Udo Kier, centre, in Johnny Mnemonic, 1995: he became a bizarro-world megastar - Alamy Udo Kier, who has died aged 81, was a singular German character actor who became a fringe hero and a ...

One reckons that very few actors nowadays would even consent to pronounce a line of dialogue like “To know death, Otto, you have to fuck life…in the gall bladder!” And even those who would deign to ...