Udo Kier

Udo Kier
At a film festival in Britain
Born	Udo Kierspe

Udo Kier (born Udo Kierspe; October 14, 1944) is a German actor, known primarily for his work in horror and exploitation movies.

Early life

Kier was born in Cologne. The hospital where he was born was bombed moments after his birth. His father was absent during most of his childhood. Kier moved to Britain at the age of eighteen, in 1962.

Career

Udo Kier began his acting career as a protégé of film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He has starred in many vampire movies, such as Blood for Dracula, produced by Andy Warhol and directed by Paul Morrissey (1974), Blade (1998), Modern Vampires (1998) and Shadow of the Vampire (2000), both as vampire and human. He has also been in all of Lars von Trier's movies since 1987's Epidemic (with the exceptions of The Idiots, The Boss of it All and Antichrist), and is the godfather of von Trier's daughter Agnes.

Well known mainstream film appearances were in the Pamela Anderson movie, Barb Wire, and as an extremely cynical NASA flight surgeon in Armageddon, who finds himself subjected to the rambunctious behavior of the flight crew he is supposed to psychoanalyze, and as Ralphie in the film Johnny Mnemonic. He has also frequently worked with director Christoph Schlingensief.

Kier also made an appearance in Madonna's 1992 coffee table book, Sex, as well as the video for her disco hit Deeper and Deeper from the album "Erotica." Kier appeared in Korn's music video Make Me Bad alongside Brigitte Nielsen, as a military "scientist" conducting bizarre experiments on his "patients" (the band members). He is described in the "making of" of this video as having "fucked-up eyes but he's funny as shit", by Korn's frontman Jonathan Davis. He also appears in the music video of "Die Schöne und das Biest" by defunct German band Rauhfaser.

He also starred as the psychic "Yuri" in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 and its expansion, Yuri's Revenge.

He also voices Professor Pericles in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated.

Filmography

• La stagione dei sensi (1969)
• Proklisis (1970)
• Hexen bis aufs Blut gequält (1970)
• Erotomaneis (1971)
• Anilikes amartoles (1972)
• The Salzburg Connection (1972)
• Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)/Andy Warhol's Frankenstein (1973)
• Blood for Dracula / Andy Warhol's Dracula (1974)
• Der Letzte Schrei (1975)
• Histoire d'O (1975)
• Exposé (1976) (aka The House on Straw Hill)
• Spermula (1976)
• Suspiria (1977)
• Hungarian Rhapsody (1979)
• Nárcisz és Psziché (1980)
• Docteur Jekyll et les femmes (1981)
• Pankow '95 (1983)
• Der Unbesiegbare (1985)
• Verführung: Die grausame Frau (1985)
• Egomania - Insel ohne Hoffnung (1986)
• Epidemic (1987)
• 100 Jahre Adolf Hitler - Die letzte Stunde im Führerbunker (1989)
• My Own Private Idaho (1991)
• Europa (1991)
• Terror 2000 - Intensivstation Deutschland (1992)
• For Love Or Money (1993)
• Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
• Rotwang muß weg! (1994)
• The Kingdom (1994) (mini-series)
• A Trick of Light (1995)
• Ausgestorben (1995)
• Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
• Nur über meine Leiche (1995)
• United Trash (1996)
• Barb Wire (1996)
• Breaking the Waves (1996)
• The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996)
• Betty (1997)
• Prince Valiant (1997)
• The Kingdom II (1997) (mini-series)
• Armageddon (1998)
• Blade (1998)
• Modern Vampires (1998)
• Killer Deal (1998)
• End of Days (1999)
• History Is Made at Night (1999)
• Besat (1999)
• The Debtors (1999)
• Unter den Palmen (1999)
• The New Adventures of Pinocchio (1999)
• Critical Mass (2000)
• Citizens of Perpetual Indulgence (2000)
• Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
• Dancer in the Dark (2000)
• Red Letters (2000)
• Just One Night (2000)
• Doomsdayer (2000)
• Double Deception (2001)
• Die Gottesanbeterin (2001)
• Invincible (2001)
• Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 (2001)
• All the Queen's Men (2001)
• Revelation (2001)
• Auf Herz und Nieren (2002)
• Broken Cookies (2002) (also directed)
• FeardotCom (2002)
• Mrs Meitlemeihr (2002)
• Pigs Will Fly (2002)
• Montewood Hollyverità (2003)
• Love Object (2003)
• Dogville (2003)
• Gate to Heaven (2003)
• Paranoia 1.0 (2004) (a.k.a. One Point O)
• Sawtooth (2004)
• Jargo (2004)
• Modigliani (2004)
• Evil Eyes (2004)
• Dracula 3000 (2004)
• Surviving Christmas (2004)
• Children of Wax (2005)
• One More Round (2005)
• Headspace (2005)
• Wit's End (2005)
• Manderlay (2005)
• John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns (2005)
• BloodRayne (2006)
• Pray for Morning (2006)
• Holly (2006)
• Crusade in Jeans (2006)
• Fall Down Dead (2007)
• Grindhouse (Segment Werewolf Women of the SS) (2007)
• Halloween (2007)
• The Mother of Tears (2007)
• Pars: Operation Cherry (2007)
• Tell (2007)
• Far Cry (2008)
• 1½ Knights -- In Search of the Ravishing Princess Herzelinde (2008)
• Lulu and Jimi (2009)
• Night of the Templar (2009)
• House of Boys (2009)
• Soul Kitchen (2009)
• Metropia (2009) (voice)
• My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? (2010)
• Chuck (2010)
• Die Blutgräfin (2011)
• Iron Sky (2012)
• Melancholia (2011)

Games

• Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge (2001)
• Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 (2000)

External links

• Udo Kier at IMDb
• Official website