Robert Englund
Robert Englund
Robert Barton Englundis an American film and stage actor, voice-actor, singer, and director, best known for playing the character of infamous 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth6 June 1947
CityGlendale, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Sometimes jobs are jobs, and when you guest star on television, you're also working with a guest director. You're the new kid on the block, because everyone else is already in the ensemble.
I sat in the barber's chair in David Miller's makeup shop, hours and hours of trial and error. While David poked at me with his crusty brushes, I grew more and more profane. That's how I started to find the voice of Freddy.
You're going to have to surrender a little bit to the contrivance of how Freddy and Jason get together.
Johnny Depp was the most polite young actor I've ever worked with.
Horror does better when it's bubbling under. It's a niche. It doesn't like the limelight.
I just think the funny response would be that I think there needs to be a Bride of Freddy. I think Freddy needs a woman in his life.
If they do something like that, maybe a Freddy Krueger fan, a girl, a really sick goth girl starts killing kids herself and Freddy has to put a stop to it, or they have to fight it out.
The roughest make-up I ever wore was for 'Phantom of the Opera' because the phantom's face was all disfigured, and he's trying to pass in public so he can attend his beloved opera. That was make-up over make-up.
I get a lot of teenagers going, 'Yo, Krueger,' and honking their horn and giving me the claw. Yeah, I'm recognized.
Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage.
I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.
Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh.
But it's mostly about pacing yourself when you do these movies.
I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.