Udo Kier
Known for: Acting
Born: October 14, 1944
Died: November 23, 2025
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
236 movies · 51 TV shows, newest first
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Return from Tomorrow
2026
5.9
By Design
2026
7.2
The Secret Agent
2025
7.0
Bad Painter
2025
10.0
Schindler Space Architect
2024
6.0
Der wunderbare Udo Kier
2024
4.4
Skeletons in the Closet
2024
6.6
Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin
2022
NR
Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
2022
6.5
My Neighbor Adolf
2022
7.5
Dark Winds
2022
6.0
Staging Death
2022
NR
A Kilo of Blue (The Music)
2022
4.9
A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love
2022
4.3
The Blazing World
2021
5.8
Chompy & the Girls
2021
6.8
Swan Song
2021
3.2
Haymaker
2021
6.0
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
2020
5.2
Last Moment of Clarity
2020
7.2
11 Colours of the Bird
2020
5.5
The Barefoot Emperor
2020
7.1
Hunters
2020
8.0
Bacurau no Mapa
2019
4.8
Skin Walker
2019
7.1
The Painted Bird
2019
7.6
Bacurau
2019
4.4
Holy Beasts
2019
5.1
The Mountain
2019
5.7
American Exit
2019
6.6
Dragged Across Concrete
2019
6.3
M - A City Hunts a Murderer
2019
5.2
Iron Sky: The Coming Race
2019
7.1
The House That Jack Built
2018
NR
I Knew Andy Warhol
2018
5.6
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
2018
4.9
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
2018
6.7
American Animals
2018
4.3
Zero
2018
6.7
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
2018
6.2
Daughter of Mine
2018
5.4
Downsizing
2017
6.7
Instant Dreams
2017
7.0
Brawl in Cell Block 99
2017
2.0
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2017
5.5
Courier X
2016
6.4
Brother
2016
5.6
The Forbidden Room
2015
6.0
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2015
5.9
Coconut Hero
2015
NR
Johnny Walker
2015
5.0
Phantasmagoria of the Interior
2015
6.8
Major Lazer
2015
7.0
Fifty Shades of Erotica
2015
6.1
Old Money
2015
NR
The Material Boy
2015
7.0
Lines of the Hand
2015
5.0
Arteholic
2014
5.6
Beethoven's Treasure Tail
2014
5.6
The Editor
2014
6.7
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
2013
NR
The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence
2013
7.2
Beware the Batman
2013
5.4
Blood of 1000 Virgins
2013
5.4
The Lords of Salem
2013
3.8
Night of the Templar
2012
7.1
Evening Urgant
2012
5.7
Iron Sky
2012
6.0
Ich - Udo
2012
7.4
My Own Private River
2012
NR
Görünmeyen
2011
NR
The Berlin Project
2011
6.4
UFO in Her Eyes
2011
5.4
Keyhole
2011
5.3
The Theatre Bizarre
2011
NR
The Sky Has Four Corners
2011
7.1
Melancholia
2011
5.0
Life Is Too Long
2010
5.5
Dimension
2010
8.2
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
2010
6.1
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010
6.2
House of Boys
20095.0
Memories of a Young Pianist
2009
6.1
Metropia
2009
6.9
Soul Kitchen
2009
NR
Tattoos: A Scarred History
2009
5.7
Lulu and Jimi
2009
4.3
1½ Ritter - Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde
2008
6.0
La deuxième femme
2008
6.5
Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween
2008
3.7
Far Cry
2008
5.7
Tell
2007
4.5
The Mother of Tears
2007
7.7
Chuck
2007
6.2
Halloween
2007
4.0
Fall Down Dead
2007
3.6
The Killing Grounds
2007
4.9
Pars: Operation Cherry
2007
7.0
Grindhouse
2007NR
Unser Reigen
2006
4.4
13 Graves
2006
5.9
Crusade in Jeans
2006
6.3
Holly
2006
5.0
Pray for Morning
2006
4.1
BloodRayne
2006
7.3
Cigarette Burns
20056.0
Thadeusz
2005
7.1
Masters of Horror
2005
5.1
Headspace
20059.0
Anecdotes from 'Epidemic'
2005
6.9
Manderlay
2005
8.0
4 Against Z
20054.0
G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten
2005NR
Fear and Loathing in Materndorf
2004
5.7
Surviving Christmas
2004
8.0
The Batman
2004
2.8
Dracula 3000
2004
3.4
Evil Eyes
2004
7.0
Modigliani
2004
4.7
30 Days Until I'm Famous
2004
5.7
One Point O
2004
5.9
Love Object
2004
6.0
Jargo
2004
7.4
Celluloid Horror
2004
8.0
Gate to Heaven
2003
7.7
Dogville
20034.0
Betty - Schön wie der Tod
2003
8.0
Pigs Will Fly
2003
6.2
He Sees You When You're Sleeping
2002
6.0
Mrs. Meitlemeihr
2002
5.5
The Last Minute
2002
3.8
FearDotCom
2002
7.5
Korn: Deuce
2002
7.9
Through the Night with...
2002
6.2
Invincible
2001
4.5
Auf Herz und Nieren
2001
8.2
Justice League
2001
5.0
All the Queen's Men
2001
7.0
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
2001
4.6
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
2001
4.5
Critical Mass
2001
5.1
Revelation
2001
7.3
The Praying Mantis
20018.0
Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture
2001
4.7
Doomsdayer
2001
7.4
Von Trier's 100 Eyes
2000
5.0
Just One Night
2000
7.8
Dancer in the Dark
2000
6.7
Shadow of the Vampire
2000
4.7
Red Letters
2000
4.9
Double Deception
2000
5.8
Miss Diamond
1999
6.1
End of Days
1999
5.6
The New Adventures of Pinocchio
1999
5.6
Final Run
1999
8.0
Under the Palms
1999
4.3
The Debtors
1999
4.6
Spy Games
1999
4.9
Possessed
1999
7.0
Killer Deal
1999
4.5
Beckmann
1999
7.0
Stingers
1998
4.9
Modern Vampires
1998
4.5
There's No Fish Food in Heaven
1998
5.3
V.I.P.
1998
6.9
Blade
1998
5.2
Ice
1998
7.6
The Kingdom II
1998
6.8
Armageddon
19987.5
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998
5.3
The 120 Days of Bottrop
1997
NR
Talk 2000
1997
5.4
The End of Violence
1997
5.2
Prince Valiant
19979.0
Tietjen und Bommes
199710.0
Die Gang
1997
4.0
Betty
1997
5.4
Lea
1996
5.3
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1996
7.0
Zimmer frei!
1996
7.5
Breaking the Waves
1996
5.3
Duke of Groove
1996
4.1
Barb Wire
1996
6.6
Nash Bridges
1996
7.2
The Sentinel
1996
4.3
United Trash
1996
7.3
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
6.2
A Trick of the Light
1995
6.0
Unter Druck
1995
7.1
Extinct
1995
6.4
Nur über meine Leiche
1995
5.8
Johnny Mnemonic
1995
10.0
Paradise Framed
19959.0
Willemsens Woche
1995
6.0
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
1994
7.8
The Kingdom
1994
7.6
The Kingdom
1994
4.8
Rosa Roth
19945.0
Rotwang Must Go!
1994
3.4
Doppelter Einsatz
1994
9.0
Death of a World Star
1994
4.3
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994
6.6
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1994
6.2
Brisant
1994
6.2
Viper
1994
4.9
Josh & S.A.M.
1993
5.9
Jack Reed: Badge of Honor
1993
6.2
For Love or Money
1993
7.1
seaQuest DSV
1993
8.0
Three Shake-a-Leg Steps to Heaven
1993
4.9
Terror 2000
1993
7.0
Plötzlich und unerwartet - eine Déjà-Revue
1993
7.5
Sex
1992
NR
Madonna: The Making of SEX Book
1992
5.3
Morgenmagazin
1992
5.8
Red Shoe Diaries
19926.7
The Making of Europa
1991
7.0
Boulevard Bio
1991
7.3
Europa
1991
7.0
My Own Private Idaho
1991
4.0
The German Chainsaw Massacre
1990
6.5
Medea
1989
6.9
100 Years of Adolf Hitler – The Last Hour in the Führerbunker
1989
5.0
Mother's Mask
1988
NR
Die Männer vom K3
1988
1.0
Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho
1988
5.7
Epidemic
1987
5.3
Egomania: Island Without Hope
1987
6.8
Kir Royal
1986
9.0
Am nächsten Morgen kehrte der Minister nicht an seinen Arbeitsplatz zurück
1986
5.5
Seduction: The Cruel Woman
1986
8.0
Idiots' Battle
1986
5.6
The Beginner
198510.0
Der Unbesiegbare
1985
7.0
Gespenstergeschichten
1985
6.7
The Last Trip to Harrisburg
1984
7.3
Der Fahnder
1984
7.0
Hur und Heilig
1984
10.0
Pankow ’95
1983
3.7
The Roaring Fifties
1983
4.3
The Island of the Bloody Plantation
1983
NR
Sportliche Schatten – Kunst in Krisenzeiten
1982NR
Siblings
1982
6.9
Lola
1981
5.5
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
1981
6.5
Lili Marleen
1981
6.4
Narcissus and Psyche
1980
4.9
Deutschland privat
1980
7.5
Berlin Alexanderplatz
1980
4.3
Lulu
1980
6.2
Hungarian Rhapsody
1979
6.0
The Third Generation
1979
6.6
NDR Talk Show
197910.0
Victor
1979
10.0
The Fifth Commandment
1978
NR
És így s eképp tovább
1978
7.0
Bel Canto or May a Hooker Sob?
1977
5.6
The Stationmaster’s Wife
1977
7.5
Suspiria
1977
4.2
Spermula
1976
8.4
Gold Flakes
1976
4.9
Exposé
1976
5.5
The Story of O
1975
4.7
The Last Word
19757.2
3 nach 9
19748.0
Dr. med. Mark Wedmann - Detektiv inbegriffen
1974
5.7
Blood for Dracula
1974
5.8
Flesh for Frankenstein
197310.0
Pan
1973
8.0
Joseph Balsamo
19737.0
Olifant
19738.0
Sonderdezernat K1
1972
5.8
The Salzburg Connection
1972
3.2
Conflict of Emotions
1971
6.3
Polizeiruf 110
1971
4.6
Provocation
1971
6.2
Scene of the Crime
1970
6.1
Mark of the Devil
1970
7.5
Season of the Senses
19698.0
Gestern gelesen
1969
5.9
Shameless
1968
4.5
Road to St. Tropez
1966
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Theirs
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The Ark: An Iron Sky Story
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Intangents
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Monty and the Movies
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Citizens
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