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Robert Englund

(1947) Actor United States

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Robert Englund is an actor from the United States, best known for Hollywood monster.

Quick Facts About Robert Englund

Born: June 6, 1947
Nationality: United States
Profession: Actor
Notable works: Hollywood monster
Known for: A Nightmare on Elm Street

About Robert Englund

Robert Barton Englund is an American actor and director. Englund is best known for playing the villain Freddy Krueger in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. Englund has received multiple accolades and honors, including a Saturn Award, a Fangoria Chainsaw Award, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Time Machine Award

Quotes by Robert Englund · Page 3

Who would know that by playing a nerdy alien and a child killer, I would have a 30-year career in Hollywood? I've…

Aliens

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The cowboy movies is not our go-to programmer anymore, here's a horror film.

Cinema

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Let's kill somebody to Sinatra! Or to early Elvis!

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We were having a sleepover when I was eight or nine, and we all got to stay up late and watch the…

Child

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I'm basically a movie actor now, and my big roles are mostly horror movies - unless I'm doing a guest star or…

Actors

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There's a lot of dark horror, and a lot of sci-fi fantasy that's great, but what gets hyped a lot the big…

Big stuff

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I do genre films because I like them or because I need the money. I make a star's salary when I do…

Because

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I'm an actor. Actors are supposed to act.

Act

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I always felt there had to be a great 'Jason nightmare' or the movie wouldn't work and how Jason and Freddy would…

Movie

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My favorite scene in the movie is a sequence I'm not even in. It's a sequence of Jason at a rave in…

Movie

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Kids today don't watch a black and white movie.

Black

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My dad worked as an executive at Lockheed Aircraft and worked on the U-2 and things like that. My mother was a…

Aircraft

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I have some friends that just stick to the same criteria over and over again not realizing there are lots of other…

Blinders

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I get a lot of teenagers going, 'Yo, Krueger,' and honking their horn and giving me the claw. Yeah, I'm recognized.

Claws

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I actually am grateful for Freddy Krueger, because the big surprise to me - with that sort of double punch of science…

Actually

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We have to open our minds and be ready for the changes.

Change

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I love the idea of comedy in horror. I think this should be allowed.

Comedy

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“The last week of shooting, we did a scene in which I drag Amanda Wyss, the sexy, blond actress who played Tina,…

Kiss of death

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As a result of playing Freddy Krueger, I can remember having to look at some medical books, and at some of the…

Because

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I always wanted to play a monster, and I also wanted to work with Wes Craven.

Also

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If I'm out in the country or something, I'm still spooked by snakes.

Country

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Halloween starts earlier and earlier, just like Christmas.

Christmas

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Johnny Depp was the most polite young actor I've ever worked with.

Actor

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I liked girls with pale skin because I am a California boy, tanned and blonde hair.

Blonde

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American Horror Story on cable now, it is terrific. There has to be room to re-invent.

American horror story

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