Werner Herzog
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Werner Herzog, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
Penguins of Madagascar (2014)
as Documentary Filmmaker (voice)
Jack Reacher (2012)
as Zec Chelovek
What Dreams May Come (1998)
as Face
Ghost Elephants (2026)
as Narrator (voice)
Orion and the Dark (2024)
as Narrator (voice)
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant (2017)
as Self
Freaks of Nature (2015)
as Perfect Being (voice)
Grizzly Man (2005)
as Self / Narrator (voice)
Signs of Life (1968)
as Soldier (uncredited)
The Unbelievers (2013)
as Self
SnowwhiteRosered (1991)
as Self
Dinotasia (2012)
as Narrator (voice)
Into the Abyss (2011)
as Narrator (voice)
Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)
as Lawyer (uncredited)
My Best Fiend (1999)
as Self
Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
as Narrator (voice)
Lessons of Darkness (1992)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Burning Heart (1995)
Actor
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
as Narrator (voice)
Bride of the Orient (1989)
as Businger
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Mister Lonely (2008)
as Father Umbrillo
The Lonely (2009)
Actor
Incident at Loch Ness (2004)
as Self
The Grand (2007)
as The German
Julien Donkey-Boy (1999)
as Father
I, I, I José Lewgoy (2011)
as Self
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer (2022)
as Self
The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1985)
as Self (voice)
Into the Night With Harmony Korine and Gaspar Noe (2010)
as Self
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema) (2020)
as Narrator (voice)
Handicapped Future (1971)
as Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)
Bells from the Deep (1993)
as Narrator (voice)
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema (2007)
as Self
The Making of 'Nosferatu' (1979)
as Self
BLAST! (2008)
as Narrator (voice)
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1988)
as Self
Scream of Stone (1991)
as TV-Regisseur
Portrait: Werner Herzog (1986)
as Self
Echoes from a Sombre Empire (1990)
as Self
Tokyo-Ga (1985)
as Self
Dangerous Game (1993)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Life Itself (2014)
as Self - Filmmaker
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur (1991)
as Narrator (voice)
Tegoyo (2022)
as Self (Voice)
Hard to Be a God (1990)
as Mita / Richard
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (2019)
as Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice)
Salt and Fire (2016)
as Man with One Story (uncredited)
Man of Flowers (1983)
as The Father
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices (1995)
as Narrator (voice)
The 100 Greatest Films (2001)
as Self
The Great Buster: A Celebration (2018)
as Self
Close Up (2012)
as Self (archive footage)
Wim Wenders, Desperado (2020)
as Self
God's Angry Man (1983)
as Narrator (voice)
Atari: Game Over (2014)
as Self (archival)
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2024)
as Narrator (voice)
Room 666 (1985)
as Self
50 Films to See Before You Die (2006)
as Self
Shards of Cinema and Philosophy (—)
as Self
Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984)
as Self (voice)
Dribble (2004)
as Self (voice)
Burden of Dreams (1982)
as Self - Filmmaker
Ally (—)
as (voice)
Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)
as Narrator (voice)
Journey Through History (1977)
as Self
Strawberryfields (2012)
as Turnlehrer
Sirena (2025)
Actor
The Andinist (2020)
as The Painter (Narrator)
Wings of Hope (1999)
as Self
The White Diamond (2004)
as Narrator (voice)
Capturing Reality (2008)
as Self
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around (2013)
as Self
Tales of the Dumpster Kid (1974)
as Hurenmörder
Wheel of Time (2003)
as Narrator (voice)
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault (2020)
as (archive footage)
In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (1999)
as Self
Plastic Bag (2009)
as Plastic Bag (voice)
Into the Inferno (2016)
as Self
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)
as Narrator (voice)
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976)
as Self
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner (2021)
as Self
All In This Tea (2007)
Actor
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (2016)
as Self
Tattoo Uprising (2019)
as Self
About a Hero (2024)
Actor
Jihad in Hollywood (2019)
as Self
On Borrowed Time (2011)
as Self
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse (2010)
as Self
The Killers: Unstaged (2012)
as Self
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (1980)
as Self - Film Director: Nosferatu
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood (2011)
as Self
Heart of Glass (1976)
as Glass Transporter
The Ball Is a Scumbag (2000)
as Self
Werner We Love You (2017)
as Self
I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog (1979)
as Self
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974)
as Self
Paradox Bullets (2018)
as Narrator (voice)
When Herzog Rescued Phoenix (2010)
as Narrator (voice)
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless (2021)
as Self
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema (1976)
as Self
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A. (2020)
as (archive footage)
Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director (2014)
as Self
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo (2017)
as Self
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Jihad in Hollywood (2016)
as Self
Lost in the Garden of the World (1975)
as Self
A Brief History of Errol Morris (1999)
as Self
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls (2018)
as Self
Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog (—)
as Self
The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2010)
as Himself
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision (2013)
as Alexander von Humboldt
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie' (1979)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lemonade War (2014)
as Neighborhood Hero
The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3 (2004)
as Self (voice) ("Dribble" short)
Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn (2007)
as Self
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance (2014)
as Self (archive footage)
Last Exit: Space (2022)
as Narrator (voice)
To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further (1989)
as Self
Location Africa (1987)
as Self
No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon (2012)
as Self
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight (2008)
as Self
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait (1996)
as Self
The Heart and the Legs (1989)
as Self
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre (2019)
as Self
Meeting Gorbachev (2019)
as Self
Neuer Deutscher Film Report (1967)
Actor
Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest (2007)
as Self
Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God" (1990)
as Self
Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing' (2013)
as Self
Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space (2005)
as Self
Back to Room 666 (2008)
as Self (archive footage)
10 Questions for Werner Herzog (2012)
as Self
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
The Boxing Prince (2002)
as Self
Die Erben von Papas Kino (1968)
Actor
Dreams and Burdens (2005)
as Self
The Arc of Oblivion (2023)
as Narrator (voice)
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe (1977)
as Narrator (voice)
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor (2000)
as Self
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias (2018)
as Self
Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son (2010)
as Self
The Transformation of the World Into Music (1996)
as Self
Celebrating the Rice Media Center (2024)
as Self (archival footage)
I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later (2010)
as Self
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers (2008)
as Self
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections (2012)
as Self
Bierbichler (2008)
as Self
I'm a Soldier (2018)
as Self
Werner Herzog Defends Dade (2010)
as Self
Champions: A Comic Tale (2011)
as Self
The Last Documentary (2000)
as Self
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session (2005)
as Self
Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog (2005)
as Self
An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog (2013)
as Self
The Man Who Killed John Wayne (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
Walking to Werner (2006)
as Self (voice)
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun (1989)
as Narrator (voice)
Mistaken for Strangers (2013)
as Self (uncredited)