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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Movies
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Hand and Feet in Box with Rats (uncredited)
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
Self
The White Diamond
Narrator (voice)
My Best Fiend
Self
Burden of Dreams
Self - Filmmaker
The Grand
The German
Mister Lonely
Father Umbrillo
Hard to Be a God
Mita / Richard
Plastic Bag
Plastic Bag (voice)
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
Narrator (voice)
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
Narrator (voice)
Incident at Loch Ness
Self
Jack Reacher
Zec Chelovek
Tokyo-Ga
Self
All In This Tea
Into the Abyss
Narrator (voice)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Narrator (voice)
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
Self
A Brief History of Errol Morris
Self
Scream of Stone
TV-Regisseur
Dinotasia
Narrator (voice)
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
Self
Ballad of the Little Soldier
Self (voice)
Man of Flowers
The Father
Portrait: Werner Herzog
Self
Dribble
Self (voice)
The Dark Glow of the Mountain
Self (voice)
The Unbelievers
Self
Location Africa
Self
Dreams and Burdens
Self
Walking to Werner
Self (voice)
The Boxing Prince
Self
To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
Self
Life Itself
Self - Filmmaker
Bride of the Orient
Businger
Werner Herzog Defends Dade
Self
Penguins of Madagascar
Documentary Filmmaker (voice)
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
Self
SnowwhiteRosered
Self
The South Bank Show: Werner Herzog
Self
Lemonade War
Neighborhood Hero
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
Hurenmörder
Burning Heart
Die Erben von Papas Kino
Back to Room 666
Self (archive footage)
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
Self
Grizzly Man
Self
Into the Inferno
Narrator (voice)
Salt and Fire
Man with One Story (uncredited)
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
Self - Film Director: Nosferatu
Film Lesson
Self
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
Self
Freaks of Nature
Perfect Being (voice)
What Dreams May Come
Face
Signs of Life
Soldier (uncredited)
Lessons of Darkness
Narrator (voice)
Capturing Reality
Self
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
Alexander von Humboldt
Wings of Hope
Self
Room 666
Self
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Narrator (voice)
I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
Self
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
Self (archive footage)
BLAST!
Narrator (voice)
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Self
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Narrator (voice)
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Self
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
Narrator (voice)
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
Narrator (voice)
The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3
Self (voice) ("Dribble" short)
The Ball Is a Scumbag
Self
10 Questions for Werner Herzog
Self
Julien Donkey-Boy
Father
The Great Buster: A Celebration
Self
Where the Green Ants Dream
Lawyer (uncredited)
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
Self
Encounters at the End of the World
Narrator (voice)
Werner Herzog, Filmmaker
Self
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
Self - Narrator (voice)
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice)
Meeting Gorbachev
Self
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
Self
Tattoo Uprising
Self
Paradox Bullets
Narrator (voice)
Lost in the Garden of the World
Self
Bells from the Deep
Narrator (voice)
When Herzog Rescued Phoenix
Narrator (voice)
God's Angry Man
Narrator (voice)
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
Self
The Killers: Unstaged
Self
Wheel of Time
Narrator (voice)
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
Self
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Self
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
Narrator (voice)
The Andinist
The Painter (Narrator)
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
Self
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
Self
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
Self (archive footage)
I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
Self
I'm a Soldier
Self
The Lonely
Last Exit: Space
Narrator (voice)
Tegoyo
Self (Voice)
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Self
The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
Narrator (voice)
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
Self
Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son
Self
Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space
Self
Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog
Self
Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest
Self
No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon
Self
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
Self
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
Self
Journey Through History
Self
Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog
Self
The Heart and the Legs
Self
Tales from the Opera
Director
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
Self
In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Self
The Last Documentary
Self
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
Self
Bierbichler
Self
Shards of Cinema and Philosophy
Self
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
Self
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
Self
Champions: A Comic Tale
Self
On Borrowed Time
Self
I, I, I José Lewgoy
Self
Mistaken for Strangers
Self (uncredited)
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
Self
An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
Self
Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
Self
Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director
Self
Jihad in Hollywood
Self
Jihad in Hollywood
Self
Falling - Q&A
Self - Host
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
Self
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
Self
The Transformation of the World Into Music
Self
The Arc of Oblivion
Narrator (voice)
Strawberryland
Turnlehrer
Heart of Glass
Glass Transporter
50 Films to See Before You Die
Self
Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn
Self
Close Up
Self (archive footage)
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
Self (archive footage)
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
Self (archive footage)
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
Self (archive footage)
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
Self (archive footage)
The 100 Greatest Films
Self
Orion and the Dark
Narrator (voice)
Dangerous Game
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Russian adventure. Peter Fleischmann is filming "It's not easy to be a god."
Self
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
Self (archival footage)
Shows
The Simpsons
Walter Hotenhoffer (voice)
The Colbert Report
The Henry Rollins Show
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Self
Rick and Morty
Shrimply Pibbles (voice)
Parks and Recreation
Keg Jennings
Future States
Plastic Bag (voice)
Grimme-Preis-Verleihung
Self
Deutscher Filmpreis
Self
Bayerischer Filmpreis
Self
The Mandalorian
The Client
American Dad!
Werner Herzog (voice)
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
Self - The Client
Okay
Self
Sonntagsgespräch
Self
The Simpsons
Werner Herzog (voice)
The Simpsons
Dr. Lund (voice)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
Midi Première
Self
On Death Row
Werner Herzog
The U.S. and the Holocaust
Hermann Göring
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
Spécial cinéma
Self