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Werner Herzog

Film Director / Film Producer / Screenwriter / Author / Cinematographer / Actor | * 09/05/1942 (80) | Munich, Bavaria (Germany)
Werner Herzog (German: [ˈvɛʁnɐ ˈhɛʁtsoːk], né Stipetić; born on 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. He has moved a 340-ton steamship over a mountain in the Amazon jungle for his film Fitzcarraldo (1982). 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), ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Documentaries | Drama | Comedies

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Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitabl ...

Fitzcarraldo

PG

1982 | 3.8/5 | 2h 37min
Drama, Adventure
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A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in search of the lost city of El Do ...

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

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1972 | 3.8/5 | 1h 33min
Adventure, Drama, History
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When a gunman takes five lives with six shots, all evidence points to the suspect in custody. On interrogation, the suspect offers up a single note: "Get Jack Reacher!" So begins an extraordinary chas ...

Jack Reacher

PG-13

2012 | 3.3/5 | 2h 10min
Crime, Drama, Thriller, Action
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Jonathan Harker, a real estate agent, goes to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar. Once Jonathan is caught under his evil spell, Dracu ...

Nosferatu the Vampyre

PG

1979 | 3.7/5 | 1h 47min
Drama, Horror
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Awards & Nominations for Werner Herzog

Officer's Cross of The Order of Merit of The Federal Republic of Germany Directors Guild of America Awards Bayerischer Poetentaler Rauris Literature Prize European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award César Award for Best Foreign Film European Film Award for Best Documentary
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Movies with Werner Herzog as Actor(121)

as Director2023 Tales from the Opera
as himself2023 Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog
as himself2023 Shards of cinema and philosophy
as himself2023 Il cuore e le gambe (Herzog)
as himself2023 Journey Through History
as himself2022 Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
as Self (Voice)2022 Tegoyo
as Narrator2022 The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
as Narrator (voice)2022 Last Exit: Space
as Self - Host2021 Falling - Q&A
as himself2020 Wim Wenders, Desperado
as Self - Narrator2020 Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds
as Narrator2020 Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
as himself2020 A Life for Movies - Lotte Eisner
as himself2019 Meeting Gorbachev
as himself2019 Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
as himself2019 Tattoo Uprising
as himself2019 Jihad in Hollywood
as himself2018 Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
as himself2018 Manaslu - Berg der Seelen
as himself2018 The Great Buster: A Celebration
2017 O Homem que Matou John Wayne
as himself2017 Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
as himself2016 Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
as Man with One Story (uncredited)2016 Salt and Fire
as himself2016 Jihad in Hollywood
as Narrator (voice)2016 Into the Inferno
as Perfect Being (voice)2015 Freaks of Nature
as Self - Filmmaker2014 Life Itself
2014 Lemonade War
as himself2014 Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director
as Documentary Filmmaker (voice)2014 Penguins of Madagascar
as Self (uncredited)2013 Mistaken for Strangers
as himself2013 The Unbelievers
as himself2013 An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
as himself2013 Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
as himself2013 Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
as Alexander von Humboldt2013 Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
as Zec Chelovek2012 Jack Reacher
as himself2012 10 Questions for Werner Herzog
as himself2012 The Killers: Unstaged
as Narrator2012 Dinotasia
as himself2011 Champions: A Comic Tale
as himself2011 Eu eu eu José Lewgoy
as himself2011 Into the Abyss
as himself2011 Hans Zimmer - Der Sound für Hollywood
as himself2011 On Borrowed Time
as himself2010 I am My Films, Part 2 - 30 Years Later
as Himself - Narrator (voice)2010 Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
as himself2010 Cave of Forgotten Dreams
as Himself/Narrator2010 When Herzog Rescued Phoenix
2010 Wer sich traut, reißt die Kälte vom Pferd
2009 The Lonely
2009 Plastic Bag
as himself2008 40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
as Self (archive footage)2008 Back to Room 666
as Father Umbrillo2008 Mister Lonely
as himself2008 BLAST!
as himself2008 Capturing Reality
as himself2008 Gegenschuss - Aufbruch der Filmemacher
as himself2008 Bierbichler
as Narrator (voice)2007 Encounters at the End of the World
2007 All In This Tea
as The German2007 The Grand
as himself2007 Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
as Himself (voice)2006 Walking to Werner
as himself2005 Grizzly Man
as Himself / narrator2004 The White Diamond
as himself2004 Incident at Loch Ness
as Himself (voice)2004 Dribble
as Narrator2003 Wheel of Time
as himself2002 The Boxing Prince
2000 The last documentary
as himself2000 The Ball Is a Scumbag
as himself2000 Wings of Hope
as himself1999 A Brief History of Errol Morris
as himself1999 My Best Fiend
as himself1999 In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
as Father1999 Julien Donkey-Boy
as Face1998 What Dreams May Come
as Himself / Narrator1997 Little Dieter Needs to Fly
as himself1996 Stardust Stricken - Mohsen Makhmalbaf: A Portrait
1995 Brennendes Herz
as Narrator (voice)1995 Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
as Narrator1993 Bells from the Deep
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)1993 Dangerous Game
as Narrator (voice)1992 Lessons of Darkness
as Narrator1991 Jag Mandir
as himself1991 Filmstunde
as TV-Regisseur1991 Scream of Stone
as himself1991 SnowwhiteRosered
as himself1990 Echoes from a Sombre Empire
as Mita / Richard1990 Hard to Be a God
as Gemeindeschreiber Businger1989 Bride of the Orient
as himself1989 To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
as Narrator (voice)1989 Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
as himself1988 Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
as himself1987 Location Africa
as himself1986 Portrait: Werner Herzog
as himself1985 The Dark Glow of the Mountain
as himself1985 Tokyo-Ga
as Lawyer (uncredited)1984 Where the Green Ants Dream
as Himself (Voice)1984 Ballad of the Little Soldier
as The Father1983 Man of Flowers
as himself1982 Room 666
as Self - Filmmaker1982 Burden of Dreams
as Narrator1981 God's Angry Man
1980 Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
as himself1979 The Making of Nosferatu
as Himself (Archive)1979 Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
as Gravedigger (uncredited)1979 Nosferatu the Vampyre
as himself1979 I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
as Narrator1977 La Soufrière
1976 Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
as himself1976 How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
as himself1974 The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
1971 Land of Silence and Darkness
as Hurenmörder1971 Tales of the Dumpster Kid
as Soldier (uncredited)1968 Signs of Life
1968 Die Erben von Papas Kino
1967 Neuer Deutscher Film Report

TV Shows/Series with Werner Herzog as Actor(14)

as Self - The Client2020 Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
as The Client2019 The Mandalorian
as himself2015 Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Shrimply Pibbles (voice)2013 Rick and Morty
as Keg Jennings2009 Parks and Recreation
2006 The Henry Rollins Show
2005 The Colbert Report
as Werner Herzog (voice)2005 American Dad!
as himself1995 Die Harald Schmidt Show
as Walter Hotenhoffer (voice)1989 The Simpsons
as himself (voice)1989 The Simpsons
as Dr. Lund (voice)1989 The Simpsons
as himself1985 Sonntagsgespräch
as himself1979 Okay

Movies with Werner Herzog as Crew(180)

Crew/Creative Consultant2022 Notes from a Dromedary
Directing/Director2022 The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
Writing/Writer2022 The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
Production/Producer2022 El Poso
Directing/Director2022 Last Exit: Space
Production/Executive Producer2022 Last Exit: Space
Writing/Screenplay2022 Theatre of Thought
Directing/Director2022 Theatre of Thought
Production/Executive Producer2022 Theatre of Thought
Production/Producer2022 Flores del precipicio
Directing/Director2021 Fordlandia
Directing/Director2020 Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds
Writing/Writer2020 Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds
Directing/Director2019 Meeting Gorbachev
Writing/Writer2019 Meeting Gorbachev
Camera/Director of Photography2019 Family Romance, LLC
Camera/Camera Operator2019 Family Romance, LLC
Directing/Director2019 Family Romance, LLC
Writing/Writer2019 Family Romance, LLC
Directing/Director2019 Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Writing/Writer2019 Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Production/Executive Producer2019 The Last Scene
Production/Executive Producer2018 The Long Farewell
Production/Executive Producer2017 A Gray State
Directing/Director2016 Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Production/Producer2016 Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Writing/Writer2016 Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Directing/Director2016 Salt and Fire
Production/Producer2016 Salt and Fire
Writing/Writer2016 Salt and Fire
Directing/Director2016 Into the Inferno
Writing/Writer2016 Into the Inferno
Directing/Director2015 Queen of the Desert
Writing/Writer2015 Queen of the Desert
Production/Executive Producer2014 The Look of Silence
Directing/Director2013 From One Second to the Next
Production/Executive Producer2012 The Act of Killing
Directing/Director2012 The Killers: Unstaged
Directing/Director2011 Into the Abyss
Writing/Writer2011 Into the Abyss
Directing/Director2011 Ode to the Dawn of Man
Directing/Director2010 Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Writing/Writer2010 Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Production/Executive Producer2010 Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Directing/Director2010 Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Writing/Screenplay2010 Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Directing/Director2009 La Bohème
Directing/Director2009 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
Directing/Director2009 My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Writing/Screenplay2009 My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Directing/Stage Director2008 Lohengrin
Directing/Director2007 Encounters at the End of the World
Writing/Writer2007 Encounters at the End of the World
Directing/Director2006 Rescue Dawn
Writing/Author2006 Rescue Dawn
Directing/Director2005 The Wild Blue Yonder
Writing/Screenplay2005 The Wild Blue Yonder
Crew/Thanks2005 What Is It?
Directing/Director2005 Grizzly Man
Writing/Screenplay2005 Grizzly Man
Directing/Director2004 The White Diamond
Writing/Screenplay2004 The White Diamond
Directing/Director2003 Wheel of Time
Editing/Editor2003 Wheel of Time
Production/Producer2003 Wheel of Time
Writing/Writer2003 Wheel of Time
Directing/Director2002 Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
Writing/Writer2002 Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
Directing/Director2001 Pilgrimage
Directing/Director2001 Invincible
Production/Producer2001 Invincible
Writing/Writer2001 Invincible
Directing/Director2000 Wings of Hope
Directing/Director1999 My Best Fiend
Writing/Writer1999 My Best Fiend
Directing/Director1997 Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Writing/Writer1997 Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Directing/Director1996 The Transformation of the World Into Music
Directing/Director1995 Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
Writing/Writer1995 Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
Directing/Director1993 Bells from the Deep
Writing/Writer1993 Bells from the Deep
Directing/Director1992 Lessons of Darkness
Production/Producer1992 Lessons of Darkness
Writing/Writer1992 Lessons of Darkness
Directing/Director1992 La Donna del Lago
Directing/Director1991 Jag Mandir
Production/Producer1991 Jag Mandir
Writing/Screenplay1991 Jag Mandir
Directing/Director1991 Filmstunde
Directing/Director1991 Scream of Stone
Directing/Director1990 Echoes from a Sombre Empire
Production/Producer1990 Echoes from a Sombre Empire
Writing/Writer1990 Echoes from a Sombre Empire
Directing/Director1989 Giovanna d'Arco
Directing/Director1989 Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
Writing/Writer1989 Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
Directing/Director1988 The French as Seen by…
Writing/Writer1988 Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
Directing/Director1988 Les Gaulois
Production/Producer1987 Location Africa
Directing/Director1987 Cobra Verde
Writing/Screenplay1987 Cobra Verde
Directing/Director1986 Portrait: Werner Herzog
Writing/Writer1986 Portrait: Werner Herzog
Directing/Director1985 The Dark Glow of the Mountain
Directing/Director1984 Where the Green Ants Dream
Writing/Co-Writer1984 Where the Green Ants Dream
Directing/Director1984 Ballad of the Little Soldier
Production/Producer1984 Ballad of the Little Soldier
Writing/Writer1984 Ballad of the Little Soldier
Directing/Director1983 Huie's Sermon
Directing/Director1982 Fitzcarraldo
Production/Producer1982 Fitzcarraldo
Writing/Screenplay1982 Fitzcarraldo
Directing/Director1981 God's Angry Man
Writing/Writer1981 God's Angry Man
Directing/Director1979 The Making of Nosferatu
Directing/Director1979 Woyzeck
Writing/Screenplay1979 Woyzeck
Directing/Director1979 Nosferatu the Vampyre
Production/Producer1979 Nosferatu the Vampyre
Writing/Writer1979 Nosferatu the Vampyre
Directing/Director1977 Stroszek
Writing/Screenplay1977 Stroszek
Directing/Director1977 La Soufrière
Production/Producer1977 La Soufrière
Sound/Sound Engineer1977 La Soufrière
Directing/Director1976 No One Will Play with Me
Writing/Writer1976 No One Will Play with Me
Directing/Director1976 How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
Production/Producer1976 How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
Directing/Director1976 Heart of Glass
Production/Producer1976 Heart of Glass
Writing/Writer1976 Heart of Glass
Directing/Director1974 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Production/Producer1974 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Writing/Screenplay1974 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Directing/Director1974 The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
Writing/Screenplay1974 The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
Directing/Director1972 Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Production/Producer1972 Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Writing/Writer1972 Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Crew/Sound Recordist1971 Handicapped Future
Directing/Director1971 Handicapped Future
Production/Producer1971 Handicapped Future
Writing/Writer1971 Handicapped Future
Directing/Director1971 Fata Morgana
Writing/Screenplay1971 Fata Morgana
Crew/Sound Recordist1971 Land of Silence and Darkness
Directing/Director1971 Land of Silence and Darkness
Production/Producer1971 Land of Silence and Darkness
Writing/Screenplay1971 Land of Silence and Darkness
Directing/Director1970 Even Dwarfs Started Small
Production/Producer1970 Even Dwarfs Started Small
Writing/Screenplay1970 Even Dwarfs Started Small
Directing/Director1970 The Flying Doctors of East Africa
Sound/Sound Recordist1970 The Flying Doctors of East Africa
Writing/Writer1970 The Flying Doctors of East Africa
Directing/Director1969 Precautions Against Fanatics
Production/Producer1969 Precautions Against Fanatics
Sound/Sound1969 Precautions Against Fanatics
Writing/Writer1969 Precautions Against Fanatics
Directing/Director1968 Signs of Life
Production/Producer1968 Signs of Life
Writing/Writer1968 Signs of Life
Directing/Director1968 Last Words
Production/Producer1968 Last Words
Writing/Screenplay1968 Last Words
Directing/Director1967 The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
Editing/Editor1967 The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
Writing/Screenplay1967 The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
Directing/Director1964 Game in the Sand
Editing/Editor1964 Game in the Sand
Writing/Writer1964 Game in the Sand
Directing/Director1962 Herakles
Editing/Editor1962 Herakles
Production/Producer1962 Herakles
Sound/Sound1962 Herakles
Writing/Screenplay1962 Herakles

TV Shows/Series with Werner Herzog as Crew(3)

Writing/Writer2012 On Death Row
Directing/Director2012 On Death Row
Creator/Creator2012 On Death Row

Additional Information

Official websites:
www.wernerherzog.com
Full Name: Werner Herzog
Citizenship: Germany
Born: Saturday, 09/05 1942 (September) in Munich, Bavaria (Germany) (current age: 80 years + 153 days)
Zodiac sign: Virgo (Chinese zodiac sign: Horse)
Languages: German (DE), English (EN)
Educated at: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Member of: Directors Guild of America
Spouses (current/former): Lena Herzog
Siblings: Sigrid Duke
Other names for Werner Herzog (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"韋納荷索"
"Werner Herzog Stipetić"
"Вернер Херцог"
Werner Herzog frequently works together with these people:
Maurice LaMarche (25x, Actor)
Joe Bini (23x, Crew)
Walter Saxer (23x, Crew)
Peter Zeitlinger (23x, Crew)
Tress MacNeille (22x, Actress)
Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus (22x, Crew)
Tom Kenny (21x, Actor)
Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein (18x, Crew)
Kevin Michael Richardson (17x, Actor)
Kari Wahlgren (17x, Actress)
Wim Wenders (17x, Crew)
Thomas Mauch (16x, Crew)
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