Actor
· Directing
Werner Herzog
Born 1942-09-05
📍 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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.
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Filmography 159
Ghost Elephants
as Narrator (voice)
2026
Sirena
2025
About a Hero
2024
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
as Narrator (voice)
2024
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
as Self (archival footage)
2024
Orion and the Dark
as Narrator (voice)
2024
The Arc of Oblivion
as Narrator (voice)
2023
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
as Self
2022
Tegoyo
as Self (Voice)
2022
The U.S. and the Holocaust
as Hermann Göring
2022
Last Exit: Space
as Narrator (voice)
2022
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
as Self (archive footage)
2022
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
as Self (archive footage)
2021
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
as Self
2021
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
as Self
2021
The Andinist
as The Painter (Narrator)
2020
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
as Narrator (voice)
2020
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2020
Wim Wenders, Desperado
as Self
2020
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
as Self - The Client
2020
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
as (archive footage)
2020
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
as (archive footage)
2020
The Mandalorian
as The Client
2019
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
as Self
2019
Tattoo Uprising
as Self
2019
Meeting Gorbachev
as Self
2019
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
as Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice)
2019
Jihad in Hollywood
as Self
2019
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
as Self
2018
Paradox Bullets
as Narrator (voice)
2018
The Great Buster: A Celebration
as Self
2018
I'm a Soldier
as Self
2018
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
as Self
2018
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
as Self
2017
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
as Self
2017
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
as Self (archive footage)
2017
Salt and Fire
as Man with One Story (uncredited)
2016
Into the Inferno
as Self
2016
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
as Self
2016
Jihad in Hollywood
as Self
2016
Freaks of Nature
as Perfect Being (voice)
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
2015
Penguins of Madagascar
as Documentary Filmmaker (voice)
2014
Atari: Game Over
as Self (archival)
2014
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
as Self (archive footage)
2014
Life Itself
as Self - Filmmaker
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
2014
The Unbelievers
as Self
2013
Rick and Morty
as Shrimply Pibbles (voice)
2013
Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
as Self
2013
An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
as Self
2013
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
as Alexander von Humboldt
2013
Mistaken for Strangers
as Self (uncredited)
2013
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
as Self
2013
Jack Reacher
as Zec Chelovek
2012
Strawberryfields
as Turnlehrer
2012
Close Up
as Self (archive footage)
2012
10 Questions for Werner Herzog
as Self
2012
The Killers: Unstaged
as Self
2012
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
as Self
2012
Dinotasia
as Narrator (voice)
2012
On Death Row
as Werner Herzog
2012
No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon
as Self
2012
I, I, I José Lewgoy
as Self
2011
Into the Abyss
as Narrator (voice)
2011
On Borrowed Time
as Self
2011
Champions: A Comic Tale
as Self
2011
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
as Self
2011
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
as Narrator (voice)
2010
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
as Self
2010
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
as Narrator (voice)
2010
I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
as Self
2010
The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
as Himself
2010
Plastic Bag
as Plastic Bag (voice)
2009
Parks and Recreation
as Keg Jennings
2009
Capturing Reality
as Self
2008
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
as Self
2008
BLAST!
as Narrator (voice)
2008
Bierbichler
as Self
2008
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
as Self
2008
Mister Lonely
as Father Umbrillo
2008
Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn
as Self
2007
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
as Self
2007
Encounters at the End of the World
as Narrator (voice)
2007
The Grand
as The German
2007
All In This Tea
2007
Metalocalypse
2006
50 Films to See Before You Die
as Self
2006
The Henry Rollins Show
2006
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
as Self
2005
The Boondocks
as Himself (voice)
2005
The Colbert Report
2005
Grizzly Man
as Self / Narrator (voice)
2005
American Dad!
as Werner Herzog (voice)
2005
Incident at Loch Ness
as Self
2004
The White Diamond
as Narrator (voice)
2004
Kulturplatz
as Self
2004
The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3
as Self (voice) ("Dribble" short)
2004
Wheel of Time
as Narrator (voice)
2003
The Boxing Prince
as Self
2002
The 100 Greatest Films
as Self
2001
The Ball Is a Scumbag
as Self
2000
Wings of Hope
as Self
1999
Julien Donkey-Boy
as Father
1999
My Best Fiend
as Self
1999
What Dreams May Come
as Face
1998
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
as Narrator (voice)
1997
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
as Self
1996
The Transformation of the World Into Music
as Self
1996
Die Harald Schmidt Show
as Self
1995
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
as Narrator (voice)
1995
Burning Heart
1995
Dangerous Game
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1993
Bells from the Deep
as Narrator (voice)
1993
Lessons of Darkness
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1992
Film Lesson
as Self
1991
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
as Narrator (voice)
1991
SnowwhiteRosered
as Self
1991
Scream of Stone
as TV-Regisseur
1991
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
as Self
1990
Hard to Be a God
as Mita / Richard
1990
The Simpsons
as Walter Hotenhoffer (voice)
1989
The Simpsons
as Werner Herzog (voice)
1989
The Simpsons
as Dr. Lund (voice)
1989
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
as Narrator (voice)
1989
Bride of the Orient
as Businger
1989
To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
as Self
1989
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
as Self
1988
Location Africa
as Self
1987
Portrait: Werner Herzog
as Self
1986
Tokyo-Ga
as Self
1985
The Dark Glow of the Mountains
as Self (voice)
1985
Room 666
as Self
1985
Ballad of the Little Soldier
as Self (voice)
1984
Where the Green Ants Dream
as Lawyer (uncredited)
1984
Man of Flowers
as The Father
1983
God's Angry Man
as Narrator (voice)
1983
Burden of Dreams
as Self - Filmmaker
1982
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
as Self - Film Director: Nosferatu
1980
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
as Self
1979
I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
as Self
1979
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1979
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
as Narrator (voice)
1977
Journey Through History
as Self
1977
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
as Self
1976
Heart of Glass
as Glass Transporter
1976
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
as Self
1976
Lost in the Garden of the World
as Self
1975
Midi Première
as Self
1975
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
as Hurenmörder
1974
Spécial cinéma
as Self
1974
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
as Self
1974
Handicapped Future
as Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)
1971
Signs of Life
as Soldier (uncredited)
1968
Die Erben von Papas Kino
1968
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
1967
Ally
as (voice)