Birthday: 1942-09-05
Birthplace: Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Gender: Male
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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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Tales from the Opera | Director | ||
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2024-11-14 | About a Hero | ||
2016-12-07 | Salt and Fire | Man with One Story (uncredited) | |
2015-10-30 | Freaks of Nature | Perfect Being (voice) | |
2014-11-22 | Penguins of Madagascar | Documentary Filmmaker (voice) | |
2014-09-30 | Lemonade War | Neighborhood Hero | |
2013-10-03 | Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision | Alexander von Humboldt | |
2012-12-20 | Jack Reacher | Zec Chelovek | |
2012-11-02 | Strawberryland | Turnlehrer | |
2009-09-07 | Plastic Bag | Plastic Bag (voice) | |
2009-04-16 | The Lonely | ||
2008-02-02 | Mister Lonely | Father Umbrillo | |
2007-06-07 | The Grand | The German | |
2007-04-14 | All In This Tea | ||
1999-10-15 | Julien Donkey-Boy | Father | |
1998-10-02 | What Dreams May Come | Face | |
1995-01-25 | Burning Heart | ||
1991-10-03 | Scream of Stone | TV-Regisseur | |
1990-01-25 | Hard to Be a God | Mita / Richard | |
1989-03-02 | Bride of the Orient | Businger | |
1984-08-31 | Where the Green Ants Dream | Lawyer (uncredited) | |
1983-09-22 | Man of Flowers | The Father | |
1979-01-17 | Nosferatu the Vampyre | Hand and Feet in Box with Rats (uncredited) | |
1976-11-12 | Heart of Glass | Glass Transporter | |
1971-04-02 | Tales of the Dumpster Kid | Hurenmörder | |
1968-07-05 | Signs of Life | Soldier (uncredited) | |
1968-06-30 | Die Erben von Papas Kino | ||
1967-01-01 | Neuer Deutscher Film Report |