Directed credits
75
Prolific
Very extensive directing filmography.
Director
Werner Herzog
Directing
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
4.1
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Directed movies: 73Directed series: 2All crew credits: 102
TMDB ID: 6818
IMDb ID: nm0001348
Known for: Directing
Born: September 5, 1942
Age: 84
Place of birth: Munich, Allemagne
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1962 - 2026
Years active: 65
Average TMDB rating: 6.86
Wikidata: Q44131
Also known as
韋納荷索 • Werner Herzog Stipetić • Вернер Херцог • 베르네 헤어조크 • ورنر هرتزوگ • 沃纳·赫尔佐格 • Werner Stipetić
Frequent jobs
Director (73)Stage Director (2)Executive Producer (10)Producer (5)Thanks (4)Writer (4)Creative Consultant (2)Author (1)Consulting Editor (1)
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Werner Herzog, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Directed Movies
Movies directed by Werner Herzog.
Ghost Elephants
Director
2026 Movie
Theater of Thought
Director
2024 Movie
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
Director
2024 Movie
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
Director
2020 Movie
Family Romance, LLC
Director
2019 Movie
Meeting Gorbachev
Director
2019 Movie
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Director
2019 Movie
Salt and Fire
Director
2016 Movie
Into the Inferno
Director
2016 Movie
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Director
2016 Movie
Queen of the Desert
Director
2015 Movie
From One Second to the Next
Director
2013 Movie
The Killers: Unstaged
Director
2012 Movie
Into the Abyss
Director
2011 Movie
Ode to the Dawn of Man
Director
2011 Movie
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Director
2010 Movie
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Director
2010 Movie
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Director
2009 Movie
La Bohème
Director
2009 Movie
Encounters at the End of the World
Director
2008 Movie
Lohengrin: Bayreuth Festival Opera
Stage Director
2008 Movie
The Wild Blue Yonder
Director
2005 Movie
Grizzly Man
Director
2005 Movie
The White Diamond
Director
2004 Movie
Directed Series
Series directed by Werner Herzog.
2000 Years of Christianity
Director • 1 eps
1999 Series
Film Lesson
Director • 4 eps
1991 Series
Top Rated Movies
Highest rated movies linked with Werner Herzog.
The Look of Silence
Executive Producer
2014 Movie
Lessons of Darkness
Director
1992 Movie
The Act of Killing
Executive Producer
2012 Movie
Fitzcarraldo
Director
1982 Movie
Burden of Dreams
as Self - Filmmaker
1982 Movie
Grizzly Man
Director
2005 Movie
Life Itself
as Self - Filmmaker
2014 Movie
Encounters at the End of the World
Director
2008 Movie
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Director
1997 Movie
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Director
1972 Movie
My Best Fiend
Director
1999 Movie
Red Army
Executive Producer
2015 Movie
Top Rated Series
Highest rated series linked with Werner Herzog.
Rick and Morty
as Shrimply Pibbles (voice) • 1 eps
2013 Series
The Mandalorian
as The Client • 3 eps
2019 Series
The Boondocks
as Himself (voice) • 1 eps
2005 Series
Parks and Recreation
as Keg Jennings • 1 eps
2009 Series
The Simpsons
as Walter Hotenhoffer (voice) • 2 eps
1989 Series
Metalocalypse
2 eps
2006 Series
American Dad!
as Werner Herzog (voice) • 1 eps
2005 Series
The Colbert Report
1 eps
2005 Series
Most Popular Movies
Most viewed movie titles linked with Werner Herzog.
Penguins of Madagascar
as Documentary Filmmaker (voice)
2014 Movie
Jack Reacher
as Zec Chelovek
2012 Movie
Orion and the Dark
as Narrator (voice)
2024 Movie
What Dreams May Come
as Face
1998 Movie
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Director
2009 Movie
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Director
1979 Movie
Queen of the Desert
Director
2015 Movie
Ghost Elephants
Director
2026 Movie
Rescue Dawn
Author
2007 Movie
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Director
1972 Movie
Fitzcarraldo
Director
1982 Movie
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
Director
2020 Movie
Most Popular Series
Most viewed series linked with Werner Herzog.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2015 Series
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest • 2 eps
2014 Series
The Simpsons
as Walter Hotenhoffer (voice) • 2 eps
1989 Series
American Dad!
as Werner Herzog (voice) • 1 eps
2005 Series
The Colbert Report
1 eps
2005 Series
Rick and Morty
as Shrimply Pibbles (voice) • 1 eps
2013 Series
Die Harald Schmidt Show
as Self • 1 eps
1995 Series
Parks and Recreation
as Keg Jennings • 1 eps
2009 Series
60 Minutes
as Self • 1 eps
1968 Series
The Mandalorian
as The Client • 3 eps
2019 Series
Midi Première
as Self • 1 eps
1975 Series
The South Bank Show
1 eps
1978 Series
Other Crew Work in Movies
Additional movie credits for Werner Herzog.
Bucking Fastard
Writer
2026 Movie
Felicidad
Producer
2025 Movie
Mi casa amarilla
Consulting Editor
2025 Movie
Reeling
Executive Producer
2025 Movie
The End
Executive Producer
2024 Movie
The Arc of Oblivion
Executive Producer
2023 Movie
Notes from a Dromedary
Creative Consultant
2022 Movie
Flores del precipicio
Producer
2022 Movie
Last Exit: Space
Executive Producer
2022 Movie
El Poso
Producer
2022 Movie
The Last Scene
Executive Producer
2019 Movie
The Empty Goal
Thanks
2018 Movie
A Gray State
Executive Producer
2017 Movie
The Blimp-Maker
Thanks
2016 Movie
Red Army
Executive Producer
2015 Movie
The Look of Silence
Executive Producer
2014 Movie
Other Crew Work in Series
Additional series credits for Werner Herzog.
On Death Row
Writer • 4 eps
2012 Series
Acting Appearances in Movies
Movie cast credits for Werner Herzog.
Al borde del abismo: la aventura peruana de Werner Herzog
2026 Movie
Ghost Elephants
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2026 Movie
Sirena
2025 Movie
About a Hero
2024 Movie
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
as Narrator (voice)
2024 Movie
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
as Self (archival footage)
2024 Movie
Orion and the Dark
as Narrator (voice)
2024 Movie
The Arc of Oblivion
as Narrator (voice)
2023 Movie
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
as Self
2022 Movie
Tegoyo
as Self (Voice)
2022 Movie
Last Exit: Space
as Narrator (voice)
2022 Movie
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
as Self (archive footage)
2022 Movie
Acting Appearances in Series
Series cast credits for Werner Herzog.
Soccer Meets America
as Self • 3 eps
2026 Series
Hulk Hogan: Real American
as Self • 1 eps
2026 Series
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
as Self • 4 eps
2020 Series
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
as Self - The Client • 2 eps
2020 Series
The Mandalorian
as The Client • 3 eps
2019 Series
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2015 Series
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self • 1 eps
2015 Series
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest • 2 eps
2014 Series
Rick and Morty
as Shrimply Pibbles (voice) • 1 eps
2013 Series
On Death Row
as Werner Herzog • 8 eps
2012 Series
Parks and Recreation
as Keg Jennings • 1 eps
2009 Series
Metalocalypse
2 eps
2006 Series