About Werner Herzog
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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Movie Credits
Werner Herzog has appeared in 155 movies.
Some of Werner Herzog's most popular movies include:
TV Credits
Werner Herzog has appeared in 20 TV Series.
Some of the most popular TV Shows include:
Production Credits
Werner Herzog has 208 production credits.
Camera
Crew
Credited for Technical Advisor in 1 show -
A Night Out.
Directing
Credited for Director in 81 shows -
Fordlandia,
The Conquest of Mexico,
Herakles,
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz,
Last Words,
Signs of Life,
Precautions Against Fanatics,
The Flying Doctors of East Africa,
Even Dwarfs Started Small,
Handicapped Future,
Fata Morgana,
Land of Silence and Darkness,
Aguirre, the Wrath of God,
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner,
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser,
No One Will Play with Me,
Mit mir will niemand spielen,
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck,
Heart of Glass,
Stroszek,
La Soufrière,
Nosferatu the Vampyre,
Woyzeck,
The Making of 'Nosferatu',
God's Angry Man,
Fitzcarraldo,
Huie's Sermon,
Where the Green Ants Dream,
Ballad of the Little Soldier,
The Dark Glow of the Mountain,
Portrait: Werner Herzog,
Cobra Verde,
Les Gaulois,
The French as Seen by…,
Giovanna d'Arco,
Under the Sun,
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun,
Lohengrin - Bayreuth Festival,
Echoes from a Sombre Empire,
Scream of Stone,
Jag Mandir,
Filmstunde,
Filmstunde,
Lessons of Darkness,
Bells from the Deep,
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices,
The Transformation of the World Into Music,
Little Dieter Needs to Fly,
My Best Fiend,
2000 Years of Christianity,
Wings of Hope,
Pilgrimage,
Invincible,
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet,
Ten Thousand Years Older,
Wheel of Time,
The White Diamond,
Grizzly Man,
The Wild Blue Yonder,
Rescue Dawn,
Encounters at the End of the World,
La Bohème,
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans,
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done,
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga,
Cave of Forgotten Dreams,
Ode to the Dawn of Man,
Into the Abyss,
On Death Row,
The Killers: Unstaged,
From One Second to the Next,
Queen of the Desert,
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World,
Into the Inferno,
Salt and Fire,
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin,
Meeting Gorbachev,
Family Romance, LLC,
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds,
The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft and
Theatre of Thought.
Editing
Production
Credited for Producer in 28 shows -
Herakles,
Last Words,
Signs of Life,
Precautions Against Fanatics,
Even Dwarfs Started Small,
Handicapped Future,
Land of Silence and Darkness,
Aguirre, the Wrath of God,
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser,
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck,
Heart of Glass,
La Soufrière,
Nosferatu the Vampyre,
Fitzcarraldo,
Where the Green Ants Dream,
Ballad of the Little Soldier,
The Dark Glow of the Mountain,
Location Africa,
Echoes from a Sombre Empire,
Jag Mandir,
Lessons of Darkness,
Invincible,
Wheel of Time,
Into the Abyss,
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World,
Salt and Fire,
El Poso and
Flores del precipicio.
Sound
Writing
Credited for Screenplay in 19 shows -
Herakles,
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz,
Last Words,
Even Dwarfs Started Small,
Fata Morgana,
Land of Silence and Darkness,
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner,
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser,
Stroszek,
Woyzeck,
Fitzcarraldo,
Cobra Verde,
Jag Mandir,
The White Diamond,
Grizzly Man,
The Wild Blue Yonder,
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done,
Cave of Forgotten Dreams and
Theatre of Thought.
Credited for Writer in 42 shows -
The Conquest of Mexico,
The hunger in the world explained to my son,
Signs of Life,
Precautions Against Fanatics,
The Flying Doctors of East Africa,
Handicapped Future,
Aguirre, the Wrath of God,
No One Will Play with Me,
Heart of Glass,
Nosferatu the Vampyre,
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe,
God's Angry Man,
Where the Green Ants Dream,
Ballad of the Little Soldier,
The Dark Glow of the Mountain,
Portrait: Werner Herzog,
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun,
Echoes from a Sombre Empire,
Lessons of Darkness,
Bells from the Deep,
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices,
The Transformation of the World Into Music,
Little Dieter Needs to Fly,
My Best Fiend,
Wings of Hope,
Invincible,
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet,
Ten Thousand Years Older,
Wheel of Time,
Encounters at the End of the World,
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga,
Into the Abyss,
On Death Row,
Queen of the Desert,
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World,
Into the Inferno,
Salt and Fire,
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin,
Meeting Gorbachev,
Family Romance, LLC,
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds and
The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft.
Creator
