Werner Herzog
Directing
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.
Born: September 5, 1942
Place of Birth: Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Known For
Filmography
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as Narrator (voice)
as Self (archival footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Narrator (voice)
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as Self (Voice)
as Hermann Göring
as Narrator (voice)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as The Painter (Narrator)
as Narrator (voice)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Self - The Client
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as The Client
as Self
as Self
as Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Self
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Man with One Story (uncredited)
as Self
as Self
as Perfect Being (voice)
as Documentary Filmmaker (voice)
as Self (archival)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self - Filmmaker
as Self
as Self
as Shrimply Pibbles (voice)
as Alexander von Humboldt
as Self (uncredited)
as Zec Chelovek
as Turnlehrer
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Narrator (voice)
as Werner Herzog
as Self
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Self
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as Narrator (voice)
as Plastic Bag (voice)
as Keg Jennings
as Self
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Father Umbrillo
as Narrator (voice)
as The German
as Himself (voice)
as Self / Narrator (voice)
as Werner Herzog (voice)
as Self
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Self (voice) ("Dribble" short)
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Self
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as Father
as Self
as Face
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
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as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Narrator (voice)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Narrator (voice)
as TV-Regisseur
as Self
as Mita / Richard
as Walter Hotenhoffer (voice)
as Werner Herzog (voice)
as Dr. Lund (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Businger
as Self
as Self
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as Self (voice)
as Self (voice)
as Lawyer (uncredited)
as The Father
as Self - Filmmaker
as Self
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Self - Film Director: Nosferatu
as Self
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Glass Transporter
as Self
as Self
as Hurenmörder
as Soldier (uncredited)