Werner Herzog
Known For
Directing
Born
1942-09-05 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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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The Simpsons
as Walter Hotenhoffer (voice)
The Simpsons
as Werner Herzog (voice)
The Simpsons
as Dr. Lund (voice)
American Dad!
as Werner Herzog (voice)
Rick and Morty
as Shrimply Pibbles (voice)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
The Mandalorian
as The Client
Parks and Recreation
as Keg Jennings
The Colbert Report
Die Harald Schmidt Show
as Self
Midi Première
as Self
The Boondocks
as Himself (voice)
Grimme Award
as Self
Spécial cinéma
as Self
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
Penguins of Madagascar
as Documentary Filmmaker (voice)
Jack Reacher
as Zec Chelovek
Metalocalypse
Kulturplatz
as Self