Overview
- He died Sunday at Eisenhower Health in Rancho Mirage, California, according to longtime friend Michael Childers, with partner Delbert McBride confirming the death.
- No cause of death has been released.
- Over six decades, Kier amassed more than 200 screen credits across European art cinema, cult horror and Hollywood.
- Early cult stardom came with Paul Morrissey’s Warhol-produced Flesh for Frankenstein (1973) and Blood for Dracula (1974), followed by recurrent work with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Lars von Trier and Gus Van Sant.
- His final credits include The Secret Agent (2025), and he had been slated to record for Hideo Kojima’s upcoming game OD, with tributes posted by Kojima and other admirers.