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Werner Herzog
Born · September 5, 1942 (82 years old)
Known For: Directing
Place of Birth: Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Bio
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.
The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
Narrator (voice)
8.4
2024
Orion and the Dark
Narrator (voice)
6.6
2024
The Arc of Oblivion
Narrator (voice)
2.0
2023
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Self
7.9
2022
Tegoyo
Self (Voice)
6.0
2022
Last Exit: Space
Narrator (voice)
5.9
2022
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
Self (archive footage)
6.0
2022
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
Self (archive footage)
0.0
2021
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
Self (archive footage)
0.0
2021
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
Self
0.0
2019
Jihad in Hollywood
Self
0.0
2019
Jihad in Hollywood
Self
0.0
2016
Penguins of Madagascar
Documentary Filmmaker (voice)
6.5
2014
Lemonade War
Neighborhood Hero
5.0
2014
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
Self (archive footage)
0.0
2014
Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director
Self
0.0
2014
Life Itself
Self - Filmmaker
7.5
2014
The Unbelievers
Self
6.4
2013
Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
Self
0.0
2013
An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
Self
0.0
2013
Mistaken for Strangers
Self (uncredited)
7.2
2013
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
Self
8.0
2013
Jack Reacher
Zec Chelovek
6.6
2012
Close Up
Self (archive footage)
9.0
2012
Dinotasia
Narrator (voice)
5.5
2012
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
Self
0.0
2011
I, I, I José Lewgoy
Self
7.0
2011
Into the Abyss
Narrator (voice)
6.9
2011
On Borrowed Time
Self
5.3
2011
Champions: A Comic Tale
Self
6.0
2011
Werner Herzog Defends Dade
Self
0.0
2010
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Narrator (voice)
7.1
2010
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
Self
0.0
2010
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Narrator (voice)
7.3
2010
Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son
Self
0.0
2010
Plastic Bag
Plastic Bag (voice)
7.5
2009
The Lonely
0.0
2009
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
Self
0.0
2008
Bierbichler
Self
0.0
2008
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
Self
6.7
2008
Mister Lonely
Father Umbrillo
6.5
2008
Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn
Self
8.0
2007
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
Self
4.0
2007
Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest
Self
0.0
2007
The Grand
The German
6.0
2007
All In This Tea
7.0
2007
50 Films to See Before You Die
Self
8.5
2006
Walking to Werner
Self (voice)
0.0
2006
Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog
Self
0.0
2005
Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space
Self
0.0
2005
Dreams and Burdens
Self
6.0
2005
Incident at Loch Ness
Self
5.8
2004
The White Diamond
Narrator (voice)
6.9
2004
Dribble
Self (voice)
5.7
2004
Strawberryland
Turnlehrer
0.0
2002
The Boxing Prince
Self
5.8
2002
The 100 Greatest Films
Self
6.0
2001
The Last Documentary
Self
0.0
2000
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
Self
0.0
2000
A Brief History of Errol Morris
Self
6.8
1999
My Best Fiend
Self
7.3
1999
In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Self
0.0
1999
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
Self
0.0
1996
The Transformation of the World Into Music
Self
8.5
1996
Dangerous Game
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
5.8
1993
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
Narrator (voice)
6.1
1991
SnowwhiteRosered
Self
5.7
1991
Scream of Stone
TV-Regisseur
6.3
1991
Hard to Be a God
Mita / Richard
6.2
1990
Russian adventure. Peter Fleischmann is filming "It's not easy to be a god."
Self
0.0
1990
Bride of the Orient
Businger
7.7
1989
The Heart and the Legs
Self
0.0
1989
To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
Self
8.5
1989
Location Africa
Self
0.0
1987
Portrait: Werner Herzog
Self
7.2
1986
Tokyo-Ga
Self
7.0
1985
The Dark Glow of the Mountain
Self (voice)
7.5
1985
Ballad of the Little Soldier
Self (voice)
6.4
1984
Man of Flowers
The Father
5.0
1983
Burden of Dreams
Self - Filmmaker
7.6
1982
The South Bank Show: Werner Herzog
Self
6.0
1982
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
Self
7.0
1980
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Hand and Feet in Box with Rats (uncredited)
7.3
1979
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
Narrator (voice)
7.3
1977
Heart of Glass
Glass Transporter
6.5
1976
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
Self
6.5
1976
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
Self
7.1
1974
No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon
Self
0.0
Journey Through History
Self
0.0
1977
Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog
Self
0.0
Tales from the Opera
Director
0.0
Shards of Cinema and Philosophy
Self
0.0
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
Self (archival footage)
0.0
2024
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
Self
0.0
2021
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
Self - Narrator (voice)
6.6
2020
Tattoo Uprising
Self
0.0
2019
Meeting Gorbachev
Self
6.6
2019
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice)
7.0
2019
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
Self
8.3
2018
Paradox Bullets
Narrator (voice)
0.0
2018
The Great Buster: A Celebration
Self
7.2
2018
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
Self
2.0
2017
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
Self (archive footage)
7.5
2017
Salt and Fire
Man with One Story (uncredited)
4.8
2016
Into the Inferno
Narrator (voice)
7.0
2016
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Self
6.6
2016
Freaks of Nature
Perfect Being (voice)
6.1
2015
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
Alexander von Humboldt
8.0
2013
10 Questions for Werner Herzog
Self
9.5
2012
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
Self
1.0
2011
The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Himself
10.0
2010
Capturing Reality
Self
6.1
2008
BLAST!
Narrator (voice)
7.0
2008
Back to Room 666
Self (archive footage)
5.5
2008
Encounters at the End of the World
Narrator (voice)
7.4
2007
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
Self
0.0
2005
Grizzly Man
Self / Narrator (voice)
7.5
2005
The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3
Self (voice) ("Dribble" short)
0.0
2004
Wings of Hope
Self
7.0
2000
The Ball Is a Scumbag
Self
7.0
2000
Julien Donkey-Boy
Father
6.9
1999
What Dreams May Come
Face
7.2
1998
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Narrator (voice)
7.5
1997
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
Narrator (voice)
7.0
1995
Burning Heart
0.0
1995
Lessons of Darkness
Narrator (voice)
7.9
1992
Film Lesson
Self
5.5
1991
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
Narrator (voice)
7.2
1989
Room 666
Self
6.4
1982
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
Self - Film Director: Nosferatu
7.5
1980
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
Self
6.3
1979
Signs of Life
Soldier (uncredited)
6.6
1968
Untitled Bong Joon-ho Animated Film
0.0
Where the Green Ants Dream
Lawyer (uncredited)
6.9
1984
I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
Self
8.0
1979
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Self
0.0
1976
Lost in the Garden of the World
Self
0.0
1975
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
0.0
1967
Werner Herzog, Filmmaker
Self
0.0
About a Hero
0.0
2024
Kinski
Self (Archive Footage)
7.0
2024
The U.S. and the Holocaust
Hermann Göring · (3 episodes)
8.6
2022
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
Self
8.5
2021
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
Self · (4 episodes)
10.0
2020
The Andinist
The Painter (Narrator)
0.0
2020
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
Narrator (voice)
0.0
2020
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Self
7.7
2020
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
Self - The Client · (2 episodes)
7.5
2020
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
Self
0.0
2020
The Mandalorian
The Client · (3 episodes)
8.4
2019
I'm a Soldier
Self
0.0
2018
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
Self
5.5
2018
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
Self
0.0
2017
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self · (1 episode)
6.6
2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self · (1 episode)
5.7
2015
Atari: Game Over
Self (archival)
6.6
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self · (2 episodes)
5.5
2014
Rick and Morty
Shrimply Pibbles (voice) · (1 episode)
8.7
2013
The Killers: Unstaged
Self
0.0
2012
On Death Row
Werner Herzog · (8 episodes)
6.8
2012
When Herzog Rescued Phoenix
Narrator (voice)
5.0
2010
I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
Self
0.0
2010
Future States
Plastic Bag (voice) · (1 episode)
0.0
2010
Parks and Recreation
Keg Jennings · (1 episode)
8.0
2009
The Henry Rollins Show
(1 episode)
5.5
2006
The Colbert Report
(1 episode)
6.8
2005
American Dad!
Werner Herzog (voice) · (1 episode)
7.0
2005
Kulturplatz
Self · (1 episode)
6.0
2004
Wheel of Time
Narrator (voice)
6.5
2003
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Self · (1 episode)
7.0
1995
Bells from the Deep
Narrator (voice)
6.9
1993
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
Self
7.1
1990
The Simpsons
Walter Hotenhoffer (voice) · (2 episodes)
8.0
1989
The Simpsons
Werner Herzog (voice) · (1 episode)
8.0
1989
The Simpsons
Dr. Lund (voice) · (1 episode)
8.0
1989
Sonntagsgespräch
Self · (1 episode)
0.0
1985
God's Angry Man
Narrator (voice)
5.4
1981
Bayerischer Filmpreis
Self · (2 episodes)
0.0
1979
Okay
Self · (1 episode)
0.0
1979
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
Self (archive footage)
0.0
1979
Midi Première
Self · (1 episode)
10.0
1975
Spécial cinéma
Self · (2 episodes)
0.0
1974
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
Hurenmörder
3.6
1971
Die Erben von Papas Kino
0.0
1968
Grimme-Preis-Verleihung
Self · (2 episodes)
0.0
1964
Deutscher Filmpreis
Self · (1 episode)
6.0
1951