Udo Kier
Known for: Actor
Born: 14 October 1944, Cologne, Germany
Died: 23 November 2025
Credits: 60+ titles
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
Citizens
Intangents
The Ark: An Iron Sky Story
Theirs
Return from Tomorrow
By Design
The Secret Agent
Bad Painter
Schindler Space Architect
Skeletons in the Closet
Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin
My Neighbor Adolf
Dark Winds
Staging Death
A Kilo of Blue (The Music)
A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love
The Blazing World
Chompy & the Girls
Swan Song
Haymaker
Last Moment of Clarity
The Barefoot Emperor
Hunters
Skin Walker
The Painted Bird
Bacurau
Holy Beasts
The Mountain
American Exit
Dragged Across Concrete
M - A City Hunts a Murderer
Iron Sky: The Coming Race
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
American Animals
Zero
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Daughter of Mine
Downsizing
Instant Dreams
Brawl in Cell Block 99
Courier X
Brother
The Forbidden Room
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
Coconut Hero
Johnny Walker
Phantasmagoria of the Interior
Major Lazer
Fifty Shades of Erotica
Old Money
Lines of the Hand
Beethoven's Treasure Tail
The Editor
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence
Beware the Batman
The Lords of Salem
Night of the Templar
Iron Sky
