Udo Kier
- Acting
- October 14, 1944 · Cologne, Germany
- November 23, 2025
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Return from Tomorrow · Tim Senior
- By Design · Aldo Fabbri
- The Secret Agent · Hans
- Bad Painter · Ö
- Schindler Space Architect · R.M. Schindler (Voice)
- Der wunderbare Udo Kier · Self
- Skeletons in the Closet · Luc
- Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin · Klaus
- Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus · Self / Big Brother
- My Neighbor Adolf · Herman Herzog
- Dark Winds · Gunthar Vaggan, In Memory Of
- Staging Death
- A Kilo of Blue (The Music)
- A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love · Michel
- The Blazing World · Lained
- Chompy & the Girls · Chompy (Voice)
- Swan Song · Pat Pitsenbarger
- Haymaker · David
- Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence · Self
- Last Moment of Clarity · Ivan Demisovski
- 11 Colours of the Bird · Self
- The Barefoot Emperor · Dr. Otto Kroll
- Hunters · Adolf Hitler
- Bacurau no Mapa · Self
- Skin Walker · Claus
- The Painted Bird · Miller
- Bacurau · Michael
- Holy Beasts · Henry
- The Mountain · Frederick
- American Exit · Anton
- Dragged Across Concrete · Friedrich
- M - A City Hunts a Murderer · Fuchspelzmann
- Iron Sky: The Coming Race · Wolfgang Kortzfleisch / Adolf Hitler
- The House That Jack Built · Thanks
- I Knew Andy Warhol · Self
- Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich · Andre Toulon
- Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey · Alcyde
- American Animals · Mr. Van Der Hoek
- Zero · The lord of the world
- Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot · Hans
- Daughter of Mine · Bruno
- Downsizing · Konrad
- Instant Dreams · The Docter (Cameo)
- Brawl in Cell Block 99 · The Placid Man
- Ballad of a Righteous Merchant · Self
- Courier X · Nathan Vogel
- Brother · Frank Solek
- The Forbidden Room · Count Yugh / Butler / Dead Father / Guard / Pharmacist
- The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
- Coconut Hero · Mr. Morrow
- Johnny Walker · Fyodor (Voice)
- Phantasmagoria of the Interior · Dr. Henry Jekyll (archive footage)
- Major Lazer · Head Vampire Vampire (Voice)
- Fifty Shades of Erotica · (archive footage)
- Old Money · Rolf Rauchensteiner
- The Material Boy · Self
- Lines of the Hand
- Arteholic · Self
- Beethoven's Treasure Tail · The Real Fritz Bruchschnauser
- The Editor · Dr Casini
- Nymphomaniac: Vol. II · The Waiter
- The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence · The Magic Doctor / The Shaman
- Beware the Batman · Mister Toad (Voice)
- Blood of 1000 Virgins · Self
- The Lords of Salem · Witchhunter (uncredited)
- Night of the Templar · Father Paul
- Evening Urgant · Self
- Iron Sky · Wolfgang Kortzfleisch
- Ich - Udo · Self
- My Own Private River · Hans (archive footage)
- Görünmeyen · Bartok
- The Berlin Project · Guru
- UFO in Her Eyes · Steve Frost
- Keyhole · Dr. Lemke
- The Theatre Bizarre · Peg Poett
- The Sky Has Four Corners · Graf Karpatovicz
- Melancholia · Wedding Planner
- Life Is Too Long · Tabatabai
- Dimension
- Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated · Professor Pericles (Voice)