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.
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.
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Filmography (Movies)
Ghost Elephants
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:27/08/2025
About a Hero
Character:
Release Date:14/11/2024
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:09/05/2024
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
Character:Self (archival footage)
Release Date:19/04/2024
Kinski
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:15/04/2024
Orion and the Dark
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:01/02/2024
The Arc of Oblivion
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:18/03/2023
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Character:Self
Release Date:27/10/2022
Tegoyo
Character:Self (Voice)
Release Date:06/10/2022
Last Exit: Space
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:10/03/2022
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:09/03/2022
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:25/09/2021
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:25/04/2021
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
Character:Self
Release Date:24/02/2021
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
Character:Self
Release Date:12/02/2021
The Andinist
Character:The Painter (Narrator)
Release Date:25/11/2020
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:20/11/2020
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
Character:Self - Narrator (voice)
Release Date:10/09/2020
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Character:Self
Release Date:16/07/2020
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:22/04/2020
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:08/04/2020
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
Character:Self
Release Date:07/08/2019
Tattoo Uprising
Character:Self
Release Date:12/07/2019
Meeting Gorbachev
Character:Self
Release Date:03/05/2019
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Character:Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice)
Release Date:28/04/2019
Jihad in Hollywood
Character:Self
Release Date:01/04/2019
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
Character:Self
Release Date:13/12/2018
Paradox Bullets
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:07/10/2018
The Great Buster: A Celebration
Character:Self
Release Date:05/10/2018
I'm a Soldier
Character:Self
Release Date:10/08/2018
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
Character:Self
Release Date:17/02/2018
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
Character:Self
Release Date:03/11/2017
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
Character:Self
Release Date:01/08/2017
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:20/01/2017
Salt and Fire
Character:Man with One Story (uncredited)
Release Date:07/12/2016
Into the Inferno
Character:Self
Release Date:07/09/2016
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Character:Self
Release Date:04/03/2016
Jihad in Hollywood
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/2016
Freaks of Nature
Character:Perfect Being (voice)
Release Date:30/10/2015
Penguins of Madagascar
Character:Documentary Filmmaker (voice)
Release Date:22/11/2014
Atari: Game Over
Character:Self (archival)
Release Date:19/11/2014
Lemonade War
Character:Neighborhood Hero
Release Date:30/09/2014
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:10/09/2014
Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director
Character:Self
Release Date:08/08/2014
Life Itself
Character:Self - Filmmaker
Release Date:04/07/2014
The Unbelievers
Character:Self
Release Date:13/12/2013
Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
Character:Self
Release Date:25/11/2013
An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
Character:Self
Release Date:01/11/2013
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
Character:Alexander von Humboldt
Release Date:03/10/2013
Mistaken for Strangers
Character:Self (uncredited)
Release Date:19/09/2013
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
Character:Self
Release Date:07/05/2013
Jack Reacher
Character:Zec Chelovek
Release Date:20/12/2012
Strawberryland
Character:Turnlehrer
Release Date:02/11/2012
Close Up
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:30/09/2012
10 Questions for Werner Herzog
Character:Self
Release Date:19/09/2012
The Killers: Unstaged
Character:Self
Release Date:18/09/2012
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
Character:Self
Release Date:25/05/2012
Dinotasia
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:04/05/2012
No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon
Character:Self
Release Date:03/03/2012
I, I, I José Lewgoy
Character:Self
Release Date:25/11/2011
Into the Abyss
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:11/11/2011
On Borrowed Time
Character:Self
Release Date:04/11/2011
Champions: A Comic Tale
Character:Self
Release Date:15/03/2011
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
Character:Self
Release Date:14/03/2011
Werner Herzog Defends Dade
Character:Self
Release Date:01/12/2010
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:03/11/2010
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
Character:Self
Release Date:18/10/2010
When Herzog Rescued Phoenix
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:13/09/2010
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:03/09/2010
Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son
Character:Self
Release Date:09/07/2010
I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
Character:Self
Release Date:28/06/2010
The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Character:Himself
Release Date:06/04/2010
Plastic Bag
Character:Plastic Bag (voice)
Release Date:07/09/2009
The Lonely
Character:
Release Date:16/04/2009
Capturing Reality
Character:Self
Release Date:01/11/2008
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
Character:Self
Release Date:18/05/2008
BLAST!
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:22/04/2008
Bierbichler
Character:Self
Release Date:13/03/2008
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
Character:Self
Release Date:14/02/2008
Mister Lonely
Character:Father Umbrillo
Release Date:02/02/2008
Back to Room 666
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:02/02/2008
Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn
Character:Self
Release Date:20/11/2007
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
Character:Self
Release Date:08/09/2007
Encounters at the End of the World
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:01/09/2007
Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest
Character:Self
Release Date:24/06/2007
The Grand
Character:The German
Release Date:07/06/2007
All In This Tea
Character:
Release Date:14/04/2007
50 Films to See Before You Die
Character:Self
Release Date:22/07/2006
Walking to Werner
Character:Self (voice)
Release Date:24/04/2006
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
Character:Self
Release Date:26/12/2005
Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog
Character:Self
Release Date:22/11/2005
Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space
Character:Self
Release Date:08/10/2005
Grizzly Man
Character:Self / Narrator (voice)
Release Date:12/08/2005
Dreams and Burdens
Character:Self
Release Date:10/05/2005
Incident at Loch Ness
Character:Self
Release Date:17/12/2004
The White Diamond
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:13/11/2004
The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3
Character:Self (voice) ("Dribble" short)
Release Date:31/08/2004
Dribble
Character:Self (voice)
Release Date:19/01/2004
Wheel of Time
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:30/10/2003
The Boxing Prince
Character:Self
Release Date:24/01/2002
The 100 Greatest Films
Character:Self
Release Date:24/11/2001
The Last Documentary
Character:Self
Release Date:25/10/2000
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
Character:Self
Release Date:21/05/2000
The Ball Is a Scumbag
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/2000
Wings of Hope
Character:Self
Release Date:20/10/1999
Julien Donkey-Boy
Character:Father
Release Date:15/10/1999
A Brief History of Errol Morris
Character:Self
Release Date:01/09/1999
My Best Fiend
Character:Self
Release Date:17/05/1999
In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Character:Self
Release Date:04/04/1999
What Dreams May Come
Character:Face
Release Date:02/10/1998
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:01/12/1997
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
Character:Self
Release Date:19/10/1996
The Transformation of the World Into Music
Character:Self
Release Date:21/07/1996
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:06/06/1995
Burning Heart
Character:
Release Date:25/01/1995
Dangerous Game
Character:Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Release Date:13/10/1993
Bells from the Deep
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:07/09/1993
Lessons of Darkness
Character:Self - Narrator (voice)
Release Date:21/02/1992
Film Hour
Character:Self
Release Date:20/12/1991
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:10/11/1991
SnowwhiteRosered
Character:Self
Release Date:24/10/1991
Scream of Stone
Character:TV-Regisseur
Release Date:03/10/1991
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
Character:Self
Release Date:28/11/1990
Hard to Be a God
Character:Mita / Richard
Release Date:25/01/1990
Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God"
Character:Self
Release Date:22/01/1990
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:12/06/1989
Bride of the Orient
Character:Businger
Release Date:02/03/1989
The Heart and the Legs
Character:Self
Release Date:01/03/1989
To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
Character:Self
Release Date:13/02/1989
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
Character:Self
Release Date:30/04/1988
Location Africa
Character:Self
Release Date:28/02/1987
Portrait: Werner Herzog
Character:Self
Release Date:27/03/1986
Tokyo-Ga
Character:Self
Release Date:24/04/1985
The Dark Glow of the Mountain
Character:Self (voice)
Release Date:09/03/1985
Ballad of the Little Soldier
Character:Self (voice)
Release Date:05/11/1984
Where the Green Ants Dream
Character:Lawyer (uncredited)
Release Date:31/08/1984
Man of Flowers
Character:The Father
Release Date:22/09/1983
Burden of Dreams
Character:Self - Filmmaker
Release Date:01/10/1982
Room 666
Character:Self
Release Date:02/06/1982
God's Angry Man
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:17/05/1981
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
Character:Self - Film Director: Nosferatu
Release Date:12/10/1980
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
Character:Self
Release Date:06/10/1979
I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
Character:Self
Release Date:18/04/1979
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
Character:Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Release Date:10/04/1979
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:01/10/1977
Journey Through History
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1977
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Character:Self
Release Date:02/12/1976
Heart of Glass
Character:Glass Transporter
Release Date:12/11/1976
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
Character:Self
Release Date:30/10/1976
Lost in the Garden of the World
Character:Self
Release Date:02/06/1975
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1974
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
Character:Hurenmörder
Release Date:02/04/1971
Signs of Life
Character:Soldier (uncredited)
Release Date:05/07/1968
Die Erben von Papas Kino
Character:
Release Date:30/06/1968
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1967
Television Appearances
The U.S. and the Holocaust
Character:Hermann Göring
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
Character:Self
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
Character:Self - The Client
The Mandalorian
Character:The Client
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Character:Self
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Character:Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Character:Self - Guest
Rick and Morty
Character:Shrimply Pibbles (voice)
On Death Row
Character:Werner Herzog
Parks and Recreation
Character:Keg Jennings
Metalocalypse
Character:
The Henry Rollins Show
Character:
The Boondocks
Character:Himself (voice)
The Colbert Report
Character:
American Dad!
Character:Werner Herzog (voice)
Kulturplatz
Character:Self
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Character:Self
Tales from the Opera
Character:Self - Director
The Simpsons
Character:Walter Hotenhoffer (voice)
The Simpsons
Character:Werner Herzog (voice)
The Simpsons
Character:Dr. Lund (voice)
Sonntagsgespräch
Character:Self
Bavarian Film Awards
Character:Self
Okay
Character:Self
Midi Première
Character:Self
Spécial cinéma
Character:Self
Grimme Award
Character:Self
German Film Award
Character:Self
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