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Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthday
September 5, 1942
Place of Birth
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Also Known As
- 韋納荷索
- Werner Herzog Stipetić
- Вернер Херцог
- 베르네 헤어조크
- ورنر هرتزوگ
- 沃纳·赫尔佐格
Werner Herzog
1.2 Popularity
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.
Known For
0.0
The Valley
2027
8.0
Narrator (voice)
Ghost Elephants
2025
5.5
About a Hero
2024
7.8
Narrator (voice)
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
2024
0.0
Self (archival footage)
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
2024
7.0
Self (archive footage)
Kinski
2024
6.5
Narrator (voice)
Orion and the Dark
2024
2.0
Narrator (voice)
The Arc of Oblivion
2023
7.7
Self
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
6.0
Self (Voice)
Tegoyo
2022
Credits
The Valley
2027
0.0
Ghost Elephants
as Narrator (voice)
2025
8.0
About a Hero
2024
5.5
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
as Narrator (voice)
2024
7.8
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
as Self (archival footage)
2024
0.0
Kinski
as Self (archive footage)
2024
7.0
Orion and the Dark
as Narrator (voice)
2024
6.5
The Arc of Oblivion
as Narrator (voice)
2023
2.0
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
as Self
2022
7.7
Tegoyo
as Self (Voice)
2022
6.0
The U.S. and the Holocaust
as Hermann Göring
2022
8.3
Last Exit: Space
as Narrator (voice)
2022
6.8
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
as Self (archive footage)
2022
4.8
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
as Self (archive footage)
2021
0.0
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
as Self (archive footage)
2021
0.0
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
as Self
2021
8.5
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
as Self
2021
0.0
🎬
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
as Self
2020
10.0
The Andinist
as The Painter (Narrator)
2020
0.0
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
as Narrator (voice)
2020
0.0
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2020
6.5
Wim Wenders, Desperado
as Self
2020
7.7
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
as Self - The Client
2020
7.4
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
as (archive footage)
2020
0.0
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
as (archive footage)
2020
0.0
The Mandalorian
as The Client
2019
8.4
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
as Self
2019
0.0
Tattoo Uprising
as Self
2019
0.0
Meeting Gorbachev
as Self
2019
6.6
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
as Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice)
2019
7.0
Jihad in Hollywood
as Self
2019
0.0
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
as Self
2018
8.3
Paradox Bullets
as Narrator (voice)
2018
0.0
The Great Buster: A Celebration
as Self
2018
7.2
🎬
Black Baby
as Self (archive footage)
2018
0.0
I'm a Soldier
as Self
2018
0.0
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
as Self
2018
5.5
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
as Self
2017
0.0
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
as Self
2017
2.0
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
as Self (archive footage)
2017
7.5
Salt and Fire
as Man with One Story (uncredited)
2016
4.9
Into the Inferno
as Self
2016
7.0
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
as Self
2016
6.6
Jihad in Hollywood
as Self
2016
0.0
Freaks of Nature
as Perfect Being (voice)
2015
6.1
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.2
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
2015
6.2
Penguins of Madagascar
as Documentary Filmmaker (voice)
2014
6.5
Atari: Game Over
as Self (archival)
2014
6.6
🎬
Lemonade War
as Neighborhood Hero
2014
5.0
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
as Self (archive footage)
2014
0.0
🎬
Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director
as Self
2014
0.0
Life Itself
as Self - Filmmaker
2014
7.5
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
The Unbelievers
as Self
2013
6.5
Rick and Morty
as Shrimply Pibbles (voice)
2013
8.7
Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
as Self
2013
0.0
An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
as Self
2013
0.0
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
as Alexander von Humboldt
2013
7.8
Mistaken for Strangers
as Self (uncredited)
2013
7.1
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
as Self
2013
7.7
Jack Reacher
as Zec Chelovek
2012
6.7
Strawberryland
as Turnlehrer
2012
0.0
Close Up
as Self (archive footage)
2012
9.5
10 Questions for Werner Herzog
as Self
2012
9.5
The Killers: Unstaged
as Self
2012
3.0
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
as Self
2012
0.0
Dinotasia
as Narrator (voice)
2012
5.5
On Death Row
as Werner Herzog
2012
6.8
No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon
as Self
2012
0.0
I, I, I José Lewgoy
as Self
2011
7.0
Into the Abyss
as Narrator (voice)
2011
6.9
On Borrowed Time
as Self
2011
5.3
Champions: A Comic Tale
as Self
2011
6.0
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
as Self
2011
1.0
🎬
Werner Herzog Defends Dade
as Self
2010
0.0
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
as Narrator (voice)
2010
7.1
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
as Self
2010
0.0
🎬
When Herzog Rescued Phoenix
as Narrator (voice)
2010
5.0
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
as Narrator (voice)
2010
7.3
🎬
Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son
as Self
2010
0.0
I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
as Self
2010
0.0
The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
as Himself
2010
10.0
🎬
Future States
as Plastic Bag (voice)
2010
0.0
Plastic Bag
as Plastic Bag (voice)
2009
7.5
🎬
The Lonely
2009
0.0
Parks and Recreation
as Keg Jennings
2009
8.0
Capturing Reality
as Self
2008
6.1
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
as Self
2008
0.0
BLAST!
as Narrator (voice)
2008
7.0
Bierbichler
as Self
2008
0.0
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
as Self
2008
6.7
Mister Lonely
as Father Umbrillo
2008
6.5
🎬
Back to Room 666
as Self (archive footage)
2008
5.5
Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn
as Self
2007
8.0
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
as Self
2007
4.0
Encounters at the End of the World
as Narrator (voice)
2007
7.5
🎬
Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest
as Self
2007
0.0
The Grand
as The German
2007
5.8
All In This Tea
2007
7.0
Metalocalypse
2006
7.6
50 Films to See Before You Die
as Self
2006
8.5
🎬
Walking to Werner
as Self (voice)
2006
0.0
The Henry Rollins Show
2006
6.0
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
as Self
2005
0.0
🎬
Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog
as Self
2005
0.0
The Boondocks
as Himself (voice)
2005
8.2
The Colbert Report
2005
6.9
🎬
Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space
as Self
2005
0.0
Grizzly Man
as Self / Narrator (voice)
2005
7.5
🎬
Dreams and Burdens
as Self
2005
6.0
American Dad!
as Werner Herzog (voice)
2005
7.0
Incident at Loch Ness
as Self
2004
5.8
The White Diamond
as Narrator (voice)
2004
6.9
Kulturplatz
as Self
2004
6.0
The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3
as Self (voice) ("Dribble" short)
2004
0.0
🎬
Dribble
as Self (voice)
2004
5.7
Wheel of Time
as Narrator (voice)
2003
6.4
The Boxing Prince
as Self
2002
5.8
The 100 Greatest Films
as Self
2001
5.5
🎬
The Last Documentary
as Self
2000
0.0
🎬
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
as Self
2000
0.0
The Ball Is a Scumbag
as Self
2000
7.0
Wings of Hope
as Self
1999
7.0
Julien Donkey-Boy
as Father
1999
7.0
🎬
A Brief History of Errol Morris
as Self
1999
6.8
My Best Fiend
as Self
1999
7.3
🎬
In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
as Self
1999
0.0
What Dreams May Come
as Face
1998
7.2
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
as Narrator (voice)
1997
7.5
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
as Self
1996
0.0
The Transformation of the World Into Music
as Self
1996
8.5
Die Harald Schmidt Show
as Self
1995
7.1
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
as Narrator (voice)
1995
6.8
Burning Heart
1995
0.0
🎬
Tales from the Opera
as Self - Director
1994
0.0
Dangerous Game
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1993
5.7
Bells from the Deep
as Narrator (voice)
1993
6.9
Lessons of Darkness
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1992
7.8
Film Hour
as Self
1991
5.5
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
as Narrator (voice)
1991
5.8
🎬
SnowwhiteRosered
as Self
1991
5.7
Scream of Stone
as TV-Regisseur
1991
6.2
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
as Self
1990
7.1
Hard to Be a God
as Mita / Richard
1990
5.9
🎬
Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God"
as Self
1990
0.0
The Simpsons
as Walter Hotenhoffer (voice)
1989
8.0
The Simpsons
as Werner Herzog (voice)
1989
8.0
The Simpsons
as Dr. Lund (voice)
1989
8.0
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
as Narrator (voice)
1989
7.1
Bride of the Orient
as Businger
1989
9.6
🎬
The Heart and the Legs
as Self
1989
0.0
To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
as Self
1989
8.5
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
as Self
1988
6.9
Location Africa
as Self
1987
0.0
Portrait: Werner Herzog
as Self
1986
7.1
Tokyo-Ga
as Self
1985
7.0
The Dark Glow of the Mountain
as Self (voice)
1985
7.6
🎬
Sonntagsgespräch
as Self
1985
0.0
Ballad of the Little Soldier
as Self (voice)
1984
6.4
Where the Green Ants Dream
as Lawyer (uncredited)
1984
6.9
Man of Flowers
as The Father
1983
4.8
Burden of Dreams
as Self - Filmmaker
1982
7.5
Room 666
as Self
1982
6.5
God's Angry Man
as Narrator (voice)
1981
5.4
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
as Self - Film Director: Nosferatu
1980
7.5
🎬
Bavarian Film Awards
as Self
1979
0.0
🎬
Okay
as Self
1979
0.0
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
as Self
1979
6.3
I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
as Self
1979
8.0
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1979
0.0
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
as Narrator (voice)
1977
7.3
Journey Through History
as Self
1977
0.0
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
as Self
1976
0.0
Heart of Glass
as Glass Transporter
1976
6.5
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
as Self
1976
6.3
Lost in the Garden of the World
as Self
1975
0.0
Midi Première
as Self
1975
10.0
Spécial cinéma
as Self
1974
0.0
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
as Self
1974
7.2
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
as Hurenmörder
1971
3.2
Signs of Life
as Soldier (uncredited)
1968
6.6
Die Erben von Papas Kino
1968
0.0
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
1967
0.0
🎬
Grimme Award
as Self
1964
0.0
🎬
German Film Award
as Self
1951
6.0
🎬
Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog
as Self
N/A
0.0
🎬
Shards of Cinema and Philosophy
as Self
N/A
0.0