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