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Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog

Birthday: 1942-09-05 | Place of Birth: Munich, Bavaria, Germany

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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
Last Exit: Space

as    Narrator (voice)

2020
The Andinist

as    Narrator

2020
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)

as    Narrator (voice)

2020
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

as    Self - Narrator (voice)

2019
Tattoo Uprising

as    Himself

2019
Meeting Gorbachev

as    Self

2019
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

as    Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice)

2018
2016
Salt and Fire

as    Man with One Story (uncredited)

2016
Into the Inferno

as    Narrator (voice)

2014
Life Itself

as    Self - Filmmaker

2013
The Unbelievers

as    Self

2012
Dinotasia

as    Narrator (voice)

2012
Jack Reacher

as    Zec Chelovek

2011
Into the Abyss

as    Narrator (voice)

2010
Cave of Forgotten Dreams

as    Narrator (voice)

2010
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

as    Narrator (voice)

2008
Mister Lonely

as    Father Umbrillo

2008
Back to Room 666

as    Self (archive footage)

2007
Encounters at the End of the World

as    Narrator (voice)

2007
The Grand

as    The German

2006
Walking to Werner

as    Himself (voice)

2005
Dreams and Burdens

as    Himself

2005
Grizzly Man

as    Self / Narrator (voice)

2004
The White Diamond

as    Self / Narrator