Udo Kier  

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Udo Kier (born Udo Kierspe on October 14, 1944) is a German actor.

Biography

Early life

Udo Kier was born in Cologne. The hospital where he was born was bombed moments after his birth. (cf. role in "Epidemic" and DVD commentary from Lars von Trier) 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) 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 exception of The Idiots), 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's supposed to psychoanalyze. 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 Yuri in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 and its expansion, Yuri's Revenge.

Filmography

• La stagione dei sensi (1969)
• Proklisis (1970)
• Hexen bis aufs Blut gequält (1970)
• Erotomaneis (1971)
• Anilikes amartoles (1972)
• Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)
• Blood for Dracula / Andy Warhol's Dracula (1974)
• Der Letzte Schrei (1975)
• Histoire d'O (1975)
• Exposé (1976)
• Spermula (1976)
• Suspiria (1977)
• 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)
• Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
• Rotwang muß weg! (1994)
• The Kingdom (1994) (mini-series)
• 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)
• Blade (1998)
• Modern Vampires (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)
• Red Alert 2 (2000)
• Critical Mass (2000)
• Citizens of Perpetual Indulgence (2000)
• Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
• Dancer in the Dark (2000)
• Just One Night (2000)
• Doomsdayer (2000)
• Red Alert 2: Yuri`s Revenge (2001)
• Double Deception (2001)
• Die Gottesanbeterin (2001)
• Revelation (2001)
• Auf Herz und Nieren (2002)
• Broken Cookies (2002) (also directed)
• FeardotCom (2002)
• Mrs Meitlemeihr (2002)
• Pigs Will Fly (2002)
• Jargo (2003)
• Love Object (2003)
• Dogville (2003)
• Gate to Heaven (2003)
• Paranoia 1.0 (2004) (a.k.a. One Point O)
• Modigliani (2004)
• Evil Eyes (2004)
• Dracula 3000 (2004)
• Surviving Christmas (2004)
• Headspace (2005)
• Wit's End (2005)
• Manderlay (2005)
• Pray for Morning (2005)
• Holly (2005)
• Bloodrayne (2005)
• Grindhouse (Segment Werewolf Women of the SS) (2007)
• Halloween (2007)
• The Mother of Tears (2007)
• Pars: Operation Cherry (2007)
• Far Cry (2008)
• Lulu and Jimi (2008)
• Night of the Templar (2008)