Werner Herzog

**Werner Herzog Stipetić** (; born 5 September 1942 in Munich, Germany), known as **Werner Herzog**, is a German movie director, producer, screenwriter, author, actor and opera director. He is known for directing science fiction or just fiction movies and documentary films. Herzog is thought to be one of the greatest German movie directors.

### Fiction feature films

- _Signs of Life_ (1968)
- _Even Dwarfs Started Small_ (1970)
- _Aguirre, the Wrath of God_ (1972)
- _The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser_ (1974)
- _Heart of Glass_ (1976)
- _Stroszek_ (1977)
- _Nosferatu the Vampyre_ (1979)
- _Woyzeck_ (1979)
- _Fitzcarraldo_ (1982)
- _Where the Green Ants Dream_ (1984)
- _Cobra Verde_ (1987)
- _Scream of Stone_ (1991)
- _Invincible_ (2001)
- _The Wild Blue Yonder_ (2005)
- _Rescue Dawn_ (2006)
- _Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans_ (2009)
- _My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?_ (2009)
- _Queen of the Desert_ (2015)
- _Salt and Fire_ (2016)

### Fiction short films

- _Herakles_ (1962)
- _Game in the Sand_ (1964)
- _The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz_ (1966)
- _Last Words_ (1968)
- _Precautions Against Fanatics_ (1969)
- _No One Will Play with Me_ (1976)
- _Les Gaulois_ (1988)

### Documentary feature films

- _The Flying Doctors of East Africa_ (1969)
- _Handicapped Future_ (1971)
- _Land of Silence and Darkness_ (1971)
- _Fata Morgana_ (1971)
- _The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner_ (1974)
- _How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck_ (1976)
- _Huie's Sermon_ (1981)
- _God's Angry Man_ (1981)
- _Ballad of the Little Soldier_ (1984)
- _The Dark Glow of the Mountains_ (1984)
- _Herdsmen of the Sun_ (1989)
- _Echoes from a Sombre Empire_ (1990)
- _Jag Mandir_ (1991)
- _Lessons of Darkness_ (1992)
- _Bells from the Deep_ (1993)
- _The Transformation of the World into Music_ (1994)
- _Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices_ (1995)
- _Little Dieter Needs to Fly_ (1997)
- _Wings of Hope_ (1998)
- _My Best Fiend_ (1999)
- _Wheel of Time_ (2003)
- _The White Diamond_ (2004)
- _Grizzly Man_ (2005)
- _Encounters at the End of the World_ (2007)
- _Cave of Forgotten Dreams_ (2010)
- _Happy People: A Year in the Taiga_ (2010)
- _Into the Abyss_ (2011)
- _Lo & Behold, Reveries of the Connected World_ (2016)
- _Into the Inferno_ (2016)

### Documentary short films

- _La Soufrière_ (1977)
- _Portrait Werner Herzog_ (1986)
- _Christ and Demons in New Spain_ (1999)
- _Pilgrimage_ (2001)
- _Ten Thousand Years Older_ (2002)
- _La Bohème_ (2009)
- _Ode to the Dawn of Man_ (2011)
- _From One Second to the Next_ (2013)

### Television series

- _On Death Row_ (2012-2013, 8 Episodes)
- _Filmstunde_ (1991-1992, 4 Episodes)

### Screenwriter

Films written, not directed, by Herzog:

- _Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe_ (1980)

Herzog has written all his films, except these which he co-wrote:

- _Heart of Glass_ (1976)
- _Scream of Stone_ (1991)
- _Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans_ (2009)
- _My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?_ (2009)

Herzog has also co-written:

- _Hunger in the world explained to my son_ (_El hambre en el mundo explicada a mi hijo_) (2002)
- _Incident at Loch Ness_ (2004)
- _Happy People: A Year in the Taiga_ (2010)

### Actor

- _Geschichten vom Kübelkind_ (1971)
- _Man of Flowers_ (1983)
- _Bride of the Orient _ (1989)
- _Hard to Be a God_ (1990)
- _Tales from the Opera_ (1994)
- _Burning Heart_ (1995)
- _What Dreams May Come_ (1998)
- _Julien Donkey-Boy_ (1999)
- _Incident at Loch Ness_ (2004)
- _Mister Lonely_ (2007)
- _The Grand_ (2007)
- _Plastic Bag_ (2009)
- _The Boondocks_ (Season 3) Ep. 31: "It's a Black President, Huey Freeman" (air date May 2, 2010) – voice role
- _The Simpsons_ Ep. 479 (2011) – voice role
- _Metalocalypse_ (Season 4, recurring character) (2012) – voice role
- _American Dad!_ Ep. 132 (2012) – voice role
- _Dinotasia_ (2012) – narrator
- _Jack Reacher_ (2012)
- _Home from Home_ (2013)
- _The Wind Rises_ (English version) (2013) – voice role
- _Penguins of Madagascar_ (2014) – voice role
- _Parks and Recreation_ (2015)
- _Rick and Morty_ Season 2 Ep. 8: "Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate" (2015) – voice role

### Producer

- _A Gray State_ (2017)

## Other websites

- Encounters with Herzog - a film competition. Judged by Herzog on the independent filmmakers networking community Shooting People.