Werner Herzog
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.
Known for
DirectingBirthday
September 5, 1942Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
252Place of birth
Munich, Bavaria, GermanyAlso known as
韋納荷索, Werner Herzog Stipetić, Вернер Херцог, 베르네 헤어조크, 베르네 헤어초크Cast credits
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Hand and Feet in Box with Rats (uncredited)Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
SelfThe White Diamond
Narrator (voice)My Best Fiend
SelfBurden of Dreams
Self - FilmmakerThe Grand
The GermanMister Lonely
Father UmbrilloHard to Be a God
Mita / RichardPlastic Bag
Plastic Bag (voice)Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
Narrator (voice)La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
Narrator (voice)Incident at Loch Ness
SelfJack Reacher
Zec ChelovekTokyo-Ga
SelfAll In This Tea
Into the Abyss
Narrator (voice)Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Narrator (voice)How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
SelfScream of Stone
TV-RegisseurDinotasia
Narrator (voice)Crew credits
Grizzly Man
Director, ScreenplayAguirre, the Wrath of God
Director, Producer, WriterWoyzeck
Director, ScreenplayCobra Verde
Director, ScreenplayNosferatu the Vampyre
Director, Producer, WriterTen Minutes Older: The Trumpet
Director, WriterThe White Diamond
Director, ScreenplayStroszek
Director, ScreenplayBad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
DirectorThe Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Director, Screenplay, ProducerEven Dwarfs Started Small
Director, Screenplay, ProducerThe Wild Blue Yonder
Director, ScreenplayMy Best Fiend
Director, WriterEncounters at the End of the World
Director, Writer, SoundFitzcarraldo
Director, Producer, ScreenplayWhere the Green Ants Dream
Director, Producer, WriterHeart of Glass
Director, Writer, ProducerRescue Dawn
Author, DirectorWodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
Director, WriterMy Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Director, ScreenplayLand of Silence and Darkness
Director, Screenplay, Producer, Sound Recordist