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Werner Herzog Acting Filmography (156)

Ghost Elephants
2026·Narrator (voice)
Sirena
2025
Orion and the Dark
2024·Narrator (voice)
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
2024·Narrator (voice)
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
2024·Self (archival footage)
About a Hero
2024
The Arc of Oblivion
2023·Narrator (voice)
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
2022·Self (archive footage)
Last Exit: Space
2022·Narrator (voice)
Tegoyo
2022·Self (Voice)
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022·Self
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
2021·Self (archive footage)
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
2021·Self (archive footage)
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
2021·Self
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
2021·Self
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
2020·Self - Narrator (voice)
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
2020·(archive footage)
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020·Self
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
2020·Narrator (voice)
The Andinist
2020·The Painter (Narrator)
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2020·(archive footage)
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
2019·Self
Jihad in Hollywood
2019·Self
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
2019·Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice)
Meeting Gorbachev
2019·Self
Tattoo Uprising
2019·Self
The Great Buster: A Celebration
2018·Self
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
2018·Self
Paradox Bullets
2018·Narrator (voice)
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
2018·Self
I'm a Soldier
2018·Self
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
2017·Self (archive footage)
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2017·Self
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
2017·Self
Jihad in Hollywood
2016·Self
Into the Inferno
2016·Self
Salt and Fire
2016·Man with One Story (uncredited)
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
2016·Self
Freaks of Nature
2015·Perfect Being (voice)
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
2014·Self (archive footage)
Life Itself
2014·Self - Filmmaker
Penguins of Madagascar
2014·Documentary Filmmaker (voice)
Lemonade War
2014·Neighborhood Hero
Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director
2014·Self
Atari: Game Over
2014·Self (archival)
The Unbelievers
2013·Self
Mistaken for Strangers
2013·Self (uncredited)
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
2013·Self
An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
2013·Self
Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
2013·Self
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
2013·Alexander von Humboldt
Strawberryfields
2012·Turnlehrer
Close Up
2012·Self (archive footage)
Jack Reacher
2012·Zec Chelovek
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Dinotasia
2012·Narrator (voice)
No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon
2012·Self
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
2012·Self
10 Questions for Werner Herzog
2012·Self
The Killers: Unstaged
2012·Self
Into the Abyss
2011·Narrator (voice)
On Borrowed Time
2011·Self
I, I, I José Lewgoy
2011·Self
Champions: A Comic Tale
2011·Self
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
2011·Self
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010·Narrator (voice)
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
2010·Narrator (voice)
Werner Herzog Defends Dade
2010·Self
Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son
2010·Self
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
2010·Self
The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
2010·Himself
When Herzog Rescued Phoenix
2010·Narrator (voice)
I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
2010·Self
Into the Night With Harmony Korine and Gaspar Noe
2010·Self
The Lonely
2009
Plastic Bag
2009·Plastic Bag (voice)
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
2008·Self
Mister Lonely
2008·Father Umbrillo
Bierbichler
2008·Self
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
2008·Self
Back to Room 666
2008·Self (archive footage)
Capturing Reality
2008·Self
BLAST!
2008·Narrator (voice)
The Grand
2007·The German
Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn
2007·Self
All In This Tea
2007
Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest
2007·Self
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
2007·Self
Encounters at the End of the World
2007·Narrator (voice)
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006·Self
Walking to Werner
2006·Self (voice)
Dreams and Burdens
2005·Self
Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog
2005·Self
Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space
2005·Self
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
2005·Self
Grizzly Man
2005·Self / Narrator (voice)
The White Diamond
2004·Narrator (voice)
Incident at Loch Ness
2004·Self
Dribble
2004·Self (voice)
The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3
2004·Self (voice) ("Dribble" short)
Wheel of Time
2003·Narrator (voice)
The Boxing Prince
2002·Self
The 100 Greatest Films
2001·Self
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
2000·Self
The Last Documentary
2000·Self
The Ball Is a Scumbag
2000·Self
My Best Fiend
1999·Self
A Brief History of Errol Morris
1999·Self
In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
1999·Self
Wings of Hope
1999·Self
Julien Donkey-Boy
1999·Father
What Dreams May Come
1998·Face
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
1997·Narrator (voice)
The Transformation of the World Into Music
1996·Self
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
1996·Self
Burning Heart
1995
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
1995·Narrator (voice)
Dangerous Game
1993·Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bells from the Deep
1993·Narrator (voice)
Lessons of Darkness
1992·Self - Narrator (voice)
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
1991·Narrator (voice)
Scream of Stone
1991·TV-Regisseur
SnowwhiteRosered
1991·Self
Hard to Be a God
1990·Mita / Richard
Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God"
1990·Self
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
1990·Self
To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
1989·Self
Bride of the Orient
1989·Businger
The Heart and the Legs
1989·Self
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
1989·Narrator (voice)
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
1988·Self
Location Africa
1987·Self
Portrait: Werner Herzog
1986·Self
Tokyo-Ga
1985·Self
The Dark Glow of the Mountains
1985·Self (voice)
Room 666
1985·Self
Ballad of the Little Soldier
1984·Self (voice)
Where the Green Ants Dream
1984·Lawyer (uncredited)
Man of Flowers
1983·The Father
God's Angry Man
1983·Narrator (voice)
Burden of Dreams
1982·Self - Filmmaker
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
1980·Self - Film Director: Nosferatu
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
1979·Self
I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
1979·Self
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
1979·Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
1977·Narrator (voice)
Journey Through History
1977·Self
Heart of Glass
1976·Glass Transporter
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
1976·Self
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
1976·Self
Lost in the Garden of the World
1975·Self
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
1974·Self
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
1974·Hurenmörder
Handicapped Future
1971·Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)
Die Erben von Papas Kino
1968
Signs of Life
1968·Soldier (uncredited)
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
1967