Robert Englund
Robert Englund was born in Glendale, California, United States on June 6th, 1947 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 76, Robert Englund biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Robert Barton Englund (born June 6, 1947) is an American actor, voice actor, singer, and producer best known for his role as Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street film series.
On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors 1988 & A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master and The Mangler were named Best Supporting Actor for A Nightmare, and the Dream Master received a Fantafestival Award in 1995.
Englund is a classically trained actor.
Early life
Englund was born in Glendale, California, son of Janis (née MacDonald) and John Kent Englund, an aeronautics engineer who helped build the Lockheed U-2 aircraft. He has ancestry from Sweden and a part of Scottish ancestry. At the age of 12, Englund began studying acting, accompanying a friend to a children's theater program at California State University, Northridge.
He attended Cranbrook Theatre School (organized by the Cranbrook Educational Community) in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, while in high school. He attended UCLA for three years before dropping out and attending Oakland University, where he studied at the Meadow Brook Theater, then a Royal Academy of Dramatic Art branch.
Englund spent five years in regional theater, including Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw's productions. He married Elizabeth Gardner, a nurse who died in 1972, for the first time in 1968. Shortly afterward, he returned to the West Coast in search of film work and landlocked a supporting role in Daniel Petrie's film Buster and Billie.
Career
Englund auditioned for the role of Han Solo and Luke Skywalker in Star Wars in 1976. Although he didn't get either of the parts, he did get Mark Hamill for the role of Luke. Englund appeared in Tobe Hooper's 1977 film Eaten Alive. He appeared in Galaxy of Terror, which was produced by Roger Corman in 1981. Englund has made more than 100 appearances on film and television since then. Englund was often depicted as a geek or a redneck in his early film roles, and he first caught notice in the role of Visitor technician and resistance fighter Willie in 1983's Inception, and V: The Film, in which he appeared as a regular cast member.
Englund went against type when he accepted Freddy Krueger, the psychotic burn survivor and child killer in Wes Craven's immensely popular A Nightmare on Elm Street in 1984. Freddy Krueger (1986), Freddy Krueger (1990), A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Freddy's Resurrection (1985), Freddy Krueger (1989), Freddy Krueger (1994) and Freddy's Dream: Freddy Krueger (1989). His involvement with the opera led him to top-billed appearances in The Phantom of the Opera (1989) (Tobe Hooper's second film directed by Tobe Hooper) and 2001 Maniacs (2005).
Englund is one of just four actors to portray a horror character eight times in a row, with Doug Bradley, who played Tobin Bell in the Hellraiser film franchise, and Chucky's Brad Dourif. Englund has stated that he loves the role of Freddy because it gives him a break from always behaving out the nice guy; in fact, many people working with him testify to his congeniality. The Krueger makeup artists had commented that Englund was so friendly and chatt that it made the long makeup application a little more difficult.
Englund's television appearances include stinting in the short-lived series Nightmare Cafe (1992), in which he played Blackie, the mysterious owner of the title cafe, and reprising his role of "Freddy Krueger" in the series Freddy's Nightmares – A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Series. Tim Wexler, Masters of Horror, MadTV, Sliders, and Knight Rider, where he appeared as a phantom haunting a film studio, as well as a guest star appearance on the hit television show Walker, Texas Ranger.
Felix Faust, The Riddler on The Batman, The Spectacular Spider-Man, and Dormammu on The Super Hero Squad Show are among his animations. On the television witch drama Charmed (Episode: "Size Matters"), he appeared as a demon who used a lack of money to lure people into a decrepit household (where he lived in the walls) and shrank them down to action figure size. He was also featured on a version of Married... with Children as the Devil. Chuck, a scientist who created a fear-inducing nerve toxin, was one of Batman's opponents in the DC Comics, in a 2010 season episode of the television spy showdown (A character he later portrayed in the video game Injustice 2).
From 1989 to 1991, Englund appeared as host of the Horror Hall of Fame awards show three times.
Englund made his directorial debut with the 1988 horror film 976-EVIL, co-written by future Oscar winner Brian Helgeland and starring Stephen Geoffreys. Englund met set decorator Nancy Booth, whom he married during production. In 2008, Killer Pad, his second feature, was released direct-to-DVD. He was in pre-production in July 2013 to direct The Vij, a young priest who is led by an evil genie to commit murder and who falls in love with an old witch who is not what she appears.
Englund also produced two episodes of "Freddy's Nightmares." The first two episodes of "Cabin Fever" and the second "Monkey Dreams" were directed by Englund.
On October 13, 2009, Pocket Books published Hollywood Monster: A Walk Down Elm Street with the Man of Your Dreams, which Alan Goldsher transcribed from his dictations.
He had also appeared in the web series "Fear Clinic," where he appeared in five episodes as Dr. Andover.
In an interview with Todd Sokolove of Forces of Geek, Englund said he would welcome a guest appearance in the ABC revival of V. But the series was cancelled before he would make such a guest appearance.
Englund will return as Jackson Roth for the sequel to Dee Snider's Strangeland, titled Strangeland II: Disciple, in January 2010. However, no concrete dates or plans had been made about the initiative as of December 2010.
In "The Death of the Queen Bee" episode of Bones, Englund appeared as a strange janitor at protagonist Dr. Temperance Brennan's old high school. His character, as a friend of Brennan's, and his situation were described as "very scary... it's like Freddy creepy." Englund was a special guest at the 2010 Streamy Awards and also appeared as a special guest of the CA Weekend of Horrors on October 8, 2010.
In May 2010, Englund appeared on the Creation Entertainment Weekend of Horrors. In May 2010, he was signed to Inkubus, the American independent thriller.
Englund appeared in the Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies map, "Call of the Dead" as one of the playable characters, and was seen as one of the original Hawaii Five-0 serial killers. In 2012, he appeared on a Halloween Come Dine with Me for Channel 4 in a Halloween Come Dine With Me. He appeared in Jack Brooks' Monster Slayer and Behind the Mask: Leslie Vernon's Rise.
Despite the fact that Freddy Krueger's character is one of cinema's most frightening, his followers are often portrayed as warm and grateful, with some admitting that his portrayal of Krueger as children.
The Last Showing and Fear Clinic was released on October 22, 2014 at the Screamfest Film Festival. On Valentine's Day 2015, Englund appeared as a special guest at Shock Comic Con. On El Rey Network, Englund hosted a "Nightmare on Elm Street" marathon in February 2016.
Scream, Queen, a 2019 film starring Englund, was included. My Nightmare on Elm Street, which explores the sexual themes of A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge and Mark Patton's life.
Englund has been hosting True Terror with Robert Englund, which showcases frightening but true tales of the supernatural and strange as of 2020.
In 2022, Englund appeared in the fourth season of Stranger Things as Pennhurst Mental Hospital patient Victor Creel.