Biography
Udo Kierspe (born October 14, 1944), known professionally as Udo Kier, is a German actor. Known primarily as a character actor, Kier has appeared in more than 220 films in both leading and supporting roles throughout Europe, Canada and the Americas. He has collaborated with acclaimed filmmakers such as Lars von Trier, Gus van Sant, Werner Herzog, Walerian Borowczyk, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Dario Argento, Charles Matton, Guy Maddin, Alexander Payne, and Paul Morrissey. Description above from the ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Secret Agent
2025
as Hans
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. He arrives in Recife during carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son ...

Bad Painter
2025
as Ö
Albert Oehlen steps behind the camera to present a portrait of himself, in life and at work, albeit substituted by actor and similarly brazen iconocla...

By Design
2025
as Aldo Fabbri
A woman swaps bodies with a chair, and everyone likes her better as a chair.

Der wunderbare Udo Kier
2024
as Himself
Udo Kier was a demon, Frankenstein, murderer, lover and six times Adolf Hitler. He has starred in art films, indie classics and blockbusters. Cult dir...

Skeletons in the Closet
2024
as Luc
Haunted by a malevolent spirit since childhood, a desperate mother allows herself to become possessed in order to save the life of her terminally ill ...

Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
2022
as Self / Big Brother
Get an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the creative challenges Lars von Trier presents his cast and crew to bring his vision to life from script t...

My Neighbor Adolf
2022
as Herman Herzog
South America, 1960. A lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor convinces himself that his new neighbor is none other than Adolf Hitler. Not being taken s...

Staging Death
2022
Udo Kier dies his way through film history. He screams, falls, lies, is cut into pieces, shot or commits suicide. Again and again his empty gaze, agai...

A Kilo of Blue (The Music)
2022
A detective film by Jürgen Heiter: Women and their children who disappeared without a trace in a mountain near Rome are missing. The case remains unso...

A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love
2022
as Michel
Anna is 60 and her acting heyday is now behind her. She lives on her own but has a friend and confidant in her downstairs neighbour Michel, who is als...

The Blazing World
2021
as Lained
Ever since Margaret was six years old, she has been haunted by the memory of watching her sister drown during an explosive fight between her parents. ...

Chompy & the Girls
2021
as Chompy (voice)
A troubled woman meets her father for the first time and their encounter goes from awkward to alarming when they witness a man swallow a little girl w...

Swan Song
2021
as Pat Pitsenbarger
An aging hairdresser escapes his nursing home to embark on an odyssey across his small town to style a dead woman's hair for her funeral, rediscoverin...

Haymaker
2021
as David
Haymaker follows a retired Muay Thai fighter working as a bouncer, who rescues an alluring transgender performer from a nefarious thug, eventually bec...

Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and work ...

Last Moment of Clarity
2020
as Ivan Demisovski
After his girlfriend Georgia is murdered by European mobsters, Sam flees to Paris to hide out. Years later, he sees a woman in a Hollywood film who he...

11 Colours of the Bird
2020
as Self
A behind-the-scenes look at the eleven-year process it took to make The Painted Bird. The narratives of director Václav Marhoul and actor Petr Kotlár ...

The Barefoot Emperor
2020
as Dr. Otto Kroll
How the last King of the Belgians becomes the first Emperor of Europe.

Bacurau no Mapa
2019
as Self
Behind the scenes of Bacurau (2019)'s shooting and pre-production. With exclusive images, directors Kléber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles show h...

Skin Walker
2019
as Claus
When her grandmother is brutally murdered, Regine, a fragile young woman must return to the countryside she has struggled to escape in order to engage...

The Painted Bird
2019
as Miller
After losing his parents, a young Jewish boy wanders Eastern Europe, seeking refuge during World War II.

Bacurau
2019
as Michael
Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice tha...

Holy Beasts
2019
as Henry
Remembers an artist in the form of a somnambulistic fantasy: A filmmaker faces increasing challenges as she tries, decades later, to complete Dominica...

The Mountain
2019
as Frederick
1950s America. Since his mother‘s confinement to an institution, Andy has lived in the shadow of his stoic father. A family acquaintance, Dr. Wallace ...

American Exit
2019
as Anton
A dying father takes a road trip with his son to try to rebuild his relationship before he dies.

Dragged Across Concrete
2019
as Friedrich
Two policemen, one an old-timer, the other his volatile younger partner, find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics becomes th...

Iron Sky: The Coming Race
2019
as Wolfgang Kortzfleisch / Adolf Hitler
29 years after the events of Iron Sky, the former Nazi Moonbase has become the last refuge of mankind. Earth was devastated by a nuclear war, but buri...

I Knew Andy Warhol
2018
as Self
A series of interviews with artists, photographers and Factory superstars who worked and socialized with Andy Warhol.

Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
2018
as Andre Toulon
A recently divorced young man discovers a mint condition Blade doll in his deceased brother's closet and plans to sell the toy at a convention in Oreg...

The House That Jack Built
2018
Thanks
Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering...

Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
2018
as Alcyde
Taurus City, The United States of Europe, 2023. Uly, a disillusioned soldier riddled with amnesia, returns home from a war in the Middle East, knowing...

American Animals
2018
as Mr. Van Der Hoek
Lexington, Kentucky, 2004. Four young men attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in the history of the United States.

Zero
2018
as The lord of the world
A bee-keeper initiates fight against the society of consumption for saving the bees.

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
2018
as Hans
On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing...

Daughter of Mine
2018
as Bruno
A daughter torn between two mothers, one who raised her with love and her biological mother, who instinctively claims her back.

Downsizing
2017
as Konrad
A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and affo...

Instant Dreams
2017
as The Docter (Cameo)
There could hardly be a more telling contrast between the analog and digital eras than the beautifully blurry memories captured in a Polaroid picture ...

Brawl in Cell Block 99
2017
as The Placid Man
After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force...

Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2017
as Self
Chronicles the making of director Werner Herzog’s 2009 feature, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, providing profound insight into the director and hi...

Courier X
2016
as Nathan Vogel
A surreptitious smuggler gets solicited by the CIA to help cover-up the Nicaraguan blackmail attempt on the CIA, after the release of "Dark Alliance",...

Seances
2016
Seances, co-created with the National Film Board of Canada, presents a wholly new way of experiencing film narrative. By dynamically generating a seri...

Brother
2016
as Frank Solek
The extravagantly rich Grace wants to revive a 20-year old love affair. Mark travels to Ireland, together with pushy Ronnie and pretends to be his dec...

The Forbidden Room
2015
as Count Yugh / Butler / Dead Father / Guard / Pharmacist
A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they we...

The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2015
Guy Maddin, who has been nicknamed the Canadian David Lynch, is undoubtedly one of the last remaining Magi of cinema. Despite living in the middle of ...

Coconut Hero
2015
as Mr. Morrow
It's not easy being a teenager and Mike, a sixteen-year-old, has it espcially hard. He lives in the sticks with his mother, a non-stop nagger, in Fain...

Johnny Walker
2015
as Fyodor (voice)
A washed up Hollywood director is trapped in a remote castle by his own fears until the arrival of a mysterious woman offers him possible salvation. I...

Phantasmagoria of the Interior
2015
as Dr. Henry Jekyll
PHANTASMAGORIA OF THE INTERIOR is an audiovisual essay devoted to Walerian Borowczyk's film THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MISS OSBOURNE. Utilisin...

Fifty Shades of Erotica
2015
Before Fifty Shades of Grey and beyond the limits of desire, Nucleus Films draw back the veil on Fifty Shades of Erotica. Now, in the privacy of your...

The Material Boy
2015
as Self
An Italo-American teenaged girl in Michigan, with a Catholic family, becomes pregnant. To avoid both a scandal and an abortion, she secretly gives bir...

Lines of the Hand
2015
An adaptation of an unrealized script by Jean Vigo (Les lignes de la main), starring his late daughter, the critic, programmer, and actress Luce Vigo

Arteholic
2014
as Self
Palm Springs resident and film and art legend Udo Kier is "arteholic". He lives, breathes and makes art and at times he is even a living art piece. In...

Beethoven's Treasure Tail
2014
as The real Fritz Bruchschnauser
After everyone's favorite St. Bernard gets fired from a movie, Beethoven begins the long journey home with his trainer, Eddie. On their way, they beco...

The Editor
2014
as Dr Casini
A one-time (and now one-handed) master film editor toiling in the cinematic sweatshops of 1970s Italy becomes the prime suspect in a series of brutal ...

Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
2013
as The Waiter
The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.
The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence
2013
as The Shaman
Filmed with Polaroid and Super-8 footage, overlaid with poetic VO monologue, this feature film creates a dynamic kaleidoscope of words and pictures, a...

Blood of 1000 Virgins
2013
as Self (archive footage)
The question of "who hunts virgins" and more will be stripped down and explored in the sexiest trailers hosted by Playboy's Nikki Leigh.

The Lords of Salem
2013
as Witchhunter (uncredited)
Heidi, a radio DJ, is sent a box containing a record - a "gift from the Lords". The sounds within the grooves trigger flashbacks of her town's violent...

Night of the Templar
2012
as Father Paul
The stage is set for retribution as an eclectic group is lured to a secluded European Castle under the guise of a promised "fantasy weekend." And as t...

Iron Sky
2012
as Wolfgang Kortzfleisch
In the last moments of World War II, a secret Nazi space program evaded destruction by fleeing to the Dark Side of the Moon. During 70 years of utter ...

Ich - Udo
2012
as Himself
He was a bloodthirsty vampire, an androgynous Adonis and a psychopathic killer. He's a friend of the director Lars von Trier. He gives an impressive p...

My Own Private River
2012
as Hans (archive footage)
Unused footage from Gus Van Sant's 1991 film My Own Private Idaho is re-contextualized in James Franco's tribute to River Phoenix.

Görünmeyen
2011
as Bartok
The Berlin Project
2011
as Guru
An actor pursues his ex-mentor throughout Berlin in order to kill him.

UFO in Her Eyes
2011
as Steve Frost
Kwok Yun is a simple woman who leads a peasant’s life in the peaceful mountains around remote Three-Headed Bird Village. One day, after a countryside ...

Keyhole
2011
as Dr. Lemke
Gangster and deadbeat dad, Ulysses Pick, embarks on an unusual journey through his home.

The Theatre Bizarre
2011
as Peg Poett
Down a seedy city street in her neighborhood, young Enola Penny is obsessed with what appears to be a long abandoned theatre. One night, she sees that...

Melancholia
2011
as Wedding Planner
Justine and Michael are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire, and brother-in-law John. Despite Claire’s be...

The Sky Has Four Corners
2011
as Graf Karpatovicz
The story of two boys coming from different social backgrounds: the sensitive loner Joschi who had to move with his father from a better district afte...

Life Is Too Long
2010
as Tabatabai
No crisis is as disastrous, overwhelming and unjust as that of Alfi Seliger. The Jewish filmmaker, hypochondriac and family man is up to his neck in p...

Dimension
2010
Dimension is a short film written and directed by Lars von Trier, released in 2010. The film was shot in three-minute segments over several years. The...

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010
as Lee Meyers
Brad has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange ta...

House of Boys
2009
as Madame
It is 1984. Frank is a determined English teenager who runs away from high school to find an alternative gay lifestyle in Amsterdam. He finds a home a...
Memories of a Young Pianist
2009
as Count Dracula (archive footage)
Interview with the italian composer Claudio Gizzi about his lifetime and work as part or the extras of the Blu-Ray edition from What? (Che?) (1972) fr...

Metropia
2009
as Ivan Bahn (voice)
In the near future, oil reserves are nearly depleted and Europe is connected by series of underground tunnels. While navigating these tunnels, Roger h...

Soul Kitchen
2009
as Herr Jung
In Hamburg, German-Greek chef Zinos unknowingly disturbs the peace in his locals-only restaurant by hiring a more talented chef.

Tattoos: A Scarred History
2009
as Self
An exploration of how the once taboo art form has become socially acceptable.

Lulu and Jimi
2009
as Schultz
About sweeping love, rock & roll and getting rid of all that stale air of the fifties. You've got the good guys - that's Lulu and Jimi - and the bad g...

1½ Ritter - Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde
2008
as Luipold Trumpf
The story of Lanze who is in love with the princess. One day the princess is kidnapped by the Dark Knight and Lanze starts his journey to rescue her. ...

La deuxième femme
2008
as Udo Kier
Over the course of more than fifteen years, Clémenti films a series of intimate diaries, starting from daily encounters. In La deuxième femme, we see...

Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween
2008
as Self
A rare-to-find 4 hour documentary behind the scenes during the making of Rob Zombie's Halloween (2007).

Far Cry
2008
as Dr. Krieger
Jack Carver, a former member of the Special Forces takes the journalist Valerie Cardinal to an Island to visit her uncle Max who is working in a Milit...

Tell
2007
as Gessler
Film tells the story of how Switzerland came into being - albeit in a slightly different way to the historical circumstances we have known up to now: ...

The Mother of Tears
2007
as Father Johannes
An ancient urn is found in a cemetery outside Rome. Once opened, it triggers a series of violent incidents: robberies, rapes and murders increase dram...

Halloween
2007
as Morgan Walker
The early years of young Michael Myers and the events leading up to his fateful Halloween night murder rampage in the quiet town of Haddonfield, Illin...

Fall Down Dead
2007
as Picasso Killer / Aaron Garvey
A metropolitan city is in the grip of fear when rolling blackouts bring out a serial killer dubbed The Picasso Killer. One night, in the middle of a b...

Fall Down Dead
2007
Associate Producer
A metropolitan city is in the grip of fear when rolling blackouts bring out a serial killer dubbed The Picasso Killer. One night, in the middle of a b...

The Killing Grounds
2007
as P.
Set against the backdrop of a violent gang war, the police commissioner must find who is killing young children before the next innocent victim dies.

Pars: Operation Cherry
2007
as Klaus Kayman
A story describing Turkish narcotic police team named "Pars" who are trailing the traffic through Afghanistan, Turkey, Europe and USA.

Grindhouse
2007
as Franz Hess (segment "Werewolf Women of the SS")
Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Quentin Taranti...
Unser Reigen
2006

13 Graves
2006
as Debro
An ex-treasure hunter's search for his missing brother coincides with a quest for buried Incan gold.

Crusade in Jeans
2006
as Dr. Lawerence
Dolf a 15 year old boy is sent back in time by a timemachine. Accidentally he is sent back to the Middle Ages. He is rescued by children who are part ...

Holly
2006
as Klaus
Shot on location in Cambodia, including many scenes in actual brothels in the notorious red light district of Phnom Penh, HOLLY is a captivating, touc...

Pray for Morning
2006
as Edouard Leopold Edu
Looking for a night of thrills, eight friends roam the abandoned Royal Crescent Hotel, where five students were murdered more than 20 years ago. When ...

Cigarette Burns
2005
as Bellinger
With a torrid past that haunts him, a movie theatre owner is hired to search for the only existing print of a film so notorious that its single screen...

BloodRayne
2005
as Regal Monk
In 18th-century Romania, after spending much of her life in a traveling circus, human-vampire hybrid Rayne escapes and plots to take down her father, ...

Headspace
2005
as Rev. Karl Hartman
25-year-old Alex Borden's chance encounter with a mysterious stranger has found his intellect rapidly expanding, but as the power of his mind grows so...
Anecdotes from 'Epidemic'
2005
as Interviewee-Actor
A short documentary about the film Epidemic based on interviews with the cast, crew and a film historian.

Manderlay
2005
as Mr. Kirspe
In 1933, after leaving Dogville, Grace Margaret Mulligan sees a slave being punished at a cotton farm called Manderlay. Officially, slavery is illegal...
Fear and Loathing in Materndorf
2004
Interview with Mark of the Devil's star Udo Kier.

Surviving Christmas
2004
as Heinrich
A wealthy executive, Drew Latham (Ben Affleck) has no close relationships and becomes nostalgic for his childhood home as Christmas approaches. When h...

Dracula 3000
2004
as Capt. Varna
In the year 3000, the deep space salvage ship Mother III locates the vanished starship Demeter in the Carpathian System. Captain Abraham Van Helsing a...

Evil Eyes
2004
as George
A screenwriter is plagued by nightmares as he writes a script about a family that was slaughtered years before. Soon, the grisly murders he's writing ...

Modigliani
2004
as Max Jacob
Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo...

30 Days Until I'm Famous
2004
as Barry Davis
A Latina working in Los Angeles as a messenger is randomly discovered and fashioned into a pop music star.

One Point O
2004
as Derrick
Paranoid computer programmer Simon wakes up to find a package in his room one day. Despite attempts at securing his apartment, the packages keep arriv...

Love Object
2004
as Radley
The twisted tale of Kenneth, socially insecure technical writer who forms an obsessive relationship with "Nikki", an anatomically accurate silicone se...

Jargo
2004
as Jargos Vater
Jargo is a German teen brought up in Saudi Arabia. Moving to Berlin, Jargo maintains his Arabian clothing until he encounters a similar aged German Tu...
Celluloid Horror
2004
as Himself
Celluloid Horror explores Kier-La Janisse's tireless crusade to bring obscure cult horror film to the masses through her independently run internation...

Gate to Heaven
2003
as Joachim Nowak
With the help of airport technician Dak, Alexej breaks out of the holding area for refugees. Dak puts up the Russian, who yearns to become a pilot, in...

Dogville
2003
as The Man in the Coat
When beautiful young Grace arrives in the isolated township of Dogville, the small community agrees to hide her from a gang of ruthless gangsters, and...

Pigs Will Fly
2003
as Onkel Max
A man struggles with memories of his violent childhood.

He Sees You When You're Sleeping
2002
as Hans Kramer
A man dies in a freak accident on a golf course only to learn he must perform one last good deed to get into heaven.

Mrs. Meitlemeihr
2002
as Hitler / Mrs. Meitlemeihr
Hitler escapes the war to London, where he lives as Mrs. Meitlemeihr, in this what-if black comedy from commercial director Graham Rose.

The Last Minute
2002
as Nazi Fashion Shooter
The clock is ticking towards The Last Minute, but no one knows it. No one except Billy Byrne - young, cool and talented, he's the Next Big Thing. At l...

FearDotCom
2002
as Polidori
When four bodies are discovered among the industrial decay and urban grime of New York City, brash young detective Mike Reilly teams with ambitious De...

Korn: Deuce
2002
as Commander
Deuce is the second DVD by the American Nu Metal band, Korn. It was released on June 11, 2002 - the same day as the band's fifth studio release, Untou...

Invincible
2001
as Count Helldorf
A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried.

Auf Herz und Nieren
2001
as Doc
What do the Pope, a suitcase full of baking powder, four naive friends and the organ mafia have to do with each other? They are all part of a macabre ...

All the Queen's Men
2001
as General Landssdorf
A mismatched team of British Special Services agents led by an American must infiltrate, in disguise, a female-run Enigma factory in Berlin and bring ...

Suspiria 25th Anniversary
2001
as Self
Documentary about the shooting of 'Suspiria' that details everything that lovers of horror genre can desire, including the inspiration of the plot, th...

Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
2001
as The Guardian
Stone (the Antichrist) becomes President of the European Union and uses his seat of power to dissolve the United Nations and create a one world govern...

Critical Mass
2001
as Samson
Jeffers works security at a nuclear power plant. The plant is being decommissioned, and a politician is touring the plant and videotaping his comments...

Revelation
2001
as The Grand Master
Since A.D. 50, a mysterious sacred artifact known as the Loculus has been at the center of a bloody clandestine war. Missing for a few hundred years, ...

The Praying Mantis
2001
as Julius Quellenreich
Trixi Jancik leads a risky double life. At home, she is an obedient housewife. But when she puts on a disguise and goes to the racetrack to indulge in...
Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture
2001
as Self
Andy Warhol, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century (who also coined the immortal catchphrase "In the future, everyone will be famous...

Doomsdayer
2001
as Max Gast
While seconds tick away, the faith of the world rests in one man his hands

Von Trier's 100 Eyes
2000
as Self
Although at first sight this might look like a simple ‘making of DANCER IN THE DARK’, the later developments in the film reveal the whole drama of Lar...

Just One Night
2000
as Walter Lert
A man (Timothy Hutton) spends the night before his wedding searching for his lost shoe with the help of an unhappily married woman (Maria Grazia Cucin...

Dancer in the Dark
2000
as Dr. Porkorny
Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder a...

Shadow of the Vampire
2000
as Albin Grau
Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."

Red Letters
2000
as George Kessler
A college professor reluctantly hides an escaped female convict who tries to get him to help prove her innocent of a murder.

Double Deception
2000
as Vincent
Mr. Ozaki, a Japanese conglomerate businessman living in Los Angeles, hires a beautiful young double (Maria) to protect his real daughter (Lisa) from ...

Miss Diamond
1999
as Bühler
Diamonds are a girls best friends, so when an exhibition of the first diamonds ever discovered in Germany is announced, Lana thinks it is her duty to ...

End of Days
1999
as Head Priest
On 28 December 1999, the citizens of New York City are getting ready for the turn of the millennium. However, Satan decides to crash the party by comi...

The New Adventures of Pinocchio
1999
as Lorenzini
Puppeteer Geppetto becomes a puppet himself after drinking an elixir that Pinocchio bought from a traveling carnival.

Final Run
1999
as Reddick
The Grand Royale is a new high-tech passenger train with a computerized engine. On its maiden voyage, it suffers a severe technical failure, killing t...

Under the Palms
1999
as Ludwig
This film was shot entirely in Rotterdam and shows the German couple David (Helmut Berger) and Tanya (Sheri Hagen) who are kept by Ludwig (Udo Kier), ...

The Debtors
1999
The Debtors is a comedy about a group of people with various addictions who meet up at the tables in Las Vegas.

Spy Games
1999
as Ivan Bliniak
A romantic suspense-comedy about CIA agent Harry (Bill Pullman) and SVR agent Natasha (Irene Jacob) fighting to save the world, their lives and secret...

Possessed
1999
as Vincent
A stranger arrives in Copenhagen from a plane from Romania. Shortly after the power is lost in the whole city.

Killer Deal
1999
as Dr. Roland Parker
In the distant future, the gap between rich and poor has become immeasurable. Wealthy enclosures like Parkland, home of medical pioneer Dr. Roland Par...

Stingers
1998
as Mr. Scholnick / The Boss
Two down-and-out barflies wind up in over their heads when they steal a briefcase filled with valuable coins.

Modern Vampires
1998
as Vincent
A vampire hunter in southern California discovers that his son has been murdered by a gang of the undead and thus goes on a quest for revenge.

There's No Fish Food in Heaven
1998
as Rocky
Black comedy about an obsessive street graffiti artist, who falls obsessively in love with a frustrated artist he meets. Unfortunately, rather than tr...

Blade
1998
as Dragonetti
The Daywalker known as "Blade" - a half-vampire, half-mortal man - becomes the protector of humanity against an underground army of vampires.

Ice
1998
as Dr. Norman Kistler
After the whole North of the Equator freezes below zero, a group of people in Los Angeles risk their lives while trying to "escape" from the city's ho...

Armageddon
1998
as Psychologist
When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate ...

The Kingdom II
1997
as Lillebror / Age Krüger
Set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, the city and country's main hospital, nicknamed "Riget", "Riget" means "the realm" or "t...

The 120 Days of Bottrop
1997
as Self
An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking.

The End of Violence
1997
as Zoltan
In Hollywood, the lives of a successful film producer, his wife, a police detective and a surveillance agent intersect after a botched abduction.

Prince Valiant
1997
as Sligon
An Arthurian legend of young Prince Valiant, son of the King of Scandia. After the King is exiled by an evil leader, the Prince travels to Camelot to ...

Betty
1997
as Vincent Lord
The world's most famous actress freaks out on the set of her latest Christmas blockbuster and runs away to hide in the unlikely setting of Palm Spring...

Lea
1996
as Block
51-year-old Herbert Strehlow, a furniture restorer, falls in love with 21-year-old Lea, who has not spoken a word since childhood when her father kill...

The Adventures of Pinocchio
1996
as Lorenzini
One of puppet-maker Geppetto's creations comes magically to life. This puppet, Pinocchio, has one major desire and that is to become a real boy someda...

Breaking the Waves
1996
as Sadistic Sailor
In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it ...

Duke of Groove
1996
as Earl
Mother takes her teenage son to a party, to make sure he will not be at home when father leaves the family for good.

Barb Wire
1996
as Curly
A sexy nightclub owner, Barb Wire moonlights as a mercenary in Steel Harbor, one of the last free zones in the now fascist United States. When scienti...

United Trash
1996
as UNO-General Werner Brenner
In Africa - Land of the ever shining sun, German soldiers fulfill a UN mission. For homosexual General Brenner its a dream comes true: Here, where the...

A Trick of the Light
1995
as Max Skladanowsky
A rare gem of cinematic storytelling that weaves docudrama, fictional reenactment, and experimental photography into a powerful, reflective work on th...

Unter Druck
1995
Extinct
1995
as York Cortex
The humanity is threaten by a dangerous virus and the only solution seems to travel back in time.

Over My Dead Body
1995
as Killer
A cynical and ruthless womanizer dies, but is given the chance to return to life if he manages to save three women within three days, whom he has depr...

Johnny Mnemonic
1995
as Ralfi
In a dystopian 2021, Johnny is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to securely store data too sensitive for regular computer networks...

Paradise Framed
1995
In this art-film, a famous multimedia artist abandons his former life for a new one in a hermetically sealed room filled with living portraits. His ne...

The Kingdom
1994
as Age Krüger / Lillebror
Set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, the city and country's main hospital, nicknamed "Riget", a number of characters, staff a...
Rotwang Must Go!
1994
as Arthur Eigenrauch
A comedy directed by Hans-Christoph Blumenberg.

Death of a World Star
1994
as Udo Kier
A mockumentary directed by Christoph Schlingensief.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994
as Commercial Director
A girl born with enormous thumbs in the repressive era of the 1950s learns to turn her quirks into assets.

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1994
as Camp
He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Jim Carrey is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to e...

Josh and S.A.M.
1993
as Salon Manager
Josh and Sam are two brothers facing change, their mother is about to marry a French accountant and the kids are sent to go live with their father in ...

Jack Reed: Badge of Honor
1993
as Giles Marquette
When a young mother is murdered, Chicago police sergeant Jack Reed sets out to find her killer. But the secret world of undercover operations rears it...

For Love or Money
1993
as Mr. Himmelman
New York concierge Doug Ireland wants to go into business for himself and refurbish a hotel on Roosevelt Island, N.Y., but he needs an investor. With ...

Three Shake-a-Leg Steps to Heaven
1993
as Edouard Müllendorf
A clumsy Elvis-imitator and an unsuccessful russian dancing-master save a banker from the attempted murder of the Mafia.

Terror 2000
1993
as Jablo
Germany, right after the re-unification. The people are out of control, blind hatred towards immigrants is common sense. In this time, a social-worker...

Plötzlich und unerwartet - eine Déjà-Revue
1993
as Egon Hettemann
A short film by the German experimental filmmaker Michael Brynntrup from 1993. The film describes a surrealistic and absurd cycle of activities in a h...

Sex
1992
as Self
A silent film made for the release of Madonna's book 'Sex'
The Making of Europa
1991
as Self / Lawrence Hartmann
Documentary about the making of Lars von Trier's 1991 film.

Europa
1991
as Lawrence Hartmann
A young, idealist American gets a job as a train conductor for the Zentropa railway network in postwar, US-occupied Frankfurt. As various people try t...

My Own Private Idaho
1991
as Hans
In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor...

The German Chainsaw Massacre
1990
as Jonny
Taking place around the German reunification of 1990, a group of East Germans cross the border to visit West Germany and get slaughtered by a psychopa...

The German Chainsaw Massacre
1990
Assistant Director
Taking place around the German reunification of 1990, a group of East Germans cross the border to visit West Germany and get slaughtered by a psychopa...

Medea
1989
as Jason
It is an adaptation of the Greek tragedy Medea from Euripides, a version where the Gods willing and intervations are absent. Medea is the tragic chara...

100 Years of Adolf Hitler – The Last Hour in the Führerbunker
1989
as Adolf Hitler
On 30 April 1945, dictator Adolf Hitler, his wife Eva Braun, and prominent members of the Third Reich live out their final hour in the Führerbunker.

Mother's Mask
1988
as Herr Seiler
Returnee Willy von Mühlenbeck has to realize that his evil brother Martin has risen to become the head of the industrialist family, while their ailing...

Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho
1988

Epidemic
1987
as Self
A director and a screenwriter write a screenplay together about a globally spreading epidemic. Unbeknownst to them, an outbreak develops around them i...

Egomania: Island Without Hope
1987
as Baron Tante Teufel
Egomania is a visually stunning end-of-the-world melodrama about lust, jealousy and murder set amidst solar eclipses, orchestral chants and the distan...

Am nächsten Morgen kehrte der Minister nicht an seinen Arbeitsplatz zurück
1986
as Minister / Kali

Seduction: The Cruel Woman
1986
as Gregor
Wanda is a dominatrix who runs a gallery in a building on the Hamburg waterfront, where audiences pay for the privilege of watching her humiliate her ...

Idiots' Battle
1986
This black and white silent film with music by Helge Schneider, starring Udo Kier as a vampire and Alfred Edel as an Indian chief was commissioned by ...

The Beginner
1985
as Graf Frackstein
Movie fan Mike has invented a machine with which he is able to take part in every movie which is currently running on his video tape recorder. But he ...

Der Unbesiegbare
1985
as Argon
Hámos' fascination with the cultural mythology of the hero culminates in this witty, elaborately crafted drama, which was produced for European televi...

The Last Trip to Harrisburg
1984
as Man and Woman in Train
A soldier and a beautiful blonde on a train to Harrisburg.

The Last Trip to Harrisburg
1984
Writer, Director, Producer
A soldier and a beautiful blonde on a train to Harrisburg.
Hur und Heilig
1984

Pankow ’95
1983
as Johann Wolfgang Amadeus Zart
Futuristic view of life in Pankow, East Berlin. The GDR has turned into a madhouse with serious economic problems.

Die wilden Fünfziger
1983
as Fromm

The Island of the Bloody Plantation
1983
as Hermano
A women's prison on a tropical island is a hellhole where the inmates are raped, tortured and otherwise abused by the evil commandant and brutal guard...

Sportliche Schatten – Kunst in Krisenzeiten
1982
as Man
Expressionst film about animated shadows.
Siblings
1982

Lola
1981
as Waiter (uncredited)
Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants mone...

Lola
1981
Production Design
Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants mone...

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
1981
as Dr. Henry Jekyll
In 19th century London, a sex maniac sneaks into the engagement party of Dr. Henry Jekyll and Miss Fanny Osbourne, turning the event into a nightmaris...

Lili Marleen
1981
as Drewitz
The story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert whose family is helping p...

Narcissus and Psyche
1980
as Nárcisz
Narcisus and Psyche is based on a novel by Sandor Weores which was adapted by Vilmos Csaplar and director Gabor Body for a feature-length film. Borrow...

Deutschland privat
1980
"Deutschland privat" is a special project by Robert van Ackeren, who in 1979 asked people to send him their 8mm home movies by placing ads in several ...

Lulu
1980
as Jack the Ripper
Lulu models for a young painter who tries to seduce her. When her husband enters the room he dies from a heart attack. Lulu marries the painter, who c...

Hungarian Rhapsody
1979
as Poór
The movie portrays a peasant revolt in Hungary in the early twentieth century.

The Third Generation
1979
as Edgar Gast
A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which ...
Victor
1979
as Popstar

The Fifth Commandment
1978
as Peter Dümmel
A notorious gang of robbers threaten the Ruhr region of Germany in the 1920s.

És így s eképp tovább
1978
A mute alone is just a silent man.

Bel Canto or May a Hooker Sob?
1977
as Poulailler
An unsuccessful artistic director tries to raise money for a new opera house at a gala with celebrities from the worlds of culture and finance (and th...

The Stationmaster’s Wife
1977
as Schafftaler
The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious trouble when ...

Suspiria
1977
as Dr. Frank Mandel
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly...

Spermula
1976
as Werner
The story is based around "spermulites", the alien inhabitants of a dying planet. The only way they can save their planet is by sucking the men of pla...

Gold Flakes
1976
as Franzl
Werner Schroeter's rhapsody of excess leaps from 1949 Cuba to contemporary France to points in between, while its feverishly shifting visual style evo...

Exposé
1976
as Paul Martin
A paranoid writer is unable to get started on his second novel. He hires a secretary and then his troubles really begin.

The Story of O
1975
as René
The beautiful O is taken by her boyfriend, Rene, to a bizarre retreat, where she is trained in bondage and sexual perversion...

The Last Word
1975
as Raimund
Leo, the owner of the stocking product "Discrete", has driven his company into the wall; the company is virtually bankrupt.

Blood for Dracula
1974
as Count Dracula
Deathly ill Count Dracula and his slimy underling, Anton, travel to Italy in search of a virgin's blood. They're welcomed at the crumbling estate of i...

Flesh for Frankenstein
1973
as Baron Frankenstein
Within the decadent walls of the Frankenstein mansion, the Baron and his depraved assistant Otto have discovered the means of creating new life. As th...
Pan
1973
as Pilgrim of Death
Olifant
1973
as Olifant / Edwin

The Salzburg Connection
1972
as Anton
An American lawyer on vacation in Europe is asked by a book publisher to stop by the Austrian town of Salzburg to see a photographer who's taking pict...

Conflict of Emotions
1971
as Tonis Theodorou
A drug addict meets an aristocratic woman who married a criminal.

Provocation
1971
as Angelos
Angelos holds nothing in Greece. His sweetheart married his former friend, the woman who once was his first, killed. Here it is just waiting for disap...

Mark of the Devil
1970
as Count Christian von Meruh
In 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter's apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting when he witnesses the brutality, the injustice, the ...

Season of the Senses
1969
as Luca
A group of young girls stranded on an island, where they meet the reclusive Luca, who hides a dark secret.

Shameless
1968
as Alexander Pohlmann
After the violent death of a prostitute, her father tries to find the people who are responsible for the fall of the young woman.

Road to St. Tropez
1966
as Boy
A woman has a brief amorous liaison while on a trip along the South of France to Saint Tropez, but returns disillusioned.

Theirs
N/A
After a lifetime of grappling with abusive men and a bitter divorce, a mother finds hope for herself and her teenage daughter in a new home, only to q...

The Ark: An Iron Sky Story
N/A
as Grand Master
Two Chinese university dropout audiophiles set out on a quest to decode a mysterious message received from the Moon, but quickly find themselves fight...

Intangents
N/A
as Bin bag Man
A video blogger's desperate search for his girlfriend, only visible via his video camera as hostile entities stalk him from the darkness, tearing away...