News Udo Kier Has Died.

[TedShatner10]

It is with a heavy heart to report that B-movie schlock stalwart, Udo Kier, has recently passed away:

Udo Kier, German Actor Who Appeared in ‘My Own Private Idaho,’ ‘Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein,’ Dies at 81
By Jack Dunn
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Udo Kier, a German actor and cult icon who collaborated with everyone from Andy Warhol to Lars von Trier to Madonna, died on Sunday morning in Palm Springs, according to his partner, artist Delbert McBride. He was 81.

Among the more than 200 films in his expansive body of work, Kier’s breakout collaborations with Warhol are among his most celebrated. Kier starred in the titular roles in both 1973’s “Flesh for Frankenstein” and 1974’s “Blood for Dracula.” Both directed by Paul Morrissey and produced by Warhol, the films are subversive, sultry reimaginings of the classic Hollywood monsters, with Kier bringing a haunting yet comically inept spin on the title characters.

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For anybody over the age of 30, Udo Kier was a solid staple of many movies, TV shows, and video games from the mid 1990s to mid 2000s, with the perfect face and voice for playing a host of eccentric bad guys or unsympathetic questionable characters (like that vampire overlord from 1998's Blade).

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Rest in peace Mr. Kier.

 

[Procutus]

HIs talent will be missed.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

He also worked with Andy Warhol in the 1970s, playing both Baron von Frankenstein in Flesh for Frankenstein, and Count Dracula in Blood for Dracula.

Also, as for vampire flicks, he was in the aforementioned Blade, Shadow of the Vampire, and Uwe Boll's BloodRayne, emblamatic for Kier's whole career ranging from Arthouse films over popcorn flicks and to schlocky B-movies.