Werner Herzog
Directing
Born: September 5, 1942 (age 84) · Munich, Allemagne
Highest Rated
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
Rick and Morty
2013
The Mandalorian
2019
The Simpsons
1989
Jack Reacher
2012
Penguins of Madagascar
2014
What Dreams May Come
1998
American Dad!
2005
Parks and Recreation
2009
Rescue Dawn
2007
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
2009
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
1972
Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979
Photos (12)
Movies (51)
Penguins of Madagascar
Documentary Filmmaker (voice)
Jack Reacher
Zec Chelovek
What Dreams May Come
Face
Orion and the Dark
Narrator (voice)
Freaks of Nature
Perfect Being (voice)
Encounters at the End of the World
Narrator (voice)
Salt and Fire
Man with One Story (uncredited)
Sirena
2025
Scream of Stone
TV-Regisseur
Julien Donkey-Boy
Father
Mister Lonely
Father Umbrillo
The Grand
The German
Where the Green Ants Dream
Lawyer (uncredited)
Heart of Glass
Glass Transporter
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Narrator (voice)
Bride of the Orient
Businger
Into the Abyss
Narrator (voice)
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
Narrator (voice)
Hard to Be a God
Mita / Richard
Dinotasia
Narrator (voice)
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
(archive footage)
The Andinist
The Painter (Narrator)
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Narrator (voice)
Burning Heart
1995
Last Exit: Space
Narrator (voice)
Handicapped Future
Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)
Signs of Life
Soldier (uncredited)
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
Narrator (voice)
The Arc of Oblivion
Narrator (voice)
Al borde del abismo: la aventura peruana de Werner Herzog
2026
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
Narrator (voice)
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
1967
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
Narrator (voice)
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
Alexander von Humboldt
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Narrator (voice)
Strawberryfields
Turnlehrer
Paradox Bullets
Narrator (voice)
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
(archive footage)
Man of Flowers
The Father
God's Angry Man
Narrator (voice)
The White Diamond
Narrator (voice)
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
Narrator (voice)
Bells from the Deep
Narrator (voice)
Plastic Bag
Plastic Bag (voice)
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
Hurenmörder
Die Erben von Papas Kino
1968
Wheel of Time
Narrator (voice)
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
Narrator (voice)
About a Hero
2024
All In This Tea
2007
BLAST!
Narrator (voice)
TV Shows (13)
The Simpsons
Walter Hotenhoffer (voice) · 2 eps
The Simpsons
Werner Herzog (voice) · 1 eps
The Simpsons
Dr. Lund (voice) · 1 eps
Rick and Morty
Shrimply Pibbles (voice) · 1 eps
American Dad!
Werner Herzog (voice) · 1 eps
The Colbert Report
1 eps
The Mandalorian
The Client · 3 eps
The South Bank Show
1 eps
Parks and Recreation
Keg Jennings · 1 eps
Metalocalypse
2 eps
Storyville
2 eps
The Henry Rollins Show
1 eps
On Death Row
Werner Herzog · 8 eps
Self / Appearances (102)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest · 2 eps
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Self · 1 eps
60 Minutes
Self · 1 eps
Spécial cinéma
Self · 2 eps
Midi Première
Self · 1 eps
The Boondocks
Himself (voice) · 1 eps
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self · 1 eps
Kulturplatz
Self · 1 eps
Ciné regards
Self · 1 eps
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
Self - The Client · 2 eps
Hulk Hogan: Real American
Self · 1 eps
Ghost Elephants
Self - Narrator (voice)
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
Self - Narrator (voice)
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Self
Grizzly Man
Self / Narrator (voice)
My Best Fiend
Self
Room 666
Self
Dangerous Game
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Life Itself
Self - Filmmaker
Film Lesson
Self · 4 eps
The Unbelievers
Self
The Great Buster: A Celebration
Self
50 Films to See Before You Die
Self
Burden of Dreams
Self - Filmmaker
Close Up
Self (archive footage)
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Self
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
Self
Lessons of Darkness
Self - Narrator (voice)
Incident at Loch Ness
Self
Soccer Meets America
Self · 3 eps
Atari: Game Over
Self (archival)
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
Self
Tegoyo
Self (Voice)
The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Himself
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
Self
Into the Inferno
Self
Tokyo-Ga
Self
Lost in the Garden of the World
Self
Capturing Reality
Self
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
Self
The Dark Glow of the Mountains
Self (voice)
Meeting Gorbachev
Self
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
Self
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice)
Wings of Hope
Self
I, I, I José Lewgoy
Self
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
Self
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
Self
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
Self (archive footage)
Werner We Love You
Self
Tattoo Uprising
Self
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
Self
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Self
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
Self
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
Self
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
Self
The Ball Is a Scumbag
Self
Portrait: Werner Herzog
Self
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
Self
The 100 Greatest Films
Self
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
Self
Ballad of the Little Soldier
Self (voice)
SnowwhiteRosered
Self
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
Self
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
Self
I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
Self
The Transformation of the World Into Music
Self
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
Self - Film Director: Nosferatu
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
Self
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
Self (archive footage)
I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
Self
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Self
On Borrowed Time
Self
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
Self (archive footage)
Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn
Self
Location Africa
Self
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
Self
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
Self (archive footage)
Journey Through History
Self
Jihad in Hollywood
Self
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
Self
Jihad in Hollywood
Self
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
Self
No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon
Self
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
Self
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
Self
The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3
Self (voice) ("Dribble" short)
Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
Self
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
Self (archival footage)
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
Self (archive footage)
10 Questions for Werner Herzog
Self
The Killers: Unstaged
Self
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Boxing Prince
Self
To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
Self
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
Self
An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
Self
Champions: A Comic Tale
Self
Bierbichler
Self
I'm a Soldier
Self
Mistaken for Strangers
Self (uncredited)
Upcoming (4)
Directing (78)
Rescue Dawn
Director
Queen of the Desert
Director
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Director
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Director
Ghost Elephants
Director
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Director
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
Director
Encounters at the End of the World
Director
Fitzcarraldo
Director
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Director
Bucking Fastard
Director
Grizzly Man
Director
Salt and Fire
Director
Cobra Verde
Director
Scream of Stone
Director
My Best Fiend
Director
Invincible
Director
Fata Morgana
Director
Where the Green Ants Dream
Director
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Director
Film Lesson
Director
Heart of Glass
Director
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Director
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Director
Woyzeck
Director
Tannhäuser
Stage Director
Into the Abyss
Director
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
Director
On Death Row
Director
Stroszek
Director
The Gauls
Director
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Director
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
Director
Lessons of Darkness
Director
The Wild Blue Yonder
Director
2000 Years of Christianity
Director
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Director
Into the Inferno
Director
The Flying Doctors of East Africa
Director
Family Romance, LLC
Director
La Bohème
Director
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
Director
The Dark Glow of the Mountains
Director
Land of Silence and Darkness
Director
Handicapped Future
Director
Pilgrimage
Director
Meeting Gorbachev
Director
Signs of Life
Director
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Director
Wings of Hope
Director
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
Director
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
Director
No One Will Play with Me
Director
The French as Seen by…
Director
Portrait: Werner Herzog
Director
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
Director
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Director
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
Director
Ballad of the Little Soldier
Director
Precautions Against Fanatics
Director
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
Director
God's Angry Man
Director
The White Diamond
Director
From One Second to the Next
Director
The Transformation of the World Into Music
Director
Bells from the Deep
Director
Wheel of Time
Director
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
Director
Huie's Sermon
Director
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
Director
Ode to the Dawn of Man
Director
Ten Thousand Years Older
Director
The Killers: Unstaged
Director
Last Words
Director
Theater of Thought
Director
Herakles
Director
Lohengrin: Bayreuth Festival Opera
Stage Director
Giovanna d'Arco
Director
Writing (62)
Rescue Dawn
Author
Queen of the Desert
Writer
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Writer
Ghost Elephants
Writer
Ghost Elephants
Screenplay
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Writer
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
Writer
Encounters at the End of the World
Writer
Fitzcarraldo
Screenplay
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Screenplay
Bucking Fastard
Writer
Salt and Fire
Writer
Cobra Verde
Screenplay
My Best Fiend
Writer
Invincible
Writer
Fata Morgana
Screenplay
Where the Green Ants Dream
Writer
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Screenplay
Heart of Glass
Writer
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Screenplay
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Screenplay
Woyzeck
Screenplay
Into the Abyss
Writer
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
Writer
On Death Row
Writer
Stroszek
Screenplay
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Writer
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
Writer
Lessons of Darkness
Writer
The Wild Blue Yonder
Screenplay
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Writer
Into the Inferno
Writer
The Flying Doctors of East Africa
Writer
Family Romance, LLC
Writer
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
Writer
The Dark Glow of the Mountains
Writer
Land of Silence and Darkness
Screenplay
Handicapped Future
Writer
Meeting Gorbachev
Writer
Signs of Life
Writer
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Writer
Wings of Hope
Writer
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
Screenplay
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
Writer
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
Writer
No One Will Play with Me
Writer
Portrait: Werner Herzog
Writer
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Writer
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
Screenplay
Ballad of the Little Soldier
Writer
Precautions Against Fanatics
Writer
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
Screenplay
God's Angry Man
Writer
The White Diamond
Screenplay
The Transformation of the World Into Music
Writer
Bells from the Deep
Writer
Wheel of Time
Writer
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
Writer
Ten Thousand Years Older
Screenplay
Last Words
Screenplay
Theater of Thought
Screenplay
Herakles
Screenplay
Producing (50)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Producer
Ghost Elephants
Producer
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Producer
The Look of Silence
Executive Producer
The Act of Killing
Executive Producer
Fitzcarraldo
Producer
Bucking Fastard
Producer
The End
Executive Producer
Salt and Fire
Producer
Invincible
Producer
Fata Morgana
Producer
Red Army
Executive Producer
Where the Green Ants Dream
Producer
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Producer
Heart of Glass
Producer
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Producer
The Last Scene
Executive Producer
Into the Abyss
Producer
Stroszek
Producer
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Producer
Lessons of Darkness
Executive Producer
Incident at Loch Ness
Producer
Felicidad
Producer
A Gray State
Executive Producer
The Flying Doctors of East Africa
Producer
Last Exit: Space
Executive Producer
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
Producer
The Dark Glow of the Mountains
Producer
Land of Silence and Darkness
Producer
Handicapped Future
Producer
Signs of Life
Producer
El Poso
Producer
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
Producer
The Arc of Oblivion
Executive Producer
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
Producer
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
Producer
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Executive Producer
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
Producer
Ballad of the Little Soldier
Producer
Precautions Against Fanatics
Producer
The Transformation of the World Into Music
Executive Producer
Wheel of Time
Producer
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
Co-Producer
Flores del precipicio
Producer
Location Africa
Producer
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
Producer
Reeling
Executive Producer
Last Words
Producer
Theater of Thought
Executive Producer
Herakles
Producer
Other Crew (25)
Encounters at the End of the World
Sound
Fata Morgana
Sound
On Death Row
Creator
What Is It?
Thanks
The Flying Doctors of East Africa
Sound Recordist
Family Romance, LLC
Director of Photography
Family Romance, LLC
Camera Operator
Land of Silence and Darkness
Sound Recordist
Handicapped Future
Sound Recordist
Handicapped Future
Sound
The Last Shepherd
Thanks
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
Sound Engineer
Precautions Against Fanatics
Sound
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
Editor
The Devil's Muse
Creative Consultant
Notes from a Dromedary
Creative Consultant
Wheel of Time
Editor
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
Sound
Ode to the Dawn of Man
Cinematography
Ode to the Dawn of Man
Sound
The Empty Goal
Thanks
The Blimp-Maker
Thanks
Herakles
Editor
Herakles
Sound
Mi casa amarilla
Consulting Editor