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...
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.
Movies (Cast)
Dogville
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
The Secret Agent
Iron Sky
Surviving Christmas
Prince Valiant
Modigliani
Invincible
Love Object
Seduction: The Cruel Woman
Manderlay
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Swan Song
Blade
Armageddon
The Mountain
Coconut Hero
Spermula
Critical Mass
The Story of O
Revelation
Haymaker
Far Cry
FearDotCom
Melancholia
Lea
Soul Kitchen
Lili Marleen
All the Queen's Men
Dancer in the Dark
The Painted Bird
Final Run
Brother
The Barefoot Emperor
My Own Private Idaho
The Blazing World
Ice
Dracula 3000
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
BloodRayne
End of Days
Johnny Mnemonic
American Exit
Lola
Red Letters
Jack Reed: Badge of Honor
Blood for Dracula
Metropia
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Bacurau
Flesh for Frankenstein
Skin Walker
Betty
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
The Beginner
The Praying Mantis
Modern Vampires
Breaking the Waves
The Lords of Salem
Iron Sky: The Coming Race
Headspace
13 Graves
Shameless
Season of the Senses
Daughter of Mine
Downsizing
Brawl in Cell Block 99
Beethoven's Treasure Tail
There's No Fish Food in Heaven
Bad Painter
Egomania: Island Without Hope
Epidemic
Josh & S.A.M.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
The Debtors
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
Exposé
The Third Generation
Suspiria
He Sees You When You're Sleeping
The Stationmaster’s Wife
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Courier X
Mrs. Meitlemeihr
The Forbidden Room
Halloween
Doomsdayer
My Neighbor Adolf
Crusade in Jeans
The Kingdom II
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
The Killing Grounds
Night of the Templar
Keyhole
For Love or Money
The Salzburg Connection
Shadow of the Vampire
Narcissus and Psyche
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Lulu
The Theatre Bizarre
Mark of the Devil
Seances
The German Chainsaw Massacre
Last Moment of Clarity
Zero
Terror 2000
Tell
One Point O
Dragged Across Concrete
Pigs Will Fly
Gold Flakes
Lulu and Jimi
Die wilden Fünfziger
Pray for Morning
Mother's Mask
Hungarian Rhapsody
Miss Diamond
Death of a World Star
The Mother of Tears
The Island of the Bloody Plantation
Duke of Groove
Grindhouse
United Trash
House of Boys
Evil Eyes
The Last Minute
Dimension
Lines of the Hand
Holy Beasts
Pars: Operation Cherry
Life Is Too Long
The Last Word
A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love
Road to St. Tropez
Provocation
Conflict of Emotions
The New Adventures of Pinocchio
Skeletons in the Closet
The Kingdom
Barb Wire
Spy Games
Chompy & the Girls
Rotwang Must Go!
Medea
Holly
Jargo
Just One Night
Fall Down Dead
UFO in Her Eyes
The Editor
100 Years Of Adolf Hitler: The Last Hour In The Führerbunker
Possessed
Over My Dead Body
Europa
Cigarette Burns
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