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Udo Kier
Catalogued films 235Director 1Actor 234
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.
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Return from Tomorrow
The Secret Agent
Bad Painter
By Design
Schindler Space Architect
Der wunderbare Udo Kier
Skeletons in the Closet
Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
Staging Death
A Kilo of Blue (The Music)
A E I O U: A Quick Alphabet of Love
My Neighbor Adolf
Haymaker
The Blazing World
Swan Song
Chompy & the Girls
Last Moment of Clarity
11 Colours of the Bird
Schlingensief: A Voice That Shook the Silence
Bacurau no Mapa
The Painted Bird
Bacurau
The Mountain
Dragged Across Concrete
Iron Sky: The Coming Race
Holy Beasts
American Exit
The Barefoot Emperor
Skin Walker
I Knew Andy Warhol
American Animals
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
Daughter of Mine
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
Downsizing
Instant Dreams
Brawl in Cell Block 99
Brother
Courier X
Johnny Walker
Phantasmagoria of the Interior
Fifty Shades of Erotica
The Material Boy
Lines of the Hand
Zero
The Forbidden Room
The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Maddin
Coconut Hero
Beethoven's Treasure Tail
The Editor
Arteholic
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence
The Lords of Salem
Blood of 1000 Virgins
Night of the Templar
Iron Sky
Ich - Udo
My Own Private River
Görünmeyen
The Berlin Project
The Theatre Bizarre
Melancholia
The Sky Has Four Corners
Keyhole
UFO in Her Eyes
Dimension
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Life Is Too Long- MEMemories of a Young Pianist
Metropia
Soul Kitchen
Tattoos: A Scarred History
Lulu and Jimi
House of Boys
1½ Ritter - Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde
La deuxième femme
Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween
Far Cry
Tell
Halloween
The Killing Grounds
Grindhouse
Pars: Operation Cherry
Mother of Tears
Fall Down Dead- UNUnser Reigen
13 Graves
Crusade in Jeans
Pray for Morning
Holly
Cigarette Burns
BloodRayne- ANAnecdotes from 'Epidemic'
Manderlay
Headspace- FEFear and Loathing in Materndorf
Surviving Christmas
Dracula 3000
Modigliani
30 Days Until I'm Famous
One Point O
Love Object
Evil Eyes
Celluloid Horror
Jargo
Gate to Heaven
Dogville
Betty - Schön wie der Tod
Pigs Will Fly
He Sees You When You're Sleeping
Mrs. Meitlemeihr
FearDotCom
Korn: Deuce
Invincible
Auf Herz und Nieren
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
Critical Mass
The Praying Mantis- ANAndy Warhol: The Complete Picture
All the Queen's Men
Doomsdayer
Double Deception
The Last Minute
Revelation
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
Von Trier's 100 Eyes
Just One Night
Dancer in the Dark
Shadow of the Vampire
Red Letters
Miss Diamond
End of Days
Final Run
Under the Palms
The Debtors
Killer Deal
Possessed
The New Adventures of Pinocchio
Spy Games
Stingers
There's No Fish Food in Heaven
Modern Vampires
Blade
Ice
The Kingdom II
Armageddon
The End of Violence
Prince Valiant
The 120 Days of Bottrop
Betty
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Breaking the Waves
Duke of Groove
Barb Wire
United Trash
Lea
Unter Druck
Extinct
Johnny Mnemonic
Paradise Framed
A Trick of Light
Over My Dead Body
The Kingdom
Rotwang Must Go!
Death of a World Star
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Jack Reed: Badge of Honor
For Love or Money
Three Shake-a-Leg Steps to Heaven
Plötzlich und unerwartet - eine Déjà-Revue
Josh and S.A.M.
Sex
Madonna: The Making of SEX Book
Terror 2000 - Intensivstation Deutschland- THThe Making of Europa
Europa
My Own Private Idaho
Blackest Heart
Medea
100 Years of Adolf Hitler – The Last Hour in the Führerbunker
Mother's Mask
Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho
Epidemic
Egomania: Island Without Hope
Am nächsten Morgen kehrte der Minister nicht an seinen Arbeitsplatz zurück
Seduction: The Cruel Woman
Idiots' Battle
The Beginner
Der Unbesiegbare
Hur und Heilig
The Roaring Fifties
The Island of the Bloody Plantation
Pankow '95
Sportliche Schatten – Kunst in Krisenzeiten- SISiblings
Lola
Lili Marleen
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
Deutschland privat
Lulu
Narcissus and Psyche
The Third Generation- VIVictor
Hungarian Rhapsody
The Fifth Commandment
És így s eképp tovább
Bel Canto or May a Hooker Sob?
The Stationmaster’s Wife
Suspiria
Spermula
Exposé
Goldflakes
The Story of O
The Last Word
Blood for Dracula
Flesh for Frankenstein- PAPan
- OLOlifant
The Salzburg Connection
Conflict of Emotions
Provocation
Mark of the Devil
Season of the Senses
Shameless
Road to St. Tropez
The Ark: An Iron Sky Story
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