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
- 1974: Buster loves Billie (Buster and Billie)
- 1975: Slashed Dreams
- 1975: Streets of Night (Hustle)
- 1976: Mr. Universum (Stay Hungry)
- 1976: Reckoning Day (St. Ives)
- 1976: A Star Is Born
- 1977: The Last of the Cowboys
- 1977: Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy
- 1977: Bloodlust (Eaten Alive)
- 1978: The Courage and the Passion
- 1978: The Fifth Floor
- 1978: Decision Day (Big Wednesday)
- 1978: Hot Blood (Bloodbrothers)
- 1979: The Ordeal of Patty Hearst
- 1979: Mind Over Murder
- 1981: Dead & buried (Dead & Buried)
- 1981: Planet of Terror (Galaxy of Terror)
- 1982: Thou Shalt Not Kill
- 1982: Mysterious Two
- 1982: Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder
- 1983: Journey's End
- 1983: The Fighter
- 1983: Starflight One (Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land)
- 1983: I Want to Live
- 1983: Hobson's Choice
- 1983: A Case for Professor Chase ( Manimal , TV series, episode Vacation with Obstacles )
- 1984–1985: V - The extraterrestrial visitors are coming ( V , TV series, 19 episodes)
- 1984: Nightmare - Elm Street (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
- 1985: Nightmare II - Die Rache (A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge)
- 1986: Torches in the Storm ( North and South , TV series, 1 episode)
- 1986: Lance Never Too Young to Die
- 1986: Knight Rider (TV series, episode 4x20)
- 1987: Nightmare 3 - Freddy Krueger Lives (A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors)
- 1987: Infidelity
- 1988: Nightmare on Elm Street 4 (A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master)
- 1988–1990: Freddy's Nightmares: A Nightmare on Elm Street - The Series ( Freddy's Nightmares , TV series, 44 episodes)
- 1989: Dance Macabre
- 1989: Nightmare on Elm Street 5 - Das Trauma (A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child)
- 1989: The Phantom of the Opera (The Phantom of the Opera)
- 1990: Ford Fairlane - Rock 'n' Roll Detective (The Adventures of Ford Fairlane)
- 1991: Freddy's Finale - Nightmare on Elm Street 6 (Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare)
- 1993: Tobe Hooper's Living Nightmare (Night Terrors)
- 1994: A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle
- 1994: The Mangler
- 1994: Freddy's New Nightmare (Wes Craven's New Nightmare)
- 1994: The Doctor and the Killer (Mortal Fear)
- 1995: Caught In Love (The Unspoken Truth)
- 1995: Babylon 5 (TV series, episode 3x19: The Mystery of Gray 17 )
- 1996: The Vampyre Wars
- 1996: Killer Tongue (La lengua asesina)
- 1997: Starquest II
- 1996: Walker Texas Ranger
- 1997: The Victory of the Newspaper Boys (The Paper Brigade)
- 1997: Married with Children ( Married with Children , TV series)
- 1997: Perfect Target
- 1997: Wes Craven's Wishmaster
- 1998: Road Trip into Chaos (Meet the Deedles)
- 1998: Dee Snider's Strangeland (Strangeland)
- 1998: Dark Legends (Urban Legend)
- 1999: The Prince and the Surfer
- 2000: Python - Silently comes death ( Python , TV movie)
- 2001: windfall
- 2001: Charmed ( Charmed , TV series, episode 4x05: The collector )
- 2002: Kako los son
- 2002: Cold Sweat
- 2002: Wish You Were Dead
- 2003: Freddy vs. Jason
- 2003: Il Ritorno di Cagliostro
- 2003: Nobody Knows Anything!
- 2004: Dubbed and Dangerous 3
- 2005: 2001 maniacs
- 2006: Behind the Mask (Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon)
- 2006: Hatchet
- 2006: Heartstopper
- 2007: Black Swarm
- 2007: Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
- 2007: Zombie Strippers
- 2008: Red
- 2009: Fear Clinic (TV series)
- 2010: Bones ( Bones , TV series, episode 5x17)
- 2010: I Want to Be a Soldier
- 2010: Underground Entertainment: The Movie
- 2010: Supernatural (TV series, 1 episode)
- 2010: Chuck (TV series, 1 episode)
- 2011: Good Day for It
- 2011: The Sexy Dark Ages
- 2011: incubus
- 2011: Strippers vs Werewolves
- 2012: Lake Placid: The Final Chapter
- 2012: Criminal Minds (TV series, episode 7x19: Detective Gassner )
- 2013: Sanitarium - institute of horror (Sanitarium)
- 2013: The Mole Man of Belmont Avenue
- 2014: Final Cut - The Last Showing
- 2014: Fear Clinic (The Movie)
- 2015: Lake Placid vs. Anaconda
- 2015: Nightmare at Horror Castle (Kantemir)
- 2015: The Funhouse Massacre
- 2016: The Midnight Man
- 2017: Open the Door (Nightworld)
- 2018: Die Goldbergs ( The Goldbergs , TV series, episode 6x05)
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.
Web links
- Official homepage of Robert Englund (English)
- Robert Englund in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data | |
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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 |