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Udo Kierspe (born 14 October 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 and the Americas.
Aug 16, 2021 · He's a leading man for the first time, rightly earning him some of the biggest buzz of his 50-year career. But there's no question the film's bittersweet coda, a scene that serves as an elegiac tribute that Kier shares with Urie ("Ugly Betty"), is something special in its own right.
Aug 6, 2021 · Udo Kier discusses Swan Song, his work across his 50-year-plus career, and how he feels about being labeled a gay icon.
Jul 29, 2021 · Now, Kier finally has the lead role, playing a gay, Sandusky, Ohio–dwelling hairdresser named Pat Pitsenbarger who is lured out of retirement to attend to the corpse of a former client in the ...
Mar 19, 2021 · An actor willing to take on any role, no matter how dark (remember “Dragged Across Concrete”?), surprises with sweet tale of reconciliation.
Jun 11, 2021 · The movie stars indie legend Udo Kier as retired hairdresser Pat Pitsenbarger, who breaks free from his drab Sandusky nursing home and takes a long walk to give a deceased former client her final cut-and-color.
Aug 11, 2021 · More than 20 years after releasing “Edge of Seventeen” and “Gypsy 83,” the American filmmaker Todd Stephens has returned to his hometown of Sandusky to complete his indie Ohio trilogy with “Swan...
Nov 23, 2021 · Known for his brooding character roles, Udo Kier lived his entire life as an openly gay man. He enjoyed a teenage fling with legendary German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder after meeting him in a bar as a 16-year-old. Fassbinder was 15. Udo Kier later acted in Fassbinders’ Lili Marlene and Berlin Alexanderplatz.
Jun 4, 2022 · Udo Kier: ‘Finally, after 50 years I become the leading man’. The great character actor on not wanting to play a gay cliché in his new film Swan Song and his time with some of the finest ...
Aug 3, 2021 · At age 76, gay German actor Udo Kier is having the time of his life, because he has just played the role of a lifetime. Kier stars in Todd Stephens’ acclaimed new film ’Swan Song’ as gay retired Sandusky, Ohio hairdresser.
