Robert Englund

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Robert Englund

Robert Barton Englund (born June 6, 1947 in Glendale , California ) is an American actor and director . He achieved worldwide fame primarily as Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare films.

Live and act

Englund graduated from California State University, Northridge . In 1974 he made his film debut in the romantic drama Buster Loves Billie ( Buster and Billie ), followed by other film assignments in mostly smaller roles, such as in the crime film Streets of the Night (1975) with Burt Reynolds and Catherine Deneuve , the comedy Mr. Universum (1976 ) with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jeff Bridges and the adventure film The Day of Reckoning (1976) with Charles Bronson . In 1976 he starred in the horror film Blutrausch ( Eaten Alive ) by director Tobe Hooper , where Englund acted an instinctual madman. More horror films followed, until he returned in 1984 after a brief period of abstinence from the screen and gained international fame with the role of Freddy Krueger in the films of the Nightmare series.

Due to his popularity as Freddy Krueger , he made guest appearances in numerous television series. In 1989 he made his debut as a director with the horror film 976-EVIL .

Englund is married for the third time.

Filmography (selection)

presentation

Director

  • 1989: 976-Evil
  • 1989: Freddy´s Nightmares (TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 2007: Killer Pad

Others

  • In the series Simon & Simon he plays a street player (season 2, episode 22, red dog bites his aunt )
  • Robert Englund made a guest appearance as the devil on episode 11/20 of the sitcom A Terrible Family .
  • He had a guest appearance as Tim Wexler in episode no. 13 of the MacGyver series .
  • Robert Englund plays the "creepy monk" in the Knight Rider episode 88.
  • In Torches in the Storm , he plays a Confederate soldier who is shot in a scuffle with one of the main characters, Parker Stevenson .
  • Robert Englund speaks the intro of the song "Lock me up" from rock singer Alice Cooper's album "Raise your Fist and Yell".
  • In the series Sliders - The Gate into a Foreign Dimension (episode "Robots with Soul") Robert Englund plays the creator of robots.
  • In the series A Case for Professor Chase (episode 4, "Vacation with Obstacles") he plays a small helper of the Mafia.
  • In the episode Treehouse of Horror IX of the series The Simpsons from 1998, he lends his voice to the cartoon version of Freddy Krueger.
  • In the series Hawaii Five-0 (Season 2, Episode 7) he had a guest appearance as Samuel Lee
  • In the series Bones (season 5, episode 17) he had a guest appearance as caretaker Ray Buxley
  • In the game Call of Duty: Black Ops he appears with the Escalation DLC as a playable character in survival mode.
  • In the song Are You Ready For Freddy by the hip-hop band The Fat Boys, he raps the part of his cult figure Freddy Krueger and plays in the music video.

Awards

  • For the role of Freddy Krueger in parts 3 and 4 of the series, he received a nomination for the Saturn Award as best supporting actor. In 2001 he received a special award for his life's work from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films .

German voice actors

Robert Englund was born in Germany in his role as Freddy Krueger by Detlef Bierstedt (Nightmare 1,4,5, Freddy vs Jason), Tommi Piper (Nightmare 3), Klaus Kindler (Nightmare 6), Franjo Marincic (Nightmare 2) and Wolfgang Müller (New Nightmare) synchronized.

The speakers of Englund changed more often, so he was dubbed by Ulrich Frank , Reinhard Kuhnert , Wolfgang Ostberg , Achim Schülke , Holger Mahlich and Henry König . Recently, Jan Spitzer has been the most active voice actor.

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Commons : Robert Englund  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Englund, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Englund, Robert Barton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Glendale , California