Directed credits
76
Prolific
Very extensive directing filmography.
Director
Werner Herzog
Directing
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TMDB popularity
1.5
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Directed movies: 74Directed series: 2All crew 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
Frequent jobs
Director (74)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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Movies
Directed Movies
Movies directed by Werner Herzog.
In 2 weeks
Ghost Elephants
Director
2026 Movie
7.8
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
Director
2024 Movie
Theater of Thought
Director
2022 Movie
6.5
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
Director
2020 Movie
6.2
Family Romance, LLC
Director
2019 Movie
6.6
Meeting Gorbachev
Director
2019 Movie
7.0
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Director
2019 Movie
4.9
Salt and Fire
Director
2016 Movie
7.0
Into the Inferno
Director
2016 Movie
6.6
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Director
2016 Movie
5.9
Queen of the Desert
Director
2015 Movie
7.0
From One Second to the Next
Director
2013 Movie
3.0
The Killers: Unstaged
Director
2012 Movie
6.9
Into the Abyss
Director
2011 Movie
7.5
Ode to the Dawn of Man
Director
2011 Movie
7.1
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Director
2010 Movie
6.1
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Director
2010 Movie
6.2
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
Director
2009 Movie
4.9
La Bohème
Director
2009 Movie
Lohengrin: Bayreuth Festival Opera
Stage Director
2008 Movie
7.5
Encounters at the End of the World
Director
2007 Movie
6.0
The Wild Blue Yonder
Director
2005 Movie
7.5
Grizzly Man
Director
2005 Movie
6.9
The White Diamond
Director
2004 Movie
Series
Directed Series
Series directed by Werner Herzog.
Movies
Upcoming Movies
Next announced movie projects with Werner Herzog.
Movies
Top Rated Movies
Highest rated movies linked with Werner Herzog.
7.8
Lessons of Darkness
Director
1992 Movie
7.8
The Look of Silence
Executive Producer
2014 Movie
7.7
The Act of Killing
Executive Producer
2012 Movie
7.6
Fitzcarraldo
Director
1982 Movie
7.5
Grizzly Man
Director
2005 Movie
7.5
Life Itself
as Self - Filmmaker
2014 Movie
7.5
Burden of Dreams
as Self - Filmmaker
1982 Movie
7.5
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Director
1997 Movie
7.5
Encounters at the End of the World
Director
2007 Movie
7.5
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Director
1972 Movie
7.4
Red Army
Executive Producer
2015 Movie
7.3
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Director
1974 Movie
Series
Top Rated Series
Highest rated series linked with Werner Herzog.
8.7
Rick and Morty
as Shrimply Pibbles (voice) • 1 eps
2013 Series
8.4
The Mandalorian
as The Client • 3 eps
2019 Series
8.2
The Boondocks
as Himself (voice) • 1 eps
2005 Series
8.0
Parks and Recreation
as Keg Jennings • 1 eps
2009 Series
8.0
The Simpsons
as Walter Hotenhoffer (voice) • 2 eps
1989 Series
7.6
Metalocalypse
2 eps
2006 Series
7.0
American Dad!
as Werner Herzog (voice) • 1 eps
2005 Series
6.9
The Colbert Report
1 eps
2005 Series
Movies
Most Popular Movies
Most viewed movie titles linked with Werner Herzog.
6.5
Penguins of Madagascar
as Documentary Filmmaker (voice)
2014 Movie
6.7
Jack Reacher
as Zec Chelovek
2012 Movie
6.2
Invincible
Director
2001 Movie
6.5
Orion and the Dark
as Narrator (voice)
2024 Movie
7.7
The Act of Killing
Executive Producer
2012 Movie
7.2
What Dreams May Come
as Face
1998 Movie
6.9
Cobra Verde
Director
1987 Movie
6.2
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
Director
2009 Movie
6.6
Signs of Life
Director
1968 Movie
6.4
The Unbelievers
as Self
2013 Movie
7.3
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Director
1979 Movie
Burning Heart
1995 Movie
Series
Most Popular Series
Most viewed series linked with Werner Herzog.
8.0
The Simpsons
as Walter Hotenhoffer (voice) • 2 eps
1989 Series
7.0
American Dad!
as Werner Herzog (voice) • 1 eps
2005 Series
8.7
Rick and Morty
as Shrimply Pibbles (voice) • 1 eps
2013 Series
5.3
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest • 2 eps
2014 Series
6.2
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self • 1 eps
2015 Series
8.4
The Mandalorian
as The Client • 3 eps
2019 Series
8.0
Parks and Recreation
as Keg Jennings • 1 eps
2009 Series
6.9
The Colbert Report
1 eps
2005 Series
7.1
Die Harald Schmidt Show
as Self • 1 eps
1995 Series
6.2
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self • 1 eps
2015 Series
8.2
The Boondocks
as Himself (voice) • 1 eps
2005 Series
Spécial cinéma
as Self • 2 eps
1974 Series
Movies
Other Crew Work in Movies
Additional movie credits for Werner Herzog.
Felicidad
Producer
2025 Movie
Mi casa amarilla
Consulting Editor
2025 Movie
Reeling
Executive Producer
2025 Movie
5.3
The End
Executive Producer
2024 Movie
2.0
The Arc of Oblivion
Executive Producer
2023 Movie
Notes from a Dromedary
Creative Consultant
2022 Movie
5.0
Flores del precipicio
Producer
2022 Movie
6.8
Last Exit: Space
Executive Producer
2022 Movie
El Poso
Producer
2022 Movie
The Last Scene
Executive Producer
2019 Movie
10.0
The Empty Goal
Thanks
2018 Movie
6.4
A Gray State
Executive Producer
2017 Movie
The Blimp-Maker
Thanks
2016 Movie
7.4
Red Army
Executive Producer
2015 Movie
7.8
The Look of Silence
Executive Producer
2014 Movie
9.4
The Last Shepherd
Thanks
2013 Movie
Series
Other Crew Work in Series
Additional series credits for Werner Herzog.
Movies
Acting Appearances in Movies
Movie cast credits for Werner Herzog.
In 2 weeks
Ghost Elephants
as Narrator (voice)
2026 Movie
5.5
About a Hero
2024 Movie
7.8
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
7.0
Kinski
as Self (archive footage)
2024 Movie
6.5
Orion and the Dark
as Narrator (voice)
2024 Movie
2.0
The Arc of Oblivion
as Narrator (voice)
2023 Movie
7.9
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
as Self
2022 Movie
6.0
Tegoyo
as Self (Voice)
2022 Movie
6.8
Last Exit: Space
as Narrator (voice)
2022 Movie
4.8
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
as Self (archive footage)
2022 Movie
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
as Self (archive footage)
2021 Movie
Series
Acting Appearances in Series
Series cast credits for Werner Herzog.
8.3
The U.S. and the Holocaust
as Hermann Göring • 3 eps
2022 Series
10.0
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
as Self • 4 eps
2020 Series
7.4
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
as Self - The Client • 2 eps
2020 Series
8.4
The Mandalorian
as The Client • 3 eps
2019 Series
6.2
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self • 1 eps
2015 Series
6.2
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self • 1 eps
2015 Series
5.3
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest • 2 eps
2014 Series
8.7
Rick and Morty
as Shrimply Pibbles (voice) • 1 eps
2013 Series
6.8
On Death Row
as Werner Herzog • 8 eps
2012 Series
8.0
Parks and Recreation
as Keg Jennings • 1 eps
2009 Series
7.6
Metalocalypse
2 eps
2006 Series
6.0
The Henry Rollins Show
1 eps
2006 Series