Werner Herzog

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

188

Gender

Male

Birthday

1942-09-05 (83 years old)

Place of Birth

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

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

  • The Simpsons

    The Simpsons

  • The Simpsons

    The Simpsons

  • The Simpsons

    The Simpsons

  • American Dad!

    American Dad!

  • Rick and Morty

    Rick and Morty

  • Late Night with Seth Meyers

    Late Night with Seth Meyers

  • Die Harald Schmidt Show

    Die Harald Schmidt Show

  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

    The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

  • The Colbert Report

    The Colbert Report

  • The Mandalorian

    The Mandalorian

  • Parks and Recreation

    Parks and Recreation

  • The Boondocks

    The Boondocks

  • A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

    A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

  • Penguins of Madagascar

    Penguins of Madagascar

  • Midi Première

    Midi Première

  • Spécial cinéma

    Spécial cinéma

  • Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

    Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

  • Grimme Award

    Grimme Award

  • Jack Reacher

    Jack Reacher

  • The Transformation of the World Into Music

    The Transformation of the World Into Music

  • Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life

    Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life

  • German Film Award

    German Film Award

  • Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God"

    Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God"

  • How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck

    How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck

  • Metalocalypse

    Metalocalypse

  • Bavarian Film Awards

    Bavarian Film Awards

  • Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers

    Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers

  • Kulturplatz

    Kulturplatz

  • Grizzly Man

    Grizzly Man

  • Room 666

    Room 666

  • Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son

    Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son

  • Champions: A Comic Tale

    Champions: A Comic Tale

  • Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire

    Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire

  • Hard to Be a God

    Hard to Be a God

  • What Dreams May Come

    What Dreams May Come

  • Life Itself

    Life Itself

  • Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian

    Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian

  • Ghost Elephants

    Ghost Elephants

  • Mister Lonely

    Mister Lonely

  • Dangerous Game

    Dangerous Game

  • Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias

    Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias

  • Orion and the Dark

    Orion and the Dark

  • The Grand

    The Grand

  • Capturing Reality

    Capturing Reality

  • The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft

    The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft

  • The Lonely

    The Lonely

  • Lemonade War

    Lemonade War

  • The Henry Rollins Show

    The Henry Rollins Show

  • A Brief History of Errol Morris

    A Brief History of Errol Morris

  • Freaks of Nature

    Freaks of Nature

  • Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

    Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

  • The Unbelievers

    The Unbelievers

  • Okay

    Okay

  • Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn

    Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn

  • I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later

    I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later

  • SnowwhiteRosered

    SnowwhiteRosered

  • Salt and Fire

    Salt and Fire

  • Tokyo-Ga

    Tokyo-Ga

  • Julien Donkey-Boy

    Julien Donkey-Boy

  • Meeting Gorbachev

    Meeting Gorbachev

  • Location Africa

    Location Africa

  • The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3

    The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3

  • My Best Fiend

    My Best Fiend

  • Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around

    Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around

  • Burning Heart

    Burning Heart

  • The Boxing Prince

    The Boxing Prince

  • Tegoyo

    Tegoyo

  • Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

    Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

  • Encounters at the End of the World

    Encounters at the End of the World

  • Incident at Loch Ness

    Incident at Loch Ness

  • Into the Inferno

    Into the Inferno

  • Lost in the Garden of the World

    Lost in the Garden of the World

  • Signs of Life

    Signs of Life

  • Burden of Dreams

    Burden of Dreams

  • Neuer Deutscher Film Report

    Neuer Deutscher Film Report

  • Ballad of a Righteous Merchant

    Ballad of a Righteous Merchant

  • Little Dieter Needs to Fly

    Little Dieter Needs to Fly

  • The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault

    The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault

  • Strawberryland

    Strawberryland

  • Plastic Bag

    Plastic Bag

  • To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further

    To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further

  • Heart of Glass

    Heart of Glass

  • 40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight

    40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight

  • The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

    The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

  • The U.S. and the Holocaust

    The U.S. and the Holocaust

  • Cave of Forgotten Dreams

    Cave of Forgotten Dreams

  • Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

    Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

  • Back to Room 666

    Back to Room 666

  • Atari: Game Over

    Atari: Game Over

  • Man of Flowers

    Man of Flowers

  • Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision

    Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision

  • Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor

    Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor

  • Where the Green Ants Dream

    Where the Green Ants Dream

  • Wim Wenders, Desperado

    Wim Wenders, Desperado

  • Scream of Stone

    Scream of Stone

  • AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.

    AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.

  • One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo

    One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo

  • Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest

    Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest

  • I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog

    I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog

  • Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

    Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

  • Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen

    Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen

  • Wheel of Time

    Wheel of Time

  • About a Hero

    About a Hero

  • Into the Abyss

    Into the Abyss

  • The Last Documentary

    The Last Documentary

  • In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session

    In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session

  • The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

    The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

  • The White Diamond

    The White Diamond

  • Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections

    Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections

  • Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

    Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

  • Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless

    Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless

  • Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

    Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

  • The Heart and the Legs

    The Heart and the Legs

  • Walking to Werner

    Walking to Werner

  • Wings of Hope

    Wings of Hope

  • Jihad in Hollywood

    Jihad in Hollywood

  • Jihad in Hollywood

    Jihad in Hollywood

  • Die Erben von Papas Kino

    Die Erben von Papas Kino

  • Echoes from a Sombre Empire

    Echoes from a Sombre Empire

  • Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance

    Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance

  • The Valley

    The Valley

  • The Man Who Killed John Wayne

    The Man Who Killed John Wayne

  • Bride of the Orient

    Bride of the Orient

  • Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

    Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

  • On Death Row

    On Death Row

  • Portrait: Werner Herzog

    Portrait: Werner Herzog

  • Journey Through History

    Journey Through History

  • Bierbichler

    Bierbichler

  • On Borrowed Time

    On Borrowed Time

  • Dinotasia

    Dinotasia

  • The Dark Glow of the Mountain

    The Dark Glow of the Mountain

  • Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

    Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

  • Manaslu: Mountain of Souls

    Manaslu: Mountain of Souls

  • Paradox Bullets

    Paradox Bullets

  • Sonntagsgespräch

    Sonntagsgespräch

  • 50 Films to See Before You Die

    50 Films to See Before You Die

  • 90 Years of the Music Box Theatre

    90 Years of the Music Box Theatre

  • The Great Buster: A Celebration

    The Great Buster: A Celebration

  • God's Angry Man

    God's Angry Man

  • Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'

    Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'

  • Close Up

    Close Up

  • Tattoo Uprising

    Tattoo Uprising

  • Lessons of Darkness

    Lessons of Darkness

  • Last Exit: Space

    Last Exit: Space

  • Future States

    Future States

  • Tales of the Dumpster Kid

    Tales of the Dumpster Kid

  • The Killers: Unstaged

    The Killers: Unstaged

  • The Arc of Oblivion

    The Arc of Oblivion

  • La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe

    La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe

  • Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema

    Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema

  • Kinski

    Kinski

  • In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

    In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

  • The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus

    The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus

  • Bells from the Deep

    Bells from the Deep

  • Celebrating the Rice Media Center

    Celebrating the Rice Media Center

  • The Making of 'Nosferatu'

    The Making of 'Nosferatu'

  • Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait

    Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait

  • The Andinist

    The Andinist

  • Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices

    Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices

  • Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse

    Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse

  • Black Baby

    Black Baby

  • Ballad of the Little Soldier

    Ballad of the Little Soldier

  • Dribble

    Dribble

  • All In This Tea

    All In This Tea

  • An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog

    An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog

  • The 100 Greatest Films

    The 100 Greatest Films

  • Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'

    Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'

  • Tales from the Opera

    Tales from the Opera

  • Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)

    Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)

  • Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun

    Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun

  • I, I, I José Lewgoy

    I, I, I José Lewgoy

  • Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur

    Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur

  • Dreams and Burdens

    Dreams and Burdens

  • Mistaken for Strangers

    Mistaken for Strangers

  • Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog

    Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog

  • Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood

    Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood

  • When Herzog Rescued Phoenix

    When Herzog Rescued Phoenix

  • Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director

    Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director

  • I'm a Soldier

    I'm a Soldier

  • Film Hour

    Film Hour

  • 10 Questions for Werner Herzog

    10 Questions for Werner Herzog

  • BLAST!

    BLAST!

  • Shards of Cinema and Philosophy

    Shards of Cinema and Philosophy

  • The Ball Is a Scumbag

    The Ball Is a Scumbag

  • Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog

    Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog

  • Werner Herzog Defends Dade

    Werner Herzog Defends Dade

  • Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space

    Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space

  • No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon

    No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon