"He acted in films, television, music videos and video games and was sometimes labelled a character actor for his consistently memorable turns across European cinema and Hollywood. I like horror films, he once said, because if you play small or guest parts in movies, it is better to be evil and scare people than be the guy who works in the post office and goes home to his wife and children. Audiences will remember you more."
"His childhood in postwar Germany was horrible, he told the Guardian in 2002: My father was already married with three children when I was born, and my mother didn't know. So we grew up poor. We had no hot water until I was 17. As a teenager Kier worked in a factory in order to make enough money to get out of that misery I was born into;"
Udo Kier died aged 81 in Palm Springs, California; no cause of death was given. He appeared in 275 roles across Hollywood and European cinema, including films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Gus Van Sant and Lars von Trier. Kier was known for a piercing stare and frequently played villains, monsters, creeps, vampires and Nazis. He worked in film, television, music videos and video games and was often labelled a character actor for memorable turns. He was born Udo Kierspe in Germany in 1944 and was rescued from a bombed maternity ward hours after his birth. He grew up poor in postwar Germany, worked in a factory as a teenager and was discovered in a London coffee shop while studying English.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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