Robert Englund
Highest Rated: 100% To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story (2017)
Lowest Rated: 6% Strangeland (1998)
Birthday: Jun 6, 1947
Birthplace: Glendale, California, USA
Classically trained thespian of the stage turned busy character player of the screen before gaining international cult stardom as Freddy Krueger, the dark king of the dream world, in a successful horror movie franchise inaugurated with Wes Craven's now-classic "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (1984). Like Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff in the 1930s, Englund's name has become closely linked with one monstrously popular movie character; in recent horror film history, only Anthony Perkins' Norman Bates has struck such a resonant chord with the film-going public. (In contrast Jason of the "Friday the 13th" series, Michael Meyers of the "Halloween" films, and Leatherface of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" series remain anonymous to all but the cognoscenti.) Though slight of build, Englund worked his dark magic with a deep voice and angular hawk-like features under mounds of makeup. The sharpness of his razor "fingers" is matched only by his ironic quips.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Abruptio | Unknown (Voice) | - | 2023 |
| 30% | 27% | Choose or Die | Self | - | 2022 |
| 86% | 100% | In Search of Darkness: Part II | Unknown (Character) | - | 2020 |
| 100% | 88% | Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street | Self | - | 2019 |
| 100% | 96% | To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story | Self | - | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | 11% | Nightworld | Jacob (Character) | - | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cult of Terror (Culto al Terror) | Unknown (Character) | - | 2017 |
| 27% | 31% | The Midnight Man | Dr. Goodberry (Character) | - | 2016 |
| 71% | 37% | The Funhouse Massacre | Warden (Character) | - | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | 14% | Lake Placid vs. Anaconda | Bickerman (Character) | - | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kantemir | John (Character) | - | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | 31% | The Last Showing | Stuart (Character) | - | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | 19% | Fear Clinic | Dr. Andover (Character) | - | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | 26% | Sanitarium | Sam (Character) | - | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | 24% | Lake Placid: The Final Chapter | Jim Bickerman (Character) | - | 2012 |
| 25% | 16% | Strippers vs Werewolves | Tapper (Character) | - | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | Good Day for It | Wayne Jackson (Character) | - | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | 30% | The Moleman of Belmont Avenue | Hezekiah Confab (Character) | - | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 19% | Inkubus | Inkubus (Character) | - | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 42% | I Want to Be a Soldier | Psychologist (Character) | - | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Night of the Sinner | The Prince (Character) | - | 2009 |
| 70% | 68% | Red | Pete's Father (Character) | $3.2K | 2008 |
| 38% | 30% | Zombie Strippers | Ian Essko (Character) | - | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Killer Pad | Director | - | 2008 |
| 61% | 51% | Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer | Prof. Crowley (Character) | - | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | 17% | Black Swarm | Eli Giles (Character) | - | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | 21% | Heartstopper | Sheriff Richard Berger (Character) | - | 2006 |
| 55% | 45% | Hatchet | Sampson (Character) | - | 2006 |
| 76% | 75% | Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon | Doc Halloran (Character) | - | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | 48% | 2001 Maniacs | Mayor Buckman (Character) | - | 2005 |
| 42% | 50% | Freddy vs. Jason | Freddy Krueger (Character) | $82.2M | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | The Return of Cagliostro | Erroll Douglas (Character) | - | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | 31% | Windfall | Scratch (Character) | - | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Wish You Were Dead | Bernie Garces (Character) | - | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | 22% | Python | Dr. Anton Rudolph (Character) | - | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | 36% | The Prince and the Surfer | Kratski (Character) | - | 1999 |
| 24% | 37% | Urban Legend | Professor William Wexler (Character) | $38.1M | 1998 |
| 6% | 63% | Strangeland | Jackson Roth (Character) | $631.2K | 1998 |
| 7% | 38% | Meet the Deedles | Nemo (Character) | $4.4M | 1998 |
| 25% | 38% | Wishmaster | Raymond Beaumont (Character) | $15.7M | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Perfect Target | Colonel Shakwell (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mind Breakers | Father O'Neill (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | 39% | Killer Tongue | Prison Director (Character) | - | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 68% | The Paper Brigade | Crazy Man Cooper (Character) | - | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Unspoken Truth | Ernest Trainor (Character) | - | 1995 |
| 27% | 18% | The Mangler | William "Bill" Gartley (Character) | $1.8M | 1995 |
| 79% | 66% | Wes Craven's New Nightmare |
Freddy Krueger/ |
$18.1M | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mortal Fear | Dr. Ralph Wannamaker (Character) | - | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | 11% | Night Terrors |
Marquis De Sade/ |
- | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dance Macabre |
Anthony Wager/ |
- | 1991 |
| 23% | 32% | Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare | Freddy Krueger (Character) | $34.0M | 1991 |
| 25% | 67% | The Adventures of Ford Fairlane | Smiley (Character) | $19.9M | 1990 |
| 15% | 28% | 976-EVIL | Director | $2.9M | 1989 |
| 30% | 31% | A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child | Freddy Krueger (Character) | $22.2M | 1989 |
| 33% | 54% | The Phantom of the Opera | Eric Destler, Phantom (Character) | $4.1M | 1989 |
| 53% | 43% | A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master | Freddy Krueger (Character) | $49.3M | 1988 |
| 72% | 68% | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Freddy Krueger (Character) | $44.1M | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Infidelity | Scott (Character) | - | 1987 |
| 42% | 33% | A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge | Freddy Krueger (Character) | $29.9M | 1985 |
| 95% | 84% | A Nightmare on Elm Street | Freddy Krueger (Character) | $57.3M | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Journey's End | Unknown (Character) | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fighter | Charlie (Character) | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Thou Shalt Not Kill | Bobby Collins (Character) | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | 86% | Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder | Tripper (Character) | - | 1982 |
| 31% | 28% | Galaxy of Terror | Ranger (Character) | - | 1981 |
| 68% | 59% | Dead and Buried | Harry (Character) | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | 25% | The Fifth Floor | Benny (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mind Over Murder | Ted Beasly (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | 47% | Bloodbrothers | Mott (Character) | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | 17% | The Great Smokey Roadblock | Beebo Crozier (Character) | - | 1978 |
| 67% | 87% | Big Wednesday | Fly (Character) | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy | Willy (Character) | - | 1977 |
| 35% | 63% | A Star Is Born | Marty (Character) | - | 1976 |
| 67% | 40% | Stay Hungry | Franklin (Character) | - | 1976 |
| 63% | 48% | Hustle | Hold-up Man (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dubbed and Dangerous 3 | Mr. Englund (Character) | - | 0000 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Blumhouse's Compendium of Horror | Narrator | 2022 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | True Terror With Robert Englund | Host | 2020 |
| No Score Yet | 75% | The Goldbergs | Freddy (Guest Star) | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | 85% | Criminal Minds | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | 70% | Hawaii Five-0 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2011 |
| 90% | 92% | Chuck | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2010 |
| 90% | 82% | Bones | Ray Buxley (Guest Star) | 2010 |
| 100% | 96% | The Spectacular Spider-Man | Vulture (Guest Voice) | 2009 |
| 58% | No Score Yet | I'm With Her | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | 90% | Charmed | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Hughleys | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Jamie Foxx Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1999 |
| 85% | 76% | The Simpsons | Freddy Kruger (Guest Voice) | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | 99% | Married ... With Children | Lucifer (Guest Star) | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | 69% | Sliders | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 93% | Babylon 5 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 8% | Walker, Texas Ranger | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
| 60% | No Score Yet | Legend | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1995 |
| 38% | 67% | Freddy's Nightmares | Freddy Kreuger (Character) | 1988-1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | North and South, Book II | Deserter (Guest Star) | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | 89% | Knight Rider | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | 75% | MacGyver | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hunter | Vaughn (Guest Star) | 1985 |
| 67% | 82% | V | Willie (Character) | 1984-1985 |
| 69% | 50% | V: The Final Battle | Unknown (Character) | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | 65% | Alice | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Simon & Simon | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hart to Hart | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | CHiPs | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Flo | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Charlie's Angels | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | Soap | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Police Woman | Jonas (Guest Star) | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1977 |