Biography
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, Rain…
Known For
Filmography
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
Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
2022
My Neighbor Adolf
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
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
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
Fifty Shades of Erotica
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
Blood of 1000 Virgins
2013
The Lords of Salem
2013
Night of the Templar
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
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010
House of Boys
2009
Memories of a Young Pianist
2009
Metropia
2009
Soul Kitchen
2009
Tattoos: A Scarred History
2009
Lulu and Jimi
2009
1½ Ritter - Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde
2008
La deuxième femme
2008
Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween
2008
Far Cry
2008
Tell
2007
The Mother of Tears
2007
Halloween
2007
Fall Down Dead
2007
The Killing Grounds
2007
Pars: Operation Cherry
2007
Grindhouse
2007
Unser Reigen
2006
13 Graves
2006
Crusade in Jeans
2006
Holly
2006
Pray for Morning
2006
Cigarette Burns
2005
BloodRayne
2005
Headspace
2005
Anecdotes from 'Epidemic'
2005
Manderlay
2005
Fear and Loathing in Materndorf
2004
Surviving Christmas
2004
Dracula 3000
2004
Evil Eyes
2004
Modigliani
2004
30 Days Until I'm Famous
2004
One Point O
2004
Love Object
2004
Jargo
2004
Celluloid Horror
2004
Gate to Heaven
2003
Dogville
2003
Betty - Schön wie der Tod
2003
Pigs Will Fly
2003
He Sees You When You're Sleeping
2002
Mrs. Meitlemeihr
2002
The Last Minute
2002
FearDotCom
2002
Korn: Deuce
2002
Invincible
2001
Auf Herz und Nieren
2001
All the Queen's Men
2001
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
2001
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
2001
Critical Mass
2001
Revelation
2001
The Praying Mantis
2001
Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture
2001
Doomsdayer
2001
Von Trier's 100 Eyes
2000
Just One Night
2000
Dancer in the Dark
2000
Shadow of the Vampire
2000
Red Letters
2000
Double Deception
2000
Miss Diamond
1999
End of Days
1999
The New Adventures of Pinocchio
1999
Final Run
1999
Under the Palms
1999
The Debtors
1999
Spy Games
1999
Possessed
1999
Killer Deal
1999
Stingers
1998
Modern Vampires
1998
There's No Fish Food in Heaven
1998
Blade
1998
Ice
1998
The Kingdom II
1998
Armageddon
1998
The 120 Days of Bottrop
1997
The End of Violence
1997
Prince Valiant
1997
Betty
1997
Lea
1996
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1996
Breaking the Waves
1996
Duke of Groove
1996
Barb Wire
1996
United Trash
1996
A Trick of the Light
1995
Unter Druck
1995
Extinct
1995
Nur über meine Leiche
1995
Johnny Mnemonic
1995
Paradise Framed
1995
The Kingdom
1994
Rotwang Must Go!
1994
Death of a World Star
1994
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1994
Josh & S.A.M.
1993
Jack Reed: Badge of Honor
1993
For Love or Money
1993
Three Shake-a-Leg Steps to Heaven
1993
Terror 2000
1993
Plötzlich und unerwartet - eine Déjà-Revue
1993
Sex
1992
Madonna: The Making of SEX Book
1992
The Making of Europa
1991
Europa
1991
My Own Private Idaho
1991
The German Chainsaw Massacre
1990
Medea
1989
100 Years Of Adolf Hitler: The Last Hour In The Führerbunker
1989
Mother's Mask
1988
Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho
1988
Epidemic
1987
Egomania: Island Without Hope
1987
Am nächsten Morgen kehrte der Minister nicht an seinen Arbeitsplatz zurück
1986
Seduction: The Cruel Woman
1986
Idiots' Battle
1986
The Beginner
1985
Der Unbesiegbare
1985
The Last Trip to Harrisburg
1984
Hur und Heilig
1984
Pankow ’95
1983
Die wilden Fünfziger
1983
The Island of the Bloody Plantation
1983
Sportliche Schatten – Kunst in Krisenzeiten
1982
Siblings
1982
Lola
1981
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
1981
Lili Marleen
1981
Narcissus and Psyche
1980
Deutschland privat
1980
Lulu
1980
Hungarian Rhapsody
1979
The Third Generation
1979
Victor
1979
The Fifth Commandment
1978
És így s eképp tovább
1978
Bel Canto or May a Hooker Sob?
1977
The Stationmaster’s Wife
1977
Suspiria
1977
Spermula
1976
Gold Flakes
1976
Exposé
1976
The Story of O
1975
The Last Word
1975
Blood for Dracula
1974
Flesh for Frankenstein
1973
Pan
1973
Olifant
1973
The Salzburg Connection
1972
Conflict of Emotions
1971
Provocation
1971
Mark of the Devil
1970
Season of the Senses
1969
Shameless
1968
Road to St. Tropez
1966
Theirs
The Ark: An Iron Sky Story
Intangents
Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin
2022
Dark Winds
2022
Hunters
2020
M - A City Hunts a Murderer
2019
Major Lazer
2015
Old Money
2015
Beware the Batman
2013
Evening Urgant
2012
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
2010
Chuck
2007
Thadeusz
2005
Masters of Horror
2005
4 Against Z
2005
G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten
2005
The Batman
2004
Through the Night with...
2002
Justice League
2001
Beckmann
1999
V.I.P.
1998
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998
Talk 2000
1997
Tietjen und Bommes
1997
Die Gang
1997
Zimmer frei!
1996
Nash Bridges
1996
The Sentinel
1996
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
Willemsens Woche
1995
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
1994
The Kingdom
1994
The Kingdom
1994
Rosa Roth
1994
Doppelter Einsatz
1994
Brisant
1994
Viper
1994
seaQuest DSV
1993
Morgenmagazin
1992
Red Shoe Diaries
1992
Boulevard Bio
1991
Die Männer vom K3
1988
Kir Royal
1986
Gespenstergeschichten
1985
Der Fahnder
1984
Berlin Alexanderplatz
1980
NDR Talk Show
1979
3 nach 9
1974
Dr. med. Mark Wedmann - Detektiv inbegriffen
1974
Joseph Balsamo
1973
Sonderdezernat K1
1972
Polizeiruf 110
1971
Scene of the Crime
1970
Scene of the Crime
1970
Gestern gelesen
1969