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