Werner Herzog
Directing • Born 1942-09-05
Biography
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.
Filmography
187 credits
The Transformation of the World Into Music
Movie • 1996
Self
The Lonely
Movie • 2009
The White Diamond
Movie • 2004
Narrator (voice)
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
Movie • 2008
Self
My Best Fiend
Movie • 1999
Self
The Arc of Oblivion
Movie • 2023
Narrator (voice)
Burden of Dreams
Movie • 1982
Self - Filmmaker
The Grand
Movie • 2007
The German
50 Films to See Before You Die
Movie • 2006
Self
Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn
Movie • 2007
Self
Strawberryfields
Movie • 2012
Turnlehrer
Heart of Glass
Movie • 1976
Glass Transporter
Mister Lonely
Movie • 2008
Father Umbrillo
Hard to Be a God
Movie • 1990
Mita / Richard
Close Up
Movie • 2012
Self (archive footage)
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
Movie • 2014
Self (archive footage)
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
The 100 Greatest Films
Movie • 2001
Self
Plastic Bag
Movie • 2009
Plastic Bag (voice)
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
Movie • 1991
Narrator (voice)
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
Movie • 1977
Narrator (voice)
Incident at Loch Ness
Movie • 2004
Self
Jack Reacher
Movie • 2012
Zec Chelovek
Tokyo-Ga
Movie • 1985
Self
All In This Tea
Movie • 2007
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Movie • 2010
Narrator (voice)
Into the Abyss
Movie • 2011
Narrator (voice)
Orion and the Dark
Movie • 2024
Narrator (voice)
A Brief History of Errol Morris
Movie • 1999
Self
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
Movie • 1976
Self
Last Exit: Space
Movie • 2022
Narrator (voice)
Scream of Stone
Movie • 1991
TV-Regisseur
Dinotasia
Movie • 2012
Narrator (voice)
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Movie • 2010
Narrator (voice)
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
Movie • 1988
Self
Ballad of the Little Soldier
Movie • 1984
Self (voice)
Man of Flowers
Movie • 1983
The Father
Tegoyo
Movie • 2022
Self (Voice)
Portrait: Werner Herzog
Movie • 1986
Self
Dribble
Movie • 2004
Self (voice)
The Dark Glow of the Mountain
Movie • 1985
Self (voice)
The Unbelievers
Movie • 2013
Self
Location Africa
Movie • 1987
Self
Dreams and Burdens
Movie • 2005
Self
Dangerous Game
Movie • 1993
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Walking to Werner
Movie • 2006
Self (voice)
The Boxing Prince
Movie • 2002
Self
To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
Movie • 1989
Self
Life Itself
Movie • 2014
Self - Filmmaker
Bride of the Orient
Movie • 1989
Businger
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Movie • 2022
Self
Werner Herzog Defends Dade
Movie • 2010
Self
Penguins of Madagascar
Movie • 2014
Documentary Filmmaker (voice)
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
Movie • 1974
Self
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
Movie • 2024
Narrator (voice)
Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God"
Movie • 1990
Self
SnowwhiteRosered
Movie • 1991
Self
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
Movie • 2000
Self
Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son
Movie • 2010
Self
Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space
Movie • 2005
Self
Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog
Movie • 2005
Self
Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest
Movie • 2007
Self
No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon
Movie • 2012
Self
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
Movie • 2012
Self
Lemonade War
Movie • 2014
Neighborhood Hero
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
Movie • 2019
Self
Journey Through History
Movie • 1977
Self
Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog
Movie
Self
The Heart and the Legs
Movie • 1989
Self
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
Movie • 1996
Self
In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Movie • 1999
Self
The Last Documentary
Movie • 2000
Self
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
Movie • 2007
Self
Bierbichler
Movie • 2008
Self
Shards of Cinema and Philosophy
Movie
Self
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
Movie • 2008
Self
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
Movie • 2010
Self
Champions: A Comic Tale
Movie • 2011
Self
On Borrowed Time
Movie • 2011
Self
I, I, I José Lewgoy
Movie • 2011
Self
Mistaken for Strangers
Movie • 2013
Self (uncredited)
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
Movie • 2013
Self
An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
Movie • 2013
Self
Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
Movie • 2013
Self
Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director
Movie • 2014
Self
Jihad in Hollywood
Movie • 2019
Self
Jihad in Hollywood
Movie • 2016
Self
Die Erben von Papas Kino
Movie • 1968
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
Movie • 1974
Hurenmörder
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
Movie • 2005
Self
Back to Room 666
Movie • 2008
Self (archive footage)
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
Movie • 2021
Self
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
Movie • 2011
Self
Grizzly Man
Movie • 2005
Self / Narrator (voice)
Into the Inferno
Movie • 2016
Self
Salt and Fire
Movie • 2016
Man with One Story (uncredited)
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
Movie • 1980
Self - Film Director: Nosferatu
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
Movie • 2024
Self (archival footage)
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
Movie • 1979
Self
Signs of Life
Movie • 1968
Soldier (uncredited)
Lessons of Darkness
Movie • 1992
Self - Narrator (voice)
Burning Heart
Movie • 1995
Freaks of Nature
Movie • 2015
Perfect Being (voice)
What Dreams May Come
Movie • 1998
Face
Capturing Reality
Movie • 2008
Self
The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Movie • 2010
Himself
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
Movie • 2013
Alexander von Humboldt
Wings of Hope
Movie • 1999
Self
Room 666
Movie • 1982
Self
The Valley
Movie
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Movie • 1997
Narrator (voice)
I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
Movie • 1979
Self
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
Movie • 2017
Self (archive footage)
BLAST!
Movie • 2008
Narrator (voice)
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Movie • 2016
Self
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
Movie • 1967
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
Movie • 1989
Narrator (voice)
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Movie • 1976
Self
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
Movie • 1995
Narrator (voice)
The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3
Movie • 2004
Self (voice) ("Dribble" short)
The Ball Is a Scumbag
Movie • 2000
Self
10 Questions for Werner Herzog
Movie • 2012
Self
Julien Donkey-Boy
Movie • 1999
Father
The Great Buster: A Celebration
Movie • 2018
Self
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
Movie • 2018
Self
Where the Green Ants Dream
Movie • 1984
Lawyer (uncredited)
Encounters at the End of the World
Movie • 2007
Narrator (voice)
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
Movie • 2020
Self - Narrator (voice)
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Movie • 2019
Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice)
Meeting Gorbachev
Movie • 2019
Self
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
Movie • 2017
Self
Tattoo Uprising
Movie • 2019
Self
Paradox Bullets
Movie • 2018
Narrator (voice)
Lost in the Garden of the World
Movie • 1975
Self
Bells from the Deep
Movie • 1993
Narrator (voice)
When Herzog Rescued Phoenix
Movie • 2010
Narrator (voice)
God's Angry Man
Movie • 1983
Narrator (voice)
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
Movie • 2020
(archive footage)
The Killers: Unstaged
Movie • 2012
Self
Wheel of Time
Movie • 2003
Narrator (voice)
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
Movie • 2018
Self
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Movie • 2020
Self
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
Movie • 2020
Narrator (voice)
The Andinist
Movie • 2020
The Painter (Narrator)
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
Movie • 1990
Self
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
Movie • 2021
Self
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
Movie • 1979
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
Movie • 2010
Self
I'm a Soldier
Movie • 2018
Self
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
Movie • 2017
Self
About a Hero
Movie • 2024
Kinski
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
Atari: Game Over
Movie • 2014
Self (archival)
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
Movie • 2020
(archive footage)
Ghost Elephants
Movie • 2026
Narrator (voice)
Handicapped Future
Movie • 1971
Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Walter Hotenhoffer (voice)
Sonntagsgespräch
TV • 1985
Self
Okay
TV • 1979
Self
The Colbert Report
TV • 2005
The Henry Rollins Show
TV • 2006
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Werner Herzog (voice)
On Death Row
TV • 2012
Werner Herzog
The U.S. and the Holocaust
TV • 2022
Hermann Göring
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Dr. Lund (voice)
Die Harald Schmidt Show
TV • 1995
Self
Rick and Morty
TV • 2013
Shrimply Pibbles (voice)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self - Guest
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self - Guest
Parks and Recreation
TV • 2009
Keg Jennings
Spécial cinéma
TV • 1974
Self
German Film Award
TV • 1951
Self
Grimme Award
TV • 1964
Self
Bavarian Film Awards
TV • 1979
Self
Midi Première
TV • 1975
Self
The Mandalorian
TV • 2019
The Client
American Dad!
TV • 2005
Werner Herzog (voice)
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
TV • 2015
Self
Kulturplatz
TV • 2004
Self
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
TV • 2020
Self - The Client
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
TV • 2020
Self
Metalocalypse
TV • 2006
The Boondocks
TV • 2005
Himself (voice)
Tales from the Opera
TV • 1994
Self - Director
Film Lesson
TV • 1991
Self