Known For
Directing
Born
Sep 05, 1942
Place of Birth
Munich, Allemagne
Credits
254 titles
Werner Herzog
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 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Werner Herzog, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Bucking Fastard
Writer
Soccer Meets America
Self
Hulk Hogan: Real American
Self
Ghost Elephants
Narrator (voice)
Felicidad
Producer
Mi casa amarilla
Consulting Editor
Sirena
Reeling
Executive Producer
Theater of Thought
Director
The End
Executive Producer
About a Hero
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
Narrator (voice)
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
Self (archival footage)
Orion and the Dark
Narrator (voice)
The Arc of Oblivion
Narrator (voice)
Notes from a Dromedary
Creative Consultant
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Self
Tegoyo
Self (Voice)
Flores del precipicio
Producer
Last Exit: Space
Narrator (voice)
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
Self (archive footage)
El Poso
Producer
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
Self (archive footage)
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
Self (archive footage)
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
Self
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
Self
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
Self
The Andinist
The Painter (Narrator)
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
Narrator (voice)
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
Self - Narrator (voice)
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Self
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
Self - The Client
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
(archive footage)
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
(archive footage)
The Mandalorian
The Client
Family Romance, LLC
Writer
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
Self
Tattoo Uprising
Self
Meeting Gorbachev
Self
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice)
Jihad in Hollywood
Self
Love Birds
Consulting Producer
The Last Scene
Executive Producer
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
Self
Paradox Bullets
Narrator (voice)
The Great Buster: A Celebration
Self
I'm a Soldier
Self
The Empty Goal
Thanks
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
Self
The whole world is country
Consulting Producer