Werner Herzog
Directing
191
Acting Credits
78
Directed
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 situ...
Known For
Filmography
Ghost Elephants
2026
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Al borde del abismo: la aventura peruana de Werner Herzog
2026
Soccer Meets America
2026
as Self
Hulk Hogan: Real American
2026
as Self
Sirena
2025
Orion and the Dark
2024
as Narrator (voice)
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
2024
as Narrator (voice)
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
2024
as Self (archival footage)
About a Hero
2024
The Arc of Oblivion
2023
as Narrator (voice)
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Last Exit: Space
2022
as Narrator (voice)
Tegoyo
2022
as Self (Voice)
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
as Self
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
2021
as Self (archive footage)
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
2021
as Self
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
2021
as Self
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
2020
as Self - Narrator (voice)
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
2020
as (archive footage)
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020
as Self
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
2020
as Narrator (voice)
The Andinist
2020
as The Painter (Narrator)
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2020
as (archive footage)
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
2020
as Self - The Client
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
2020
as Self
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
2019
as Self
Jihad in Hollywood
2019
as Self
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
2019
as Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice)
Meeting Gorbachev
2019
as Self
Tattoo Uprising
2019
as Self
The Mandalorian
2019
as The Client
The Great Buster: A Celebration
2018
as Self
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
2018
as Self
Paradox Bullets
2018
as Narrator (voice)
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
2018
as Self
I'm a Soldier
2018
as Self
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
2017
as Self (archive footage)
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2017
as Self
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
2017
as Self
Werner We Love You
2017
as Self
Jihad in Hollywood
2016
as Self
Into the Inferno
2016
as Self
Salt and Fire
2016
as Man with One Story (uncredited)
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
2016
as Self
Freaks of Nature
2015
as Perfect Being (voice)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
as Self
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
2014
as Self (archive footage)
Life Itself
2014
as Self - Filmmaker
Penguins of Madagascar
2014
as Documentary Filmmaker (voice)
Lemonade War
2014
as Neighborhood Hero
Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director
2014
as Self
Atari: Game Over
2014
as Self (archival)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self - Guest
The Unbelievers
2013
as Self
Mistaken for Strangers
2013
as Self (uncredited)
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
2013
as Self
An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
2013
as Self
Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
2013
as Self
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
2013
as Alexander von Humboldt
Rick and Morty
2013
as Shrimply Pibbles (voice)
Strawberryfields
2012
as Turnlehrer
Close Up
2012
as Self (archive footage)
Jack Reacher
2012
as Zec Chelovek
Dinotasia
2012
as Narrator (voice)
No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon
2012
as Self
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
2012
as Self
10 Questions for Werner Herzog
2012
as Self
The Killers: Unstaged
2012
as Self
On Death Row
2012
as Werner Herzog
Into the Abyss
2011
as Narrator (voice)
Champions: A Comic Tale
2011
as Self
On Borrowed Time
2011
as Self
I, I, I José Lewgoy
2011
as Self
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
2011
as Self
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010
as Narrator (voice)
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
2010
as Narrator (voice)
Werner Herzog Defends Dade
2010
as Self
Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son
2010
as Self
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
2010
as Self
The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
2010
as Himself
When Herzog Rescued Phoenix
2010
as Narrator (voice)
I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
2010
as Self
Into the Night With Harmony Korine and Gaspar Noe
2010
as Self
The Lonely
2009
Plastic Bag
2009
as Plastic Bag (voice)
Parks and Recreation
2009
as Keg Jennings
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
2008
as Self
Mister Lonely
2008
as Father Umbrillo
Bierbichler
2008
as Self
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
2008
as Self
Back to Room 666
2008
as Self (archive footage)
Capturing Reality
2008
as Self
BLAST!
2008
as Narrator (voice)
The Grand
2007
as The German
Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn
2007
as Self
All In This Tea
2007
Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest
2007
as Self
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
2007
as Self
Encounters at the End of the World
2007
as Narrator (voice)
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006
as Self
Walking to Werner
2006
as Self (voice)
The Henry Rollins Show
2006
Metalocalypse
2006
Dreams and Burdens
2005
as Self
Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space
2005
as Self
Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog
2005
as Self
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
2005
as Self
Grizzly Man
2005
as Self / Narrator (voice)
The Colbert Report
2005
American Dad!
2005
as Werner Herzog (voice)
The Boondocks
2005
as Himself (voice)
The White Diamond
2004
as Narrator (voice)
Incident at Loch Ness
2004
as Self
Dribble
2004
as Self (voice)
The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3
2004
as Self (voice) ("Dribble" short)
Kulturplatz
2004
as Self
Wheel of Time
2003
as Narrator (voice)
The Boxing Prince
2002
as Self
The 100 Greatest Films
2001
as Self
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
2000
as Self
The Last Documentary
2000
as Self
The Ball Is a Scumbag
2000
as Self
My Best Fiend
1999
as Self
A Brief History of Errol Morris
1999
as Self
In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
1999
as Self
Wings of Hope
1999
as Self
Julien Donkey-Boy
1999
as Father
What Dreams May Come
1998
as Face
Sternstunde Philosophie
1998
as Self
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
1997
as Narrator (voice)
The Transformation of the World Into Music
1996
as Self
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
1996
as Self
Burning Heart
1995
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
1995
as Narrator (voice)
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
as Self
Placido Domingo's Tales from the Opera
1994
as Self - Director
Dangerous Game
1993
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bells from the Deep
1993
as Narrator (voice)
Lessons of Darkness
1992
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
1991
as Narrator (voice)
Scream of Stone
1991
as TV-Regisseur
SnowwhiteRosered
1991
as Self
Film Lesson
1991
as Self
Hard to Be a God
1990
as Mita / Richard
Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God"
1990
as Self
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
1990
as Self
To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
1989
as Self
Bride of the Orient
1989
as Businger
The Heart and the Legs
1989
as Self
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
1989
as Narrator (voice)
The Simpsons
1989
as Walter Hotenhoffer (voice)
The Simpsons
1989
as Werner Herzog (voice)
The Simpsons
1989
as Dr. Lund (voice)
Location Africa
1987
as Self
Portrait: Werner Herzog
1986
as Self
Tokyo-Ga
1985
as Self
The Dark Glow of the Mountains
1985
as Self (voice)
Room 666
1985
as Self
Sonntagsgespräch
1985
as Self
Ballad of the Little Soldier
1984
as Self (voice)
Where the Green Ants Dream
1984
as Lawyer (uncredited)
Man of Flowers
1983
as The Father
God's Angry Man
1983
as Narrator (voice)
Burden of Dreams
1982
as Self - Filmmaker
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
1980
as Self
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
1980
as Self - Film Director: Nosferatu
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
1979
as Self
I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
1979
as Self
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
1979
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Okay
1979
as Self
Bavarian Film Awards
1979
as Self
Ciné regards
1978
as Self
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
1977
as Narrator (voice)
Journey Through History
1977
as Self
Heart of Glass
1976
as Glass Transporter
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
1976
as Self
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
1976
as Self
Lost in the Garden of the World
1975
as Self
Midi Première
1975
as Self
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
1974
as Self
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
1974
as Hurenmörder
Spécial cinéma
1974
as Self
Handicapped Future
1971
as Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)
Die Erben von Papas Kino
1968
Signs of Life
1968
as Soldier (uncredited)
60 Minutes
1968
as Self
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
1967
Grimme Award
1964
as Self
German Film Award
1951
as Self