Werner Herzog
Directing • AGE 83
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 of...
Filmography
Soccer Meets America
Self
2026
Hulk Hogan: Real American
Self
2026
Ghost Elephants
Narrator (voice)
2026
Felicidad
Producer
2025
Mi casa amarilla
Consulting Editor
2025
Sirena
2025
Reeling
Executive Producer
2025
Theater of Thought
Director
2024
The End
Executive Producer
2024
About a Hero
2024
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
Narrator (voice)
2024
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
Self (archival footage)
2024
Orion and the Dark
Narrator (voice)
2024
The Arc of Oblivion
Narrator (voice)
2023
Notes from a Dromedary
Creative Consultant
2022
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Self
2022
Tegoyo
Self (Voice)
2022
Flores del precipicio
Producer
2022
Last Exit: Space
Narrator (voice)
2022
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
Self (archive footage)
2022
El Poso
Producer
2022
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
Self (archive footage)
2021
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
Self (archive footage)
2021
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
Self
2021
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
Self
2021
The Andinist
The Painter (Narrator)
2020
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
Narrator (voice)
2020
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
Self - Narrator (voice)
2020
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Self
2020
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
Self - The Client
2020
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
(archive footage)
2020
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
(archive footage)
2020
The Mandalorian
The Client
2019
Family Romance, LLC
Writer
2019
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
Self
2019
Tattoo Uprising
Self
2019
Meeting Gorbachev
Self
2019
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice)
2019
Jihad in Hollywood
Self
2019
The Last Scene
Executive Producer
2019
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
Self
2018
Paradox Bullets
Narrator (voice)
2018
The Great Buster: A Celebration
Self
2018
I'm a Soldier
Self
2018
The Empty Goal
Thanks
2018
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
Self
2018
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
Self
2017
Werner We Love You
Self
2017
A Gray State
Executive Producer
2017
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
Self
2017
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
Self (archive footage)
2017
Salt and Fire
Man with One Story (uncredited)
2016
Into the Inferno
Self
2016
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Self
2016
The Blimp-Maker
Thanks
2016
Jihad in Hollywood
Self
2016
Freaks of Nature
Perfect Being (voice)
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
Queen of the Desert
Director
2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
2015
Red Army
Executive Producer
2015
Penguins of Madagascar
Documentary Filmmaker (voice)
2014
Atari: Game Over
Self (archival)
2014
The Look of Silence
Executive Producer
2014
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
Self (archive footage)
2014
Life Itself
Self - Filmmaker
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
2014
The Unbelievers
Self
2013
Rick and Morty
Shrimply Pibbles (voice)
2013
Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
Self
2013
An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
Self
2013
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
Alexander von Humboldt
2013
Mistaken for Strangers
Self (uncredited)
2013
From One Second to the Next
Director
2013
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
Self
2013
The Last Shepherd
Thanks
2013
Jack Reacher
Zec Chelovek
2012
The Act of Killing
Executive Producer
2012
Strawberryfields
Turnlehrer
2012
Close Up
Self (archive footage)
2012
10 Questions for Werner Herzog
Self
2012
The Killers: Unstaged
Self
2012
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
Self
2012
Dinotasia
Narrator (voice)
2012
On Death Row
Werner Herzog
2012
No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon
Self
2012
I, I, I José Lewgoy
Self
2011
Into the Abyss
Narrator (voice)
2011
On Borrowed Time
Self
2011
Ode to the Dawn of Man
Director
2011
Champions: A Comic Tale
Self
2011
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
Self
2011
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Narrator (voice)
2010
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
Self
2010
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Narrator (voice)
2010
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Screenplay
2010
I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
Self
2010
The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Himself
2010
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Director
2009
Plastic Bag
Plastic Bag (voice)
2009
La Bohème
Director
2009
Parks and Recreation
Keg Jennings
2009
Capturing Reality
Self
2008
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
Self
2008
BLAST!
Narrator (voice)
2008
Lohengrin: Bayreuth Festival Opera
Stage Director
2008
Bierbichler
Self
2008
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
Self
2008
Mister Lonely
Father Umbrillo
2008
Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn
Self
2007
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
Self
2007
Encounters at the End of the World
Narrator (voice)
2007
Rescue Dawn
Director
2007
The Grand
The German
2007
All In This Tea
2007
The Devil's Muse
Creative Consultant
2007
Metalocalypse
2006
50 Films to See Before You Die
Self
2006
The Henry Rollins Show
2006
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
Self
2005
The Boondocks
Himself (voice)
2005
The Colbert Report
2005
The Wild Blue Yonder
Screenplay
2005
Grizzly Man
Self / Narrator (voice)
2005
American Dad!
Werner Herzog (voice)
2005
What Is It?
Thanks
2005
Incident at Loch Ness
Self
2004
The White Diamond
Narrator (voice)
2004
Kulturplatz
Self
2004
The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3
Self (voice) ("Dribble" short)
2004
Wheel of Time
Narrator (voice)
2003
Ten Thousand Years Older
Director
2002
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
Writer
2002
The Boxing Prince
Self
2002
Invincible
Writer
2001
The 100 Greatest Films
Self
2001
Pilgrimage
Director
2001
Tannhäuser
Stage Director
2000
The Ball Is a Scumbag
Self
2000
2000 Years of Christianity
Director
1999
Wings of Hope
Self
1999
Julien Donkey-Boy
Father
1999
My Best Fiend
Self
1999
What Dreams May Come
Face
1998
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Narrator (voice)
1997
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
Self
1996
The Transformation of the World Into Music
Self
1996
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Self
1995
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
Narrator (voice)
1995
Burning Heart
1995
Dangerous Game
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1993
Bells from the Deep
Narrator (voice)
1993
Lessons of Darkness
Self - Narrator (voice)
1992
Film Lesson
Self
1991
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
Narrator (voice)
1991
SnowwhiteRosered
Self
1991
Scream of Stone
TV-Regisseur
1991
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
Self
1990
Hard to Be a God
Mita / Richard
1990
The Simpsons
Walter Hotenhoffer (voice)
1989
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
Narrator (voice)
1989
Bride of the Orient
Businger
1989
To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
Self
1989
Giovanna d'Arco
Director
1989
The French as Seen by…
Director
1988
The Gauls
Director
1988
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
Self
1988
Cobra Verde
Director
1987
Location Africa
Self
1987
Portrait: Werner Herzog
Self
1986
Tokyo-Ga
Self
1985
The Dark Glow of the Mountains
Self (voice)
1985
Room 666
Self
1985
Ballad of the Little Soldier
Self (voice)
1984
Where the Green Ants Dream
Lawyer (uncredited)
1984
Man of Flowers
The Father
1983
God's Angry Man
Narrator (voice)
1983
Huie's Sermon
Director
1983
Burden of Dreams
Self - Filmmaker
1982
Fitzcarraldo
Director
1982
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
Self - Film Director: Nosferatu
1980
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
Self
1979
Woyzeck
Screenplay
1979
I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
Self
1979
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1979
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Director
1979
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
Narrator (voice)
1977
Stroszek
Director
1977
Journey Through History
Self
1977
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Self
1976
Heart of Glass
Glass Transporter
1976
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
Self
1976
No One Will Play with Me
Director
1976
Lost in the Garden of the World
Self
1975
Midi Première
Self
1975
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
Hurenmörder
1974
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Producer
1974
Spécial cinéma
Self
1974
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
Self
1974
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Producer
1972
Fata Morgana
Director
1972
Land of Silence and Darkness
Screenplay
1971
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Producer
1971
Handicapped Future
Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)
1971
The Flying Doctors of East Africa
Director
1970
Precautions Against Fanatics
Director
1969
60 Minutes
Self
1968
Signs of Life
Soldier (uncredited)
1968
Die Erben von Papas Kino
1968
Last Words
Director
1968
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
Director
1967
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
1967
Herakles
Director
1962
Ally
(voice)
The hunger in the world explained to my son
Writer
The Twilight World
Director
Bucking Fastard
Writer