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Robert Englund

Robert Englund
"Robert Barton Englund (born June 6, 1947) is an American 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.
Despite his reputation for appearing in exploitative horror films, Englund is a classically trained actor."

However the movies from 1995 onwards are B-rated.
It would seem that he can olny find work in pathetic imitation 'horror' moives which hope to have some cRedit by association to his PAST glory s.
So as you reach "Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer 2008" he clearly does not care about his reputation, he almost is parodying himself.




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Robert Englund - what members say


  • Urban Legend
  • Urban Legend review by DJM666 from Walsall, England
    Rated - 3.0 stars An entertaining film 16 February 2006
    ..., Joshua Jackson, Michael Rosenbaum, and Danielle Harris) and the experience of Robert Englund. The film is nothing special, but it is worth watching if you are a fan of movi...   Read customer review
  • Wishmaster
  • Wishmaster review by A customer from Birmingham, England
    Rated - 3.0 stars I will take your soul 8 March 2004
    ...s by some famous names - Freddy and Jason! Don't get excited though, it's just Robert Englund and Kane Hodder in normal make-up. You will get extra points for spotting Ka...   Read customer review
  • Wes Craven's New Nightmare
  • Wes Craven's New Nightmare review by SAI81 from Tonbridge
    Rated - 4.0 stars Wes Craven's New Nightmare 29 June 2006
    ...hat. Freddy has gone through many incarnations (though always in the person of Robert Englund) and from the horrific burn make up of the first film he'd degraded into a not ...   Read customer review

Robert Englund - filmography


  • Strippers Vs Werewolves on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Robert Englund,  Alan Ford,  Lucy Pinder
    Director: Jonathan Glendening
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When a man violates the no touching rule at a strip club by sprouting fangs and trying to eat one of the girls, Justice, she panics and does the only thing she could think of at the time, ram a silver fountain pen into his eye killing him. Thinking that dead bodies are bad for business, the club ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 76 members
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  • Inkubus on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Nicholas John Bilotta,  Mike Cerrone,  Jessica Conlan
    Director: Glenn Ciano
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The demon, Inkubus, nonchalantly walks into a soon-to-be decommissioned police-station. Soon the few remaining police officers become pawns in his quest to tempt his near-Nemesis Detective Diamante into a final confrontation.
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 144 members
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  • Killer Pad on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Héctor Jiménez,  Christin,  Daniel Franzese
    Director: Robert Englund
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    Director Robert Englund (aka, 'Freddy' in A Nightmare on Elm Street) invites you to one hell of a house party! When three pals find a sweet deal on a mansion in the Hollywood Hills, they think they have struck party gold. But their dreams of sexy Hollywood ladies are quickly thwarted when they ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 37% from 41 members
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  • Zombie Strippers! - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Robert Englund,  Jenna Jameson,  Roxy Saint
    Director: Jay Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Robert Englund (best known for playing Freddie Krueger) and Jenna Jameson (best known for playing naked), might seem like an odd cinematic pairing, but not when you consider the title of this horror comedy: ZOMBIE STRIPPERS. When the exotic dancers of Sartre, Nebraska, begin getting zombified, it's ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 39% from 1,287 member
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  • Zombie Strippers on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Robert Englund,  Jenna Jameson,  Roxy Saint
    Director: Jay Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The world's most famous adult film star, Jenna Jameson stars in this thrilling zombie adventure. In the not too distant future a secret government re-animation chemo-virus gets released into conservative Sartre, Nebraska and lands in an underground strip club. As the virus begins to spread, turning ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 3,154 members
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  • 2001 Maniacs on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Robert Englund,  Lin Shaye,  Giuseppe Andrews
    Director: Tim Sullivan
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Eight college students traveling to Florida for Spring Break stumble into a remote town in Georgia where they are set upon by the residents whom are out to avenge their deaths by Union troops over 100 years earlier during the Civil War.
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 5,648 members
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  • Nobody Knows Anything on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Linda Black,  Alan Blumenfeld,  Carmine Caridi
    Director: William Tannen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    For Sarah Wilder (Alanna Ubach - Legally Blonde, Meet The Fockers, Party Of Five, Beakman's World), making a movie in Hollywood looked easy. With the guidance of her "has-been" screenwriter uncle (Michael Lerner), this sexy aspiring filmmaker embarks on a wild journey into the world of Hollywood ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 26% from 38 members
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  • Freddy vs Jason - Blu-ray (2003)
    Starring: Ken Kirzinger,  Robert Englund,  Monica Keena
    Director: Ronny Yu
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Veteran slashers Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees join forces in this combination sequel to the NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET and FRIDAY THE 13TH series. The film begins with a quick recap of both Freddy and Jason's "lives," underscoring their respective motivations to kill and their distinct weaknesses...read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 420 members
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  • Freddy vs Jason on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Ken Kirzinger,  Robert Englund,  Monica Keena
    Director: Ronny Yu
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Veteran slashers Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees join forces in this combination sequel to the NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET and FRIDAY THE 13TH series. The film begins with a quick recap of both Freddy and Jason's "lives," underscoring their respective motivations to kill and their distinct weaknesses...read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 8,817 members
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  • Windfall (2001)
    Starring: Casper Van Dien,  Gregg Henry,  Robert Englund
    Director: Gerry Lively
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ace and Scratch are well-known criminals who get caught attempting their biggest robbery - the Grand Royale Casino Hotel. The Casino owner is so impressed by their abilities that he offers them a job or go to jail. The Head of Security cannot understand why the Casino owner has employed the ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 37% from 11 members
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  • Python on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Robert Englund,  Casper Van Dien,  Keith Coogan
    Director: Rod MacDonald
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A secret intelligence organization has developed the perfect killing machine--a 57-foot python. When the government shuts the program down, the python is let loose on a killing spree. The only person who can stop it is, of course, a champion mountain-bike racer. An exciting thriller in the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 252 members
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  • Urban Legend - Blu-ray (1998)
    Starring: Jared Leto,  Alicia Witt,  Michael Rosenbaum
    Director: Jamie Blanks
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Everybody's heard of them, yet they have no traceable source. They're Urban Legends, contemporary tall-tales that emerge from the underground and take on colourful lives of their own. When a series of strange deaths occur on the campus of Pendleton College, student Natalie (Alicia Witt) begins to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 708 members
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  • Urban Legend on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Jared Leto,  Alicia Witt,  Michael Rosenbaum
    Director: Jamie Blanks
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Everybody's heard of them, yet they have no traceable source. They're Urban Legends, contemporary tall-tales that emerge from the underground and take on colourful lives of their own. When a series of strange deaths occur on the campus of Pendleton College, student Natalie (Alicia Witt) begins to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 6,792 members
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  • Wishmaster on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Jenny O'Hara,  Tony Crane,  Ted Raimi
    Director: Robert Kurtzman
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    After inadvertently freeing an evil Djinn from his gemstone prison, an auction house gemologist fights to bring his rampages to an end, as they include stealing the souls of the hapless humans whose wishes bring them to ironic early ends. Heavy on the computer-assisted effects, with some mitigating ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 1,815 member
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  • The Unspoken Truth on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Lea Thompson,  Patricia Kalember,  Robert Englund
    Director: Peter Werner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Although her parents disapprove Brianne is determined to marry Clay. At first the marriage is a success but gradually Clay becomes more and more physically and emotionally abusive to his family. One night in a bar a man tries to chat up Brianne and Clay shoots him dead. To try and deceive the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 68 members
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  • Wes Craven's New Nightmare on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Robert Englund,  Heather Langenkamp,  Miko Hughes
    Director: Wes Craven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Freddy's back, only this time he's not confined to dreams in this macabre film within a film. Heather Langenkamp, star of the original NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, along with other actors and director Craven all appear as themselves. When Heather's husband is mysteriously killed her son begins to have ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 4,393 members
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  • Mortal Fear on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Joanna Kerns,  Gregory Harrison,  Max Gail
    Director: Larry Shaw
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The Chief of Medical Staff at Collington Clinic, Jennifer Kessler, is more than concerned when healthy patients are dying. Her search for the truth leads her to a seedy strip club and then down a path of greed, corruption and fear. Based on the novel by Robin Cook.
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 34 members
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  • Freddy's Dead - The Final Nightmare on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Robert Englund,  Yaphet Kotto,  Lisa Zane
    Director: Rachel Talalay
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: £2.49
    Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), the evil dreamstalker, returns to lure his daughter back to his side. This time he may have met his match in his own child, but not before he enjoys some fiendish games of his own. The film features cameos by Johnny Depp and other familiar faces.
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 4,344 members
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  • A Nightmare on Elm Street 5 on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Robert Englund,  Lisa Wilcox,  Beatrice Boepple
    Director: Stephen Hopkins
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: £2.49
    Did you ever see a dream stalking . . .? The kids on Elm Street have. For five years, a walking nightmare named Freddy Krueger has haunted their sleep - seeking revenge for the horribly disfiguring death he suffered at the hands of the children's parents. Now, through the dreams of an unborn child, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 5,016 members
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  • Freddy's Nightmares - Vol. 1 on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Robert Englund
    Director: Tobe Hooper,  Tom McLoughlin
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Just when you thought it was safe to sleep again... one, two, Freddy is back, and he's coming for you! Robert Englund reprises his role as the menacing slasher star of teenager nightmares, Freddy Krueger, in this NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET spin-off television series, FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES. This ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 514 members
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  • A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Robert Englund,  John Saxon,  Heather Langenkamp
    Director: Charles Russell
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: £2.49
    The third story of the continuing misadventures of the fiendish Freddy Krueger. This time he is out to terrorise a group of Elm Street kids who are confined to a mental hospital for sleep disorders and suicide attempts. His presence is not quite what the doctor ordered.
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 6,342 members
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  • 976 Evil on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Stephen Geoffreys,  Sandy Dennis,  Leslie Deane
    Director: Robert Englund
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Hoax (Stephen Geoffreys), the nerdy teen hero of 976-EVIL, spends most of his time envying his super-cool, biker cousin, Spike (Patrick O'Bryan), when he's not being bullied at school or oppressed at home by his religious fanatic mother. Things take a radical turn when Hoax begins calling a toll-..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 44% from 485 members
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  • V - The Final Battle (2 discs) on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Michael Durrell,  Robert Englund,  Faye Grant
    Director: Richard T. Heffron,  Stuart
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The Battle begun in the Miniseries 'V' continues. The war is told from the view point of the resistance group based in Los Angeles, CA as they struggle to find weaknesses of the aliens they can exploit. In addition, not all the aliens feel their invasion was right, and also work to stop the war.
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 3,246 members
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  • V - The Complete Series (5 discs) on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Marc Singer,  Jane Badler,  Faye Grant
    Director: Ray Austin,  Earl Bellamy,  Ray
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    They came for water. And for food. And as it turned out, we were the food. But humanity bravely resisted-a struggle seen in the hit miniseries V and V: The Final Battle. Yet the war continues. The heroic conflict comes to a surprising outcome in V: The Series, presented complete and uncut in this ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,578 member
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  • A Nightmare on Elm Street - Blu-ray (1984)
    Starring: John Saxon,  Johnny Depp,  Ronee Blakley
    Director: Wes Craven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Unavailable
    A hellish, razor-fingered monster enters the dreams of the teenage residents of a bucolic town and systematically slaughters them in their sleep--until one courageous young woman does battle with the predatory fiend. An excellent, surprisingly surrealistic genre entry from the master, Wes Craven.
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 707 members
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  • A Nightmare on Elm Street 1 on DVD (1984)
    Starring: John Saxon,  Johnny Depp,  Ronee Blakley
    Director: Wes Craven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Unavailable
    A hellish, razor-fingered monster enters the dreams of the teenage residents of a bucolic town and systematically slaughters them in their sleep--until one courageous young woman does battle with the predatory fiend. An excellent, surprisingly surrealistic genre entry from the master, Wes Craven.
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 13,365 members
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  • Dead and Buried on DVD (1981)
    Starring: James Farentino,  Melody Anderson,  Jack Albertson
    Director: Gary Sherman
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    From the writers of ALIEN, this thriller is the story of a mysterious coastal town called Potters Bluff. For years the town has harboured a dark secret, one that the town sheriff has just stumbled across. It seems that a number of strangers who have crossed through Potters Bluff have not only been ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 1,509 member
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  • Big Wednesday on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Jan-Michael Vincent,  William Katt,  Gary Busey
    Director: John Milius
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Set in the 1960s and early 1970s, BIG WEDNESDAY follows the lives of Matt (Jan-Michael Vincent), Jack (William Katt), and Leroy (Gary Busey), three young Californians who live to surf. Together, the boys ride the waves, throw beach parties, and, of course, get into scrapes. However, as the years go ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,776 member
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  • Death Trap on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Robert Englund,  Neville Brand,  Mel Ferrer
    Director: Tobe Hooper
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Death Trap tells the story of a deranged madman who uses the guests of his rundown hotel, not only to be victims for his demented thirst for blood, but also as food for the crocodile he keeps under the hotel... Whilst "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" was almost gore free and relied on music, ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 272 members
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Robert Englund facts

5 most recent films

Strippers Vs Werewolves - Blu-ray - 2.0 stars
Strippers Vs Werewolves - 2.0 stars
Inkubus - 2.5 stars
Never Sleep Again - The Elm Street Legacy - 5.0 stars
Red - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

A Nightmare on Elm Street - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
V - The Final Battle - 3.5 stars
A Nightmare on Elm Street 1 - 3.5 stars
Big Wednesday - 3.5 stars
V - The Complete Series - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Nobody Knows Anything - 1.5 stars
Killer Pad - 2.0 stars
Windfall - 2.0 stars
Strangeland - 2.5 stars
Mortal Fear - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Heather Langenkamp - 7 times - show films
Faye Grant - 7 times - show films
Jennifer Cooke - 6 times - show films
Marc Singer - 6 times - show films
Jeff Yagher - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Earl Bellamy - 6 times - show films
Ray Austin - 6 times - show films
Gary Sherman - 4 times - show films
Wes Craven - 4 times - show films
Jon Knautz - 3 times - show films