Robert Englund
106 movies · 62 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jun 6, 1947 (age 79)
- Place of birth
- Glendale, California, USA
- Also known as
- Robert Barton Englund
Biography
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.
Known for
Robert Englund: movies and TV shows
Acting (166)
- Upcoming Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble
as Cricket (voice)
- Upcoming Behind the Mask II: The Return of Leslie Vernon
as Doc Halloran
- 2026 Pinocchio: Unstrung
as Cricket (voice)
- 2026
- 2026
- 2024 Abruptio
as Mr. Salk
- 2023 Under the Bed
as Narrator
- 2023
- 2023 Natty Knocks
as Mr. Meredeth
- 2023
- 2023 The Quantum Devil
as Barada (voice)
- 2022
- 2022
- 2022 Choose or Die
as Robert Englund (voice)
- 2021
- 2020 The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
as (archive footage)
- 2017 Campfire Creepers: The Skull of Sam
as Skull Collector
- 2017 Nightworld
as Jacob
- 2016 The Midnight Man
as Dr. Goodberry
- 2016
- 2015 The Funhouse Massacre
as Warden Kane
- 2015 Kantemir
as John Larousse
- 2015
- 2015 Lake Placid vs. Anaconda
as Jim Bickerman
- 2014 Fear Clinic
as Dr. Andover
- 2014 The Last Showing
as Stuart
- 2014
- 2013
- 2013 The Mole Man of Belmont Avenue
as Hezekiah Confab
- 2013
- 2013
- 2013 Lake Placid: The Final Chapter
as Jim Bickerman
- 2013 Sanitarium
as Sam
- 2012 Zombie Mutation
as Dream Man
- 2012
- 2012 Strippers vs. Werewolves
as Tapper
- 2011
- 2011 Inkubus
as Inkubus
- 2011 Underground Entertainment: The Movie
as Robert
- 2011 Good Day for It
as Wayne Jackson
- 2011
- 2010 I Want to Be a Soldier
as Psychologist
- 2010
- 2010
- 2010
- 2009
- 2009 Night of the Sinner
as The Prince
- 2008 The Spectacular Spider-Man: Attack of the Lizard
as Adrian Toomes/Vulture (voice)
- 2008 Red
as Mr. Doust
- 2008 Zombie Strippers!
as Ian
- 2008
- 2007 Black Swarm
as Eli Giles
- 2007 Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
as Professor Gordon Crowley
- 2007
- 2006 Heartstopper
as Sheriff Berger
- 2006 Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
as Doc Halloran
- 2006 Hatchet
as Samson Dunstan
- 2005 Dance of the Dead
as MC
- 2005
- 2005
- 2005
- 2005
- 2005 2001 Maniacs
as Mayor Buckman
- 2004
- 2004 Nobody Knows Anything!
as Jack Sampson
- 2004
- 2004 Dubbed and Dangerous 3
as Mr. Englund
- 2003
- 2003 The Return of Cagliostro
as Erroll Douglas
- 2003 Like a Bad Dream
as Professor
- 2003 Freddy vs. Jason
as Freddy Krueger
- 2003 Justice League: Paradise Lost
as Felix Faust (voice)
- 2002 Windfall
as Scratch
- 2002 Wish You Were Dead
as Bernie Garces
- 2001
- 2001
- 2000 Python
as Dr. Anton Rudolph
- 1999 The Prince and the Surfer
as Kratski
- 1999
- 1998
- 1998 Strangeland
as Jackson Roth
- 1998 Urban Legend
as Professor William Wexler
- 1998
- 1998 Meet the Deedles
as Nemo
- 1997 Wishmaster
as Raymond Beaumont
- 1997 Perfect Target
as Colonel Shakwell
- 1996 Killer Tongue
as Prison Director
- 1996 The Paper Brigade
as Crazy Man Cooper
- 1996
- 1996 Starquest II
as Father O'Neill
- 1996
- 1995 The Unspoken Truth
as Ernest Trainor
- 1995
- 1995 The Mangler
as William 'Bill' Gartley
- 1994 Mortal Fear
as Dr. Ralph Wannamaker
- 1994 Wes Craven's New Nightmare
as Robert Englund / Freddy Krueger
- 1994 Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle
as Peter Cartwright
- 1994
- 1993 Night Terrors
as Marquis De Sade
- 1993
- 1993
- 1993 The Nightmare Begins Again
as Freddy Krueger
- 1992 Dance Macabre
as Anthony
- 1992
- 1991 Slash & Burn: The Freddy Krueger Story
as Freddy Krueger
- 1991 Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
as Freddy Krueger
- 1990 The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
as Smiley
- 1989
- 1989 The Phantom of the Opera
as Erik Destler / The Phantom
- 1989 A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child
as Freddy Krueger
- 1989 C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud
as Man in Trenchcoat (uncredited)
- 1988 It's a Miserable Life
as Freddy Kruger
- 1988
- 1988 A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
as Freddy Krueger
- 1988 The Freddy Krueger Special
as Freddy Krueger
- 1987 Infidelity
as Scott
- 1987
- 1987 A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
as Freddy Krueger
- 1986
- 1986 Never Too Young to Die
as Riley
- 1985 A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
as Freddy Krueger
- 1985
- 1985
- 1984 A Nightmare on Elm Street
as Fred Krueger
- 1984
- 1984
- 1984
- 1984
- 1983 Hobson's Choice
as Freddy Beenstock
- 1983
- 1983 I Want to Live
as Sam Cooper
- 1983
- 1983
- 1983 The Fighter
as Charlie
- 1982
- 1982 Mysterious Two
as Boone
- 1982 Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder
as Tripper
- 1982 Thou Shalt Not Kill
as Bobby Collins
- 1982
- 1981
- 1981 Galaxy of Terror
as Ranger
- 1981 Dead & Buried
as Harry
- 1979 Mind Over Murder
as Ted Beasly
- 1979
- 1979
- 1979
- 1979 The Ordeal of Patty Hearst
as Informer
- 1978 The Fifth Floor
as Benny
- 1978 Bloodbrothers
as Mott
- 1978 The Great Smokey Roadblock
as Beebo Crozier
- 1978 The Courage and the Passion
as Sgt. Bell
- 1978 Big Wednesday
as "Fly"
- 1977 Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy
as Willy
- 1977
- 1977
- 1977
- 1976 Eaten Alive
as Buck
- 1976 A Star Is Born
as Marty (uncredited)
- 1976
- 1976
- 1976 Stay Hungry
as Franklin
- 1976 St. Ives
as Hood
- 1975 Hustle
as Hold-up Man
- 1975 Slashed Dreams
as Michael Sutherland
- 1974
- 1974 Buster and Billie
as Whitey
Behind the camera (4)
- 2015 Kantemir
Producer
- 2008 Killer Pad
Director
- 1988 976-EVIL
Director
- 1988
Talk shows and appearances (53)
- Upcoming
- 2026
- 2024
- 2022
- 2022
- 2022
- 2022
- 2021 Behind the Monsters
6 episodes
- 2021
- 2021
- 2020
- 2020
- 2020
- 2020 True Terror with Robert Englund
6 episodes
- 2019 The Movies That Made Us
1 episode
- 2019
- 2018
- 2018 Eli Roth's History of Horror
3 episodes
- 2018
- 2017
- 2017
- 2015
- 2014
- 2013
- 2012 Comic Book Men
1 episode
- 2012
- 2011
- 2011
- 2010
- 2010
- 2010
- 2007
- 2007
- 2006
- 2006 El hormiguero
1 episode
- 2006
- 2005
- 2005 Hell's Kitchen
1 episode
- 2004 100 Scariest Movie Moments
5 episodes
- 2004
- 2003 High Chaparall
1 episode
- 2003 The New Tom Green Show
1 episode
- 2000
- 1999
- 1997
- 1995 MADtv
1 episode
- 1995 Lo + plus
1 episode
- 1994
- 1991
- 1991
- 1991
- 1989
- 1986