Robert Englund

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IMDb takes a closer look at the notable career of actor Robert Englund in this retrospective of his various roles.

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Robert Englund Career Retrospective

Veteran character actor Robert Englund was born in Glendale, California, to Janis (MacDonald) and John Kent Englund, an aeronautics engineer. Since 1973, Robert has appeared in over 75 feature films and starred in four TV series. He has starred alongside Oscar-winners Henry Fonda, Susan Sarandon and Jeff Bridges. Since 1984 he's achieved international fame as the iconic boogeyman Freddy Krueger in the hit franchise A Nightmare on Elm Street and its seven sequels. Englund has guest starred in hundreds of hours of TV most recently Bones, Criminal Minds and Hawaii 5-0. He will soon be seen starring in the horror film Fear Clinic, and the English thriller The Last Showing, he can be heard as the voice of the Evil Beaver in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon show.

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Awards
- 6 wins & 8 nominations

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Robert Englund and The Krofft Puppets in D.C. Follies (1987)

Robert Englund, Fred Willard, and The Krofft Puppets in D.C. Follies (1987)

Robert Englund and Ara Paiaya in Dubbed & Dangerous 3 (2004)

Robert Englund in Chapter Four: Dear Billy (2022)

Robert Englund and Craig Littler in The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977)

Jamie Lee Curtis, Robert Englund, and Susan Pratt in The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977)

Robert Englund, Walter Flanagan, Bryan Johnson, and Ming Chen in Comic Book Men (2012)

Known for:

A Nightmare on Elm Street

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Fred Krueger

1984

Freddy vs. Jason

5.7

Freddy Krueger

2003

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

5.6

Freddy Krueger

1988

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

6.6

Freddy Krueger

1987

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- Mr. Salk (voice)
- 2023
Stranger Things
- Victor Creel
- TV Series
- 2022
Choose or Die
- Robert Englund (voice)
- 2022
Dota: Dragon's Blood
- Aetherak (voice)
- TV Series
- 2021–2022
Commune
- Tannoy
- Short
- 2021
JJ Villard's Fairy Tales
- Porridge Daddy
- Hive Head
- Toilet (voice)
- TV Series
- 2020
Spy Kids: Mission Critical
- Agent No-One (voice)
- TV Series
- 2018
The Goldbergs
- Freddy Krueger
- TV Series
- 2018
Campfire Creepers: The Skull of Sam
- Skull Collector
- Short
- 2017
Pig Goat Banana Cricket
- Lost Larry
- Hockey Mask (voice)
- TV Series
- 2017
Uncle Grandpa
- Boogie Man (voice)
- TV Series
- 2017
Nightworld
- Jacob
- 2017
Injustice 2
- Scarecrow (voice)
- Video Game
- 2017
Regular Show
- Anti-Pops
- Mystery Man
- Stagman (voice)
- TV Series
- 2011–2017
The Midnight Man
- Dr. Harding
- 2016

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Alternative names
- Robert England
Height
- 5′ 10¼″ (1.79 m)
Born
- June 6, 1947
- Glendale, California, USA
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Other works
Stage: The Shakespeare Festival, 1969-1972.
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Trivia
He is a keen surfer, and has been shown on Entertainment Tonight (1981) talking about surfing.

Quotes
When I was 9, I went to a birthday party. We were supposed to see a cowboy movie, but the programming got screwed up and we saw The Bad Seed (1956) instead. Horrifying. For years I was frightened of girls with pigtails.