History Creator / WernerHerzog

Werner Herzog (born September 5, 1942 in UsefulNotes/{{Munich}} as Werner Herzog Stipetić) is a German movie director and screenwriter who has emerged as the most successful of the German New Wave filmmakers. He is also a bit part actor and voice actor.

* ''Series/TheMandalorian'' (2019)

Werner Herzog (born September 5, 1942 in UsefulNotes/{{Munich}} as Werner Stipetić) is a German movie director and screenwriter who has emerged as the most successful of the German New Wave filmmakers. He is also a bit part actor and voice actor.

Werner Herzog Stipetić (born September 5, 1942 in UsefulNotes/{{Munich}}) is a German movie director and screenwriter who has emerged as the most successful of the German New Wave filmmakers. He is also a bit part actor and voice actor.

Werner Herzog (born September 5, 1942 in UsefulNotes/{{Munich}}) is a German movie director and screenwriter who has emerged as the most successful of the German New Wave filmmakers. He is also a bit part actor and voice actor.

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: ... not that there's anything wrong with it.

* OnlyAFleshWound: The man was once shot, on camera, by an air rifle, and his response, while smiling, was "It's not significant."

* EatingShoes: The documentary filmmaker Errol Morris was having trouble completing his debut feature ''Gates of Heaven''. In order to provoke Morris into finishing the film, Herzog told Morris that he'd never finish it -- but that if he ''did'' finish it, he, Herzog, would eat his own shoe. Morris finished the film. Herzog got the great Berkeley chef Alice Waters to cook his shoe in garlic, herbs and stock for five hours, and he ate it in public - except for the sole, because as he explained, you never eat the bones of the chicken. The whole thing was filmed by director Les Blank and released as the aptly-titled short documentary ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe]]''.

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Werner Herzog (born September 5, 1942 in UsefulNotes/{{Munich}}) is a German movie director who has emerged as the most successful of the German New Wave filmmakers. He is also a bit part actor and voice actor.

Werner Herzog (born September 5, 1942 in UsefulNotes/{{Munich}}) is a German movie director who has emerged as the most successful of the German New Wave filmmakers. He is also an actor and voice actor.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' (2011-2019) as Walter Hotenhoffer (voice)

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... and many others.

Werner Herzog (born September 5, 1942 in UsefulNotes/{{Munich}}) is a German movie director who has emerged as the most successful of the German New Wave filmmakers.

* ''Little Dieter Wants To Fly'' (1997)

* SlidingScaleOfCynicismVersusIdealism: His films are all over the place. From idealistic ''Fitzcarraldo'' to cynical ''Aguirre, the Wrath of God''. Just comparing ''The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser'' to ''Film/{{Stroszek}}'' can cause whiplash.

* ''Cave of Forgotten Dreams'' (2010)

Werner Herzog (born September 5, 1942 in UsefulNotes/{{Munich}}) is a German movie director who has emerged as the most successful of the German New Wave filmmakers. A man beloved on the Art House circuit and with several mainstream successes under his belt, most notably with actor Creator/KlausKinski. His films, both fictional and documentary, are often slow and atmospheric, but are universally beautiful and human. Really, his films only have one subject - the infinite power of human will and the subsequent potential for self-destruction.

He has made films in both German and English.

* WithFriendsLikeThese: His well-known friendship with Creator/KlausKinski was... "rocky" would be an understatement. Herzog made a film about their relationship entitled, appropriately, ''My Best Fiend''.

* SelfDeprecation: As discussed under AdamWesting, he is perfectly willing to lampoon his reputation as a hyper-intense Germanic semi-lunatic with a tendency to say very enigmatically dramatic things about nature and the human condition.

* ''Film/{{Invincible}}'' (2001)

* CreatorThumbprint: His films all feature men with strange abilities or obsessions, and he has a hatred of chickens. In ''The Grand'' he plays a gambler with an obsession over his pet chicken.

* SelfDeprecation: As discussed under AdamWesting, he is perfectly willing to lampoon his reputation as a hyper-intense Germanic semi-lunatic with a tendency to say very dramatic things about the human condition.