Legendary actor Udo Kier, star of more than 200 films, from “Ace Ventura” to “Blood for Dracula,” has died at the age of 81.

The legendary German actor with 275 film roles in Hollywood and Europe, Udo Kier died on Sunday in California (USA) at the age of 81As his partner Delbert McBride confirmed to Variety.

His friend, photographer Michael Childers, also added on social media that he died in a Palm Springs hospital. At present, the cause of his death has not been revealed.

Kerr has been an actor in film, television, music videos, and video games. The performer leaves behind a legacy that includes works Tyner Werner Fassbinder, Gus Van Sant or Lars von Trier.

Kerr starred in the main roles in the film “Meat for Frankenstein (1973) and’Blood for Dracula“(1974). Both Directed by Paul Morrissey and produced by WarholThe release explains that the films are subversive and sensual reinterpretations of classic Hollywood monsters, with Kerr bringing a disturbing and comically inept turn to the main characters.

These two films launched the fame of Kerr, who spent the next two decades working in Europe and collaborating with the screenwriter and director. Rainer Werner Fassbinder In films such as “The Station Master’s Wife,” “The Third Generation,” and “Lili Marlene.”

Later, at the Berlin Film Festival, Kerr met the director Gus Van Santa two-time Oscar nominee, whom the actor credits with earning him a work permit in the United States.

In 1991, Van Sant Kerr was introduced to American audiences with his coming-of-age drama “My Idaho‘, loosely based on Shakespeare’s play ‘Henry IV’.

According to Variety, around the same time, Kerr began his frequent collaboration with Von Trier and participated in films such as “Epidemia,” and later collaborated on “Rompiendo las Olas,” “Dancer in the Dark,” “Dogville,” “Melancholia,” and “Nymphomania: Vol. II.”

During the 1990s, Kerr played small but memorable roles in several Hollywood films such as…Ace Ventura“Johnny remember”Armageddon“,”End of Days” and “code‘.

child Like Udo Kirsby in Cologne, Germany, In the hospital that was bombed by coalition forcesHe moved to London at the age of 18 after meeting director Fassbinder in a pub, and later moved as an actor to the United States.