Werner Herzog
Born September 05, 1942 (Age: 83)
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Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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.
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.
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Filmography
Ghost Elephants
2026
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 83
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
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as Self
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Age: 80
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
2021
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as Self
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Age: 78
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2020
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as (archive footage)
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Age: 77
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
2019
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as Self
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Age: 76
Meeting Gorbachev
2019
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as Self
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Age: 76
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
2017
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as Self
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Age: 75
Jihad in Hollywood
2016
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as Self
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Age: 73
Freaks of Nature
2015
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as Perfect Being (voice)
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Age: 73
Penguins of Madagascar
2014
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as Documentary Filmmaker (voice)
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Age: 72
Mistaken for Strangers
2013
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as Self (uncredited)
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Age: 71
Jack Reacher
2012
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as Zec Chelovek
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Age: 70
Strawberryfields
2012
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as Turnlehrer
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Age: 70
Close Up
2012
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 70
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
2012
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as Self
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Age: 69
No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon
2012
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as Self
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Age: 69
I, I, I José Lewgoy
2011
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as Self
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Age: 69
Champions: A Comic Tale
2011
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as Self
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Age: 68
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 68
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
2010
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as Self
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Age: 68
No Image
Into the Night With Harmony Korine and Gaspar Noe
2010
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as Self
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Age: 68
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
2010
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 67
No Image
Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son
2010
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as Self
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Age: 67
I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
2010
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as Self
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Age: 67
The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
2010
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as Himself
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Age: 67
No Image
The Lonely
2009
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as
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Age: 66
Mister Lonely
2008
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as Father Umbrillo
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Age: 65
Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn
2007
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as Self
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Age: 65
No Image
Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest
2007
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as Self
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Age: 64
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006
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as Self
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Age: 63
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
2005
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as Self
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Age: 63
No Image
Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog
2005
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as Self
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Age: 63
No Image
Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space
2005
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as Self
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Age: 63
Incident at Loch Ness
2004
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as Self
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Age: 62
No Image
Dribble
2004
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as Self (voice)
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Age: 61
The Boxing Prince
2002
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as Self
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Age: 59
The 100 Greatest Films
2001
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as Self
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Age: 59
No Image
The Last Documentary
2000
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as Self
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Age: 58
No Image
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
2000
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as Self
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Age: 57
The Ball Is a Scumbag
2000
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as Self
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Age: 57
Julien Donkey-Boy
1999
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as Father
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Age: 57
My Best Fiend
1999
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as Self
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Age: 56
No Image
In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
1999
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as Self
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Age: 56
What Dreams May Come
1998
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as Face
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Age: 56
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
1997
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 55
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
1996
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as Self
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Age: 54
The Transformation of the World Into Music
1996
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as Self
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Age: 53
Dangerous Game
1993
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as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Age: 51
Bells from the Deep
1993
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 51
Lessons of Darkness
1992
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as Self - Narrator (voice)
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Age: 49
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
1991
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 49
SnowwhiteRosered
1991
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as Self
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Age: 49
Scream of Stone
1991
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as TV-Regisseur
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Age: 49
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
1990
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as Self
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Age: 48
Hard to Be a God
1990
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as Mita / Richard
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Age: 47
No Image
Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God"
1990
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as Self
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Age: 47
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
1989
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 46
Bride of the Orient
1989
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as Businger
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Age: 46
No Image
The Heart and the Legs
1989
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as Self
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Age: 46
To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
1989
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as Self
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Age: 46
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
1988
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as Self
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Age: 45
Location Africa
1987
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as Self
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Age: 44
Tokyo-Ga
1985
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as Self
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Age: 42
The Dark Glow of the Mountain
1985
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as Self (voice)
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Age: 42
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
1980
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as Self - Film Director: Nosferatu
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Age: 38
Journey Through History
1977
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as Self
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Age: 34
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
1974
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as Hurenmörder
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Age: 32
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
1974
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as Self
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Age: 31