Werner Herzog
Birthday
1942/09/05 (83 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Also know as
韋納荷索, Werner Herzog Stipetić, Вернер Херцог, 베르네 헤어조크, ورنر هرتزوگ, 沃纳·赫尔佐格
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...Read more
Acting
(1996) The Transformation of the World Into Music
as Self
(2009) The Lonely
as ---
(2004) The White Diamond
as Narrator (voice)
(2008) Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
as Self
(1999) My Best Fiend
as Self
(2023) The Arc of Oblivion
as Narrator (voice)
(1982) Burden of Dreams
as Self - Filmmaker
(2007) The Grand
as The German
(2006) 50 Films to See Before You Die
as Self
(2007) Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn
as Self
(2012) Strawberryland
as Turnlehrer
(1976) Heart of Glass
as Glass Transporter
(2008) Mister Lonely
as Father Umbrillo
(1990) Hard to Be a God
as Mita / Richard
(2021) Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
as Self (archive footage)
(2012) Close Up
as Self (archive footage)
(2014) Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
as Self (archive footage)
(2021) The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
as Self (archive footage)
(2022) Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
as Self (archive footage)
(2001) The 100 Greatest Films
as Self
(2009) Plastic Bag
as Plastic Bag (voice)
(1991) Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
as Narrator (voice)
(1977) La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
as Narrator (voice)
(2004) Incident at Loch Ness
as Self
(2012) Jack Reacher
as Zec Chelovek
(1985) Tokyo-Ga
as Self
(2007) All In This Tea
as ---
(2011) Into the Abyss
as Narrator (voice)
(2010) Cave of Forgotten Dreams
as Narrator (voice)
(2024) Orion and the Dark
as Narrator (voice)
(1999) A Brief History of Errol Morris
as Self
(1976) How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
as Self
(2022) Last Exit: Space
as Narrator (voice)
(1991) Scream of Stone
as TV-Regisseur
(2012) Dinotasia
as Narrator (voice)
(2010) Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
as Narrator (voice)
(1988) Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
as Self
(1984) Ballad of the Little Soldier
as Self (voice)
(1983) Man of Flowers
as The Father
(2022) Tegoyo
as Self (Voice)
(1986) Portrait: Werner Herzog
as Self
(2004) Dribble
as Self (voice)
(1985) The Dark Glow of the Mountain
as Self (voice)
(2013) The Unbelievers
as Self
(1987) Location Africa
as Self
(2005) Dreams and Burdens
as Self
(1993) Dangerous Game
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2006) Walking to Werner
as Self (voice)
(2002) The Boxing Prince
as Self
(1989) To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
as Self
(2014) Life Itself
as Self - Filmmaker
(1989) Bride of the Orient
as Businger
(2022) Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
as Self
(2010) Werner Herzog Defends Dade
as Self
(2014) Penguins of Madagascar
as Documentary Filmmaker (voice)
(1974) The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
as Self
(2024) The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
as Narrator (voice)
(1990) Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God"
as Self
(1991) SnowwhiteRosered
as Self
(2000) Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
as Self
(2010) Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son
as Self
(2005) Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space
as Self
(2005) Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog
as Self
(2007) Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest
as Self
(2012) No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon
as Self
(2012) Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
as Self
(2014) Lemonade War
as Neighborhood Hero
(2019) 90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
as Self
Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog
as Self
(1977) Journey Through History
as Self
(1989) The Heart and the Legs
as Self
(1996) Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
as Self
(1999) In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
as Self
(2000) The Last Documentary
as Self
Shards of Cinema and Philosophy
as Self
(2007) Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
as Self
(2008) Bierbichler
as Self
(2008) 40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
as Self
(2010) Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
as Self
(2011) Champions: A Comic Tale
as Self
(2011) I, I, I José Lewgoy
as Self
(2013) Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
as Self
(2011) On Borrowed Time
as Self
(2013) Mistaken for Strangers
as Self (uncredited)
(2013) An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
as Self
(2013) Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
as Self
(2014) Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director
as Self
(2019) Jihad in Hollywood
as Self
(2016) Jihad in Hollywood
as Self
(1968) Die Erben von Papas Kino
as ---
(1971) Tales of the Dumpster Kid
as Hurenmörder
(2005) In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
as Self
(2008) Back to Room 666
as Self (archive footage)
(2021) Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
as Self
(2011) Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
as Self
(2005) Grizzly Man
as Self / Narrator (voice)
(2016) Into the Inferno
as Self
(2016) Salt and Fire
as Man with One Story (uncredited)
(1980) Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
as Self - Film Director: Nosferatu
(2024) Celebrating the Rice Media Center
as Self (archival footage)
(1991) Film Hour
as Self
(1979) The Making of 'Nosferatu'
as Self
(1968) Signs of Life
as Soldier (uncredited)
(1992) Lessons of Darkness
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(1995) Burning Heart
as ---
(2015) Freaks of Nature
as Perfect Being (voice)
(1998) What Dreams May Come
as Face
(2008) Capturing Reality
as Self
(2010) The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
as Himself
(2013) Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
as Alexander von Humboldt
(1999) Wings of Hope
as Self
(1982) Room 666
as Self
(2027) The Valley
as ---
(1997) Little Dieter Needs to Fly
as Narrator (voice)
(1979) I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
as Self
(2017) The Man Who Killed John Wayne
as Self (archive footage)
(2008) BLAST!
as Narrator (voice)
(2016) Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
as Self
(1967) Neuer Deutscher Film Report
as ---
(1989) Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
as Narrator (voice)
(1976) Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
as Self
(1995) Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
as Narrator (voice)
(2004) The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3
as Self (voice) ("Dribble" short)
(2000) The Ball Is a Scumbag
as Self
(2012) 10 Questions for Werner Herzog
as Self
(1999) Julien Donkey-Boy
as Father
(2018) The Great Buster: A Celebration
as Self
(2018) Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
as Self
(1984) Where the Green Ants Dream
as Lawyer (uncredited)
(2007) Encounters at the End of the World
as Narrator (voice)
(2020) Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2019) Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
as Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice)
(2019) Meeting Gorbachev
as Self
(2017) Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
as Self
(2019) Tattoo Uprising
as Self
(2018) Paradox Bullets
as Narrator (voice)
(1975) Lost in the Garden of the World
as Self
(1993) Bells from the Deep
as Narrator (voice)
(2010) When Herzog Rescued Phoenix
as Narrator (voice)
(1981) God's Angry Man
as Narrator (voice)
(2020) AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
as (archive footage)
(2012) The Killers: Unstaged
as Self
(2003) Wheel of Time
as Narrator (voice)
(2018) Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
as Self
(2020) Wim Wenders, Desperado
as Self
(2020) Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
as Narrator (voice)
(2020) The Andinist
as The Painter (Narrator)
(1990) Echoes from a Sombre Empire
as Self
(2021) A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
as Self
(1979) Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2010) I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
as Self
(2018) I'm a Soldier
as Self
(2017) One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
as Self
(2024) About a Hero
as ---
(2024) Kinski
as Self (archive footage)
(2014) Atari: Game Over
as Self (archival)
(2020) The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
as (archive footage)
(2025) Ghost Elephants
as Narrator (voice)
(2018) Black Baby
as Self (archive footage)
(1989) The Simpsons
as Walter Hotenhoffer (voice)
(1985) Sonntagsgespräch
as Self
(1979) Okay
as Self
(2005) The Colbert Report
as ---
(2006) The Henry Rollins Show
as ---
(1989) The Simpsons
as Werner Herzog (voice)
(2012) On Death Row
as Werner Herzog
(2022) The U.S. and the Holocaust
as Hermann Göring
(1989) The Simpsons
as Dr. Lund (voice)
(1995) Die Harald Schmidt Show
as Self
(2013) Rick and Morty
as Shrimply Pibbles (voice)
(2014) Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
(2010) Future States
as Plastic Bag (voice)
(2015) The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
(2009) Parks and Recreation
as Keg Jennings
(1974) Spécial cinéma
as Self
(1951) German Film Award
as Self
(1964) Grimme Award
as Self
(1979) Bavarian Film Awards
as Self
(1975) Midi Première
as Self
(2019) The Mandalorian
as The Client
(2005) American Dad!
as Werner Herzog (voice)
(2015) Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
(2004) Kulturplatz
as Self
(2020) Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
as Self - The Client
(2020) Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
as Self
(2006) Metalocalypse
as ---
(2005) The Boondocks
as Himself (voice)
(1994) Tales from the Opera
as Self - Director