Werner Herzog

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1942-09-05 (82 years old)

Place of Birth Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Also Known As 韋納荷索, Werner Herzog Stipetić, Вернер Херцог, 베르네 헤어조크, 베르네 헤어초크

Werner Herzog

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

Director

The Twilight World

as Director

2022
Theatre of Thought

as Director

2019
Meeting Gorbachev

as Director

2019
2016
Into the Inferno

as Director

2016
Salt and Fire

as Director

2015
2012
2012
On Death Row

as Director

2011
Into the Abyss

as Director

2011
2010
2009
La Bohème

as Director

2006
Rescue Dawn

as Director

2005
Grizzly Man

as Director

2005
2004
The White Diamond

as Director

2003
Wheel of Time

as Director

2001
Invincible

as Director

2001
Pilgrimage

as Director

2000
Wings of Hope

as Director

2000
Tannhäuser

as Stage Director

1999
My Best Fiend

as Director

1993
1992
1991
Scream of Stone

as Director

1991
Film Lesson

as Director

1991
Film Lesson

as Director

1989
Giovanna d'Arco

as Director

1989
Under the Sun

as Director

1988
1988
The Gauls

as Director

1987
Cobra Verde

as Director

1986
1983
Huie's Sermon

as Director

1982
Fitzcarraldo

as Director

1981
God's Angry Man

as Director

1979
Woyzeck

as Director

1979
1977
Stroszek

as Director

1976
Heart of Glass

as Director

1976
1971
Handicapped Future

as Director

1971
Fata Morgana

as Director

1968
Signs of Life

as Director

1968
Last Words

as Director

1962
Herakles

as Director

Actor

2024
Celebrating the Rice Media Center

as Self (archival footage)

2024
Kinski

as Self (Archive Footage)

2024
Orion and the Dark

as Narrator (voice)

2023
The Arc of Oblivion

as Narrator (voice)

2022
Tegoyo

as Self (Voice)

2022
Last Exit: Space

as Narrator (voice)

2022
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire

as Self (archive footage)

2022
The U.S. and the Holocaust

as Hermann Göring

2021
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life

as Self (archive footage)

2020
The Andinist

as The Painter (Narrator)

2020
2020
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2019
2019
2019
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

as Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice)

2019
2019
The Mandalorian

as The Client

2018
Paradox Bullets

as Narrator (voice)

2018
2017
The Man Who Killed John Wayne

as Self (archive footage)

2016
Salt and Fire

as Man with One Story (uncredited)

2016
Into the Inferno

as Narrator (voice)

2016
2015
Freaks of Nature

as Perfect Being (voice)

2014
Penguins of Madagascar

as Documentary Filmmaker (voice)

2014
Atari: Game Over

as Self (archival)

2014
Lemonade War

as Neighborhood Hero

2014
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance

as Self (archive footage)

2014
Life Itself

as Self - Filmmaker

2013
2013
2013
Mistaken for Strangers

as Self (uncredited)

2013
Rick and Morty

as Shrimply Pibbles (voice)

2012
Jack Reacher

as Zec Chelovek

2012
Close Up

as Self (archive footage)

2012
Dinotasia

as Narrator (voice)

2012
On Death Row

as Werner Herzog

2011
Into the Abyss

as Narrator (voice)

2011
2010
Cave of Forgotten Dreams

as Narrator (voice)

2010
When Herzog Rescued Phoenix

as Narrator (voice)

2010
2010
Future States

as Plastic Bag (voice)

2009
Plastic Bag

as Plastic Bag (voice)

2009
Parks and Recreation

as Keg Jennings

2008
2008
BLAST!

as Narrator (voice)

2008
Bierbichler

as Self

2008
Mister Lonely

as Father Umbrillo

2008
Back to Room 666

as Self (archive footage)

2007
2007
The Grand

as The German

2006
Walking to Werner

as Self (voice)

2005
Grizzly Man

as Self / Narrator (voice)

2005
2005
American Dad!

as Werner Herzog (voice)

2004
The White Diamond

as Narrator (voice)

2004
The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3

as Self (voice) ("Dribble" short)

2004
Dribble

as Self (voice)

2004
Kulturplatz

as Self

2003
Wheel of Time

as Narrator (voice)

2002
Strawberryland

as Turnlehrer

2002
2000
1999
1999
1997
Little Dieter Needs to Fly

as Narrator (voice)

1995
1993
Dangerous Game

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1993
Bells from the Deep

as Narrator (voice)

1992
Lessons of Darkness

as Narrator (voice)

1991
Film Lesson

as Self

1991
1991
Scream of Stone

as TV-Regisseur

1990
Hard to Be a God

as Mita / Richard

1989
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun

as Narrator (voice)

1989
1989
The Simpsons

as Walter Hotenhoffer (voice)

1989
The Simpsons

as Werner Herzog (voice)

1989
The Simpsons

as Dr. Lund (voice)

1987
1985
Tokyo-Ga

as Self

1985
1985
1984
1984
Where the Green Ants Dream

as Lawyer (uncredited)

1983
Man of Flowers

as The Father

1982
Burden of Dreams

as Self - Filmmaker

1982
Room 666

as Self

1981
God's Angry Man

as Narrator (voice)

1980
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers

as Self - Film Director: Nosferatu

1979
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'

as Self (archive footage)

1979
Nosferatu the Vampyre

as Hand and Feet in Box with Rats (uncredited)

1979
Okay

as Self

1976
Heart of Glass

as Glass Transporter

1975
1974
1971
1968
Signs of Life

as Soldier (uncredited)

Writer

2022
Theatre of Thought

as Screenplay

2019
2019
2016
2016
Salt and Fire

as Writer

2015
2012
On Death Row

as Writer

2011
Into the Abyss

as Writer

2010
2006
Rescue Dawn

as Author

2005
The Wild Blue Yonder

as Screenplay

2004
The White Diamond

as Screenplay

2003
Wheel of Time

as Writer

2001
Invincible

as Writer

2000
Wings of Hope

as Writer

1999
My Best Fiend

as Writer

1993
1992
1987
Cobra Verde

as Screenplay

1982
Fitzcarraldo

as Screenplay

1981
God's Angry Man

as Writer

1979
Woyzeck

as Screenplay

1979
1977
Stroszek

as Screenplay

1976
Heart of Glass

as Writer

1974
1971
Fata Morgana

as Screenplay

1971
1970
1968
Signs of Life

as Writer

1968
Last Words

as Screenplay

1962
Herakles

as Screenplay

Producer

Reeling

as Executive Producer

2024
The End

as Executive Producer

2023
The Arc of Oblivion

as Executive Producer

2022
Last Exit: Space

as Executive Producer

2022
El Poso

as Producer

2022
2022
Theatre of Thought

as Executive Producer

2019
Love Birds

as Consulting Producer

2019
The Last Scene

as Executive Producer

2018
The whole world is country

as Consulting Producer

2018
The Golden Gate

as Executive Producer

2017
A Gray State

as Executive Producer

2016
Salt and Fire

as Producer

2015
The Look of Silence

as Executive Producer

2014
Red Army

as Executive Producer

2012
The Act of Killing

as Executive Producer

2011
Into the Abyss

as Producer

2010
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

as Executive Producer

2004
2003
Wheel of Time

as Producer

2001
Invincible

as Producer

1992
Lessons of Darkness

as Executive Producer

1989
1987
Location Africa

as Producer

1982
Fitzcarraldo

as Producer

1979
1977
Stroszek

as Producer

1976
Heart of Glass

as Producer

1971
Handicapped Future

as Producer

1971
Fata Morgana

as Producer

1968
Last Words

as Producer

1968
Signs of Life

as Producer

1962
Herakles

as Producer

Crew

2022
Notes from a Dromedary

as Creative Consultant

2018
The Empty Goal

as Thanks

2016
The Blimp-Maker

as Thanks

2013
2011
Ode to the Dawn of Man

as Cinematography

2010
A Night Out

as Thanks

2010
A Night Out

as Technical Advisor

2007
The Devil's Muse

as Creative Consultant

2005
What Is It?

as Thanks

1971
Handicapped Future

as Sound Recordist

1971
Land of Silence and Darkness

as Sound Recordist

Camera

2019
Family Romance, LLC

as Director of Photography

2019
Family Romance, LLC

as Camera Operator

Creator

2012
On Death Row

as Creator