Actor

Werner Herzog

Directing

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Acting credits

159

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Very extensive acting filmography.

TMDB popularity

1.5

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Movies: 194Series: 22Crew credits: 103

TMDB ID: 6818

IMDb ID: nm0001348

Known for: Directing

Born: September 5, 1942

Age: 83

Place of birth: Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1962 - 2026

Years active: 65

Average TMDB rating: 6.83

Wikidata: Q44131

Also known as

韋納荷索 • Werner Herzog Stipetić • Вернер Херцог • 베르네 헤어조크 • ورنر هرتزوگ • 沃纳·赫尔佐格

Other jobs

Director (74)Executive Producer (10)Producer (5)Thanks (4)Writer (4)Creative Consultant (2)Stage Director (2)Author (1)

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Biography

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.