At 80, Udo Kier — Who’s Starred in Everything From Andy Warhol’s Films to ‘Ace Ventura’ — Looks Back on a Lifetime of Cult Encounters

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Udo Kier — whose face glowers down from the wall — has played every one of those monsters, plus innumerable other villains, in a career that spans more than 200 film credits.

Of his work, he estimates “100 movies are bad, 50 movies you can see with a glass of wine and 50 movies are good.” How many actors can claim that many good ones?

Kier has just turned 80, and he’s chosen this haunt to celebrate with a small group of intimates. He may look like some kind of satanic mobster in that photo, yet his guests (including three couples whose weddings he officiated) know his secret: Udo is a total sweetheart.

He’s also a bit of a diva, but that comes with the territory. What else would you expect from a cult superstar — in the Andy Warhol sense — who’s collaborated with everyone from Gus Van Sant to Lars von Trier, Rainer Werner Fassbinder to Madonna? (That’s him playing the singer’s swinging husband in her scandalous 1992 “Sex” book.) I entered Kier’s orbit a decade ago at the Palm Springs Film Festival, where the openly gay, unapologetically camp actor is a fixture.