A prolific actor who starred in “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective” and more than 200 other movies is dead at age 81.

Udo Kier, a German actor who worked with big names like Madonna, Andy Warhol and Lars von Trier, died on Sunday, his partner Delbert McBride told Variety . A cause of death was not announced.

Kier first rose to fame in the 1970s by playing the titular monsters in “Flesh for Frankenstein” and “Blood for Dracula,” both directed by Paul Morrissey and produced by Warhol. Variety reports those projects helped him get roles in film productions all over Europe, including in Dario Argento’s “Suspiria,” eventually meeting future Oscar-nominated director Gus Van Sant at the Berlin Film Festival.

Van Sant brought Kier to American audiences in 1991’s “My Own Private Idaho,” alongside Riv

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