
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.
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Jack Reacher
2012 · as Zec Chelovek

Penguins of Madagascar
2014 · as Documentary Filmmaker (voice)

Orion and the Dark
2024 · as Narrator (voice)

Bride of the Orient
1989 · as Businger

What Dreams May Come
1998 · as Face

Ghost Elephants
2026 · as Narrator (voice)

Grizzly Man
2005 · as Self / Narrator (voice)

Freaks of Nature
2015 · as Perfect Being (voice)

Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
2020 · as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Unbelievers
2013 · as Self

Close Up
2012 · as Self (archive footage)

Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010 · as Narrator (voice)

The Grand
2007 · as The German

Salt and Fire
2016 · as Man with One Story (uncredited)

Burning Heart
1995

Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022 · as Self

Burden of Dreams
1982 · as Self - Filmmaker

My Best Fiend
1999 · as Self