Legendary German actor Udo Kier has died on the age of 81. The information was confirmed by Kier’s companion Delbert McBride by way of Selection.
With a whole bunch of movie and TV credit spanning many years, Kier rose to fame in horror movies like Mark of the Satan, Flesh for Frankenstein, and Blood for Dracula within the ’70s. His breakthrough Hollywood function got here in 1991’s My Personal Personal Idaho, and he’d go on to seem in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Johnny Mnemonic, Armageddon, and Madonna music movies.
Lately, Kier was one of many actors set to seem in Hideo Kojima’s upcoming horror recreation OD. Recreation director Hideo Kojima wrote on-line that new scenes that includes the actor had been scheduled to be filmed in 2026, and that he’d stored in contact with him recurrently.
“I am perplexed,” Kojima mentioned in a social media put up. “All of it occurred far too all of the sudden. Due to the strike, we weren’t in a position to shoot OD for a very long time, and we had been pressured to reschedule to subsequent 12 months. Even throughout that point, Udo and I exchanged emails often. We stayed in shut contact. After we met in Milan on the finish of September, he instructed me how a lot he was trying ahead to the shoot beginning up once more subsequent 12 months.”
I’m perplexed. All of it occurred far too all of the sudden.
Due to the strike, we weren’t in a position to shoot “OD” for a very long time, and we had been pressured to reschedule to subsequent 12 months. Even throughout that point, Udo and I exchanged emails often. We stayed in shut contact. After we met in… pic.twitter.com/aRpP1i38CE— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) November 24, 2025
Kier was well-known for enjoying the enduring Command & Conquer antagonist Yuri within the live-action cutscenes for Crimson Alert 2 and its enlargement, Yuri’s Revenge. He’d additionally lend his distinctive voice to characters within the video games Name of Obligation: WWII and Martha is Useless.
