Overview
- McBride confirmed Kier died on November 23, 2025, at his home in Palm Springs, according to reporting first cited by Variety and echoed by multiple outlets.
- No cause of death has been made public.
- Kier built a transnational career with more than 200 screen credits, collaborating with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Lars von Trier and Christoph Schlingensief.
- He earned cult fame in the 1970s with Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol’s Flesh for Frankenstein and Blood for Dracula, and later reached wider U.S. recognition with Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho (1991).
- His most recent role was in The Secret Agent (2025), which screened at Cannes and in German cinemas, as colleagues and friends began paying tribute.