Directing · Munich, Allemagne · Born September 5, 1942
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.
TVSoccer Meets America
2026
as Self
TVHulk Hogan: Real American
2026
as Self
MovieGhost Elephants
2026
as Narrator (voice)
MovieSirena
2025
MovieAbout a Hero
2024
MovieThe Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
2024
as Narrator (voice)
MovieCelebrating the Rice Media Center
2024
as Self (archival footage)
MovieOrion and the Dark
2024
as Narrator (voice)
MovieThe Arc of Oblivion
2023
as Narrator (voice)
MovieWerner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
as Self
MovieTegoyo
2022
as Self (Voice)
MovieLast Exit: Space
2022
as Narrator (voice)
MovieNosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
2022
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThe Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
2021
as Self (archive footage)
MovieHannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
2021
as Self (archive footage)
MovieA Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
2021
as Self
MovieMeteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
2021
as Self
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
2020
as Self
MovieThe Andinist
2020
as The Painter (Narrator)
MovieDear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
2020
as Narrator (voice)
MovieFireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
2020
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MovieWim Wenders, Desperado
2020
as Self
TVDisney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
2020
as Self - The Client
MovieAGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
2020
as (archive footage)
MovieThe AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2020
as (archive footage)
TVThe Mandalorian
2019
as The Client
Movie90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
2019
as Self
MovieTattoo Uprising
2019
as Self
MovieMeeting Gorbachev
2019
as Self
MovieNomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
2019
as Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice)
MovieJihad in Hollywood
2019
as Self
MovieManaslu: Mountain of Souls
2018
as Self
MovieParadox Bullets
2018
as Narrator (voice)
MovieThe Great Buster: A Celebration
2018
as Self
MovieI'm a Soldier
2018
as Self
MovieFilm Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
2018
as Self
MovieOne Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
2017
as Self
MovieWerner We Love You
2017
as Self
MovieBallad of a Righteous Merchant
2017
as Self
MovieThe Man Who Killed John Wayne
2017
as Self (archive footage)
MovieSalt and Fire
2016
as Man with One Story (uncredited)
MovieInto the Inferno
2016
as Self
MovieLo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
2016
as Self
MovieJihad in Hollywood
2016
as Self
MovieFreaks of Nature
2015
as Perfect Being (voice)
TVThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
TVClose Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
as Self
MoviePenguins of Madagascar
2014
as Documentary Filmmaker (voice)
MovieAtari: Game Over
2014
as Self (archival)
Lemonade War
2014
as Neighborhood Hero
MovieAlfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
2014
as Self (archive footage)
Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director
2014
as Self
MovieLife Itself
2014
as Self - Filmmaker
TVLate Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self - Guest
MovieThe Unbelievers
2013
as Self
TVRick and Morty
2013
as Shrimply Pibbles (voice)
MovieWerner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
2013
as Self
MovieAn Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
2013
as Self
MovieHome from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
2013
as Alexander von Humboldt
MovieMistaken for Strangers
2013
as Self (uncredited)
MovieJack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
2013
as Self
MovieJack Reacher
2012
as Zec Chelovek
MovieStrawberryfields
2012
as Turnlehrer
MovieClose Up
2012
as Self (archive footage)
Movie10 Questions for Werner Herzog
2012
as Self
MovieThe Killers: Unstaged
2012
as Self
MovieDubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
2012
as Self
MovieDinotasia
2012
as Narrator (voice)
TVOn Death Row
2012
as Werner Herzog
MovieNo Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon
2012
as Self
MovieI, I, I José Lewgoy
2011
as Self
MovieInto the Abyss
2011
as Narrator (voice)
MovieOn Borrowed Time
2011
as Self
MovieChampions: A Comic Tale
2011
as Self
MovieHans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
2011
as Self
Werner Herzog Defends Dade
2010
as Self
MovieCave of Forgotten Dreams
2010
as Narrator (voice)
MovieAnyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
2010
as Self
When Herzog Rescued Phoenix
2010
as Narrator (voice)
Into the Night With Harmony Korine and Gaspar Noe
2010
as Self
MovieHappy People: A Year in the Taiga
2010
as Narrator (voice)
Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son
2010
as Self
MovieI am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
2010
as Self
MovieThe Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
2010
as Himself
MoviePlastic Bag
2009
as Plastic Bag (voice)
The Lonely
2009
TVParks and Recreation
2009
as Keg Jennings
MovieCapturing Reality
2008
as Self
Movie40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
2008
as Self
MovieBLAST!
2008
as Narrator (voice)
MovieBierbichler
2008
as Self
MovieCounter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
2008
as Self
MovieMister Lonely
2008
as Father Umbrillo
Back to Room 666
2008
as Self (archive footage)
MovieMaking of a True Story: Rescue Dawn
2007
as Self
MoviePierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
2007
as Self
MovieEncounters at the End of the World
2007
as Narrator (voice)
Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest
2007
as Self
MovieThe Grand
2007
as The German
MovieAll In This Tea
2007
TVMetalocalypse
2006
Movie50 Films to See Before You Die
2006
as Self
Walking to Werner
2006
as Self (voice)
TVThe Henry Rollins Show
2006
MovieIn the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
2005
as Self
Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog
2005
as Self
TVThe Boondocks
2005
as Himself (voice)
TVThe Colbert Report
2005
Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space
2005
as Self
MovieGrizzly Man
2005
as Self / Narrator (voice)
Dreams and Burdens
2005
as Self
TVAmerican Dad!
2005
as Werner Herzog (voice)
MovieIncident at Loch Ness
2004
as Self
MovieThe White Diamond
2004
as Narrator (voice)
TVKulturplatz
2004
as Self
MovieThe Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3
2004
as Self (voice) ("Dribble" short)
Dribble
2004
as Self (voice)
MovieWheel of Time
2003
as Narrator (voice)
MovieThe Boxing Prince
2002
as Self
MovieThe 100 Greatest Films
2001
as Self
The Last Documentary
2000
as Self
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
2000
as Self
MovieThe Ball Is a Scumbag
2000
as Self
MovieWings of Hope
1999
as Self
MovieJulien Donkey-Boy
1999
as Father
A Brief History of Errol Morris
1999
as Self
MovieMy Best Fiend
1999
as Self
In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
1999
as Self
MovieWhat Dreams May Come
1998
as Face
Sternstunde Philosophie
1998
as Self
MovieLittle Dieter Needs to Fly
1997
as Narrator (voice)
MovieStardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
1996
as Self
MovieThe Transformation of the World Into Music
1996
as Self
TVDie Harald Schmidt Show
1995
as Self
MovieGesualdo: Death for Five Voices
1995
as Narrator (voice)
MovieBurning Heart
1995
Placido Domingo's Tales from the Opera
1994
as Self - Director
MovieDangerous Game
1993
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieBells from the Deep
1993
as Narrator (voice)
MovieLessons of Darkness
1992
as Self - Narrator (voice)
TVFilm Lesson
1991
as Self
MovieJag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
1991
as Narrator (voice)
MovieSnowwhiteRosered
1991
as Self
MovieScream of Stone
1991
as TV-Regisseur
MovieEchoes from a Sombre Empire
1990
as Self
MovieHard to Be a God
1990
as Mita / Richard
Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God"
1990
as Self
TVThe Simpsons
1989
as Walter Hotenhoffer (voice)
MovieWodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
1989
as Narrator (voice)
MovieBride of the Orient
1989
as Businger
The Heart and the Legs
1989
as Self
MovieTo the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
1989
as Self
MovieWerner Herzog Eats His Shoe
1988
as Self
MovieLocation Africa
1987
as Self
MoviePortrait: Werner Herzog
1986
as Self
MovieTokyo-Ga
1985
as Self
MovieThe Dark Glow of the Mountains
1985
as Self (voice)
MovieRoom 666
1985
as Self
Sonntagsgespräch
1985
as Self
MovieBallad of the Little Soldier
1984
as Self (voice)
MovieWhere the Green Ants Dream
1984
as Lawyer (uncredited)
MovieMan of Flowers
1983
as The Father
MovieGod's Angry Man
1983
as Narrator (voice)
MovieBurden of Dreams
1982
as Self - Filmmaker
MovieGarlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
1980
as Self - Film Director: Nosferatu
Bavarian Film Awards
1979
as Self
Okay
1979
as Self
MovieThe Making of 'Nosferatu'
1979
as Self
MovieI Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
1979
as Self
MovieScénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
1979
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
TVCiné regards
1978
as Self
MovieLa Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
1977
as Narrator (voice)
MovieJourney Through History
1977
as Self
MovieSigns of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
1976
as Self
MovieHeart of Glass
1976
as Glass Transporter
MovieHow Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
1976
as Self
MovieLost in the Garden of the World
1975
as Self
TVMidi Première
1975
as Self
MovieTales of the Dumpster Kid
1974
as Hurenmörder
TVSpécial cinéma
1974
as Self
MovieThe Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
1974
as Self
MovieHandicapped Future
1971
as Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)
TV60 Minutes
1968
as Self
MovieSigns of Life
1968
as Soldier (uncredited)
MovieDie Erben von Papas Kino
1968
MovieNeuer Deutscher Film Report
1967
Grimme Award
1964
as Self
German Film Award
1951
as Self
Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog
as Self
Shards of Cinema and Philosophy
as Self
MovieAlly
as (voice)
