Werner Herzog
Directing
🎂 1942-09-05
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.
Cast credits(186)
Self
2015
Self
2014
Walter Hotenhoffer (voice)
1989
Werner Herzog (voice)
1989
Dr. Lund (voice)
1989
Shrimply Pibbles (voice)
2013
2005
Werner Herzog (voice)
2005
Keg Jennings
2009
Self
1995
Self
1974
The Client
2019
2006
Self
1951
Self
2015
Self
1975
Self
1979
2006
Self
1964
Self - The Client
2020
Hermann Göring
2022
Plastic Bag (voice)
2010
Documentary Filmmaker (voice)
2014
Zec Chelovek
2012
Narrator (voice)
2024
Werner Herzog
2012
Self
2004
Self
1979
Self
2020
Face
1998
Self
1985
Self / Narrator (voice)
2005
Perfect Being (voice)
2015
Self
2013
The German
2007
Self
1999
Man with One Story (uncredited)
2016
Narrator (voice)
2011
Self - Narrator (voice)
2020
Father Umbrillo
2008
Self
2008
Narrator (voice)
2024
Narrator (voice)
2010
Narrator (voice)
2003
Self
2022
Self
2016
Narrator (voice)
2022
Self - Filmmaker
2014
Narrator (voice)
2007
Self
1985
Self
2018
Father
1999
Self
2004
Narrator (voice)
2023
Glass Transporter
1976
Self
2016
Self
2017
Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice)
2019
Mita / Richard
1990
Narrator (voice)
1992
Self
2025
Self (archival)
2014
Narrator (voice)
1997
Self (archive footage)
2012
Self
1982
Self - Filmmaker
1982
Lawyer (uncredited)
1984
Narrator (voice)
2012
Self (archive footage)
2022
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1993
Self
2013
Self
2020
TV-Regisseur
1991
Self
2021
Narrator (voice)
2010
Neighborhood Hero
2014
2007
Self - Film Director: Nosferatu
1980
Self
2006
Soldier (uncredited)
1968
Self
1975
Self
1999
Alexander von Humboldt
2013
Self
2013
Self
1976
Self (voice)
1985
Himself
2010
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2004
Narrator (voice)
1977
Self
2019
2024
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1979
Self
2010
Self
2008
Self
2017
Self
1990
1995
Narrator (voice)
1993
Self
2020
Self
2007
1967
Self
1986
Self
1987
The Painter (Narrator)
2020
Self
1980
Self
2018
Self
2007
Narrator (voice)
1991
Narrator (voice)
1981
Self
2019
Narrator (voice)
2018
Self
1991
Self
2011
Self
2000
Narrator (voice)
2008
Self
2005
Self
2002
Self
1974
Self
1979
Self
1976
Self
2018
Self
1999
Plastic Bag (voice)
2009
Self
2011
Self
1996
Self
2008
Self (archive footage)
2008
Narrator (voice)
2020
2009
Self
2011
Self
2012
Businger
1989
Self
1999
Self (Voice)
2022
Self
2007
Self
2010
1968
The Father
1983
Self
2011
Self
1996
Self
1982
Director
Self (archive footage)
2021
Self
1979
Self
2016
Self
2005
Self (voice)
1984
Self (Archive Footage)
2024
Narrator (voice)
2010
Self
1991
Self
2005
Self
2021
Self (archive footage)
2014
Self
2014
Self
2001
Self
Self (voice)
2006
Self (voice) ("Dribble" short)
2004
Self
2000
Self
Hurenmörder
1971
Narrator (voice)
1995
Self
2010
Self
1990
Self
2012
Self (archive footage)
2017
Self
2010
Self
1989
Self (archival footage)
2024
Narrator (voice)
1989
Self
2000
Self
2012
Self
2012
Turnlehrer
2012
Self
1977
Self
2019
Self
2019
Self (voice)
2004
Self
1989
Self
2013
Self
2008
Self
2005
Self (archive footage)
2021
Self
2018
Self (uncredited)
2013
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Writing (61)
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Production (49)
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