Robert Englund

Acting

Born 06/06/1947
Glendale, California, USA

Robert Barton Englund (born June 6, 1947) is an American actor and voice-actor, best known for playing the fictional serial killer Freddy Krueger, in the Nightmare on Elm Street film series. He received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors in 1987 and A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master in 1988. Englund is a classically trained actor.

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Known For

Pinocchio: Unstrung
2026
Regular Show: The Lost Tapes
2026
Stranger Things: Tales from '85
2026
Abruptio
2024
Mad Props
2024
Under the Bed
2023
Curses!
2023
Natty Knocks
2023
Royal Crackers
2023
The Quantum Devil
2023
In Search of Darkness: Part III
2022
The Paloni Show! Halloween Special!
2022
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
2022
Blumhouse's Compendium of Horror
2022
Halloween in Hollywood
2022
FredHeads: The Documentary
2022
Choose or Die
2022
Behind the Monsters
2021
Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!
2021
DOTA: Dragon's Blood
2021
In Search of Darkness: Part II
2020
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis
2020
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1
2020
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2020
True Terror with Robert Englund
2020
The Movies That Made Us
2019
Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street
2019
Urban Legacy: The Story Behind Urban Legend
2018
Eli Roth's History of Horror
2018
Making Fun: The Story of Funko
2018
Cult of Terror
2017
Campfire Creepers: The Skull of Sam
2017
To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story
2017
Nightworld
2017
The Midnight Man
2016
Stranger Things
2016
The Funhouse Massacre
2015
Kantemir
2015
Pig Goat Banana Cricket
2015
Lake Placid vs. Anaconda
2015
Behind the Mask: The Making of The Phantom of the Opera
2015
Fear Clinic
2014
The Last Showing
2014
Witches Blood
2014
Breadwinners
2014
The Goldbergs
2013
Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th
2013
The Mole Man of Belmont Avenue
2013
Uncle Grandpa
2013
Marvel's Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.
2013
Lake Placid: The Final Chapter
2013
Sanitarium
2013
Zombie Mutation
2012
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
2012
Strippers vs. Werewolves
2012
Comic Book Men
2012
Fear Himself: The Life and Crimes of Freddy Krueger
2012
Green Lantern: The Animated Series
2011
Inkubus
2011
Underground Entertainment: The Movie
2011
I Am Nancy
2011
Good Day for It
2011
Scream: The Inside Story
2011
Workaholics
2011
Tales from the Lumber Yard: The Making of Galaxy of Terror
2010
I Want to Be a Soldier
2010
Hawaii Five-0
2010
Regular Show
2010
Regular Show
2010
Regular Show
2010
Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape
2010
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2010
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2010
Night of the Sinner
2009
The Spectacular Spider-Man: Attack of the Lizard
2008
Red
2008
Zombie Strippers!
2008
The Spectacular Spider-Man
2008
The Spectacular Spider-Man
2008
The Making of 'Hatchet'
2007
Black Swarm
2007
Heckler
2007
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
2007
Chuck
2007
Heartstopper
2006
Never Sleep Again: The Making of ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’
2006
El hormiguero
2006
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
2006
Hatchet
2006
The House That Freddy Built
2006
Dance of the Dead
2005
The Perfect Scary Movie
2005
Masters of Horror
2005
Criminal Minds
2005
Bones
2005
Supernatural
2005
Hell's Kitchen
2005
2001 Maniacs
2005
100 Scariest Movie Moments
2004
The Batman
2004
Nobody Knows Anything!
2004
Justice League Unlimited
2004
Genesis: Development Hell
2004
Dubbed and Dangerous 3
2004
High Chaparall
2003
I'm with Her
2003
The Return of Cagliostro
2003
Like a Bad Dream
2003
Freddy vs. Jason
2003
Justice League: Paradise Lost
2003
Windfall
2002
Wish You Were Dead
2002
Justice League
2001
The Nightmare Room
2001
Scream and Scream Again: A History of the Slasher Film
2000
Python
2000
The Prince and the Surfer
1999
Welcome to Primetime
1999
The Simpsons: Too Hot For TV
1999
Charmed
1998
Strangeland
1998
Urban Legend
1998
The Hughleys
1998
Meet the Deedles
1998
Wishmaster
1997
Perfect Target
1997
Halloween... The Happy Haunting of America!
1997
Killer Tongue
1996
The Paper Brigade
1996
The Jamie Foxx Show
1996
Starquest II
1996
The Vampyre Wars
1996
MADtv
1995
The Unspoken Truth
1995
Lo + plus
1995
Sliders
1995
The Mangler
1995
Mortal Fear
1994
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
1994
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
1994
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle
1994
Babylon 5
1994
Night Terrors
1993
RTL Samstag Nacht
1993
Walker, Texas Ranger
1993
The Nightmare Begins Again
1993
Dance Macabre
1992
Nightmare Cafe
1992
Hooray for Horrorwood
1991
Slash & Burn: The Freddy Krueger Story
1991
Bride of Weekend of Horrors
1991
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
1991
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
1990
The Simpsons
1989
The Phantom of the Opera
1989
The Making of 'Nightmare on Elm Street IV'
1989
A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child
1989
C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud
1989
It's a Miserable Life
1988
Freddy's Nightmares
1988
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
1988
The Freddy Krueger Special
1988
Infidelity
1987
Married... with Children
1987
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987
Downtown
1986
Never Too Young to Die
1986
Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors
1986
A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
1985
MacGyver
1985
Hollywood Beat
1985
A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984
V
1984
Hunter
1984
V: The Final Battle
1984
Night Court
1984
Hobson's Choice
1983
Manimal
1983
I Want to Live
1983
V
1983
Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
1983
The Fighter
1983
Knight Rider
1982
Mysterious Two
1982
Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder
1982
Thou Shalt Not Kill
1982
Cassie & Co.
1982
Simon & Simon
1981
Galaxy of Terror
1981
Dead & Buried
1981
Mind Over Murder
1979
Paris
1979
California Fever
1979
Hart to Hart
1979
The Ordeal of Patty Hearst
1979
The Fifth Floor
1978
Bloodbrothers
1978
The Great Smokey Roadblock
1978
The Courage and the Passion
1978
Big Wednesday
1978
Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy
1977
CHiPs
1977
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977
Code R
1977
Eaten Alive
1976
A Star Is Born
1976
Charlie's Angels
1976
Alice
1976
Stay Hungry
1976
St. Ives
1976
Hustle
1975
Slashed Dreams
1975
Police Woman
1974
Buster and Billie
1974
Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble
Behind the Mask II: The Return of Leslie Vernon