Udo Kier

Known for: Acting

Born: 1944-10-14 – 2025-11-23 (aged 81)

From: Cologne, Germany

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 (285)

MOVIE
Return from Tomorrow
2026
as Tim Senior
MOVIE★ 5.9
By Design
2026
as Aldo Fabbri
MOVIE★ 7.2
The Secret Agent
2025
as Hans
MOVIE★ 7.0
Bad Painter
2025
as Ö
MOVIE★ 10.0
Schindler Space Architect
2024
as R.M. Schindler (voice)
MOVIE
Der wunderbare Udo Kier
2024
as Self
MOVIE★ 4.4
Skeletons in the Closet
2024
as Luc
TV★ 6.6
Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin
2022
as Klaus
MOVIE
Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
2022
as Self / Big Brother
MOVIE★ 6.5
My Neighbor Adolf
2022
as Herman Herzog
TV★ 7.4
Dark Winds
2022
as Gunthar Vaggan
MOVIE★ 6.0
Staging Death
2022
MOVIE
A Kilo of Blue (The Music)
2022
MOVIE★ 4.9
A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love
2022
as Michel
MOVIE★ 4.3
The Blazing World
2021
as Lained
MOVIE★ 5.7
Chompy & the Girls
2021
as Chompy (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.8
Swan Song
2021
as Pat Pitsenbarger
MOVIE★ 3.1
Haymaker
2021
as David
MOVIE★ 6.0
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
2020
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 5.2
Last Moment of Clarity
2020
as Ivan Demisovski
MOVIE★ 7.2
11 Colours of the Bird
2020
as Self
MOVIE★ 5.5
The Barefoot Emperor
2020
as Dr. Otto Kroll
TV★ 7.1
Hunters
2020
as Adolf Hitler
MOVIE★ 8.0
Bacurau no Mapa
2019
as Self
MOVIE★ 4.8
Skin Walker
2019
as Claus
MOVIE★ 7.1
The Painted Bird
2019
as Miller
MOVIE★ 7.6
Bacurau
2019
as Michael
MOVIE★ 4.4
Holy Beasts
2019
as Henry
MOVIE★ 5.1
The Mountain
2019
as Frederick
MOVIE★ 5.7
American Exit
2019
as Anton
MOVIE★ 6.6
Dragged Across Concrete
2019
as Friedrich
TV★ 6.3
M - A City Hunts a Murderer
2019
as Fuchspelzmann
MOVIE★ 5.2
Iron Sky: The Coming Race
2019
as Wolfgang Kortzfleisch / Adolf Hitler
MOVIE
I Knew Andy Warhol
2018
as Self
MOVIE★ 5.6
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
2018
as Andre Toulon
MOVIE★ 4.9
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
2018
as Alcyde
MOVIE★ 6.7
American Animals
2018
as Mr. Van Der Hoek
MOVIE★ 4.8
Zero
2018
as The lord of the world
MOVIE★ 6.7
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
2018
as Hans
MOVIE★ 6.2
Daughter of Mine
2018
as Bruno
MOVIE★ 5.4
Downsizing
2017
as Konrad
MOVIE★ 6.7
Instant Dreams
2017
as The Docter (Cameo)
MOVIE★ 7.0
Brawl in Cell Block 99
2017
as The Placid Man
MOVIE★ 2.0
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2017
as Self
MOVIE★ 5.5
Courier X
2016
as Nathan Vogel
MOVIE★ 6.7
Seances
2016
MOVIE★ 6.4
Brother
2016
as Frank Solek
MOVIE★ 5.6
The Forbidden Room
2015
as Count Yugh / Butler / Dead Father / Guard / Pharmacist
MOVIE★ 6.0
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2015
MOVIE★ 5.9
Coconut Hero
2015
as Mr. Morrow
MOVIE
Johnny Walker
2015
as Fyodor (voice)
MOVIE★ 5.0
Phantasmagoria of the Interior
2015
as Dr. Henry Jekyll (archive footage)
TV★ 6.8
Major Lazer
2015
as Head Vampire Vampire (voice)
MOVIE★ 7.0
Fifty Shades of Erotica
2015
as (archive footage)
TV★ 6.1
Old Money
2015
as Rolf Rauchensteiner
MOVIE
The Material Boy
2015
as Self
MOVIE★ 7.0
Lines of the Hand
2015
MOVIE★ 5.0
Arteholic
2014
as Self
MOVIE★ 5.7
Beethoven's Treasure Tail
2014
as The Real Fritz Bruchschnauser
MOVIE★ 5.6
The Editor
2014
as Dr Casini
MOVIE★ 6.7
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
2013
as The Waiter
MOVIE
The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence
2013
as The Shaman
TV★ 7.2
Beware the Batman
2013
as Mister Toad (voice)
MOVIE★ 5.4
Blood of 1000 Virgins
2013
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 5.4
The Lords of Salem
2013
as Witchhunter (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 3.9
Night of the Templar
2012
as Father Paul
TV★ 7.1
Evening Urgant
2012
as Self
MOVIE★ 5.8
Iron Sky
2012
as Wolfgang Kortzfleisch
MOVIE★ 6.0
Ich - Udo
2012
as Himself
MOVIE★ 7.5
My Own Private River
2012
as Hans (archive footage)
MOVIE
Görünmeyen
2011
as Bartok
MOVIE
The Berlin Project
2011
as Guru
MOVIE★ 6.4
UFO in Her Eyes
2011
as Steve Frost
MOVIE★ 5.3
Keyhole
2011
as Dr. Lemke
MOVIE★ 5.3
The Theatre Bizarre
2011
as Peg Poett
MOVIE★ 7.2
Melancholia
2011
as Wedding Planner
MOVIE
The Sky Has Four Corners
2011
as Graf Karpatovicz
MOVIE★ 5.0
Life Is Too Long
2010
as Tabatabai
MOVIE★ 5.5
Dimension
2010
TV★ 8.2
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
2010
as Professor Pericles (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.1
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010
as Lee Meyers
MOVIE★ 6.2
House of Boys
2009
as Madame
MOVIE★ 5.0
Memories of a Young Pianist
2009
as Count Dracula (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 6.1
Metropia
2009
as Ivan Bahn (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.9
Soul Kitchen
2009
as Herr Jung
MOVIE
Tattoos: A Scarred History
2009
as Self
MOVIE★ 5.7
Lulu and Jimi
2009
as Schultz
MOVIE★ 4.3
1½ Ritter - Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde
2008
as Luipold Trumpf
MOVIE★ 6.0
La deuxième femme
2008
as Udo Kier
MOVIE★ 7.0
Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween
2008
as Self
MOVIE★ 3.7
Far Cry
2008
as Dr. Krieger
MOVIE★ 5.7
Tell
2007
as Gessler
MOVIE★ 4.5
The Mother of Tears
2007
as Father Johannes
TV★ 7.7
Chuck
2007
as Otto Van Vogel
MOVIE★ 6.2
Halloween
2007
as Morgan Walker
MOVIE★ 4.0
Fall Down Dead
2007
as Picasso Killer / Aaron Garvey
MOVIE★ 3.6
The Killing Grounds
2007
as P.
MOVIE★ 4.7
Pars: Operation Cherry
2007
as Klaus Kayman
MOVIE★ 7.0
Grindhouse
2007
as Franz Hess (segment "Werewolf Women of the SS")
MOVIE
Unser Reigen
2006
MOVIE★ 4.4
13 Graves
2006
as Debro
MOVIE★ 5.9
Crusade in Jeans
2006
as Dr. Lawerence
MOVIE★ 6.3
Holly
2006
as Klaus
MOVIE★ 4.9
Pray for Morning
2006
as Edouard Leopold Edu
MOVIE★ 7.3
Cigarette Burns
2005
as Bellinger
TV★ 6.0
Thadeusz
2005
as self
TV★ 7.1
Masters of Horror
2005
as Bellinger
MOVIE★ 4.1
BloodRayne
2005
as Regal Monk
MOVIE★ 5.1
Headspace
2005
as Rev. Karl Hartman
MOVIE★ 9.0
Anecdotes from 'Epidemic'
2005
as Interviewee-Actor
MOVIE★ 6.9
Manderlay
2005
as Mr. Kirspe
TV★ 8.0
4 Against Z
2005
as Zanrelot
TV★ 4.0
G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten
2005
as Self
MOVIE
Fear and Loathing in Materndorf
2004
MOVIE★ 5.7
Surviving Christmas
2004
as Heinrich
TV★ 8.0
The Batman
2004
as Bert (voice)
MOVIE★ 2.8
Dracula 3000
2004
as Capt. Varna
MOVIE★ 3.4
Evil Eyes
2004
as George
MOVIE★ 7.0
Modigliani
2004
as Max Jacob
MOVIE★ 4.7
30 Days Until I'm Famous
2004
as Barry Davis
MOVIE★ 5.7
One Point O
2004
as Derrick
MOVIE★ 5.9
Love Object
2004
as Radley
MOVIE★ 6.0
Jargo
2004
as Jargos Vater
MOVIE★ 7.4
Celluloid Horror
2004
as Himself
MOVIE★ 9.0
Gate to Heaven
2003
as Joachim Nowak
MOVIE★ 7.8
Dogville
2003
as The Man in the Coat
MOVIE★ 4.0
Betty - Schön wie der Tod
2003
as Georg Wassenberg
MOVIE★ 8.0
Pigs Will Fly
2003
as Onkel Max
MOVIE★ 6.2
He Sees You When You're Sleeping
2002
as Hans Kramer
MOVIE★ 6.0
Mrs. Meitlemeihr
2002
as Hitler / Mrs. Meitlemeihr
MOVIE★ 5.5
The Last Minute
2002
as Nazi Fashion Shooter
MOVIE★ 3.8
FearDotCom
2002
as Polidori
MOVIE★ 7.5
Korn: Deuce
2002
as Commander
TV★ 8.3
Through the Night with...
2002
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.2
Invincible
2001
as Count Helldorf
MOVIE★ 4.5
Auf Herz und Nieren
2001
as Doc
TV★ 8.2
Justice League
2001
as The Music Master (voice)
MOVIE★ 5.0
All the Queen's Men
2001
as General Landssdorf
MOVIE★ 7.0
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
2001
as Self
MOVIE★ 4.6
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
2001
as The Guardian
MOVIE★ 4.5
Critical Mass
2001
as Samson
MOVIE★ 5.1
Revelation
2001
as The Grand Master
MOVIE★ 7.3
The Praying Mantis
2001
as Julius Quellenreich
MOVIE★ 8.0
Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture
2001
as Self
MOVIE★ 4.7
Doomsdayer
2001
as Max Gast
MOVIE★ 7.4
Von Trier's 100 Eyes
2000
as Self
MOVIE★ 5.0
Just One Night
2000
as Walter Lert
MOVIE★ 7.8
Dancer in the Dark
2000
as Dr. Porkorny
MOVIE★ 6.7
Shadow of the Vampire
2000
as Albin Grau
MOVIE★ 4.7
Red Letters
2000
as George Kessler
MOVIE★ 4.9
Double Deception
2000
as Vincent
MOVIE★ 5.8
Miss Diamond
1999
as Bühler
MOVIE★ 6.1
End of Days
1999
as Head Priest
MOVIE★ 5.6
The New Adventures of Pinocchio
1999
as Madame Flambeau/Lorenzini
MOVIE★ 5.6
Final Run
1999
as Reddick
MOVIE★ 8.0
Under the Palms
1999
as Ludwig
MOVIE★ 4.3
The Debtors
1999
MOVIE★ 4.6
Spy Games
1999
as Ivan Bliniak
MOVIE★ 4.9
Possessed
1999
as Vincent
MOVIE★ 7.0
Killer Deal
1999
as Dr. Roland Parker
TV★ 4.3
Beckmann
1999
as Self
MOVIE★ 7.0
Stingers
1998
as Mr. Scholnick / The Boss
MOVIE★ 4.9
Modern Vampires
1998
as Vincent
MOVIE★ 4.5
There's No Fish Food in Heaven
1998
as Rocky
TV★ 5.3
V.I.P.
1998
as Viktor Balek
MOVIE★ 6.8
Blade
1998
as Dragonetti
MOVIE★ 5.2
Ice
1998
as Dr. Norman Kistler
MOVIE★ 7.7
The Kingdom II
1998
as Lillebror / Age Krüger
MOVIE★ 6.8
Armageddon
1998
as Psychologist
TV★ 7.7
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998
as Self
MOVIE★ 5.3
The 120 Days of Bottrop
1997
as Self
TV
Talk 2000
1997
as Self
MOVIE★ 5.4
The End of Violence
1997
as Zoltan
MOVIE★ 5.2
Prince Valiant
1997
as Sligon
TV★ 9.0
Tietjen und Bommes
1997
as Self
TV★ 10.0
Die Gang
1997
as Kapitän Schmidt
MOVIE★ 4.0
Betty
1997
as Vincent Lord
MOVIE★ 5.5
Lea
1996
as Block
MOVIE★ 5.3
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1996
as Lorenzini
TV★ 6.8
Zimmer frei!
1996
as Self
MOVIE★ 7.5
Breaking the Waves
1996
as Sadistic Sailor
MOVIE★ 5.3
Duke of Groove
1996
as Earl
MOVIE★ 4.1
Barb Wire
1996
as Curly
TV★ 6.6
Nash Bridges
1996
as Wolfgang Herzog
TV★ 7.2
The Sentinel
1996
as Klaus Zeller
MOVIE★ 4.2
United Trash
1996
as UNO-General Werner Brenner
TV★ 7.2
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.2
A Trick of the Light
1995
as Max Skladanowsky
MOVIE★ 6.0
Unter Druck
1995
MOVIE★ 7.1
Extinct
1995
as York Cortex
MOVIE★ 6.4
Nur über meine Leiche
1995
as Killer
MOVIE★ 5.8
Johnny Mnemonic
1995
as Ralfi
MOVIE★ 10.0
Paradise Framed
1995
TV★ 9.0
Willemsens Woche
1995
as Self
TV★ 6.0
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
1994
as Self
MOVIE★ 7.8
The Kingdom
1994
as Age Krüger / Lillebror
TV★ 7.6
The Kingdom
1994
as Age Krüger / Storebror / Lillebror
TV★ 4.8
Rosa Roth
1994
as Ommer
MOVIE★ 5.0
Rotwang Must Go!
1994
as Arthur Eigenrauch
TV★ 3.4
Doppelter Einsatz
1994
as König
MOVIE★ 9.0
Death of a World Star
1994
as Udo Kier
MOVIE★ 4.4
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994
as Commercial Director
MOVIE★ 6.6
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1994
as Ronald Camp
TV★ 6.2
Brisant
1994
as Self
TV★ 6.2
Viper
1994
as Erich Geiger
MOVIE★ 4.9
Josh & S.A.M.
1993
as Salon Manager
MOVIE★ 5.9
Jack Reed: Badge of Honor
1993
as Giles Marquette
MOVIE★ 6.2
For Love or Money
1993
as Mr. Himmelman
TV★ 7.1
seaQuest DSV
1993
as Dr. Guy Peche
MOVIE★ 8.0
Three Shake-a-Leg Steps to Heaven
1993
as Edouard Müllendorf
MOVIE★ 4.9
Terror 2000
1993
as Jablo
MOVIE★ 7.0
Plötzlich und unerwartet - eine Déjà-Revue
1993
as Egon Hettemann
MOVIE★ 7.5
Sex
1992
as Self
MOVIE
Madonna: The Making of SEX Book
1992
as Self
TV★ 5.3
Morgenmagazin
1992
as Self
TV★ 5.9
Red Shoe Diaries
1992
as Fashion Designer
MOVIE★ 6.7
The Making of Europa
1991
as Self / Lawrence Hartmann
TV★ 7.0
Boulevard Bio
1991
as Self
MOVIE★ 7.3
Europa
1991
as Lawrence Hartmann
MOVIE★ 7.0
My Own Private Idaho
1991
as Hans
MOVIE★ 4.0
The German Chainsaw Massacre
1990
as Jonny
MOVIE★ 6.5
Medea
1989
as Jason
MOVIE★ 6.9
100 Years Of Adolf Hitler: The Last Hour In The Führerbunker
1989
as Adolf Hitler
MOVIE★ 5.0
Mother's Mask
1988
as Herr Seiler
TV
Die Männer vom K3
1988
as Heini Wohlers
MOVIE★ 1.0
Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho
1988
MOVIE★ 5.7
Epidemic
1987
as Self
MOVIE★ 5.3
Egomania: Island Without Hope
1987
as Baron Tante Teufel
TV★ 6.7
Kir Royal
1986
as Holger
MOVIE★ 9.0
Am nächsten Morgen kehrte der Minister nicht an seinen Arbeitsplatz zurück
1986
as Minister / Kali
MOVIE★ 5.5
Seduction: The Cruel Woman
1986
as Gregor
MOVIE★ 8.0
Idiots' Battle
1986
MOVIE★ 5.6
The Beginner
1985
as Graf Frackstein
MOVIE★ 10.0
Der Unbesiegbare
1985
as Argon
TV★ 7.0
Gespenstergeschichten
1985
MOVIE★ 8.0
The Last Trip to Harrisburg
1984
as Man and Woman in Train
TV★ 7.3
Der Fahnder
1984
as Uli Weber
MOVIE★ 7.0
Hur und Heilig
1984
MOVIE★ 10.0
Pankow ’95
1983
as Johann Wolfgang Amadeus Zart
MOVIE★ 3.7
The Roaring Fifties
1983
as Fromm
MOVIE★ 4.3
The Island of the Bloody Plantation
1983
as Hermano
MOVIE
Sportliche Schatten – Kunst in Krisenzeiten
1982
as Man
MOVIE
Siblings
1982
MOVIE★ 6.9
Lola
1981
as Waiter (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 5.5
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
1981
as Dr. Henry Jekyll
MOVIE★ 6.4
Lili Marleen
1981
as Drewitz
MOVIE★ 6.4
Narcissus and Psyche
1980
as Nárcisz
MOVIE★ 4.9
Deutschland privat
1980
TV★ 7.4
Berlin Alexanderplatz
1980
as Junger Mann an der Bar
MOVIE★ 4.3
Lulu
1980
as Jack the Ripper
MOVIE★ 6.2
Hungarian Rhapsody
1979
as Poór
MOVIE★ 6.0
The Third Generation
1979
as Edgar Gast
TV★ 6.6
NDR Talk Show
1979
as Self
MOVIE★ 10.0
Victor
1979
as Popstar
MOVIE★ 10.0
The Fifth Commandment
1978
as Peter Dümmel
MOVIE
És így s eképp tovább
1978
MOVIE★ 7.0
Bel Canto or May a Hooker Sob?
1977
as Poulailler
MOVIE★ 5.5
The Stationmaster’s Wife
1977
as Schafftaler
MOVIE★ 7.5
Suspiria
1977
as Dr. Frank Mandel
MOVIE★ 4.2
Spermula
1976
as Werner
MOVIE★ 8.4
Gold Flakes
1976
as Franzl
MOVIE★ 4.9
Exposé
1976
as Paul Martin
MOVIE★ 5.5
The Story of O
1975
as René
MOVIE★ 4.7
The Last Word
1975
as Raimund
TV★ 7.2
3 nach 9
1974
as Self
TV★ 8.0
Dr. med. Mark Wedmann - Detektiv inbegriffen
1974
as Roberto Agostino
MOVIE★ 5.7
Blood for Dracula
1974
as Count Dracula
MOVIE★ 5.8
Flesh for Frankenstein
1973
as Baron Frankenstein
MOVIE★ 10.0
Pan
1973
as Pilgrim of Death
TV★ 8.0
Joseph Balsamo
1973
as Gilbert
MOVIE★ 7.0
Olifant
1973
as Olifant / Edwin
TV★ 8.0
Sonderdezernat K1
1972
as Harry Gätjens
MOVIE★ 5.8
The Salzburg Connection
1972
as Anton
MOVIE★ 3.2
Conflict of Emotions
1971
as Tonis Theodorou
TV★ 6.2
Polizeiruf 110
1971
as Zermahlen
MOVIE★ 4.6
Provocation
1971
as Angelos
TV★ 6.2
Scene of the Crime
1970
as Hans-Rudi Dreher
MOVIE★ 6.2
Mark of the Devil
1970
as Count Christian von Meruh
MOVIE★ 7.5
Season of the Senses
1969
as Luca
TV★ 8.0
Gestern gelesen
1969
as Ingo Rippel
MOVIE★ 5.9
Shameless
1968
as Alexander Pohlmann
MOVIE★ 4.6
Road to St. Tropez
1966
as Boy
MOVIE
Theirs
—
MOVIE
Intangents
—
as Bin bag Man
MOVIE
The Ark: An Iron Sky Story
—
as Grand Master