Hollywood: Actor Udo Kier has died | EUROtoday

German actor Udo Kier died on Sunday on the age of 81. His administration confirmed the demise to the dpa information company. First had the journal Variety citing Kier’s associate, the artist Delbert McBride, reported.

Kier’s thigh grew to become identified within the Nineteen Seventies for his roles in worldwide productions. His biggest successes are his title roles in movies directed by Paul Morrissey and produced by Andy Warhol Frankenstein and Dracula. With roles in additional than 200 movies, Kier was some of the prolific and internationally identified German actors.

From Cologne to Hollywood

Kier was born, his actual identify was Udo Kierspe, on October 14, 1944 throughout an evening of bombing in Cologne. He grew up in Cologne-Mühlheim in easy circumstances. His mom was a seamstress and he solely met his organic father when he was an grownup.

He moved to London in 1966 after assembly the famend screenwriter and director Rainer Werner Fassbinder as a teen in Cologne. In London he labored as a waiter and attended appearing faculty within the evenings. He made his debut within the brief movie Road to Saint Tropez (1968).

In the next years he developed into a worldwide star and filmed with quite a few well-known administrators – he then additionally labored with Fassbinder. From 1991, Kier lived in Palm Springs, California and established himself in Hollywood.