Werner Herzog

ActorDirectorProducerWriterEditor Sep 5 (age 83) Munich, Bavaria, Germany 1951–2027 (76 year career)

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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 situ…

Known For

Film

Jack Reacher

Zec Chelovek

Film

What Dreams May Come

Face

Film

Penguins of Madagascar

Documentary Filmmaker (voice)

Film

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Director

Film

Grizzly Man

Self / Narrator (voice)

Film

Fitzcarraldo

Director

Film

Nosferatu the Vampyre

Director

Film

Rescue Dawn

Author

Filmography

Acting (186)

Movies (159)

The Valley

2027 Upcoming

Jun 11

Ghost Elephants

as Narrator (voice)

Orion and the Dark

as Narrator (voice)

Celebrating the Rice Media Center

2024

as Self (archival footage)

The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft

as Narrator (voice)

About a Hero

Kinski

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

The Arc of Oblivion

2023

as Narrator (voice)

2.0

Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

as Self

Tegoyo

as Self (Voice)

Last Exit: Space

as Narrator (voice)

Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire

2022

as Self (archive footage)

4.8

The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus

2021

as Self (archive footage)

Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless

2021

as Self

A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

2021

as Self

8.5

Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life

2021

as Self (archive footage)

Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

2020

as Self - Narrator (voice)

6.5

Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)

2020

as Narrator (voice)

Wim Wenders, Desperado

2020

as Self

7.7

The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault

2020

as (archive footage)

The Andinist

2020

as The Painter (Narrator)

AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.

2020

as (archive footage)

90 Years of the Music Box Theatre

2019

as Self

Meeting Gorbachev

as Self

Jihad in Hollywood

as Self

Tattoo Uprising

as Self

Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

2019

as Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice)

7.0

Manaslu: Mountain of Souls

2018

as Self

8.3

Paradox Bullets

2018

as Narrator (voice)

The Great Buster: A Celebration

2018

as Self

7.2

Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias

2018

as Self

5.5

I'm a Soldier

2018

as Self

Ballad of a Righteous Merchant

2017

as Self

2.0

One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo

2017

as Self

The Man Who Killed John Wayne

2017

as Self (archive footage)

7.5

Jihad in Hollywood

2016

as Self

Salt and Fire

2016

as Man with One Story (uncredited)

4.9

Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

as Self

Into the Inferno

as Self

Freaks of Nature

as Perfect Being (voice)

6.1

Life Itself

2014

as Self - Filmmaker

7.5

Penguins of Madagascar

2014

as Documentary Filmmaker (voice)

6.5

Atari: Game Over

2014

as Self (archival)

6.6

Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director

2014

as Self

Lemonade War

2014

as Neighborhood Hero

5.0

Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance

2014

as Self (archive footage)

Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'

2013

as Self

The Unbelievers

2013

as Self

6.5

Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around

2013

as Self

7.7

An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog

2013

as Self

Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision

2013

as Alexander von Humboldt

7.8

Mistaken for Strangers

as Self (uncredited)

Jack Reacher

as Zec Chelovek

No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon

2012

as Self

Strawberryfields

2012

as Turnlehrer

10 Questions for Werner Herzog

as Self

Dinotasia

as Narrator (voice)

Close Up

as Self (archive footage)

9.5

The Killers: Unstaged

2012

as Self

3.0

Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections

2012

as Self

I, I, I José Lewgoy

as Self

Into the Abyss

as Narrator (voice)

On Borrowed Time

as Self

Champions: A Comic Tale

2011

as Self

6.0

Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood

2011

as Self

1.0

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

2010

as Narrator (voice)

7.1

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

2010

as Narrator (voice)

7.3

Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse

2010

as Self

When Herzog Rescued Phoenix

2010

as Narrator (voice)

5.0

I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later

2010

as Self

The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

2010

as Himself

10.0

Werner Herzog Defends Dade

2010

as Self

Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son

2010

as Self

The Lonely

2009

Plastic Bag

2009

as Plastic Bag (voice)

Capturing Reality

as Self

Mister Lonely

as Father Umbrillo

Bierbichler

as Self

BLAST!

2008

as Narrator (voice)

7.0

Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

2008

as Self

6.7

Back to Room 666

2008

as Self (archive footage)

5.5

40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight

2008

as Self

The Grand

2007

as The German

5.8

Encounters at the End of the World

2007

as Narrator (voice)

7.5

Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema

as Self

All In This Tea

Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn

2007

as Self

8.0

Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest

2007

as Self

50 Films to See Before You Die

2006

as Self

8.5

Walking to Werner

2006

as Self (voice)

Grizzly Man

2005

as Self / Narrator (voice)

7.5

Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space

2005

as Self

Dreams and Burdens

2005

as Self

6.0

Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog

2005

as Self

In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session

2005

as Self

Incident at Loch Ness

as Self

The White Diamond

as Narrator (voice)

Dribble

as Self (voice)

The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3

2004

as Self (voice) ("Dribble" short)

Wheel of Time

as Narrator (voice)

The Boxing Prince

as Self

The 100 Greatest Films

2001

as Self

5.5

The Ball Is a Scumbag

2000

as Self

7.0

The Last Documentary

2000

as Self

Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor

2000

as Self

My Best Fiend

as Self

Julien Donkey-Boy

as Father

Wings of Hope

as Self

A Brief History of Errol Morris

1999

as Self

6.8

In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

1999

as Self

What Dreams May Come

1998

as Face

7.2

Little Dieter Needs to Fly

1997

as Narrator (voice)

7.5

The Transformation of the World Into Music

1996

as Self

8.5

Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait

1996

as Self

Burning Heart

1995

Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices

1995

as Narrator (voice)

6.8

Dangerous Game

1993

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Bells from the Deep

as Narrator (voice)

Lessons of Darkness

as Self - Narrator (voice)

7.8

Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur

as Narrator (voice)

SnowwhiteRosered

as Self

Scream of Stone

as TV-Regisseur

Film Hour

as Self

Hard to Be a God

as Mita / Richard

Echoes from a Sombre Empire

1990

as Self

7.1

Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God"

1990

as Self

To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further

as Self

Bride of the Orient

as Businger

Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun

1989

as Narrator (voice)

7.2

The Heart and the Legs

1989

as Self

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

1988

as Self

6.9

Location Africa

1987

as Self

Portrait: Werner Herzog

as Self

Tokyo-Ga

as Self

The Dark Glow of the Mountain

1985

as Self (voice)

7.6

Ballad of the Little Soldier

1984

as Self (voice)

6.4

Where the Green Ants Dream

1984

as Lawyer (uncredited)

Man of Flowers

as The Father

God's Angry Man

as Narrator (voice)

Burden of Dreams

as Self - Filmmaker

Room 666

as Self

Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers

1980

as Self - Film Director: Nosferatu

7.5

The Making of 'Nosferatu'

1979

as Self

6.3

Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'

1979

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog

1979

as Self

8.0

La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe

1977

as Narrator (voice)

7.3

Journey Through History

1977

as Self

Heart of Glass

1976

as Glass Transporter

6.5

Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

1976

as Self

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck

1976

as Self

6.3

Lost in the Garden of the World

1975

as Self

The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

1974

as Self

7.2

Handicapped Future

1971

as Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)

6.8

Tales of the Dumpster Kid

1971

as Hurenmörder

3.2

Signs of Life

1968

as Soldier (uncredited)

6.5

Die Erben von Papas Kino

1968

Neuer Deutscher Film Report

1967

Shards of Cinema and Philosophy

as Self

Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog

as Self

Television (27)

The U.S. and the Holocaust

2022

as Hermann Göring

8.3

Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian

2020

as Self - The Client

7.4

Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen

as Self

The Mandalorian

as The Client

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015

as Self - Guest

6.2

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

2015

as Self

6.2

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014

as Self - Guest

5.2

Rick and Morty

2013

as Shrimply Pibbles (voice)

On Death Row

as Werner Herzog

Parks and Recreation

as Keg Jennings

Metalocalypse

The Henry Rollins Show

2006

6.0

American Dad!

2005

as Werner Herzog (voice)

The Colbert Report

The Boondocks

as Himself (voice)

Kulturplatz

as Self

Die Harald Schmidt Show

1995

as Self

7.1

Tales from the Opera

1994

as Self - Director

Film Lesson

1991

as Self

The Simpsons

1989

as Walter Hotenhoffer (voice)

8.0

Sonntagsgespräch

1985

as Self

Bavarian Film Awards

1979

as Self

Okay

1979

as Self

Midi Première

1975

as Self

10.0

Spécial cinéma

1974

as Self

Grimme Award

1964

as Self

German Film Award

1951

as Self

6.0

Crew (223)

Movies (218)

Ghost Elephants

Director

Ghost Elephants

Producer

Ghost Elephants

Screenplay

Ghost Elephants

Writer

Reeling

Executive Producer

Felicidad

2025

Producer

Mi casa amarilla

2025

Consulting Editor

The End

2024

Executive Producer

5.3

The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft

2024

Director

7.8

The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft

2024

Writer

7.8

Theater of Thought

2024

Director

Theater of Thought

2024

Executive Producer

Theater of Thought

2024

Screenplay

The Arc of Oblivion

Executive Producer

Last Exit: Space

Executive Producer

El Poso

Producer

Notes from a Dromedary

2022

Creative Consultant

Flores del precipicio

2022

Producer

5.0

Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

2020

Director

6.5

Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

Writer

Meeting Gorbachev

Director

Meeting Gorbachev

Writer

Family Romance, LLC

Camera Operator

Family Romance, LLC

Director

Family Romance, LLC

Director of Photography

6.2

Family Romance, LLC

2019

Writer

6.2

Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

2019

Director

7.0

Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

2019

Writer

7.0

Love Birds

2019

Consulting Producer

The Last Scene

2019

Executive Producer

The whole world is country

2018

Consulting Producer

The Golden Gate

2018

Executive Producer

The Empty Goal

Thanks

A Gray State

Executive Producer

The Blimp-Maker

Thanks

Salt and Fire

Director

Salt and Fire

Producer

Salt and Fire

Writer

Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

2016

Director

6.6

Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

2016

Producer

6.6

Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

Writer

Into the Inferno

Director

Into the Inferno

Writer

Queen of the Desert

Director

Queen of the Desert

Writer

The Look of Silence

Executive Producer

Red Army

Executive Producer

From One Second to the Next

Director

The Last Shepherd

Thanks

The Act of Killing

Executive Producer

The Killers: Unstaged

Director

Into the Abyss

Director

Into the Abyss

Producer

Into the Abyss

Writer

Ode to the Dawn of Man

2011

Cinematography

7.5

Ode to the Dawn of Man

2011

Director

7.5

Ode to the Dawn of Man

2011

Sound

7.5

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

2010

Director

7.1

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

2010

Screenplay

7.1

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

2010

Director

6.1

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

2010

Screenplay

6.1

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

2010

Director

7.3

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

2010

Executive Producer

7.3

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

2010

Writer

7.3

A Night Out

2010

Technical Advisor

A Night Out

2010

Thanks

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Director

La Bohème

Director

Lohengrin: Bayreuth Festival Opera

2008

Stage Director

Rescue Dawn

Author

Rescue Dawn

Director

Encounters at the End of the World

2007

Director

7.5

Encounters at the End of the World

2007

Sound

7.5

Encounters at the End of the World

Writer

The Devil's Muse

Creative Consultant

Grizzly Man

Director

The Wild Blue Yonder

Director

The Wild Blue Yonder

Screenplay

What Is It?

Thanks

Incident at Loch Ness

Producer

The White Diamond

Director

The White Diamond

Screenplay

Wheel of Time

Director

Wheel of Time

Editor

Wheel of Time

Producer

Wheel of Time

Writer

Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

2002

Director

6.7

Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

2002

Writer

6.7

Ten Thousand Years Older

2002

Director

Ten Thousand Years Older

2002

Screenplay

Invincible

Director

Invincible

Producer

Invincible

Writer

Pilgrimage

Director

Tannhäuser

Stage Director

My Best Fiend

Director

My Best Fiend

Writer

Wings of Hope

Director

Wings of Hope

Writer

Little Dieter Needs to Fly

1997

Director

7.5

Little Dieter Needs to Fly

1997

Writer

7.5

The Transformation of the World Into Music

1996

Director

8.5

The Transformation of the World Into Music

1996

Executive Producer

8.5

The Transformation of the World Into Music

1996

Writer

8.5

Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices

1995

Director

6.8

Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices

1995

Producer

6.8

Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices

Writer

Bells from the Deep

Director

Bells from the Deep

Writer

Lessons of Darkness

Director

Lessons of Darkness

Executive Producer

Lessons of Darkness

Writer

La Donna del Lago

Director

Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur

1991

Director

5.8

Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur

1991

Producer

5.8

Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur

Screenplay

Scream of Stone

Director

Film Hour

Director

Echoes from a Sombre Empire

1990

Director

7.1

Echoes from a Sombre Empire

1990

Producer

7.1

Echoes from a Sombre Empire

Writer

Giovanna d'Arco

Director

Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun

1989

Co-Producer

7.2

Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun

1989

Director

7.2

Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun

Writer

The Gauls

Director

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

1988

Writer

6.9

The French as Seen by…

Director

Cobra Verde

Director

Cobra Verde

Screenplay

Location Africa

Producer

Portrait: Werner Herzog

1986

Director

7.1

Portrait: Werner Herzog

1986

Writer

7.1

The Dark Glow of the Mountain

1985

Director

7.6

The Dark Glow of the Mountain

1985

Producer

7.6

The Dark Glow of the Mountain

1985

Writer

7.6

Ballad of the Little Soldier

1984

Director

6.4

Ballad of the Little Soldier

1984

Producer

6.4

Ballad of the Little Soldier

1984

Writer

6.4

Where the Green Ants Dream

1984

Director

6.9

Where the Green Ants Dream

1984

Producer

6.9

Where the Green Ants Dream

Writer

Huie's Sermon

Director

God's Angry Man

Director

God's Angry Man

Writer

Fitzcarraldo

Director

Fitzcarraldo

Producer

Fitzcarraldo

Screenplay

Nosferatu the Vampyre

1979

Director

7.3

Nosferatu the Vampyre

1979

Producer

7.3

Nosferatu the Vampyre

Writer

Woyzeck

Director

Woyzeck

Screenplay

Stroszek

Director

Stroszek

Producer

Stroszek

Screenplay

La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe

1977

Director

7.3

La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe

1977

Producer

7.3

La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe

Sound Engineer

Heart of Glass

Director

Heart of Glass

Producer

Heart of Glass

Writer

No One Will Play with Me

1976

Director

5.7

No One Will Play with Me

1976

Writer

5.7

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck

1976

Director

6.3

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck

1976

Producer

6.3

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck

1976

Sound

6.3

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

1974

Director

7.3

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

1974

Producer

7.3

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

1974

Screenplay

7.3

The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

1974

Director

7.2

The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

1974

Producer

7.2

The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

1974

Screenplay

7.2

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

1972

Director

7.5

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

1972

Producer

7.5

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Writer

Fata Morgana

Director

Fata Morgana

Producer

Fata Morgana

Screenplay

Fata Morgana

Sound

Handicapped Future

Director

Handicapped Future

Producer

Handicapped Future

Sound

Handicapped Future

Sound Recordist

Handicapped Future

Writer

Land of Silence and Darkness

1971

Director

7.4

Land of Silence and Darkness

1971

Producer

7.4

Land of Silence and Darkness

1971

Screenplay

7.4

Land of Silence and Darkness

1971

Sound Recordist

7.4

The Flying Doctors of East Africa

1970

Director

7.2

The Flying Doctors of East Africa

1970

Sound Recordist

7.2

The Flying Doctors of East Africa

1970

Writer

7.2

Even Dwarfs Started Small

1970

Director

6.4

Even Dwarfs Started Small

1970

Producer

6.4

Even Dwarfs Started Small

1970

Screenplay

6.4

Precautions Against Fanatics

1969

Director

5.6

Precautions Against Fanatics

1969

Producer

5.6

Precautions Against Fanatics

1969

Sound

5.6

Precautions Against Fanatics

Writer

Signs of Life

Director

Signs of Life

Producer

Signs of Life

Writer

Last Words

Director

Last Words

Producer

Last Words

Screenplay

The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz

1967

Director

5.2

The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz

1967

Editor

5.2

The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz

Screenplay

Herakles

Director

Herakles

Editor

Herakles

Producer

Herakles

Screenplay

Herakles

Sound

The hunger in the world explained to my son

Writer

Bucking Fastard

Director

Bucking Fastard

Writer

The Twilight World

Director

The Twilight World

Novel

Television (5)

On Death Row

Director

On Death Row

Writer

2000 Years of Christianity

1999

Director

7.0

Film Lesson

1991

Director

Under the Sun

1989

Director