Father / Guard / Pharmacist
2015The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2015Coconut Hero as Mr. Morrow
2015Johnny Walker as Fyodor (voice)
2015Phantasmagoria of the Interior as Dr. Henry Jekyll (archive footage)
2015Fifty Shades of Erotica as (archive footage)
2015The Material Boy as Self
2015Lines of the Hand
2014Arteholic as Self
2014Beethoven's Treasure Tail as The Real Fritz Bruchschnauser
2014The Editor as Dr Casini
2013Nymphomaniac: Vol. II as The Waiter
2013The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence as The Magic Doctor / The Shaman
2013Blood of 1000 Virgins as Self (archive footage)
2013The Lords of Salem as Witchhunter (uncredited)
2012Night of the Templar as Father Paul
2012Iron Sky as Wolfgang Kortzfleisch
2012Ich - Udo as Himself
2012My Own Private River as Hans (archive footage)
2011Görünmeyen as Bartok
2011The Berlin Project as Guru
2011UFO in Her Eyes as Steve Frost
2011Keyhole as Dr. Lemke
2011The Theatre Bizarre as Peg Poett
2011The Sky Has Four Corners as Graf Karpatovicz
2011Melancholia as Wedding Planner
2010Life Is Too Long as Tabatabai
2010Dimension
2010My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done as Lee Meyers
2009House of Boys as Madame
2009Memories of a Young Pianist as Count Dracula (archive footage)
2009Metropia as Ivan Bahn (voice)
2009Soul Kitchen as Herr Jung
2009Tattoos: A Scarred History as Self
2009Lulu and Jimi as Schultz
20081½ Ritter - Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde as Luipold Trumpf
2008La deuxième femme as Udo Kier
2008Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween as Self
2008Far Cry as Dr. Krieger
2007Tell as Gessler
2007The Mother of Tears as Father Johannes
2007Halloween as Morgan Walker
2007Fall Down Dead as Picasso Killer / Aaron Garvey
2007The Killing Grounds as P.
2007Pars: Operation Cherry as Klaus Kayman
2007Grindhouse as Franz Hess (segment "Werewolf Women of the SS")
2006Unser Reigen
200613 Graves as Debro
2006Crusade in Jeans as Dr. Lawerence
2006Holly as Klaus
2006Pray for Morning as Edouard Leopold Edu
2006BloodRayne as Regal Monk
2005Cigarette Burns as Bellinger
2005Headspace as Rev. Karl Hartman
2005Anecdotes from 'Epidemic' as Interviewee-Actor
2005Manderlay as Mr. Kirspe
2004Fear and Loathing in Materndorf
2004Surviving Christmas as Heinrich
2004Dracula 3000 as Capt. Varna
2004Evil Eyes as George
2004Modigliani as Max Jacob
200430 Days Until I'm Famous as Barry Davis
2004One Point O as Derrick
2004Love Object as Radley
2004Jargo as Jargos Vater
2004Celluloid Horror as Self
2003Gate to Heaven as Joachim Nowak
2003Dogville as The Man in the Coat
2003Betty - Schön wie der Tod as Georg Wassenberg
2003Pigs Will Fly as Onkel Max
2002He Sees You When You're Sleeping as Hans Kramer
2002Mrs. Meitlemeihr as Hitler / Mrs. Meitlemeihr
2002The Last Minute as Nazi Fashion Shooter
2002FearDotCom as Polidori
2002Korn: Deuce as Commander
2001Invincible as Count Helldorf
2001Auf Herz und Nieren as Doc
2001All the Queen's Men as General Landssdorf
2001Suspiria 25th Anniversary as Self
2001Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 as The Guardian
2001Critical Mass as Samson
2001Revelation as The Grand Master
2001The Praying Mantis as Julius Quellenreich
2001Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture as Self
2001Doomsdayer as Max Gast
2000Von Trier's 100 Eyes as Self
2000Just One Night as Walter Lert
2000Dancer in the Dark as Dr. Porkorny
2000Shadow of the Vampire as Albin Grau
2000Red Letters as George Kessler
2000Double Deception as Vincent
1999Miss Diamond as Bühler
1999End of Days as Head Priest
1999The New Adventures of Pinocchio as Madame Flambeau/Lorenzini
1999Final Run as Reddick
1999Under the Palms as Ludwig
1999The Debtors
1999Spy Games as Ivan Bliniak
1999Possessed as Vincent
1999Killer Deal as Dr. Roland Parker
1998Stingers as Mr. Scholnick / The Boss
1998Modern Vampires as Vincent
1998There's No Fish Food in Heaven as Rocky
1998Blade as Dragonetti
1998Ice as Dr. Norman Kistler
1998The Kingdom II as Lillebror / Age Krüger
1998Armageddon as Psychologist
1997The 120 Days of Bottrop as Self
1997The End of Violence as Zoltan
1997Prince Valiant as Sligon
1997Betty as Vincent Lord
1996Lea as Block
1996The Adventures of Pinocchio as Lorenzini
1996Breaking the Waves as Sadistic Sailor
1996Duke of Groove as Earl
1996Barb Wire as Curly
1996United Trash as UNO-General Werner Brenner
1995A Trick of the Light as Max Skladanowsky
1995Unter Druck
1995Extinct as York Cortex
1995Nur über meine Leiche as Killer
1995Johnny Mnemonic as Ralfi
1995Paradise Framed
1994The Kingdom as Age Krüger / Lillebror
1994Rotwang Must Go! as Arthur Eigenrauch
1994Death of a World Star as Udo Kier
1994Even Cowgirls Get the Blues as Commercial Director
1994Ace Ventura: Pet Detective as Camp
1993Josh & S.A.M. as Salon Manager
1993Jack Reed: Badge of Honor as Giles Marquette
1993For Love or Money as Mr. Himmelman
1993Three Shake-a-Leg Steps to Heaven as Edouard Müllendorf
1993Terror 2000 as Jablo
1993Plötzlich und unerwartet - eine Déjà-Revue as Egon Hettemann
1992Sex as Self
1992Madonna: The Making of SEX Book as Self
1991The Making of Europa as Self / Lawrence Hartmann
1991Europa as Lawrence Hartmann
1991My Own Private Idaho as Hans
1990The German Chainsaw Massacre as Jonny
1989Medea as Jason
1989100 Years of Adolf Hitler – The Last Hour in the Führerbunker as Adolf Hitler
1988Mother's Mask as Herr Seiler
1988Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho as Friedrich Hansman
1987Epidemic as Udo Kier
1987Egomania: Island Without Hope as Baron Tante Teufel
1986Am nächsten Morgen kehrte der Minister nicht an seinen Arbeitsplatz zurück as Minister / Kali
1986Seduction: The Cruel Woman as Gregor
1986Idiots' Battle
1985The Beginner as Graf Frackstein
1985Der Unbesiegbare as Argon
1984The Last Trip to Harrisburg as Man and Woman in Train
1984Hur und Heilig
1983Pankow ’95 as Johann Wolfgang Amadeus Zart
1983The Roaring Fifties as Fromm
1983The Island of the Bloody Plantation as Hermano
1982Sportliche Schatten – Kunst in Krisenzeiten as Man
1982Siblings
1981Lola as Waiter (uncredited)
1981The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne as Dr. Henry Jekyll
1981Lili Marleen as Drewitz
1980Narcissus and Psyche as Nárcisz
1980Deutschland privat
1980Lulu as Jack the Ripper
1979Hungarian Rhapsody as Poór
1979The Third Generation as Edgar Gast
1979Victor as Popstar
1978The Fifth Commandment as Peter Dümmel
1978És így s eképp tovább
1977Bel Canto or May a Hooker Sob? as Poulailler
1977The Stationmaster’s Wife as Schafftaler
1977Suspiria as Dr. Frank Mandel
1976Spermula as Werner
1976Gold Flakes as Franzl
1976Exposé as Paul Martin
1975The Story of O as René
1975The Last Word as Raimund
1974Blood for Dracula as Count Dracula
1973Flesh for Frankenstein as Baron Frankenstein
1973Pan as Pilgrim of Death
1973Olifant as Olifant / Edwin
1972The Salzburg Connection as Anton
1971Conflict of Emotions as Tonis Theodorou
1971Provocation as Angelos
1970Mark of the Devil as Count Christian von Meruh
1969Season of the Senses as Luca
1968Shameless as Alexander Pohlmann
1966Road to St. Tropez as Boy
TBATheirs
TBAThe Ark: An Iron Sky Story as Grand Master
TBAIntangents as Bin bag Man
TBAMonty and the Movies as Self (archive footage)
TBACitizens as Hans

Behind the camera4

2007Fall Down Dead Associate Producer
1990The German Chainsaw Massacre Assistant Director
1984The Last Trip to Harrisburg Writer, Director, Producer
1981Lola Production Design