Robert Barton Englund was born on June 6,1947 and is an American actor and director, best known for playing the supernatural serial killer Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street film series.
29 Facts About Robert Englund
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Classically trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Englund began his career as a stage actor in regional theatre, and made his film debut in Buster and Billie in 1974.
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Robert Englund was born on June 6,1947, in Glendale, California, the son of Janis and John Kent Robert Englund, an aeronautics engineer who helped develop the Lockheed U-2 airplane.
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Robert Englund is of part Swedish ancestry and part Scottish ancestry.
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Robert Englund began studying acting at the age of twelve, accompanying a friend to a children's theater program at California State University, Northridge.
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Robert Englund then attended UCLA for three years, before dropping out and transferring to Michigan's Oakland University, where he trained at the Meadow Brook Theater, at the time a branch of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
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Robert Englund had five successful years performing in regional theater including plays by Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw.
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Robert Englund married for the first time in 1968 to a nurse Elizabeth Gardner, whom he divorced in 1972.
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In 1976, Robert Englund auditioned for the role of Han Solo and Luke Skywalker in Star Wars.
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Robert Englund appeared in the 1977 film Eaten Alive directed by Tobe Hooper.
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Robert Englund then played Ranger in Galaxy of Terror, produced by Roger Corman, which was released in 1981.
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Since then, Robert Englund has made over 100 appearances on film and television.
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Robert Englund reprised his role as Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, Wes Craven's New Nightmare and Freddy vs Jason.
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Robert Englund is one of only four actors to portray a horror character eight consecutive times, the other three being Doug Bradley, who portrayed the Pinhead character eight times in the Hellraiser film series, Tobin Bell who played Jigsaw, and Brad Dourif who plays Chucky.
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Robert Englund has said that he enjoys the role of Freddy as it gives him a break from always acting out the nice guy; indeed, many people who have worked with Robert Englund attest to his congeniality.
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Makeup artists responsible for the Krueger makeup have commented that Robert Englund was so friendly and talkative that it made the lengthy makeup application slightly more challenging.
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Robert Englund performed as host of the Horror Hall of Fame awards show three times from 1989 to 1991.
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Robert Englund made his directorial debut with the 1988 horror film 976-EVIL, co-written by future Oscar winner Brian Helgeland and starring Stephen Geoffreys.
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Robert Englund had starred in the web series "Fear Clinic", where he appeared in five episodes as Dr Andover.
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Robert Englund noted he would welcome a guest appearance in the ABC revival of V in an interview with Todd Sokolove from Forces of Geek.
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Robert Englund made a guest appearance in "The Death of the Queen Bee" episode of Bones, appearing as a quirky janitor at protagonist Dr Temperance Brennan's old high school.
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Robert Englund appeared on the Creation Entertainment Weekend of Horrors in May 2010.
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Robert Englund appeared as himself in the Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies map, "Call of the Dead" as one of the playable characters, and acted out the part of a Halloween-themed serial killer in the 2010s revival of Hawaii Five-0.
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Robert Englund took part in a Halloween Come Dine with Me for Channel 4 in 2012.
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Robert Englund appeared in Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer and Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon.
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Robert Englund starred in The Last Showing and Fear Clinic, the latter was released on October 22,2014 at the Screamfest Film Festival.
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Robert Englund was a special guest at Shock Comic Con on Valentine's Day 2015.
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In February 2016, Robert Englund hosted a "Nightmare on Elm Street" marathon on El Rey Network.
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In 2022, Robert Englund appeared in the fourth season of the Netflix series Stranger Things as Pennhurst Mental Hospital patient Victor Creel.