Nicolas Cage Nicolas Cage Nicolas Cage at the 66th Venice International Film Festival Born Nicolas Kim Coppola[1] January 7, 1964 (1964-01-07) (age 45) Long Beach, California, U.S. Occupation Actor Producer Years active 1980–present Spouse(s) Patricia Arquette (1995–2001) Lisa Marie Presley (2002–2004) Alice Kim (2004–present) Nicolas Cage (born Nicolas Kim Coppola; January 7, 1964)[1][2][3] is an American actor. Cage pursued acting as a career, making his debut on television in 1981. Cage has been featured in numerous "bad boy" roles, and has won numerous awards, beginning in 1989 with his Independent Spirit Award, an Academy Award for Best Actor for his lead role in Leaving Las Vegas, and his most recent Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor in 2002 for Adaptation. Cage has appeared in over 60 films including Face/Off (1997), Ghost Rider (2007), and National Treasure (2004). Cage has married three times, to Patricia Arquette, Lisa Marie Presley, and most recently to his current wife, Alice Kim Cage. Contents [hide] * 1 Early life * 2 Career * 3 Praise and criticism * 4 Personal life o 4.1 Relationships and family o 4.2 Real estate and tax problems o 4.3 Other interests * 5 Filmography * 6 See also * 7 References * 8 External links Early life Cage was born in Long Beach, California. His father, August Coppola, was a professor of literature, while Cage's mother, Joy Vogelsang, is a dancer and choreographer; Cage's parents divorced in 1976.[1][4] Cage's mother is of German descent and his father is of Italian descent (his paternal great-grandparents were immigrants from Bernalda, Basilicata).[5] His paternal grandparents were Carmine Coppola, a composer, and Italia Pennino, an actress. Through his father, Cage is the nephew of director Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire, as well as the cousin of directors Roman Coppola and Sofia Coppola, late film producer Gian-Carlo Coppola, and actors Robert Carmine and Jason Schwartzman. Cage's two brothers are Christopher Coppola, a director; and Marc "The Cope" Coppola, a New York radio personality.[6] Cage, who attended Beverly Hills High School (the same high school as fellow entertainers Albert Brooks, Angelina Jolie, Lenny Kravitz, Slash, Rob Reiner, Richard Dreyfuss, Bonnie Franklin and David Schwimmer), aspired to act from an early age. Cage also attended UCLA School of Theatre, Film, and Television. His first non-cinematic acting experience was in a school production of Golden Boy. He is also good friends with fellow actor Johnny Depp, whom he advised to get into acting.[citation needed] Career In order to avoid the appearance of nepotism as the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, he changed his name early in his career from Nicolas Coppola to Nicolas Cage, inspired in part by the Marvel Comics superhero Luke Cage.[7] Since his minor role in the film Fast Times at Ridgemont High, with Sean Penn, Cage has appeared in a wide range of films, both mainstream and offbeat. He tried out for the role of Dallas Winston in his uncle's film The Outsiders, based on S.E. Hinton's novel, but lost to Matt Dillon. He was also in Coppola's films Rumble Fish and Peggy Sue Got Married. Other Cage roles included appearances in the acclaimed 1987 romantic-comedy Moonstruck, also starring Cher; The Coen Brothers cult-classic comedy Raising Arizona; David Lynch's 1990 offbeat film Wild at Heart; a lead role in Martin Scorsese's 1999 New York City paramedic drama Bringing Out the Dead; and Ridley Scott's 2003 quirky drama Matchstick Men, in which he played an agoraphobic, mysophobic, obsessive-compulsive con artist with a tic disorder. Cage has been nominated twice for an Academy Award, winning once for his performance as a suicidal alcoholic in Leaving Las Vegas. His other nomination was for his portrayal of real-life screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and Kaufman's fictional twin Donald in Adaptation. Despite these successes, most of his lower-profile films have performed poorly at the box office compared to his mainstream action/adventure roles. The suspense thriller 8mm (1999) was not a box office success, but is now considered a cult film. He took the lead role in the 2001 film Captain Corelli's Mandolin and learned to play the mandolin from scratch for the part. In 2005, two offbeat films he headlined, Lord of War and The Weather Man, failed to find a significant audience despite nationwide releases and good reviews for his acting in those roles. Poor reviews for The Wicker Man resulted in low box office sales. The much criticized Ghost Rider (2007), based on the Marvel Comics character, was a significant hit,[citation needed] earning more than $45 million (the top earner) during its opening weekend and over $208 million worldwide through the weekend ending on March 25, 2007. Also in 2007, he starred in Next, which shares the concept of a glimpse into an alternate timeline with The Family Man (2000). Most of Cage's movies that have achieved financial success were in the action/adventure genre. In his second-highest grossing film to date, National Treasure, he plays an eccentric historian who goes on a dangerous adventure to find treasure hidden by the Founding Fathers of the United States. Other action hits include The Rock, in which Cage plays a young FBI chemical weapons expert who infiltrates Alcatraz Island in hopes of neutralizing a terrorist threat, Face/Off, a John Woo film where he plays both a hero and a villain, and World Trade Center, director Oliver Stone's film regarding the September 11, 2001 attacks. He had a small but notable role as the Chinese criminal mastermind Dr. Fu Manchu in Rob Zombie's fake trailer Werewolf Women of the S.S. from the B-movie double feature Grindhouse. In recent years, Cage made his directorial debut with Sonny, a low-budget drama starring James Franco as a male prostitute whose mother (Brenda Blethyn) serves as his pimp.[8] Cage had a small role in the grim film, which received poor reviews and a short run in a limited number of theatres. Cage's producing career includes Shadow of the Vampire, the first film from Saturn Films. In early December 2006, Cage announced at the Bahamas International Film Festival that he planned to curtail his future acting endeavors in order to pursue other interests. On the The Dresden Files for the Sci-Fi Channel, Cage is listed as the executive producer. Cage said: I feel I've made a lot of movies already and I want to start exploring other opportunities that I can apply myself to, whether it's writing or other interests that I may develop.[9] In November 2007, Cage was spotted backstage at a Ring of Honor wrestling show in New York City researching his role for the The Wrestler. Ultimately, Nicolas Cage was replaced in "The Wrestler" with Mickey Rourke, in a role that has earned a Best Actor Academy Award nomination for Rourke.[10] Wrestler Director Darren Aronofsky, in an interview with slashfilm.com, said of Cage's replacement that: Nic was a complete gentleman, and he understood that my heart was with Mickey and he stepped aside. I have so much respect for Nic Cage as an actor and I think it really could have worked with Nic but ... you know, Nic was incredibly supportive of Mickey and he is old friends with Mickey and really wanted to help with this opportunity, so he pulled himself out of the race.[11] In 2008, Cage appeared as Joe, a contract killer who undergoes a change of heart while on a work outing in Bangkok, in the film Bangkok Dangerous. The film is shot by the Pang Brothers and has a distinct South-East Asian flavor. In 2009, Cage starred in sci-fi thriller Knowing, directed by Alex Proyas. In the film, he plays an MIT professor who examines the contents of a time capsule unearthed at his son's elementary school. Startling predictions found inside the capsule that have already come true lead him to believe the world is going to end at the close of the week, and that he and his son are somehow involved in the destruction. The film received mainly negative reviews but was the box office winner on its opening weekend. Cage will appear in the film Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans directed by acclaimed German director Werner Herzog and will portray a corrupt police officer with gambling, drug and alcohol addictions. This film will also reunite Cage with Eva Mendes, who played his love interest in "Ghost Rider." Cage will also star in the period piece Season of the Witch, playing a 14th-century knight transporting a girl accused of causing the Black Plague to a monastery, and The Sorcerer's Apprentice, in which he will play the sorcerer.[12] It is rumored that he will star in National Treasure 3, which has a possible release date as early as 2011. He would again take the role of Benjamin Gates, a cryptologist-turned-treasure hunter.[13] Praise and criticism The acting work of Cage has been praised by influential film critic Roger Ebert who writes, in his "Great Movies" essay about the film Adaptation., that: There are often lists of the great living male movie stars: De Niro, Nicholson and Pacino, usually. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He should always be up there. He's daring and fearless in his choice of roles, and unafraid to crawl out on a limb, saw it off and remain suspended in air. No one else can project inner trembling so effectively.... He always seems so earnest. However improbable his character, he never winks at the audience. He is committed to the character with every atom and plays him as if he were him.[14] Roger Ebert, in response to mixed reviews of Knowing and their focus on criticizing Cage, wrote an article in which he defends both Cage as an actor and the movie which, in stark contrast to other critics, Ebert gave 4/4 stars.[15] Despite such praise, Cage has his detractors. Cage is often criticized for choosing to star in thrillers and/or big-budget action-adventure movies. Many[who?] feel that, in recent years, he has abandoned altogether any desire to star in smaller character-driven dramas, the type of film that initially garnered him praise. Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman wrote an article in March 2009, after the debut of Knowing[16] accusing Cage of such "selling out" In the article, titled "Nicolas Cage: Artist or hack? The choice is his", Gleiberman calls Cage out to return to dramas as opposed to high-paying blockbusters. Personal life Relationships and family In his early 20s, he dated actress/singer Elizabeth Daily for two years, and was later involved with actress Uma Thurman. In 1988, Cage began dating Christina Fulton, mother of their son, Weston Coppola Cage (born December 26, 1990). Weston appeared in Cage's film Lord of War as Vladimir, a young Ukrainian mechanic who quickly disarms a Mil Mi-24 helicopter and is lead singer of the Black metal band Eyes of Nocturn.[17] Cage has been married three times. His first wife was the actress Patricia Arquette (married on April 8, 1995 – divorce finalized on May 18, 2001). Cage's second wife was singer/songwriter Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of Elvis Presley, of whom Cage is a fan and on whom he based his performance in Wild at Heart. They married on August 10, 2002 and filed for divorce on November 25, 2002, after 108 days of marriage; their divorce was finalized on May 16, 2004. The divorce proceeding was longer than the marriage.[18] His third and current wife Alice Kim, a former waitress who previously worked at the Los Angeles restaurant Kabuki, met Cage at the Los Angeles-based Korean nightclub, Le Privé. She is the mother of his son, Kal-El (born October 3, 2005), named after Superman's birth name. Cage was once considered for the role of Superman in a film to be directed by Tim Burton. Alice had a minor role in the 2007 movie Next, which Cage produced. They were married at a private ranch in Northern California on July 30, 2004. Real estate and tax problems Cage had a Malibu home where he and Alice lived, but sold the property in 2005 for $10 million. In 2004 he bought a property on Paradise Island, Bahamas. In May 2006, he bought a 40-acre (160,000 m2) island in the Exuma archipelago, some 85 miles (137 km) southeast of Nassau and close to a similar island owned by Faith Hill and Tim McGraw.[19] He once owned the medieval castle of Schloss Neidstein in the Oberpfalz region in Germany, which he bought in 2006 and sold in 2009 for $2.5 million.[20] His grandmother was German, living in Cochem an der Mosel.[21] In August 2007, Cage purchased a home in Middletown, Rhode Island. The 24,000-square-foot (2,200 m2), brick-and-stone country manor occupies 26 acres, has 12 bedrooms, 10 full bathrooms, and ocean views and borders the Norman Bird Sanctuary. The estate is called the "Grey Craig". The sale ranked among the state’s most expensive residential purchases, eclipsed by the 2007 $17.15 million sale of the Miramar mansion on Bellevue Avenue in Newport. Also in 2007, the actor purchased Midford Castle in Somerset, England.[22][23][24] Shortly after selling his German castle, Cage also put homes in Rhode Island, Lousiana, Nevada, and California, as well as a $7 million island in the Bahamas, up for sale.[25] On July 14, 2009, the Internal Revenue Service filed documents in New Orleans in connection with a federal tax lien against property owned by Cage in Louisiana, concerning unpaid federal taxes. The IRS alleges that Cage failed to pay over $6.2 million in federal income tax for the year 2007.[26] In addition, the Internal Revenue Service has another lien for more than $350,000 in unpaid taxes dating from 2002 to 2004.[27] Cage filed a $20 million lawsuit on October 16, 2009, against his business manager, Samuel J. Levin, alleging negligence and fraud.[28] The lawsuit states that Levin "had failed to pay taxes when they were due and had placed [Cage] in speculative and risky real estate investments 'resulting in (the actor) suffering catastrophic losses'."[28] According to Cage, he owned the "Most Haunted House in America", a home located in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana.[29] The home is known as the "The LaLaurie house" after its former owner Delphine LaLaurie. The house was foreclosed and sold at auction on November 12, 2009 along with another New Orleans property for a total of $5.5 million, in the wake of his financial problems.[30] Homes in California and Nevada also face foreclosure auctions.[30] Other interests Nicolas was director Sam Raimi's first choice to play Norman Osborn/Green Goblin in the movie Spider-Man. He has created a comic book, with his son Weston, called Voodoo Child, which is published by Virgin Comics. Cage was close friends with Ramones guitarist Johnny Ramone. His enthusiam of classic cars is well known; in 1997 via telephone bid, he broke the auction record for Lamborghinis when he placed a bid on a rare Miura SVJ for US$490,000.[31] He has also been a fan and collector of painter and underground comix artist Robert Williams. He has written introductions for Juxtapoz magazine and purchased the painting Death On The Boards.[32] Filmography Year Film Role Notes 1980 Brubaker Extra Uncredited 1981 Best Of Times Nicholas 1982 Fast Times at Ridgemont High Brad's Bud 1983 The Outsiders cameo in rumble scene Uncredited Valley Girl Randy Rumble Fish Smokey 1984 Racing with the Moon Nicky and Bud The Cotton Club Vincent Dwyer Birdy Sergeant Al Columbato 1986 The Boy in Blue Ned Hanlan Peggy Sue Got Married Charlie Bodell 1987 Raising Arizona H. I. McDunnough Moonstruck Ronny Cammareri Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy 1988 Never on Tuesday Man In Red Sports Car 1989 Vampire's Kiss Peter Leow Festival de Cine de Sitges Award for Best Actor Tied with Sir Michael Gambon for The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) Nominated — Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Male 1990 Tempo di uccidere Enrico Silvestri Fire Birds Jake Preston aka Wings of the Apache Wild at Heart Sailor Zandalee Johnny 1992 Honeymoon in Vegas Jack Singer Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy 1993 Amos & Andrew Amos Odell Deadfall Eddie 1994 A Century of Cinema Himself Red Rock West Michael Williams Guarding Tess Doug Chesnic It Could Happen to You Charlie Lang Trapped in Paradise Bill Firpo 1995 Kiss of Death Little Junior Brown Leaving Las Vegas Ben Sanderson Academy Award for Best Actor Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor National Board of Review Award for Best Actor National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor San Sebastián International Film Festival Silver Seashell Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Actor Nominated — Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Male Nominated — London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor 1996 The Rock Dr. Stanley Goodspeed 1997 Con Air Cameron Poe Face/Off Castor Troy/Sean Archer Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Actor 1998 City of Angels Seth Snake Eyes Rick Santoro 1999 8mm Tom Welles Bringing Out the Dead Frank Pierce 2000 Gone in Sixty Seconds Randall "Memphis" Raines The Family Man Jack Campbell Welcome to Hollywood Himself 2001 Italian Soldiers Himself Captain Corelli's Mandolin Captain Antonio Corelli Christmas Carol: The Movie Jacob Marley Voice 2002 Windtalkers Sgt. Joe Enders Adaptation. Charlie and Donald Kaufman Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Actor Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor Nominated — Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor Nominated — Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Sonny Acid Yellow Director Nominated — Deauville Film Festival Grand Prix du jury 2003 Matchstick Men Roy Waller 2004 National Treasure Benjamin Gates 2005 Lord of War Yuri Orlov The Weather Man David Spritz 2006 The Ant Bully Zoc Voice The Wicker Man Edward Malus World Trade Center John McLoughlin 2007 Ghost Rider Ghost Rider/Johnny Blaze Grindhouse Dr. Fu Manchu Segment Werewolf Women of the S.S. Next Cris Johnson National Treasure: Book of Secrets Benjamin Gates 2008 Bangkok Dangerous Joe 2009 Knowing Professor Jonathan "John" Koestler G-Force Speckles the Mole Voice Astro Boy Dr. Tenma Voice Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans The Lieutenant post-production 2010 Season of the Witch Lavey post-production Kick-Ass Damon Macready/ Big Daddy post-production The Sorcerer's Apprentice Balthazar Blake post-production Werner Herzog (born Werner Herzog Stipetić;[1] 5 September 1942) is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and opera director. He is often associated with the German New Wave movement (also called New German Cinema), along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Wim Wenders and others. His films often feature heroes with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals who find themselves in conflict with nature. Herzog was born Werner Herzog Stipetić (German pronunciation: [ʃtɪpɛtɪtʃ]) to Dietrich Herzog and Elizabeth Stipetic in Munich. His family moved to the remote Bavarian village of Sachrang (nestled in the Chiemgau Alps), after the house next to theirs was destroyed during the bombing at the close of World War II.[2] When he was 12, he and his family moved back to Munich. The same year, Herzog was told to sing in front of his class at school and he adamantly refused. He was almost expelled for this and until the age of 18 listened to no music, sang no songs and studied no instruments. He later said that he would easily give 10 years from his life to be able to play an instrument. At 14, he was inspired by an encyclopedia entry about film-making which he says provided him with "everything I needed to get myself started" as a film-maker — that, and the 35 mm camera that the young Herzog stole from the Munich Film School.[3] In the commentary for Aguirre, the Wrath of God, he states, "I don't consider it theft — it was just a necessity — I had some sort of natural right for a camera, a tool to work with." He studied at the University of Munich despite earning a scholarship to Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In the early 1960s, Herzog worked nightshifts as a welder in a steel factory to help fund his first films. Herzog has been married three times and has three children. In 1967, he married Martje Grohmann,[4] with whom he had a son in 1973, Rudolph Amos Achmed,[5] who is a film producer and director as well as the author of several non-fiction books. In 1980, his daughter, Hanna Mattes (now a photographer and an artist), was born to Eva Mattes. In 1987, Herzog was divorced from Grohmann; later the same year he married Christine Maria Ebenberger. Their son, Simon Herzog, who attends Columbia University, was born in 1989. Herzog and Ebenberger divorced in 1994. In 1995 Herzog moved to the United States and in 1999 married photographer Lena Pisetski, now Lena Herzog. They live in Los Angeles. On January 2006 actor Joaquin Phoenix overturned his car on a road above Sunset Boulevard. Herzog, who lived nearby, helped him get out of it.[6] A few days later, whilst giving an interview to the Mark Kermode for the BBC, Herzog was shot on film with an air rifle by an unknown individual. Herzog continued the interview and showed his wound on camera but acted as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened, remarking "It is not a significant bullet."[7] [edit] Career Besides using movie stars, German, American and otherwise, Herzog is known for using people from the locality in which he is shooting. Especially in his documentaries, he uses locals to benefit his, as he calls it, "ecstatic truth", using footage of them both playing parts and being themselves. Herzog and his films have won and been nominated for many awards. Herzog's first major award was the Silver Bear for his first feature film Signs of Life (Nosferatu the Vampyre was also nominated for Golden Bear in 1979). Most notably, Herzog won the best director award for Fitzcarraldo at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. On the same Festival, but a few years earlier (in 1975) his movie The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser won The Special Jury Prize (also known as the 'Silver Palm'). Other films directed by Herzog nominated for Golden Palm are: Woyzeck and Where the green ants dream. His films were also nominated at many other very important festivals all around the world: César Awards (Aguirre, The Wrath of God), Emmy Awards (Little Dieter Needs to Fly), European Film Awards (My Best Fiend) and Venice Film Festival (Scream of Stone and The Wild Blue Yonder). In 1987 he and his half-brother Lucki Stipetic won the Bavarian Film Awards for Best Producing, for the film Cobra Verde.[8] In 2002 he won the Dragon of Dragons Honorary Award during Kraków Film Festival in Kraków. Herzog was honored at the 49th San Francisco International Film Festival, receiving the 2006 Film Society Directing Award.[9] Four of his films have been shown at the San Francisco International Film Festival: Wodaabe - Herdsmen of the Sun in 1990, Bells from the Deep in 1993, Lessons of Darkness in 1993, and The Wild Blue Yonder in 2006. Herzog's April 2007 appearance at the Ebertfest in Champaign, IL earned him the Golden Thumb Award, and an engraved glockenspiel given to him by a young film maker inspired by his films. Grizzly Man, directed by Herzog, won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. Encounters at the End of the World won the award for Best Documentary at the 2008 Edinburgh International Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Documentary Feature, Herzog's first nomination. Herzog once promised to eat his shoe if Errol Morris completed the movie project on pet cemeteries that he had been working on, in order to challenge and motivate Morris, whom Herzog perceived as incapable of following up on the projects he conceived. In 1978 when the film Gates of Heaven premiered, Werner Herzog cooked and publicly ate his shoe, an event later incorporated into a short documentary Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe by Les Blank. At the event, Herzog suggested that he hoped the act would serve to encourage anyone having difficulty bringing a project to fruition. In 2009, Herzog became the only filmmaker in recent history to enter two films in competition in the same year at the prestigious Venice Film Festival. Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans was entered into the festival's official competition schedule, and his My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? entered the competition as a "surprise film".[10] [edit] Film theory Herzog's films have received considerable critical acclaim and achieved popularity on the art house circuit. They have also been the subject of controversy in regard to their themes and messages, especially the circumstances surrounding their creation. A notable example is Fitzcarraldo, in which the obsessiveness of the central character was mirrored by the director during the making of the film, as shown in Burden of Dreams, a documentary filmed during the making of Fitzcarraldo. His treatment of subjects has been characterized as Wagnerian in its scope, as Fitzcarraldo and his later film Invincible (2001) are directly inspired by opera, or operatic themes. He is proud of never using storyboards and often improvising large parts of the script, as he explains on the commentary track to Aguirre, The Wrath of God. [edit] Collaborations [edit] Cast Actors/Actress in a Leading Role * Klaus Kinski: Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Nosferatu, Woyzeck, Fitzcarraldo, and Cobra Verde. In 1999 Herzog directed and narrated the documentary film My Best Fiend, a retrospective on his often rocky relationship with Kinski. * Bruno S. in The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser and Stroszek * Brad Dourif in Scream of Stone, The Wild Blue Yonder, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, and My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done * Josef Bierbichler in Heart of Glass and Woyzeck * Eva Mattes in Woyzeck and Stroszek Actors in a Supporting Role * Clemens Scheitz in The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Heart of Glass, Stroszek and Nosferatu the Vampyre * José Lewgoy in Fitzcarraldo and Cobra Verde * Volker Prechtel in Heart of Glass, Woyzeck and Scream of Stone * Peter Berling in Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Cobra Verde [edit] Crew [edit] Cinematographers With Thomas Mauch Mauch worked with Herzog on ten films: starting with Signs of Life and Last Words and ending with Fitzcarraldo. He helped to create hallucinogenic atmosphere in Aguirre and realistic style of Stroszek. Mauch won Film Award in Gold and National Society of Film Critics Awards for Aguirre. He was Herzog's first choise to be cinematographer during Cobra Verde, but after a perpetual torrent of verbal abuse from Kinski, Mauch walked out on the project. That was Mauch and Herzog's final collaboration. With Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein Reitwein worked with Herzog on seventeen films. Reitwein was Thomas Mauch's assistant camera during Even Dwarfs Started Small. His first independent work for Herzog was Precautions Against Fanatics in 1969. He helped to create poetical atmosphere of Fata Morgana, Heart of Glass, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser and Nosferatu. He won Film Award in Gold for Heart of Glass and Where the green ants dream during German Film Awards. He last collaborated with Herzog during Pilgrimage in 2001. With Peter Zeitlinger Zeitlinger collaborated with Herzog on eleven films, from Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices (1995) to My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2010), included Rescue Dawn, Grizzly Man and Encounters at the End of the World. [edit] Producers With Walter Saxer Saxer produced sixteen Herzog's films, including Nosferatu and The White Diamond. He worked as Sound Department during seven Herzog's films, including The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner and Echoes from a Somber Empire. He co - wrote Scream of Stone which Herzog directed. Saxer appeard as himself in Herzog's My Best Feind and in Les Blank's Burden of Dreams, in which he was perpetual torrented of verbal abuse from Kinski. With Lucki Stipetic Lucki is Herzog half-brother. He also produced several Herzog films, including Aguirre and Invincible. Stipetic is a head of Werner Herzog Productions. He won Bavarian Film Award in 1988 for Cobra Verde and International Documentary Association Award for Little Dieter Needs to Fly in 1998. He was also nominated for an Emmy Award in 1998. [edit] Editors With Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus Beate Mainka is a film editor. She worked with Herzog on twenty films, from Signs of Life and Last Words (both from 1968) to Where the Green Ants Dream (1984). With Joe Bini Bini is a film editor. He collaborated with Herzog on eleven films, from Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) to Bad Lieutenant (2009). [edit] Costumes designers With Ann Poppel Poppel is a costume designer. She collaborated with Herzog on four films, including Nosferatu the Vampyre and Scream of Stone. With Gisela Storch Storch is a costume designer. She with Herzog on six films: The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Heart of Glass, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Woyzeck, Fitzcarraldo and Cobra Verde. She was nominated for a Saturn Award for Nosferatu the Vampire in 1979. [edit] Others With Henning von Gierke Gierke collaborated with Herzog on seven films and several operas. He was Production Designer during The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Nosferatu the Vampyre and Fitzcarraldo. As a Set Decorator he worked on Heart of Glass and Woyzeck, as Stage Designer on operas: Lohengrin and Giovanna d'Arco and as Costume Designer on film The Transformation of the World Into Music. Gierke shot additional still photographs on Stroszek 's set. He appeared twice in Herzog's film The Transformation of the World Into Music as himself and in Herzog's TV realisation of opera Giovanna d'Arco. Von Gierke won Film Award in Gold for The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser during German Film Awards and Silver Berlin Bear for Nosferatu, during Berlin International Film Festival. With Popol Vuh Popol Vuh was a German Krautrock band founded by pianist and keyboardist Florian Fricke. The band took its name from the Popol Vuh, a manuscript of Quiché Maya kingdom, after watching Herzog's Fata Morgana (in which Lotte Eisner read Popol Vuh's parts). The band composed music for eight Herzog's films: Aguirre, the Wrath of God, The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, Heart of Glass, Nosferatu, The Dark Glow of the Mountains, Fitzcarraldo, Cobra Verde and My Best Fiend. Their compositions were also used by Herzog in Rescue Dawn. Florian Fricke made a cameo as a pianist in Signs of Life and The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser. [edit] Filmography All films were directed and written (or co-written) by Werner Herzog: [edit] Features * Signs of Life (1968) * Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970) * Fata Morgana (1971) * 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 (2007) * Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) * My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2010) * The Piano Tuner (2010) [edit] Shorts * Herakles (1962) * The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz (1966) * Last Words (1967) * Precautions Against Fanatics (1969) * No One Will Play With Me (1976) * Lessons of Darkness (1992) * La bohème (2009) Watch review [edit] Documentaries Full length: * Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) * Echoes From a Somber Empire (1990) * Bells from the Deep (1993) * Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) * My Best Fiend (1999) * Wheel of Time (2003) * The White Diamond (2004) * Grizzly Man (2005) * Encounters at the End of the World (2007) For TV: * The Flying Doctors of East Africa (1969) * Handicapped Future (1971) * How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976) * God's Angry Man (1980) * Huie's Sermon (1980) * The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1984) * Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984) * Wodaabe - Herdsmen of the Sun (1989) * Film Lesson 1-4 (1990) * Jag Mandir (1991) * The Transformation of the World Into Music (1994) * Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices (1995) * The Lord and the Laden included in 2000 Years of Christianity (1999) * Wings of Hope (2000) Short: * Game in The Sand (1964) * The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974) * La Soufrière (1977) * Portrait Werner Herzog (1986) * Les Gaulois included in Les Français vus par... (1988) * Pilgrimage (2001) * Ten Thousand Years Older, included in Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002) [edit] Screenwriter Films written, though not directed, by Herzog * Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980) Werner Herzog has written all his films, except * Scream of Stone (1991) * Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) * My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2010) * The Piano Tuner (2010) 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) [edit] 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) [edit] Stage works [edit] Opera * Doktor Faustus (1986, Teatro Comunale di Bologna) * Lohengrin (1987, Bayreuth Festival) * Giovanna d'Arco (1989, Teatro Comunale di Bologna) * La Donna del lago (1992, Teatro alla Scala, Milan) * The Flying Dutchman (1993, L’Opéra de la Bastille) * Il Guarany (1993, Opera Bonn) * Norma (1994, Verona Arena) * Il Guarany (1996, Washington National Opera) * Chushingura (1997, Tokyo Opera) * Tannhäuser (1997, 1998 Teatro de la Maestranza; Teatro di San Carlo; Teatro Massimo) * The Magic Flute (1999, Teatro Bellini, Catania) * Fidelio (1999, Teatro alla Scala) * Tannhäuser (Wagner) (2000) * Giovanna d'Arco (2001, Teatro Carlo Felice, Genova) * Tannhäuser (2001, Teatro Municipal; Houston Grand Opera) * Die Zauberflöte (2001, Baltimore Opera) * The Flying Dutchman (2002, DomStufen Festspiele Erfurt) * Parsifal (2008, Palau de les Arts, Valencia) [edit] Theatre * Floresta Amazonica (A Midsummer Night's Dream) (1992, Teatro Joao Caetano) * Varété (1993, Hebbel Theatre) * Specialitaeten (1993, Etablissement Ronacher)

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