Werner Herzog
Directing
Born September 5, 1942 in Munich, Allemagne
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.
Filmography
Ally
(voice)
The hunger in the world explained to my son
The Twilight World
Bucking Fastard
Soccer Meets America
Self
Hulk Hogan: Real American
Self
Ghost Elephants
Narrator (voice)
Felicidad
Mi casa amarilla
Sirena
Reeling
Theater of Thought
The End
About a Hero
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
Narrator (voice)
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
Self (archival footage)
Orion and the Dark
Narrator (voice)
The Arc of Oblivion
Narrator (voice)
Notes from a Dromedary
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Self
Tegoyo
Self (Voice)
Flores del precipicio
Last Exit: Space
Narrator (voice)
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
Self (archive footage)
El Poso
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
Self (archive footage)
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
Self (archive footage)
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
Self
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
Self
The Andinist
The Painter (Narrator)
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
Narrator (voice)
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
Self - Narrator (voice)
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Self
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
Self - The Client
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
(archive footage)
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
(archive footage)
The Mandalorian
The Client
Family Romance, LLC
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
Self
Tattoo Uprising
Self
Meeting Gorbachev
Self
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice)
Jihad in Hollywood
Self
The Last Scene
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
Self
Paradox Bullets
Narrator (voice)
The Great Buster: A Celebration
Self
I'm a Soldier
Self
The Empty Goal
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
Self
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
Self
Werner We Love You
Self
A Gray State
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
Self
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
Self (archive footage)
Salt and Fire
Man with One Story (uncredited)
Into the Inferno
Self
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Self
The Blimp-Maker
Jihad in Hollywood
Self
Freaks of Nature
Perfect Being (voice)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
Queen of the Desert
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
Red Army
Penguins of Madagascar
Documentary Filmmaker (voice)
Atari: Game Over
Self (archival)
The Look of Silence
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
Self (archive footage)
Life Itself
Self - Filmmaker
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
The Unbelievers
Self
Rick and Morty
Shrimply Pibbles (voice)
Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
Self
An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
Self
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
Alexander von Humboldt
Mistaken for Strangers
Self (uncredited)
From One Second to the Next
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
Self
The Last Shepherd
Jack Reacher
Zec Chelovek
The Act of Killing
Strawberryfields
Turnlehrer
Close Up
Self (archive footage)
10 Questions for Werner Herzog
Self
The Killers: Unstaged
Self
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
Self
Dinotasia
Narrator (voice)
On Death Row
Werner Herzog
No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon
Self
I, I, I José Lewgoy
Self
Into the Abyss
Narrator (voice)
On Borrowed Time
Self
Ode to the Dawn of Man
Champions: A Comic Tale
Self
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
Self
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Narrator (voice)
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
Self
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Narrator (voice)
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
Self
The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Himself
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Plastic Bag
Plastic Bag (voice)
La Bohème
Parks and Recreation
Keg Jennings
Capturing Reality
Self
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
Self
BLAST!
Narrator (voice)
Lohengrin: Bayreuth Festival Opera
Bierbichler
Self
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
Self
Mister Lonely
Father Umbrillo
Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn
Self
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
Self
Encounters at the End of the World
Narrator (voice)
Rescue Dawn
The Grand
The German
All In This Tea
The Devil's Muse
Metalocalypse
50 Films to See Before You Die
Self
The Henry Rollins Show
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
Self
The Boondocks
Himself (voice)
The Colbert Report
The Wild Blue Yonder
Grizzly Man
Self / Narrator (voice)
American Dad!
Werner Herzog (voice)
What Is It?
Incident at Loch Ness
Self
The White Diamond
Narrator (voice)
Kulturplatz
Self
The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3
Self (voice) ("Dribble" short)
Wheel of Time
Narrator (voice)
Ten Thousand Years Older
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
The Boxing Prince
Self
Invincible
The 100 Greatest Films
Self
Pilgrimage
Tannhäuser
The Ball Is a Scumbag
Self
2000 Years of Christianity
Wings of Hope
Self
Julien Donkey-Boy
Father
My Best Fiend
Self
What Dreams May Come
Face
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Narrator (voice)
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
Self
The Transformation of the World Into Music
Self
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Self
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
Narrator (voice)
Burning Heart
Dangerous Game
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bells from the Deep
Narrator (voice)
Lessons of Darkness
Self - Narrator (voice)
Film Lesson
Self
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
Narrator (voice)
SnowwhiteRosered
Self
Scream of Stone
TV-Regisseur
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
Self
Hard to Be a God
Mita / Richard
The Simpsons
Walter Hotenhoffer (voice)
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
Narrator (voice)
Bride of the Orient
Businger
To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
Self
Giovanna d'Arco
The French as Seen by…
The Gauls
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
Self
Cobra Verde
Location Africa
Self
Portrait: Werner Herzog
Self
Tokyo-Ga
Self
The Dark Glow of the Mountains
Self (voice)
Room 666
Self
Ballad of the Little Soldier
Self (voice)
Where the Green Ants Dream
Lawyer (uncredited)
Man of Flowers
The Father
God's Angry Man
Narrator (voice)
Huie's Sermon
Burden of Dreams
Self - Filmmaker
Fitzcarraldo
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
Self - Film Director: Nosferatu
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
Self
Woyzeck
I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
Self
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nosferatu the Vampyre
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
Narrator (voice)
Stroszek
Journey Through History
Self
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Self
Heart of Glass
Glass Transporter
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
Self
No One Will Play with Me
Lost in the Garden of the World
Self
Midi Première
Self
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
Hurenmörder
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Spécial cinéma
Self
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
Self
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Fata Morgana
Land of Silence and Darkness
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Handicapped Future
Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)
The Flying Doctors of East Africa
Precautions Against Fanatics
60 Minutes
Self
Signs of Life
Soldier (uncredited)
Die Erben von Papas Kino
Last Words
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
Herakles