Werner Herzog
117 movies · 10 TV shows
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Sep 5, 1942 (age 84)
- Place of birth
- Munich, Allemagne
- Also known as
- 韋納荷索 · Werner Herzog Stipetić · Вернер Херцог · 베르네 헤어조크
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.
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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.
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Known for
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★ 7.0 Rescue Dawn
2007 · Film
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★ 6.2 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
2009 · Film
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★ 7.4 Aguirre, the Wrath of God
1972 · Film
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★ 7.3 Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979 · Film
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★ 7.6 Fitzcarraldo
1982 · Film
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★ 7.3 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1974 · Film
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★ 7.1 Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010 · Film
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★ 7.3 Stroszek
1977 · Film
Werner Herzog: movies and TV shows
Acting (63)
- Upcoming Ally
as (voice)
- 2026
- 2025
- 2024
- 2024 The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
as Narrator (voice)
- 2024 Orion and the Dark
as Narrator (voice)
- 2023 The Arc of Oblivion
as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 Last Exit: Space
as Narrator (voice)
- 2020 The Andinist
as The Painter (Narrator)
- 2020 Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
as Narrator (voice)
- 2020 AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
as (archive footage)
- 2020 The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
as (archive footage)
- 2019
- 2018 Paradox Bullets
as Narrator (voice)
- 2016 Salt and Fire
as Man with One Story (uncredited)
- 2015 Freaks of Nature
as Perfect Being (voice)
- 2014 Penguins of Madagascar
as Documentary Filmmaker (voice)
- 2014 Lemonade War
as Neighborhood Hero
- 2013
- 2013 Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
as Alexander von Humboldt
- 2012 Jack Reacher
as Zec Chelovek
- 2012 Strawberryfields
as Turnlehrer
- 2012 Dinotasia
as Narrator (voice)
- 2012
- 2011 Into the Abyss
as Narrator (voice)
- 2010 Cave of Forgotten Dreams
as Narrator (voice)
- 2010 When Herzog Rescued Phoenix
as Narrator (voice)
- 2010 Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
as Narrator (voice)
- 2009 Plastic Bag
as Plastic Bag (voice)
- 2009
- 2009
- 2008 Encounters at the End of the World
as Narrator (voice)
- 2008 BLAST!
as Narrator (voice)
- 2008 Mister Lonely
as Father Umbrillo
- 2007 The Grand
as The German
- 2007
- 2006
- 2005
- 2004 The White Diamond
as Narrator (voice)
- 2003 Wheel of Time
as Narrator (voice)
- 1999 Julien Donkey-Boy
as Father
- 1998 What Dreams May Come
as Face
- 1997 Little Dieter Needs to Fly
as Narrator (voice)
- 1997
- 1995 Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
as Narrator (voice)
- 1995
- 1993 Bells from the Deep
as Narrator (voice)
- 1991 Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
as Narrator (voice)
- 1991 Scream of Stone
as TV-Regisseur
- 1990 Hard to Be a God
as Mita / Richard
- 1989 The Simpsons · TV
as Walter Hotenhoffer (voice) / Werner Herzog (voice) / Dr. Lund (voice) · 4 episodes
- 1989 Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
as Narrator (voice)
- 1989 Bride of the Orient
as Businger
- 1984 Where the Green Ants Dream
as Lawyer (uncredited)
- 1983 Man of Flowers
as The Father
- 1983 God's Angry Man
as Narrator (voice)
- 1977 La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
as Narrator (voice)
- 1976 Heart of Glass
as Glass Transporter
- 1974 Tales of the Dumpster Kid
as Hurenmörder
- 1971 Handicapped Future
as Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)
- 1968 Signs of Life
as Soldier (uncredited)
- 1968
- 1967
Behind the camera (109)
- Upcoming
- Upcoming The Twilight World
Director, Novel
- Upcoming Walk of Life
Director
- 2026 Bucking Fastard
Writer, Director, Producer
- 2026 Ghost Elephants
Director, Writer, Producer, Screenplay
- 2025 Felicidad
Producer
- 2025 Mi casa amarilla
Consulting Editor
- 2025 Reeling
Executive Producer
- 2024 Theater of Thought
Director, Executive Producer, Screenplay
- 2024 The End
Executive Producer
- 2024 The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
Director, Writer
- 2023 The Arc of Oblivion
Executive Producer
- 2022 Notes from a Dromedary
Creative Consultant
- 2022 Flores del precipicio
Producer
- 2022 Last Exit: Space
Executive Producer
- 2022 El Poso
Producer
- 2020 Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
Director, Writer
- 2019 Family Romance, LLC
Writer, Director, Director of Photography, Camera Operator
- 2019 Meeting Gorbachev
Director, Writer
- 2019 Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Director, Writer
- 2019 Love Birds
Consulting Producer
- 2019 The Last Scene
Executive Producer
- 2018 The Empty Goal
Thanks
- 2018 The whole world is country
Consulting Producer
- 2018 The Golden Gate
Executive Producer
- 2017 A Gray State
Executive Producer
- 2016 Salt and Fire
Writer, Producer, Director
- 2016 Into the Inferno
Director, Writer
- 2016 Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Director, Producer, Writer
- 2016 The Blimp-Maker
Thanks
- 2015 Queen of the Desert
Director, Writer
- 2015 Red Army
Executive Producer
- 2014 The Look of Silence
Executive Producer
- 2013 From One Second to the Next
Director
- 2013 The Last Shepherd
Thanks
- 2012 The Act of Killing
Executive Producer
- 2012 The Killers: Unstaged
Director
- 2012
- 2011 Into the Abyss
Writer, Director, Producer
- 2011 Ode to the Dawn of Man
Director, Cinematography, Sound
- 2010 Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Screenplay, Director
- 2010 Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Executive Producer, Writer, Director
- 2010 My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Screenplay, Director
- 2010 A Night Out
Thanks, Technical Advisor
- 2009
- 2009 La Bohème
Director
- 2008 Encounters at the End of the World
Director, Writer, Sound
- 2008 Lohengrin: Bayreuth Festival Opera
Stage Director
- 2007 Rescue Dawn
Director, Author
- 2007 The Devil's Muse
Creative Consultant
- 2005 The Wild Blue Yonder
Screenplay, Director
- 2005 Grizzly Man
Director
- 2005 What Is It?
Thanks
- 2004 Incident at Loch Ness
Producer
- 2004 The White Diamond
Director, Screenplay
- 2003 Wheel of Time
Producer, Director, Writer, Editor
- 2002 Ten Thousand Years Older
Director, Screenplay
- 2002 Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
Writer, Director
- 2001 Invincible
Writer, Director, Producer
- 2001 Pilgrimage
Director
- 2000 Tannhäuser
Stage Director
- 1999
- 1999 Wings of Hope
Director, Writer
- 1999 My Best Fiend
Writer, Director
- 1997 Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Director, Writer
- 1996 The Transformation of the World Into Music
Director, Writer, Executive Producer
- 1995 Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
Director, Writer, Producer
- 1993 Bells from the Deep
Director, Writer
- 1992 La Donna del Lago
Director
- 1992 Lessons of Darkness
Director, Writer, Executive Producer
- 1991
- 1991 Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
Screenplay, Director, Producer
- 1991 Scream of Stone
Director
- 1990 Echoes from a Sombre Empire
Director, Writer, Producer
- 1989 Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
Director, Writer, Co-Producer
- 1989
- 1989 Giovanna d'Arco
Director
- 1988 The French as Seen by…
Director
- 1988 The Gauls
Director
- 1987 Cobra Verde
Director, Screenplay
- 1987 Location Africa
Producer
- 1986 Portrait: Werner Herzog
Director, Writer
- 1985 The Dark Glow of the Mountains
Director, Producer, Writer
- 1984 Ballad of the Little Soldier
Writer, Director, Producer
- 1984 Where the Green Ants Dream
Director, Producer, Writer
- 1983 God's Angry Man
Director, Writer
- 1983 Huie's Sermon
Director
- 1982 Fitzcarraldo
Director, Producer, Screenplay
- 1980 Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
Writer
- 1979 Woyzeck
Screenplay, Director
- 1979 Nosferatu the Vampyre
Director, Producer, Writer
- 1977 La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
Director, Sound Engineer, Producer
- 1977 Stroszek
Director, Screenplay, Producer
- 1976 Heart of Glass
Writer, Director, Producer
- 1976 How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
Director, Producer, Sound
- 1976 No One Will Play with Me
Director, Writer
- 1974 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Producer, Director, Screenplay
- 1974 The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
Director, Screenplay, Producer
- 1972 Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Producer, Director, Writer
- 1972 Fata Morgana
Director, Screenplay, Sound, Producer
- 1971 Land of Silence and Darkness
Screenplay, Director, Producer, Sound Recordist
- 1971 Even Dwarfs Started Small
Producer, Screenplay, Director
- 1971 Handicapped Future
Director, Sound Recordist, Producer, Writer, Sound
- 1970 The Flying Doctors of East Africa
Director, Writer, Sound Recordist, Producer
- 1969 Precautions Against Fanatics
Director, Producer, Writer, Sound
- 1968 Signs of Life
Writer, Director, Producer
- 1968 Last Words
Director, Screenplay, Producer
- 1967 The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
Director, Editor, Screenplay
- 1962 Herakles
Director, Editor, Sound, Screenplay, Producer
Talk shows and appearances (109)
- Upcoming
- Upcoming
- 2026 Soccer Meets America
3 episodes
- 2026 Hulk Hogan: Real American
1 episode
- 2024
- 2022
- 2022
- 2022
- 2021
- 2021
- 2021
- 2021
- 2020 Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
4 episodes
- 2020
- 2020 Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
2 episodes
- 2019
- 2019
- 2019
- 2018
- 2018
- 2018
- 2018
- 2017
- 2017
- 2017
- 2017
- 2016
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
1 episode
- 2015 Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
1 episode
- 2014
- 2014
- 2014
- 2014
- 2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers
2 episodes
- 2013
- 2013
- 2013
- 2013
- 2013
- 2012
- 2012
- 2012
- 2012
- 2011
- 2011
- 2011
- 2011
- 2010
- 2010
- 2010
- 2010
- 2010
- 2010
- 2008
- 2008
- 2008
- 2008
- 2008
- 2007
- 2007
- 2007
- 2006
- 2006
- 2006 The Henry Rollins Show
1 episode
- 2005
- 2005
- 2005 The Boondocks
1 episode
- 2005 The Colbert Report
1 episode
- 2005
- 2005
- 2004 Kulturplatz
1 episode
- 2004
- 2004
- 2002
- 2001
- 2000
- 2000
- 2000
- 1999
- 1999
- 1998 Sternstunde Philosophie
1 episode
- 1996
- 1995 Die Harald Schmidt Show
1 episode
- 1994 Placido Domingo's Tales from the Opera
1 episode
- 1993
- 1991
- 1990
- 1989
- 1989
- 1985
- 1985
- 1985 Sonntagsgespräch
1 episode
- 1982
- 1980
- 1979 Bavarian Film Awards
2 episodes
- 1979 Okay
1 episode
- 1979
- 1979
- 1979
- 1978 The South Bank Show
1 episode
- 1978 Ciné regards
1 episode
- 1977
- 1976
- 1975
- 1975 Midi Première
1 episode
- 1974 Spécial cinéma
2 episodes
- 1968 60 Minutes
1 episode
- 1964 Grimme Award
2 episodes
- 1951 German Film Award
1 episode