Udo Kier
Acting • Born 1944-10-14 – Died 2025-11-23
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, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Walerian Borowczyk, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Dario Argento, Tom Shadyac, Charles Matton, Guy Maddin, Alexander Payne, and Paul Morrissey.
Filmography
283 credits
Dancer in the Dark
Movie • 2000
Dr. Porkorny
Breaking the Waves
Movie • 1996
Sadistic Sailor
Lili Marleen
Movie • 1981
Drewitz
My Own Private Idaho
Movie • 1991
Hans
Dogville
Movie • 2003
The Man in the Coat
Halloween
Movie • 2007
Morgan Walker
Flesh for Frankenstein
Movie • 1973
Baron Frankenstein
Crusade in Jeans
Movie • 2006
Dr. Lawerence
Manderlay
Movie • 2005
Mr. Kirspe
Iron Sky
Movie • 2012
Wolfgang Kortzfleisch
The Story of O
Movie • 1975
René
Dracula 3000
Movie • 2004
Capt. Varna
Shadow of the Vampire
Movie • 2000
Albin Grau
Modern Vampires
Movie • 1998
Vincent
The Kingdom
Movie • 1994
Age Krüger / Lillebror
The Kingdom II
Movie • 1998
Lillebror / Age Krüger
Possessed
Movie • 1999
Vincent
Am nächsten Morgen kehrte der Minister nicht an seinen Arbeitsplatz zurück
Movie • 1986
Minister / Kali
Far Cry
Movie • 2008
Dr. Krieger
Prince Valiant
Movie • 1997
Sligon
All the Queen's Men
Movie • 2001
General Landssdorf
Barb Wire
Movie • 1996
Curly
Narcissus and Psyche
Movie • 1980
Nárcisz
Lulu and Jimi
Movie • 2009
Schultz
Europa
Movie • 1991
Lawrence Hartmann
1½ Ritter - Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde
Movie • 2008
Luipold Trumpf
FearDotCom
Movie • 2002
Polidori
Blood for Dracula
Movie • 1974
Count Dracula
End of Days
Movie • 1999
Head Priest
Headspace
Movie • 2005
Rev. Karl Hartman
Evil Eyes
Movie • 2004
George
Johnny Mnemonic
Movie • 1995
Ralfi
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Movie • 1994
Commercial Director
The Last Trip to Harrisburg
Movie • 1984
Man and Woman in Train
Medea
Movie • 1989
Jason
Blade
Movie • 1998
Dragonetti
Metropia
Movie • 2009
Ivan Bahn (voice)
Ice
Movie • 1998
Dr. Norman Kistler
The Mother of Tears
Movie • 2007
Father Johannes
The 120 Days of Bottrop
Movie • 1997
Self
Holly
Movie • 2006
Klaus
Surviving Christmas
Movie • 2004
Heinrich
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Movie • 2010
Lee Meyers
Melancholia
Movie • 2011
Wedding Planner
Pray for Morning
Movie • 2006
Edouard Leopold Edu
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
Movie • 1981
Dr. Henry Jekyll
Love Object
Movie • 2004
Radley
The End of Violence
Movie • 1997
Zoltan
One Point O
Movie • 2004
Derrick
Doomsdayer
Movie • 2001
Max Gast
Exposé
Movie • 1976
Paul Martin
Mark of the Devil
Movie • 1970
Count Christian von Meruh
Bad Painter
Movie • 2025
Ö
Invincible
Movie • 2001
Count Helldorf
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Movie • 1996
Lorenzini
A Trick of the Light
Movie • 1995
Max Skladanowsky
Görünmeyen
Movie • 2011
Bartok
A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love
Movie • 2022
Michel
House of Boys
Movie • 2009
Madame
30 Days Until I'm Famous
Movie • 2004
Barry Davis
The German Chainsaw Massacre
Movie • 1990
Jonny
Pars: Operation Cherry
Movie • 2007
Klaus Kayman
Life Is Too Long
Movie • 2010
Tabatabai
A Kilo of Blue (The Music)
Movie • 2022
Von Trier's 100 Eyes
Movie • 2000
Self
Just One Night
Movie • 2000
Walter Lert
The Theatre Bizarre
Movie • 2011
Peg Poett
Double Deception
Movie • 2000
Vincent
Keyhole
Movie • 2011
Dr. Lemke
United Trash
Movie • 1996
UNO-General Werner Brenner
Revelation
Movie • 2001
The Grand Master
The Killing Grounds
Movie • 2007
P.
100 Years Of Adolf Hitler: The Last Hour In The Führerbunker
Movie • 1989
Adolf Hitler
UFO in Her Eyes
Movie • 2011
Steve Frost
Under the Palms
Movie • 1999
Ludwig
Night of the Templar
Movie • 2012
Father Paul
The Third Generation
Movie • 1979
Edgar Gast
I Knew Andy Warhol
Movie • 2018
Self
Terror 2000
Movie • 1993
Jablo
He Sees You When You're Sleeping
Movie • 2002
Hans Kramer
Critical Mass
Movie • 2001
Samson
Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho
Movie • 1988
Lulu
Movie • 1980
Jack the Ripper
The Island of the Bloody Plantation
Movie • 1983
Hermano
Shameless
Movie • 1968
Alexander Pohlmann
The Praying Mantis
Movie • 2001
Julius Quellenreich
BloodRayne
Movie • 2005
Regal Monk
Duke of Groove
Movie • 1996
Earl
Deutschland privat
Movie • 1980
Staging Death
Movie • 2022
Mrs. Meitlemeihr
Movie • 2002
Hitler / Mrs. Meitlemeihr
Death of a World Star
Movie • 1994
Udo Kier
Egomania: Island Without Hope
Movie • 1987
Baron Tante Teufel
The New Adventures of Pinocchio
Movie • 1999
Lorenzini
Jack Reed: Badge of Honor
Movie • 1993
Giles Marquette
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
Movie • 2013
The Waiter
Seduction: The Cruel Woman
Movie • 1986
Gregor
Die wilden Fünfziger
Movie • 1983
Fromm
The Stationmaster’s Wife
Movie • 1977
Schafftaler
Rotwang Must Go!
Movie • 1994
Arthur Eigenrauch
The Beginner
Movie • 1985
Graf Frackstein
Anecdotes from 'Epidemic'
Movie • 2005
Interviewee-Actor
Soul Kitchen
Movie • 2009
Herr Jung
Tell
Movie • 2007
Gessler
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
Movie • 2001
The Guardian
Season of the Senses
Movie • 1969
Luca
My Neighbor Adolf
Movie • 2022
Herman Herzog
Nur über meine Leiche
Movie • 1995
Killer
Red Letters
Movie • 2000
George Kessler
Road to St. Tropez
Movie • 1966
Boy
Extinct
Movie • 1995
York Cortex
The Editor
Movie • 2014
Dr Casini
Iron Sky: The Coming Race
Movie • 2019
Wolfgang Kortzfleisch / Adolf Hitler
Auf Herz und Nieren
Movie • 2001
Doc
Provocation
Movie • 1971
Angelos
Armageddon
Movie • 1998
Psychologist
The Forbidden Room
Movie • 2015
Count Yugh / Butler / Dead Father / Guard / Pharmacist
Fall Down Dead
Movie • 2007
Picasso Killer / Aaron Garvey
Jargo
Movie • 2004
Jargos Vater
Beethoven's Treasure Tail
Movie • 2014
The Real Fritz Bruchschnauser
Sex
Movie • 1992
Self
Cigarette Burns
Movie • 2005
Bellinger
Skeletons in the Closet
Movie • 2024
Luc
13 Graves
Movie • 2006
Debro
Arteholic
Movie • 2014
Self
Theirs
Movie
Coconut Hero
Movie • 2015
Mr. Morrow
Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
Movie • 2022
Self / Big Brother
The Sky Has Four Corners
Movie • 2011
Graf Karpatovicz
Lea
Movie • 1996
Block
The Berlin Project
Movie • 2011
Guru
Modigliani
Movie • 2004
Max Jacob
Celluloid Horror
Movie • 2004
Himself
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Movie • 1994
Ronald Camp
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
Movie • 2015
Unser Reigen
Movie • 2006
Gate to Heaven
Movie • 2003
Joachim Nowak
Brother
Movie • 2016
Frank Solek
Pigs Will Fly
Movie • 2003
Onkel Max
Spy Games
Movie • 1999
Ivan Bliniak
Ich - Udo
Movie • 2012
Himself
Seances
Movie • 2016
Siblings
Movie • 1982
The Last Word
Movie • 1975
Raimund
Downsizing
Movie • 2017
Konrad
Blood of 1000 Virgins
Movie • 2013
Self (archive footage)
Brawl in Cell Block 99
Movie • 2017
The Placid Man
Hungarian Rhapsody
Movie • 1979
Poór
The Secret Agent
Movie • 2025
Hans
Courier X
Movie • 2016
Nathan Vogel
Unter Druck
Movie • 1995
The Lords of Salem
Movie • 2013
Witchhunter (uncredited)
Grindhouse
Movie • 2007
Franz Hess (segment "Werewolf Women of the SS")
Final Run
Movie • 1999
Reddick
Mother's Mask
Movie • 1988
Herr Seiler
Miss Diamond
Movie • 1999
Bühler
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Movie • 2018
Hans
The Last Minute
Movie • 2002
Nazi Fashion Shooter
Gold Flakes
Movie • 1976
Franzl
Korn: Deuce
Movie • 2002
Commander
Josh & S.A.M.
Movie • 1993
Salon Manager
Phantasmagoria of the Interior
Movie • 2015
Dr. Henry Jekyll (archive footage)
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
Movie • 2018
Andre Toulon
Lola
Movie • 1981
Waiter (uncredited)
My Own Private River
Movie • 2012
Hans (archive footage)
The Painted Bird
Movie • 2019
Miller
The Making of Europa
Movie • 1991
Self / Lawrence Hartmann
Dragged Across Concrete
Movie • 2019
Friedrich
The Debtors
Movie • 1999
Olifant
Movie • 1973
Olifant / Edwin
Johnny Walker
Movie • 2015
Fyodor (voice)
American Animals
Movie • 2018
Mr. Van Der Hoek
The Ark: An Iron Sky Story
Movie
Grand Master
Zero
Movie • 2018
The lord of the world
Instant Dreams
Movie • 2017
The Docter (Cameo)
Daughter of Mine
Movie • 2018
Bruno
Lines of the Hand
Movie • 2015
La deuxième femme
Movie • 2008
Udo Kier
The Salzburg Connection
Movie • 1972
Anton
Intangents
Movie
Bin bag Man
Betty
Movie • 1997
Vincent Lord
Bel Canto or May a Hooker Sob?
Movie • 1977
Poulailler
Victor
Movie • 1979
Popstar
Stingers
Movie • 1998
Mr. Scholnick / The Boss
Hur und Heilig
Movie • 1984
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
Movie • 2018
Alcyde
Conflict of Emotions
Movie • 1971
Tonis Theodorou
The Mountain
Movie • 2019
Frederick
Bacurau
Movie • 2019
Michael
Fifty Shades of Erotica
Movie • 2015
(archive footage)
The Barefoot Emperor
Movie • 2020
Dr. Otto Kroll
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
Movie • 2001
Self
Last Moment of Clarity
Movie • 2020
Ivan Demisovski
Epidemic
Movie • 1987
Self
American Exit
Movie • 2019
Anton
Holy Beasts
Movie • 2019
Henry
Der Unbesiegbare
Movie • 1985
Argon
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
Movie • 2017
Self
The Material Boy
Movie • 2015
Self
Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture
Movie • 2001
Self
Dimension
Movie • 2010
Skin Walker
Movie • 2019
Claus
The Fifth Commandment
Movie • 1978
Peter Dümmel
Pankow ’95
Movie • 1983
Johann Wolfgang Amadeus Zart
Chompy & the Girls
Movie • 2021
Chompy (voice)
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
Memories of a Young Pianist
Movie • 2009
Count Dracula (archive footage)
Spermula
Movie • 1976
Werner
Bacurau no Mapa
Movie • 2019
Self
Suspiria
Movie • 1977
Dr. Frank Mandel
Paradise Framed
Movie • 1995
For Love or Money
Movie • 1993
Mr. Himmelman
Killer Deal
Movie • 1999
Dr. Roland Parker
Sportliche Schatten – Kunst in Krisenzeiten
Movie • 1982
Man
Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween
Movie • 2008
Self
Pan
Movie • 1973
Pilgrim of Death
Fear and Loathing in Materndorf
Movie • 2004
11 Colours of the Bird
Movie • 2020
Self
Plötzlich und unerwartet - eine Déjà-Revue
Movie • 1993
Egon Hettemann
Haymaker
Movie • 2021
David
The Blazing World
Movie • 2021
Lained
És így s eképp tovább
Movie • 1978
Swan Song
Movie • 2021
Pat Pitsenbarger
There's No Fish Food in Heaven
Movie • 1998
Rocky
Idiots' Battle
Movie • 1986
By Design
Movie • 2026
Aldo Fabbri
The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence
Movie • 2013
The Shaman
Der wunderbare Udo Kier
Movie • 2024
Self
Tattoos: A Scarred History
Movie • 2009
Self
Three Shake-a-Leg Steps to Heaven
Movie • 1993
Edouard Müllendorf
Schindler Space Architect
Movie • 2024
R.M. Schindler (voice)
Madonna: The Making of SEX Book
Movie • 1992
Self
Nash Bridges
TV • 1996
Wolfgang Herzog
seaQuest DSV
TV • 1993
Dr. Guy Peche
The Batman
TV • 2004
Bert (voice)
Masters of Horror
TV • 2005
Bellinger
Red Shoe Diaries
TV • 1992
Fashion Designer
Justice League
TV • 2001
The Music Master (voice)
4 Against Z
TV • 2005
Zanrelot
Scene of the Crime
TV • 1970
Hans-Rudi Dreher
Kir Royal
TV • 1986
Holger
Polizeiruf 110
TV • 1971
Zermahlen
Die Männer vom K3
TV • 1988
Heini Wohlers
Chuck
TV • 2007
Otto Van Vogel
Doppelter Einsatz
TV • 1994
König
Rosa Roth
TV • 1994
Ommer
Scene of the Crime
TV • 1970
Beethoven
Old Money
TV • 2015
Rolf Rauchensteiner
Sonderdezernat K1
TV • 1972
Harry Gätjens
Der Fahnder
TV • 1984
Uli Weber
Die Harald Schmidt Show
TV • 1995
Self
Gestern gelesen
TV • 1969
Ingo Rippel
Dr. med. Mark Wedmann - Detektiv inbegriffen
TV • 1974
Roberto Agostino
Viper
TV • 1994
Erich Geiger
Evening Urgant
TV • 2012
Self
Hunters
TV • 2020
Adolf Hitler
Through the Night with...
TV • 2002
Self
Beware the Batman
TV • 2013
Mister Toad (voice)
Joseph Balsamo
TV • 1973
Gilbert
Die Gang
TV • 1997
Kapitän Schmidt
Gespenstergeschichten
TV • 1985
Talk 2000
TV • 1997
Self
M - A City Hunts a Murderer
TV • 2019
Fuchspelzmann
Major Lazer
TV • 2015
Head Vampire Vampire (voice)
Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin
TV • 2022
Klaus
Zimmer frei!
TV • 1996
Self
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
TV • 1998
Self
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
TV • 1994
Self
Tietjen und Bommes
TV • 1997
Self
Boulevard Bio
TV • 1991
Self
The Sentinel
TV • 1996
Klaus Zeller
NDR Talk Show
TV • 1979
Self
3 nach 9
TV • 1974
Self
Beckmann
TV • 1999
Self
G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten
TV • 2005
Self
Willemsens Woche
TV • 1995
Self
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
TV • 2010
Professor Pericles (voice)
The Kingdom
TV • 1994
Age Krüger / Storebror / Lillebror
V.I.P.
TV • 1998
Viktor Balek
Thadeusz
TV • 2005
self
Brisant
TV • 1994
Self
Morgenmagazin
TV • 1992
Self
Berlin Alexanderplatz
TV • 1980
Junger Mann an der Bar