Udo Kier
Acting
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
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Return from Tomorrow
2026
By Design
2026
The Secret Agent
2025
Bad Painter
2025
Schindler Space Architect
2024
Der wunderbare Udo Kier
2024
Skeletons in the Closet
2024
Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin
2022
Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
2022
My Neighbor Adolf
2022
Dark Winds
2022
Staging Death
2022
A Kilo of Blue (The Music)
2022
A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love
2022
The Blazing World
2021
Chompy & the Girls
2021
Swan Song
2021
Haymaker
2021
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
2020
Last Moment of Clarity
2020
11 Colours of the Bird
2020
The Barefoot Emperor
2020
Hunters
2020
Bacurau no Mapa
2019
Skin Walker
2019
The Painted Bird
2019
Bacurau
2019
Holy Beasts
2019
The Mountain
2019
American Exit
2019
Dragged Across Concrete
2019
M - A City Hunts a Murderer
2019
Iron Sky: The Coming Race
2019
I Knew Andy Warhol
2018
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
2018
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
2018
American Animals
2018
Zero
2018
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
2018
Daughter of Mine
2018
Downsizing
2017
Instant Dreams
2017
Brawl in Cell Block 99
2017
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2017
Courier X
2016
Seances
2016
Brother
2016
The Forbidden Room
2015
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2015
Coconut Hero
2015
Johnny Walker
2015
Phantasmagoria of the Interior
2015
Major Lazer
2015
Fifty Shades of Erotica
2015
Old Money
2015
The Material Boy
2015
Lines of the Hand
2015
Arteholic
2014
Beethoven's Treasure Tail
2014
The Editor
2014
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
2013
The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence
2013
Beware the Batman
2013
Blood of 1000 Virgins
2013
The Lords of Salem
2013
Night of the Templar
2012
Evening Urgant
2012
Iron Sky
2012
Ich - Udo
2012
My Own Private River
2012
Görünmeyen
2011
The Berlin Project
2011
UFO in Her Eyes
2011
Keyhole
2011
The Theatre Bizarre
2011
Melancholia
2011
The Sky Has Four Corners
2011
Life Is Too Long
2010
Dimension
2010
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
2010