Werner Herzog

Highest Rated:
100% Stroszek (1977)
Lowest Rated:
25% Dinotasia (2012)
Birthday:
Sep 5, 1942
Birthplace:
Munich, Germany
Bio:
One of the most influential filmmakers in New German Cinema and one of the most extreme personalities in film per se, larger-than-life Werner Herzog quickly gained recognition not only for creating some of the most fantastic narratives in film, but for pushing himself and his crew to unprecedented…

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 25% - 100%
Number of Movies: 75
Box Office Since 2001: $96.4M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2013 87% Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
  • Narrator
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
$0.3M
2012 25% Dinotasia
  • Narrator
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2012 61% Jack Reacher
  • The Zec
$80.0M
2012 Death Row
  • Director
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2012 Der Boxprinz (The Boxing Prince)
  • Actor
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2011 91% Into The Abyss
  • Werner Herzog
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
$0.2M
2011 Bierbichler
  • Actor
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2010 96% Cave of Forgotten Dreams
  • Narrator
  • Director
$5.2M
2009 50% My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
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2009 88% Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
  • Director
$1.6M
2008 40 X 15
  • Actor
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2008 Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary
  • Actor
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2007 40% The Grand
  • Actor
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2007 94% Encounters at the End of the World
  • Director
  • Narrator
  • Screenwriter
$0.7M
2007 46% Mister Lonely
  • Father Umbrillo
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2007 On the Ecstasy of Ski-Flying: Werner Herzog in Conversation with Karen Beckman
  • Actor
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2007 Man of Cinema: Pierre Rissient
  • Actor
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2006 90% Rescue Dawn
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
$5.3M
2005 69% The Wild Blue Yonder
  • Director
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2005 93% Grizzly Man
  • Director
  • Narrator
$2.9M
2004 94% The White Diamond
  • Director
  • Actor
  • Screenwriter
  • Producer
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2004 Dribble
  • Actor
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2004 62% Incident at Loch Ness
  • Producer
  • Actor
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2003 94% Wheel of Time
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
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2003 Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
  • Actor
  • Screenwriter
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2002 54% Invincible
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
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2002 86% Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
  • Director
  • Narrator
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2000 Julianes Sturz in den Dschungel (Wings of Hope)
  • Actor
  • Director
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2000 A Brief History of Errol Morris
  • Actor
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1999 80% My Best Fiend (Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski)
  • Narrator
  • Producer
  • Director
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1999 26% Julien Donkey-Boy
  • Father
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1997 93% Little Dieter Needs to Fly
  • Director
  • Actor
  • Screenwriter
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1995 Gesualdo - Death for Five Voices
  • Director
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1995 Glocken aus der Tiefe - Glaube und Aberglaube in Rußland (Bells from the Deep)
  • Director
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1992 100% Lessons of Darkness
  • Actor
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
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1991 Jag Mandir
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
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1991 Cerro Torre: Schrei aus Stein (Scream of Stone)
  • Director
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1990 Giovanna D'Arco: Teatro Comunale Di Bologna
  • Director
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1990 Echos aus einem düsteren Reich (Echoes from a Somber Empire)
  • Actor
  • Producer
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
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1989 Hard to be a God (Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein)
  • Mita
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1988 86% Cobra Verde (Slave Coast)
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
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1988 Wodaabe - Die Hirten der Sonne. Nomaden am Südrand der Sahara (Herdsmen of the Sun)
  • Screenwriter
  • Actor
  • Director
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1988 Bis ans Ende... und dann noch weiter. Die ekstatische Welt des Filmemachers Werner Herzog
  • Actor
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1985 60% Tokyo-Ga
  • Actor
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1984 The Dark Glow of the Mountains
  • Director
  • Actor
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1984 Room 666 (Chambre 666)
  • Actor
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1984 Ballade vom kleinen Soldaten (Ballad of the Little Soldier)
  • Actor
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
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1984 80% Wo die Grünen Ameisen Träumen (Where the Green Ants Dream)
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
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1984 Masterpieces of Opera
  • Director
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1983 Man of Flowers
  • Father
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1982 83% Fitzcarraldo
  • Director
  • Producer
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1982 100% Burden of Dreams
  • Actor
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1980 Huie's Sermon
  • Director
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1980 Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
  • Actor
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1980 God's Angry Man (glaube Und Wahrung - Dr. Gene Scott, Fernsehprediger)
  • Director
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1980 Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers
  • Actor
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1979 94% Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Nosferatu the Vampyre)
  • Producer
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
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1978 82% Woyzeck
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
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1977 100% Stroszek
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
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1977 La Soufrière - Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe
  • Director
  • Actor
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1976 88% Heart of Glass (Herz aus Glas)
  • Screenwriter
  • Producer
  • Director
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1976 How much Wood would a Woodchuck chuck... - Beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache
  • Actor
  • Director
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1975 Die große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner (The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner)
  • Producer
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
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1975 91% The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle)(Every Man for Himself and God Against All)
  • Director
  • Producer
  • Screenwriter
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1972 97% Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Aguirre, the Wrath of God)
  • Director
  • Producer
  • Screenwriter
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1971 83% Land of Silence and Darkness (Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit)
  • Director
  • Actor
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1971 Fata Morgana
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
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1971 Behinderte Zukunft? (Handicapped Future)
  • Director
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1970 100% Even Dwarfs Started Small
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
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1969 Die Fliegenden Ärzte von Ostafrika (The Flying Doctors of East Africa)
  • Director
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1969 Massnahmen gegen Fanatiker (Measures Against Fanatics)(Precautions Against Fanatics)
  • Director
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1968 88% Signs of Life
  • Producer
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
  • Actor
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1968 Letzte Worte
  • Director
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1967 The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz (Die Beispiellose Verteidigung der Festung Deutschkreuz)
  • Director
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1962 Herakles
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
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Werner Herzog Trivia

Werner Herzog makes an uncredited director cameo in his 1979 film, Nosferatu. He appears as a man who sticks his foot into a coffin & is bitten by a rat.
- submitted by mirabella 1 (3 years ago)
Herzog once worked for NASA before he became a film-maker.
- submitted by mirabella 1 (3 years ago)

Quotes from Werner Herzog's Characters

    1. Werner Herzog: Wow. I never realized the extent of capital punishment till I saw this. Who won in this? It seems to me, there was no win. Just a lot of losses. The state of Texas is no different from taking a life than Micheal Perry. Again... Wow.
    From Into The Abyss. Submitted by Barbara M (6 months ago)
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