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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…

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Highest Rated Movies

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	--
2012	61%	Jack Reacher	The Zec	$80.0M
2012		Death Row	Director	--
2012		Der Boxprinz (The Boxing Prince)	Actor	--
2011	91%	Into The Abyss	Werner Herzog Director Screenwriter	$0.2M
2011		Bierbichler	Actor	--
2010	96%	Cave of Forgotten Dreams	Narrator Director	$5.2M
2009	50%	My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done	Director Screenwriter	--
2009	88%	Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans	Director	$1.6M
2008		40 X 15	Actor	--
2008		Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary	Actor	--
2007	40%	The Grand	Actor	--
2007	94%	Encounters at the End of the World	Director Narrator Screenwriter	$0.7M
2007	46%	Mister Lonely	Father Umbrillo	--
2007		On the Ecstasy of Ski-Flying: Werner Herzog in Conversation with Karen Beckman	Actor	--
2007		Man of Cinema: Pierre Rissient	Actor	--
2006	90%	Rescue Dawn	Screenwriter Director	$5.3M
2005	69%	The Wild Blue Yonder	Director	--
2005	93%	Grizzly Man	Director Narrator	$2.9M
2004	94%	The White Diamond	Director Actor Screenwriter Producer	--
2004		Dribble	Actor	--
2004	62%	Incident at Loch Ness	Producer Actor	--
2003	94%	Wheel of Time	Director Screenwriter	--
2003		Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe	Actor Screenwriter	--
2002	54%	Invincible	Screenwriter Director	--
2002	86%	Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet	Director Narrator	--
2000		Julianes Sturz in den Dschungel (Wings of Hope)	Actor Director	--
2000		A Brief History of Errol Morris	Actor	--
1999	80%	My Best Fiend (Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski)	Narrator Producer Director	--
1999	26%	Julien Donkey-Boy	Father	--
1997	93%	Little Dieter Needs to Fly	Director Actor Screenwriter	--
1995		Gesualdo - Death for Five Voices	Director	--
1995		Glocken aus der Tiefe - Glaube und Aberglaube in Ru�land (Bells from the Deep)	Director	--
1992	100%	Lessons of Darkness	Actor Director Screenwriter	--
1991		Jag Mandir	Screenwriter Director	--
1991		Cerro Torre: Schrei aus Stein (Scream of Stone)	Director	--
1990		Giovanna D'Arco: Teatro Comunale Di Bologna	Director	--
1990		Echos aus einem d�steren Reich (Echoes from a Somber Empire)	Actor Producer Director Screenwriter	--
1989		Hard to be a God (Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein)	Mita	--
1988	86%	Cobra Verde (Slave Coast)	Screenwriter Director	--
1988		Wodaabe - Die Hirten der Sonne. Nomaden am S�drand der Sahara (Herdsmen of the Sun)	Screenwriter Actor Director	--
1988		Bis ans Ende... und dann noch weiter. Die ekstatische Welt des Filmemachers Werner Herzog	Actor	--
1985	60%	Tokyo-Ga	Actor	--
1984		The Dark Glow of the Mountains	Director Actor	--
1984		Room 666 (Chambre 666)	Actor	--
1984		Ballade vom kleinen Soldaten (Ballad of the Little Soldier)	Actor Screenwriter Director	--
1984	80%	Wo die Gr�nen Ameisen Tr�umen (Where the Green Ants Dream)	Director Screenwriter	--
1984		Masterpieces of Opera	Director	--
1983		Man of Flowers	Father	--
1982	83%	Fitzcarraldo	Director Producer	--
1982	100%	Burden of Dreams	Actor	--
1980		Huie's Sermon	Director	--
1980		Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe	Actor	--
1980		God's Angry Man (glaube Und Wahrung - Dr. Gene Scott, Fernsehprediger)	Director	--
1980		Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers	Actor	--
1979	94%	Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Nosferatu the Vampyre)	Producer Screenwriter Director	--
1978	82%	Woyzeck	Screenwriter Director	--
1977	100%	Stroszek	Screenwriter Director	--
1977		La Soufri�re - Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe	Director Actor	--
1976	88%	Heart of Glass (Herz aus Glas)	Screenwriter Producer Director	--
1976		How much Wood would a Woodchuck chuck... - Beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache	Actor Director	--
1975		Die gro�e Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner (The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner)	Producer Screenwriter Director	--
1975	91%	The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Jeder f�r sich und Gott gegen alle)(Every Man for Himself and God Against All)	Director Producer Screenwriter	--
1972	97%	Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Aguirre, the Wrath of God)	Director Producer Screenwriter	--
1971	83%	Land of Silence and Darkness (Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit)	Director Actor	--
1971		Fata Morgana	Screenwriter Director	--
1971		Behinderte Zukunft? (Handicapped Future)	Director	--
1970	100%	Even Dwarfs Started Small	Director Screenwriter	--
1969		Die Fliegenden �rzte von Ostafrika (The Flying Doctors of East Africa)	Director	--
1969		Massnahmen gegen Fanatiker (Measures Against Fanatics)(Precautions Against Fanatics)	Director	--
1968	88%	Signs of Life	Producer Screenwriter Director Actor	--
1968		Letzte Worte	Director	--
1967		The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz (Die Beispiellose Verteidigung der Festung Deutschkreuz)	Director	--
1962		Herakles	Screenwriter Director	--

Werner Herzog Trivia

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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

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1. Narrator: This colossal land mass is one and a half times the size of the United States.
From Happy People: A Year in the Taiga. Submitted by Chris P (3 months ago)

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)