Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog (German: [ˈvɛɐ̯nɐ ˈhɛɐ̯tsoːk]; born 5 September 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, author, actor, and opera director, regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema. His films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals in conflict with nature. He is known for his unique filmmaking process, such as disregarding storyboards, emphasizing improvisation, and placing the cast and crew into similar situations as characters in his films.
Herzog started work on his first film Herakles in 1961, when he was nineteen. Since then he has produced, written, and directed more than sixty feature films and documentaries, such as Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), Heart of Glass (1976), Stroszek (1977), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), Fitzcarraldo (1982), Cobra Verde (1987), Lessons of Darkness (1992), Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997), My Best Fiend (1999), Invincible (2000), Grizzly Man (2005), Encounters at the End of the World (2007), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009), and Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010). He has published more than a dozen books of prose, and directed as many operas.
French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog "the most important film director alive." American film critic Roger Ebert said that Herzog "has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons, or uninteresting. Even his failures are spectacular." He was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2009.
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Acted in
About a Hero
2024
The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
2024
as Narrator (voice)
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
2024
as Self (archival footage)
Kinski
2024
as Self (Archive Footage)
Orion and the Dark
2024
as Narrator (voice)
The Arc of Oblivion
2023
as Narrator (voice)
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
as Self
Tegoyo
2022
as Self (Voice)
The U.S. and the Holocaust
2022
as Hermann Göring
Last Exit: Space
2022
as Narrator (voice)
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
2022
as Self (archive footage)
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
2021
as Self (archive footage)
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
2021
as Self
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
2021
as Self
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
2020
as Self
The Andinist
2020
as The Painter (Narrator)
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
2020
as Narrator (voice)
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
2020
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020
as Self
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
2020
as Self - The Client
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
2020
as Self
The Mandalorian
2019
as The Client
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
2019
as Self
Tattoo Uprising
2019
as Self
Meeting Gorbachev
2019
as Self
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
2019
as Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice)
Jihad in Hollywood
2019
as Self
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
2018
as Self
Paradox Bullets
2018
as Narrator (voice)
The Great Buster: A Celebration
2018
as Self
I'm a Soldier
2018
as Self
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
2018
as Self
Cien años con Juan Rulfo
2017
as Himself
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2017
as Self
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
2017
as Self (archive footage)
Salt and Fire
2016
as Man with One Story (uncredited)
Into the Inferno
2016
as Narrator (voice)
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
2016
as Self
Jihad in Hollywood
2016
as Self
Freaks of Nature
2015
as Perfect Being (voice)
Penguins of Madagascar
2014
as Documentary Filmmaker (voice)
Lemonade War
2014
as Neighborhood Hero
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
2014
as Self (archive footage)
Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director
2014
as Self
Life Itself
2014
as Self - Filmmaker
The Unbelievers
2013
as Self
Rick and Morty
2013
as Shrimply Pibbles (voice)
Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
2013
as Self
An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
2013
as Self
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
2013
as Alexander von Humboldt
Mistaken for Strangers
2013
as Self (uncredited)
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
2013
as Self
Jack Reacher
2012
as Zec Chelovek
Close Up
2012
as Self (archive footage)
10 Questions for Werner Herzog
2012
as Self
The Killers: Unstaged
2012
as Self
Dinotasia
2012
as Narrator (voice)
On Death Row
2012
as Werner Herzog
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
2011
as Self
I, I, I José Lewgoy
2011
as Self
Into the Abyss
2011
as Narrator (voice)
On Borrowed Time
2011
as Self
Champions: A Comic Tale
2011
as Self
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
2011
as Self
Werner Herzog Defends Dade
2010
as Self
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010
as Narrator (voice)
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
2010
as Self
When Herzog Rescued Phoenix
2010
as Narrator (voice)
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
2010
as Narrator (voice)
Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son
2010
as Self
I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
2010
as Self
The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
2010
as Himself
Future States
2010
as Plastic Bag (voice)
Plastic Bag
2009
as Plastic Bag (voice)
The Lonely
2009
Parks and Recreation
2009
as Keg Jennings
Capturing Reality
2008
as Self
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
2008
as Self
BLAST!
2008
as Narrator (voice)
Bierbichler
2008
as Self
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
2008
as Self
Mister Lonely
2008
as Father Umbrillo
Back to Room 666
2008
as Self (archive footage)
Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn
2007
as Self
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
2007
as Self
Encounters at the End of the World
2007
as Narrator (voice)
Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest
2007
as Self
The Grand
2007
as The German
All In This Tea
2007
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006
as Self
Walking to Werner
2006
as Self (voice)
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
2005
as Self
Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog
2005
as Self
Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space
2005
as Self
Grizzly Man
2005
as Self / Narrator (voice)
Dreams and Burdens
2005
as Self
American Dad!
2005
as Werner Herzog (voice)
Incident at Loch Ness
2004
as Self
The White Diamond
2004
as Narrator (voice)
The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3
2004
as Self (voice) ("Dribble" short)
Dribble
2004
as Self (voice)
Wheel of Time
2003
as Narrator (voice)
Strawberryland
2002
as Turnlehrer
The Boxing Prince
2002
as Self
The 100 Greatest Films
2001
as Self
The Last Documentary
2000
as Self
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
2000
as Self
Wings of Hope
2000
as Self
The Ball Is a Scumbag
2000
as Self
Julien Donkey-Boy
1999
as Father
A Brief History of Errol Morris
1999
as Self
My Best Fiend
1999
as Self
In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
1999
as Self
What Dreams May Come
1998
as Face
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
1997
as Narrator (voice)
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
1996
as Self
The Transformation of the World Into Music
1996
as Self
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
as Self
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
1995
as Narrator (voice)
Burning Heart
1995
Dangerous Game
1993
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bells from the Deep
1993
as Narrator (voice)
Lessons of Darkness
1992
as Narrator (voice)
Film Lesson
1991
as Self
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
1991
as Narrator (voice)
SnowwhiteRosered
1991
as Self
Scream of Stone
1991
as TV-Regisseur
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
1990
as Self
Hard to Be a God
1990
as Mita / Richard
Russian adventure. Peter Fleischmann is filming "It's not easy to be a god."
1990
as Self
The Simpsons
1989
as Walter Hotenhoffer (voice)
The Simpsons
1989
as Werner Herzog (voice)
The Simpsons
1989
as Dr. Lund (voice)
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
1989
as Narrator (voice)
Bride of the Orient
1989
as Businger
The Heart and the Legs
1989
as Self
To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
1989
as Self
Location Africa
1987
as Self
Portrait: Werner Herzog
1986
as Self
Tokyo-Ga
1985
as Self
The Dark Glow of the Mountain
1985
as Self (voice)
Ballad of the Little Soldier
1984
as Self (voice)
Where the Green Ants Dream
1984
as Lawyer (uncredited)
Man of Flowers
1983
as The Father
Burden of Dreams
1982
as Self - Filmmaker
Room 666
1982
as Self
The South Bank Show: Werner Herzog
1982
as Self
God's Angry Man
1981
as Narrator (voice)
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
1980
as Self
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
1980
as Self - Film Director: Nosferatu
Bayerischer Filmpreis
1979
as Self
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
1979
as Self
I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
1979
as Self
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
1979
as Self (archive footage)
Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979
as Hand and Feet in Box with Rats (uncredited)
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
1977
as Narrator (voice)
Journey Through History
1977
as Self
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
1976
as Self
Heart of Glass
1976
as Glass Transporter
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
1976
as Self
Lost in the Garden of the World
1975
as Self
Midi Première
1975
as Self
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
1974
as Self
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
1971
as Hurenmörder
Signs of Life
1968
as Soldier (uncredited)
Die Erben von Papas Kino
1968
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
1967
Deutscher Filmpreis
1951
as Self
No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon
as Self
Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog
as Self
Tales from the Opera
as Director
Shards of Cinema and Philosophy
as Self
Untitled Bong Joon-ho Animated Film
Werner Herzog, Filmmaker
as Self