Werner Herzog
Born in Munich, Bavaria, Germany — Sep 05 1942
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 h…
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The Simpsons
Walter Hotenhoffer (voice)
American Dad!
Werner Herzog (voice)
Rick and Morty
Shrimply Pibbles (voice)
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Self
Parks and Recreation
Keg Jennings
The Boondocks
Himself (voice)
Midi Première
Self
The Mandalorian
The Client
German Film Award
Self
Metalocalypse
Bavarian Film Awards
Self
Penguins of Madagascar
Documentary Filmmaker (voice)
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
Self - The Client
Jack Reacher
Zec Chelovek
Under the Sun
Directing
Orion and the Dark
Narrator (voice)
The U.S. and the Holocaust
Hermann Göring
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
Directing
What Dreams May Come
Face
Rescue Dawn
Directing
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Production
Fitzcarraldo
Directing
Grizzly Man
Self / Narrator (voice)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Directing
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Directing
The End
Production
The Act of Killing
Production
Freaks of Nature
Perfect Being (voice)
Ghost Elephants
Narrator (voice)
Close Up
Self (archive footage)
The Grand
The German
Family Romance, LLC
Writing
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
Self
On Death Row
Werner Herzog
Life Itself
Self - Filmmaker
50 Films to See Before You Die
Self
Cobra Verde
Writing
Mister Lonely
Father Umbrillo
Encounters at the End of the World
Narrator (voice)
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
Self
Tokyo-Ga
Self
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Self
Invincible
Writing
Heart of Glass
Glass Transporter
Strawberryfields
Turnlehrer
Dangerous Game
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Salt and Fire
Man with One Story (uncredited)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Narrator (voice)
Woyzeck
Directing
The Great Buster: A Celebration
Self
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
(archive footage)
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Directing
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
Self
Fata Morgana
Directing
Queen of the Desert
Directing
My Best Fiend
Self
Room 666
Self
Red Army
Production
The Valley
Man of Flowers
The Father
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
Self
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Narrator (voice)
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
Self - Narrator (voice)
Atari: Game Over
Self (archival)
BLAST!
Narrator (voice)
Where the Green Ants Dream
Lawyer (uncredited)
Lessons of Darkness
Self - Narrator (voice)
Into the Abyss
Narrator (voice)
Stroszek
Directing
Lost in the Garden of the World
Self
Tannhäuser
Directing
Burden of Dreams
Self - Filmmaker
Scream of Stone
TV-Regisseur
On Borrowed Time
Self
The Look of Silence
Production
The French as Seen by…
Directing
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Directing
Signs of Life
Soldier (uncredited)
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
Self
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
Self
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Self
Back to Room 666
Self (archive footage)
Bucking Fastard
Writing
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Self
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
Self
Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn
Self
What Is It?
Crew
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
(archive footage)
I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
Self
Julien Donkey-Boy
Father
Lemonade War
Neighborhood Hero
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Narrator (voice)
Last Exit: Space
Narrator (voice)
Incident at Loch Ness
Self
The Unbelievers
Self
2000 Years of Christianity
Directing
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Directing
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
Narrator (voice)
The Wild Blue Yonder
Writing
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
Self
A Gray State
Production
Hard to Be a God
Mita / Richard
Placido Domingo's Tales from the Opera
Self - Director
Meeting Gorbachev
Self
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
Self
Ballad of the Little Soldier
Self (voice)
La Bohème
Directing
The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3
Self (voice) ("Dribble" short)
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
Self
The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Himself
Dinotasia
Narrator (voice)
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
Alexander von Humboldt
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
Self
Into the Inferno
Self
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
Self (archive footage)
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
Self (archive footage)
Plastic Bag
Plastic Bag (voice)
Bride of the Orient
Businger
About a Hero
The Transformation of the World Into Music
Self
The Lonely
Reeling
Production
The Blimp-Maker
Crew
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
Self
Burning Heart
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
Self
SnowwhiteRosered
Self
Portrait: Werner Herzog
Self
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
Self (archive footage)
Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest
Self
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
Self - Film Director: Nosferatu
Capturing Reality
Self
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Land of Silence and Darkness
Directing
Precautions Against Fanatics
Directing
I, I, I José Lewgoy
Self
Bells from the Deep
Narrator (voice)
All In This Tea
The Killers: Unstaged
Self
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
Narrator (voice)
Handicapped Future
Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)
The Arc of Oblivion
Narrator (voice)
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
Self
The White Diamond
Narrator (voice)
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
Self
Wheel of Time
Narrator (voice)
The Andinist
The Painter (Narrator)
The Devil's Muse
Crew
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
Narrator (voice)
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
Self
The Heart and the Legs
Self
To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
Self
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
Hurenmörder
Huie's Sermon
Directing
From One Second to the Next
Directing
Die Erben von Papas Kino
Last Words
Directing
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
Self
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
Self
The Dark Glow of the Mountain
Self (voice)
The 100 Greatest Films
Self
I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
Self
The Boxing Prince
Self
Paradox Bullets
Narrator (voice)
A Brief History of Errol Morris
Self
Jihad in Hollywood
Self
Journey Through History
Self
Champions: A Comic Tale
Self
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
Self
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
Self (archive footage)
Tattoo Uprising
Self
Pilgrimage
Directing
The Empty Goal
Crew
The Last Documentary
Self
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
Self
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
Self
Shards of Cinema and Philosophy
Self
Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
Self
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
Self
La Donna del Lago
Directing
Giovanna d'Arco
Directing
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
Self (archive footage)
Wings of Hope
Self
Jihad in Hollywood
Self
The Ball Is a Scumbag
Self
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Self
No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon
Self
Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son
Self
In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Self
Lohengrin: Bayreuth Festival Opera
Directing
Tegoyo
Self (Voice)
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
Narrator (voice)
Theater of Thought
Directing
Ode to the Dawn of Man
Directing
The Last Shepherd
Crew
Location Africa
Self
The Gauls
Directing
Bierbichler
Self
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice)
Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God"
Self
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
Narrator (voice)
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
Narrator (voice)
Dribble
Self (voice)
Felicidad
Production
No One Will Play with Me
Directing
The hunger in the world explained to my son
Writing
The Twilight World
Directing
God's Angry Man
Narrator (voice)
A Night Out
Crew
Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space
Self
10 Questions for Werner Herzog
Self
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
Self
The whole world is country
Production
When Herzog Rescued Phoenix
Narrator (voice)
The Golden Gate
Production
Love Birds
Production
I'm a Soldier
Self
Dreams and Burdens
Self
The Flying Doctors of East Africa
Directing
The Last Scene
Production
Notes from a Dromedary
Crew
Ten Thousand Years Older
Directing
Mi casa amarilla
Editing
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
Directing
Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog
Self
Werner Herzog Defends Dade
Self
Walking to Werner
Self (voice)
Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director
Self
Flores del precipicio
Production
Herakles
Directing
Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog
Self
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
Self (archival footage)
El Poso
Production
An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
Self
Sirena
Mistaken for Strangers
Self (uncredited)