Acting

Udo Kier

Born October 14, 1944 · Cologne, Germany

Died November 23, 2025 · aged 81

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, Rain…

Known For

Blade

MovieHorrorAction

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

Nymphomaniac: Vol. II

Nymphomaniac: Vol. II · 2013

Nymphomaniac: Vol. II

MovieDramaMystery

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.

Armageddon

Armageddon · 1998

MovieActionScience Fiction

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 a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the dangerous space mission provided he can bring along his own hotshot crew. Among them is the cocksure A.J. who Harry thinks isn't good enough for his daughter, until the mission proves otherwise.

The Secret Agent

The Secret Agent · 2025

The Secret Agent

MovieThrillerDrama

Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting.

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective · 1994

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

MovieComedyCrime

He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. The Ace is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies. Whether he's undercover, under fire or underwater, he always gets his man… or beast!

The Story of O

The Story of O · 1975

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

Dogville

Dogville · 2003

MovieCrimeDrama

A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.

The House That Jack Built

The House That Jack Built · 2018

The House That Jack Built

MovieDramaHorror

Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer for twelve years.

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Blade

MovieHorrorAction

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

Dragonetti

Nymphomaniac: Vol. II

Nymphomaniac: Vol. II · 2013

Nymphomaniac: Vol. II

MovieDramaMystery

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 Waiter

Armageddon

Armageddon · 1998

MovieActionScience Fiction

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 a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the dangerous space mission provided he can bring along his own hotshot crew. Among them is the cocksure A.J. who Harry thinks isn't good enough for his daughter, until the mission proves otherwise.

Psychologist

The Secret Agent

The Secret Agent · 2025

The Secret Agent

MovieThrillerDrama

Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting.

Hans

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective · 1994

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

MovieComedyCrime

He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. The Ace is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies. Whether he's undercover, under fire or underwater, he always gets his man… or beast!

Camp

The Story of O

The Story of O · 1975

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

René

Dogville

Dogville · 2003

MovieCrimeDrama

A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.

The Man in the Coat

The House That Jack Built

The House That Jack Built · 2018

The House That Jack Built

MovieDramaHorror

Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer for twelve years.

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End of Days

End of Days · 1999

MovieActionHorror

Cynical bodyguard Jericho is hired by a man possessed by Satan, who is in search of his bride. When Jericho realizes what is happening, he must do everything he can to save the woman and the world.

Head Priest

Dragged Across Concrete

Dragged Across Concrete · 2019

Dragged Across Concrete

MovieCrimeAction

Two policemen, one an old-timer, the other his volatile younger partner, find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics becomes the media's cause du jour. Low on cash and with no other options, these two embittered soldiers descend into the criminal underworld to gain their just due, but instead find far more than they wanted awaiting them in the shadows.

Friedrich

My Own Private Idaho

My Own Private Idaho · 1991

My Own Private Idaho

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. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike's estranged mother. Along the way they turn tricks for money and drugs, eventually attracting the attention of a wealthy benefactor and sexual deviant.

Hans

Downsizing

Downsizing · 2017

MovieDramaScience Fiction

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 afford a nice lifestyle at the same time.

Konrad

Melancholia

Melancholia · 2011

MovieDramaScience Fiction

Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.

Wedding Planner

Suspiria

Suspiria · 1977

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 murders.

Dr. Frank Mandel

Halloween

Halloween · 2007

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, Illinois.

Morgan Walker

Brawl in Cell Block 99

Brawl in Cell Block 99 · 2017

Brawl in Cell Block 99

MovieActionCrime

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 him to instigate violent acts that turn the prison he resides in into a battleground.

The Placid Man

Dancer in the Dark

Dancer in the Dark · 2000

Dancer in the Dark

MovieDramaCrime

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 and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.

Dr. Porkorny

Johnny Mnemonic

Johnny Mnemonic · 1995

Johnny Mnemonic

MovieScience FictionAction

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. On one delivery run, he accepts a package that not only exceeds the implant's safety limits—and will kill him if the data is not removed in time—but also contains information far more important and valuable than he had ever imagined. On a race against time, he must avoid the assassins sent to kill him and remove the data before it, too, ends his life.

Ralfi

A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love

A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love · 2022

A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love

MovieRomanceDrama

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 also single. Reluctantly, Anna accepts a job as a language coach for 17-year-old Adrian who has a speech impediment and is something of a misfit. She recognises him as the boy who recently snatched her handbag in the street.

Michel

Iron Sky

Iron Sky · 2012

MovieActionComedy

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 secrecy, the Nazis construct a gigantic space fortress with a massive armada of flying saucers.

Wolfgang Kortzfleisch

Breaking the Waves

Breaking the Waves · 1996

Breaking the Waves

MovieDramaRomance

In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when he urges her to have sex with another.

Sadistic Sailor

Shadow of the Vampire

Shadow of the Vampire · 2000

Shadow of the Vampire

MovieDramaHorror

Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."

Albin Grau

Grindhouse

Grindhouse · 2007

MovieThrillerAction

Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, an action thriller about a murderous stuntman who kills young women with modified vehicles. It is presented as a double feature with fictitious exploitation trailers preceding each segment.

Franz Hess (segment "Werewolf Women of the SS")

Surviving Christmas

Surviving Christmas · 2004

Surviving Christmas

MovieComedyRomance

A wealthy executive, Drew Latham (Ben Affleck) has no close relationships and becomes nostalgic for his childhood home as Christmas approaches. When he visits the house and finds another family living there, he offers the residents, Tom Valco (James Gandolfini) and his wife, Christine (Catherine O'Hara), a large sum of money to pretend they are his parents. Soon Drew tests the couple's patience, and, when their daughter, Alicia (Christina Applegate), arrives, things get increasingly tense.

Heinrich

Scene of the Crime

Scene of the Crime · 1970

Scene of the Crime

SeriesDramaCrime

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Hans-Rudi Dreher

V.I.P.

SeriesAction & AdventureComedy

While attending a Hollywood premiere with a famous action star, a crazed fan pulls a gun—but her movie hunk turns into a coward, and it's Vallery who becomes the hero. Suddenly, she's thrown into a world of action and danger as owner of a Hollywood protection agency, Vallery Irons Protection (V.I.P.), taking risks to protect others at a price few are willing to pay.

Viktor Balek

Dark Winds

Dark Winds · 2022

SeriesDramaCrime

This psychological thriller follows two Navajo police officers, Leaphorn and Chee, in the 1970s Southwest as their search for clues in a grisly double murder case forces them to challenge their own spiritual beliefs and come to terms with the trauma of their pasts.

In Memory Of

Chuck

SeriesAction & AdventureComedy

When Buy More computer geek Chuck Bartowski unwittingly downloads a database of government information and deadly fighting skills into his head, he becomes the CIA's most vital secret. This sets Chuck on a path to become a full-fledged spy.

Otto Van Vogel

Polizeiruf 110

Polizeiruf 110 · 1971

Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.

Zermahlen

Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated

Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated · 2010

Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated

SeriesAnimationMystery

This incarnation of the popular cartoon series finds Scooby and the gang living in Crystal Cove, a small town with a long history of ghost sightings, monster tales and other mysteries ripe for the sleuths to solve once and for all. But the longstanding Crystal Cove residents, who bank on the town's reputation to attract tourists, are prepared to do what it takes to protect their turf.

Professor Pericles (voice)

Nash Bridges

Nash Bridges · 1996

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

Fun-loving San Francisco Police Department investigator Nash Bridges is part of the elite Special Investigations Unit. He tackles crime using his keen sense of humor and charm. Joe Dominguez comes out of retirement to become Bridges' wisecracking yet more rule-abiding partner.

Wolfgang Herzog

seaQuest DSV

seaQuest DSV · 1993

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyAction & Adventure

In the early 21st century, mankind has colonized the oceans. The United Earth Oceans Organization enlists Captain Nathan Bridger and the submarine seaQuest DSV to keep the peace and explore the last frontier on Earth.

Dr. Guy Peche

The Batman

The Batman · 2004

SeriesAnimationSci-Fi & Fantasy

A young billionaire Bruce Wayne fights crime and evil as the mysterious vigilante, The Batman.

Bert (voice)

Hunters

Hunters · 2020

SeriesCrimeDrama

A diverse band of Nazi Hunters living in 1977 New York City discover that hundreds of high ranking Nazi officials are living among us and conspiring to create a Fourth Reich in the U.S. The eclectic team of Hunters set out on a bloody quest to bring the Nazis to justice and thwart their new genocidal plans.

Adolf Hitler

The Sentinel

The Sentinel · 1996

SeriesDramaCrime

The Sentinel is a Canadian-produced television series. In the jungles of peru, the fight for survival heightened his senses. Now, Detective Jim Ellison is a sentinel in the fight for justice. Anthropologist Blair Sandburg works side by side with Jim, helping him develop these senses.

Klaus Zeller

Justice League

Justice League · 2001

SeriesAction & AdventureAnimation

The long-awaited rebirth of the greatest superhero team of all time: Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Hawkgirl, Green Lantern, and Martian Manhunter.

The Music Master (voice)

Masters of Horror

Masters of Horror · 2005

Masters of Horror

SeriesDramaMystery

An anthology series written and directed by the most famous names in horror.

Bellinger

Red Shoe Diaries

Red Shoe Diaries · 1992

Red Shoe Diaries

Jake takes out an ad in the newspaper after the suicide of his unfaithful fiancée, in an effort to understand the reasons for the betrayal. By soliciting the secret diaries of other women, he hopes to find some reconciliation with the truth.

Fashion Designer

Viper

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

Viper is an action-adventure TV series about a special task force set up by the federal government to fight crime in the fictional city of Metro City, California that is perpetually under siege from one crime wave after another. The weapon used by this task force is an assault vehicle that masquerades as a Dodge Viper RT/10 roadster and coupe. The series takes place in "the near future". The primary brand of vehicles driven in the show were Chrysler or subsidiary companies. The Viper Defender "star car" was designed by Chrysler Corporation engineers. The exterior design of the car was produced by Chrysler stylist Steve Ferrerio.

Erich Geiger

Beware the Batman

Beware the Batman · 2013

Beware the Batman

SeriesAction & AdventureAnimation

Set during Bruce Wayne's early years as the Batman, following his initial period of battling organized crime. He hones his skills with the assistance of his butler, Alfred Pennyworth. Bruce is introduced to Alfred's goddaughter, Tatsu Yamashiro. Tatsu is a martial arts swordsmaster hired to act as Bruce's bodyguard, but also recruited to act as a superhero partner to Batman.

Mister Toad (voice)

The Kingdom

The Kingdom · 1994

SeriesComedyDrama

The Kingdom is the most technologically advanced hospital in Denmark, a gleaming bastion of medical science. A rash of uncanny occurrences, however, begins to weaken the staff's faith in science – a phantom ambulance pulls in every night, but disappears; voices echo in the elevator shaft; and a pregnant doctor's fetus seems to be developing much faster than is natural.

Age Krüger / Storebror / Lillebror

Der Fahnder

Der Fahnder · 1984

Der Fahnder is a German television krimi series which was aired between 1984 and 2005. In the Netherlands the series was broadcast by the VARA from 3 October 1985.

Uli Weber

Die Männer vom K3

Die Männer vom K3 · 1988

Die Männer vom K3

Die Männer vom K3 is a German television series.

Heini Wohlers

Major Lazer

Major Lazer · 2015

SeriesComedyAnimation

Set in the future, Major Lazer is a Jamaican superhero who fights against the dystopian forces that have ruined society that are led by President Whitehall and General Rubbish. Major Lazer is assisted in his fight by President Whitehall's daughter Penny and hacker Blkmrkt.

Head Vampire Vampire (voice)

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Berlin Alexanderplatz · 1980

Berlin Alexanderplatz

SeriesDramaCrime

In late 1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city’s criminal underworld.

Junger Mann an der Bar

Doppelter Einsatz

Doppelter Einsatz · 1994

Doppelter Einsatz

Doppelter Einsatz is a German television series about the cases of two female detectives of the Hamburg police.

König

Rosa Roth

Rosa Roth · 1994

Rosa Roth is a German television series.

Ommer

Old Money

Old Money · 2015

SeriesComedyDrama

A family, blessed with richness and power, is desperately seeking for a liver for their father, who wants to hand down his wealth to the one who gets the organ.

Rolf Rauchensteiner