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Werner Herzog
Actor, Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Additional CreditsBorn September 5, 1942 (82 years)
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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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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| 2024 | Orion and the Dark · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2023 | The Arc of Oblivion · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2022 | The U.S. and the Holocaust (TV Series) · as Hermann Göring |
| 2022 | The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2022 | Last Exit: Space · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2020 | Dear Werner · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2019 | The Mandalorian (TV Series) · as The Client |
| 2016 | Into the Inferno · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2016 | Salt and Fire · as Man With One Story (uncredited) |
| 2015 | Freaks of Nature · as Perfect Being (voice) |
| 2014 | Penguins of Madagascar · as Documentary Filmmaker (voice) |
| 2014 | MasterClass (TV Series) |
| 2013 | Rick and Morty (TV Series) · as Shrimply Pibbles (voice) |
| 2013 | Home from Home: Chronicle of a Vision · as Alexander Von Humboldt |
| 2013 | The Wind Rises · as Castorp |
| 2012 | Jack Reacher · as Zec Chelovek |
| 2012 | Dinotasia · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2011 | Into the Abyss · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2010 | Cave of Forgotten Dreams · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2010 | Ebert Presents At The Movies (TV Series) · as Voice Substitute: Roger Ebert |
| 2010 | Happy People: A Year in the Taiga · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2009 | Plastic Bag · as Plastic Bag (voice) |
| 2009 | Parks and Recreation (TV Series) · as Keg Jennings |
| 2008 | BLAST! · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2007 | Mister Lonely · as Father Umbrillo |
| 2007 | Encounters at the End of the World · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2007 | The Grand · as The German |
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| 2006 | Metalocalypse (TV Series) |
| 2006 | The Henry Rollins Show (TV Series) |
| 2005 | The Colbert Report (TV Series) |
| 2005 | American Dad! (TV Series) · as Werner Herzog (voice) |
| 2004 | The White Diamond · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2003 | Wheel of Time · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2001 | Invincible · as Curtain Puller |
| 2000 | 2000 Jahre Christentum (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 1999 | Julien Donkey-Boy · as Father |
| 1998 | What Dreams May Come · as Face |
| 1997 | Little Dieter Needs to Fly · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1995 | Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1993 | Bells from the Deep: Faith and Superstition in Russia · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1992 | Lessons of Darkness · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1991 | Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1991 | Scream of Stone · as Tv-Regisseur |
| 1989 | Herdsmen of the Sun · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1989 | The Simpsons (TV Series) · as Walter Hotenhoffer (voice) |
| 1989 | Hard to Be a God · as Mita / Richard |
| 1989 | Bride of the Orient · as Businger |
| 1984 | Where the Green Ants Dream · as Lawyer (uncredited) |
| 1983 | Man of Flowers · as The Father |
| 1981 | God's Angry Man · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1979 | Nosferatu the Vampyre · as Hand And Feet In Box With Rats (uncredited) |
| 1977 | La Soufrière · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1976 | Heart of Glass · as Glass Transporter |
| 1971 | Geschichten vom Kübelkind · as Hurenmörder |
| 1971 | Handicapped Future · as Interviewer |
| 1968 | Signs of Life · as Soldier (uncredited) |