Herzog, Werner, Dexter, Carol, Dexter, Val, Huguenard, Amie, Treadwell, Timothy	...	(Director)
Werner Herzog	...	(Writer)
Werner Herzog	...	Himself
Carol Dexter	...	Herself - Treadwell's Mother
Val Dexter	...	Himself - Treadwell's Father
Sam Egli	...	Himself - Egli Air Haul
Franc G. Fallico	...	Himself - Coroner
Willy Fulton	...	Himself - Pilot
Marc Gaede	...	Himself - Ecologist
Marnie Gaede	...	Herself - Ecologist
Sven Haakanson Jr.	...	Himself - Alutiiq Museum Director
Amie Huguenard	...	Herself
David Letterman	...	Himself
Jewel Palovak	...	Herself
Kathleen Parker	...	Herself - Close Friend
Warren Queeney	...	Himself - Actor and Close Friend
Timothy Treadwell	...	Himself

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Summary: Grizzly Man could easily have been sensational and exploitative, but in the hands of Werner Herzog, it becomes something extraordinary. Herzog was granted exclusive access to over 100 hours of video shot by amateur naturalist, wildlife advocate and troubled loner Timothy Treadwell, who spent 13 summers in Alaska's Katmai National Park, where he grew to know and love the grizzly bears that lived there. He was also killed by one of them, in October 2003, along with his girlfriend Amie Huguenard, and that seemingly inevitable fate informs every minute of Herzog's riveting combination of Treadwell's video with his own expert filmmaking and unique vision of nature and man. Whereas Treadwell was a naïve nature-lover and social outcast whose sanity was slowly slipping away, Herzog is a pragmatic mythologist who views nature primarily in terms of "chaos, hostility, and murder," and the disparity of their vision results in a magnetic attraction that makes the sum of Grizzly Man greater than its parts. We come to admire the dreamer, the idealist, the failed actor and recovered alcoholic man-child that was Treadwell, and we equally admire the seeker of truth and wisdom that is Herzog. They belong together, in some world beyond our world, where visionaries join forces to create life after death. --Jeff Shannon