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.

Filmography

• 2026Pinocchio: Unstrung — Cricket (voice)
• Regular Show: The Lost Tapes — Anti-Pops / Guard 2 (voice)
• Stranger Things: Tales from '85 — Cosmo (voice)
• 2024Abruptio — Mr. Salk
• Curses! — Cornelius (voice)
• 2023Natty Knocks — Mr. Meredeth
• Royal Crackers — Warwick (voice)
• 2023The Quantum Devil — Barada (voice)
• 2023Under the Bed — Narrator
• Blumhouse's Compendium of Horror — Narrator (voice)
• 2022Choose or Die — Robert Englund (voice)
• 2022The Paloni Show! Halloween Special!
• DOTA: Dragon's Blood — Aetherak (voice)
• 2020The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault — (archive footage)
• 2017Campfire Creepers: The Skull of Sam — Skull Collector
• 2017Nightworld — Jacob
• Stranger Things — Victor Creel
• 2016The Midnight Man — Dr. Goodberry
• 2015Kantemir — John Larousse, Producer
• 2015Lake Placid vs. Anaconda — Jim Bickerman
• Pig Goat Banana Cricket — Lost Larry (voice)
• 2015The Funhouse Massacre — Warden Kane
• Breadwinners — One-Eyed Peekaboo (voice)
• 2014Fear Clinic — Dr. Andover
• 2014The Last Showing — Stuart
• 2013It's a Miserable Life — Freddy Kruger
• 2013Lake Placid: The Final Chapter — Jim Bickerman
• Marvel's Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. — Pluto (voice)
• 2013Sanitarium — Sam
• The Goldbergs — Freddy Krueger
• 2013The Mole Man of Belmont Avenue — Hezekiah Confab
• Uncle Grandpa — Boogie Man (voice)
• 2012Fear Himself: The Life and Crimes of Freddy Krueger — Narrator (voice) / Self
• 2012Strippers vs. Werewolves — Tapper
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — Dire Beaver / Dread Beaver (voice)
• 2012Zombie Mutation — Dream Man
• 2011Good Day for It — Wayne Jackson
• Green Lantern: The Animated Series — Myglom (voice)
• 2011Inkubus — Inkubus
• 2011Underground Entertainment: The Movie — Robert
• Workaholics — Josh / Dr. TelAmeriCorp
• Hawaii Five-0 — Samuel Lee
• 2010I Want to Be a Soldier — Psychologist
• Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
• Regular Show — Mystery Man (voice), Anti-Pops (voice), Stagman (voice)
• Fear Clinic — Dr. Andover
• 2009Night of the Sinner — The Prince
• 2008Killer Pad — Director
• 2008Red — Mr. Doust
• The Spectacular Spider-Man — Adrian Toomes / Vulture (voice)
• 2008The Spectacular Spider-Man: Attack of the Lizard — Adrian Toomes/Vulture (voice)
• 2008Zombie Strippers! — Ian
• 2007Black Swarm — Eli Giles
• Chuck — Dr. Stanley Wheelwright
• 2007Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer — Professor Gordon Crowley
• 2006Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon — Doc Halloran
• 2006Hatchet — Samson Dunstan
• 2006Heartstopper — Sheriff Berger
• 20052001 Maniacs — Mayor Buckman
• Bones — Ray Buxley
• Criminal Minds
• 2005Dance of the Dead — MC
• Masters of Horror — The MC
• Supernatural — Dr. Robert
• 2004Dubbed and Dangerous 3 — Mr. Englund
• Justice League Unlimited — Felix Faust (voice)
• 2004Nobody Knows Anything! — Jack Sampson
• The Batman — The Riddler (voice)
• 2003Freddy vs. Jason — Freddy Krueger
• High Chaparall
• I'm with Her — Leonard Heckman
• 2003Justice League: Paradise Lost — Felix Faust (voice)
• 2003Like a Bad Dream — Professor
• 2003The Return of Cagliostro — Erroll Douglas
• 2002Windfall — Scratch
• 2002Wish You Were Dead — Bernie Garces
• Justice League — Felix Faust (voice)
• The Nightmare Room — Mr. Bell
• 2000Python — Dr. Anton Rudolph
• 1999The Prince and the Surfer — Kratski
• 1999The Simpsons: Too Hot For TV
• Charmed — Gammill
• 1998Meet the Deedles — Nemo
• 1998Strangeland — Jackson Roth
• The Hughleys — Evil Bloodthirsty Brian
• 1998Urban Legend — Professor William Wexler
• 1997Perfect Target — Colonel Shakwell
• 1997Wishmaster — Raymond Beaumont
• 1996Killer Tongue — Prison Director
• 1996Starquest II — Father O'Neill
• The Jamie Foxx Show — Clive
• 1996The Paper Brigade — Crazy Man Cooper
• 1996The Vampyre Wars
• Sliders — Dr. James Aldohn
• 1995The Mangler — William 'Bill' Gartley
• 1995The Unspoken Truth — Ernest Trainor
• Babylon 5 — Jeremiah
• 1994Mortal Fear — Dr. Ralph Wannamaker
• 1994Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle — Peter Cartwright
• 1994Wes Craven's New Nightmare — Robert Englund / Freddy Krueger
• 1993Night Terrors — Marquis De Sade
• RTL Samstag Nacht
• 1993The Nightmare Begins Again — Freddy Krueger
• Walker, Texas Ranger — Lyle Eckert
• 1992Dance Macabre — Anthony
• Nightmare Cafe — Blackie
• 1991Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare — Freddy Krueger
• 1991Slash & Burn: The Freddy Krueger Story — Freddy Krueger
• 1990The Adventures of Ford Fairlane — Smiley
• 1989A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child — Freddy Krueger
• 1989C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud — Man in Trenchcoat (uncredited)
• 1989The Phantom of the Opera — Erik Destler / The Phantom
• The Simpsons — Freddy Krueger (voice)
• 1988976-EVIL — Director
• 1988A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master — Freddy Krueger
• Freddy's Nightmares — Freddy Krueger, Director, Consulting Producer
• 1988The Freddy Krueger Special — Freddy Krueger
• 1987A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors — Freddy Krueger
• 1987Infidelity — Scott
• Married... with Children — Lucifer
• Downtown — Dennis Shothoffer
• 1986Never Too Young to Die — Riley
• 1985A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge — Freddy Krueger
• Hollywood Beat — Captain Crusader
• MacGyver — Tim Wexler
• 1984A Nightmare on Elm Street — Fred Krueger
• Hunter — Vaughn
• Night Court — Arnold Preminger
• V — Willie
• V: The Final Battle — Willie
• 1983Hobson's Choice — Freddy Beenstock
• 1983I Want to Live — Sam Cooper
• Manimal
• 1983Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land — Scott
• 1983The Fighter — Charlie
• V — Willie
• Cassie & Co. — Cliff Jenner
• 1982Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder — Tripper
• Knight Rider — Edward Kent
• 1982Mysterious Two — Boone
• 1982Thou Shalt Not Kill — Bobby Collins
• 1981Dead & Buried — Harry
• 1981Galaxy of Terror — Ranger
• Simon & Simon
• California Fever
• Hart to Hart — Buddy Kilgore
• 1979Mind Over Murder — Ted Beasly
• Paris
• 1979The Ordeal of Patty Hearst — Informer
• 1978Big Wednesday — "Fly"
• 1978Bloodbrothers — Mott
• 1978The Courage and the Passion — Sgt. Bell
• 1978The Fifth Floor — Benny
• 1978The Great Smokey Roadblock — Beebo Crozier
• CHiPs — Zack
• Code R — Snooker
• The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
• 1977Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy — Willy
• 1976A Star Is Born — Marty (uncredited)
• Alice
• Charlie's Angels — Harold Belkin
• 1976Eaten Alive — Buck
• 1976St. Ives — Hood
• 1976Stay Hungry — Franklin
• 1975Hustle — Hold-up Man
• 1975Slashed Dreams — Michael Sutherland
• 1974Buster and Billie — Whitey
• Police Woman
• Behind the Mask II: The Return of Leslie Vernon — Doc Halloran
• Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble — Cricket (voice)

Appearances as themselves (51)

• 2026Waking a Brutal Beast — Himself
• 2024Mad Props — Self
• 2022FredHeads: The Documentary — Himself
• 2022Halloween in Hollywood — Self
• 2022Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story — Self
• 2022In Search of Darkness: Part III — Self
• 2021Attack of the Hollywood Clichés! — Self - Actor
• Behind the Monsters — Self
• 2021Nightmares in the Makeup Chair — Self
• 2020AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1 — Self
• 2020AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis — Self
• 2020In Search of Darkness: Part II — Self
• True Terror with Robert Englund — Himself
• 2019Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street — Self
• The Movies That Made Us — Self
• Eli Roth's History of Horror — Self
• 2018Making Fun: The Story of Funko — Self
• 2018Urban Legacy: The Story Behind Urban Legend — Self
• 2017Cult of Terror — Self - Actor
• 2017To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story — Self
• 2015Behind the Mask: The Making of The Phantom of the Opera — Self
• 2014Witches Blood — Himself
• 2013Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th — Self
• Comic Book Men — Self
• 2011I Am Nancy — Self
• 2011Scream: The Inside Story — Self
• 2010Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy — Self
• 2010Tales from the Lumber Yard: The Making of Galaxy of Terror — Self
• 2010Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape — Self (archive footage)
• 2007Heckler — Self
• 2007The Making of 'Hatchet' — Self
• El hormiguero — Self
• 2006Never Sleep Again: The Making of ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ — Self
• 2006The House That Freddy Built — Self
• Hell's Kitchen — Self - Restaurant Patron
• 2005The Perfect Scary Movie — Self
• 100 Scariest Movie Moments — Self
• 2004Genesis: Development Hell — Self
• The New Tom Green Show — Self
• 2000Scream and Scream Again: A History of the Slasher Film — Self
• 1999Welcome to Primetime — Self
• 1997Halloween... The Happy Haunting of America! — Self
• Lo + plus — Self - Guest
• MADtv — Self
• 1994Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects — Self
• 1991Bride of Weekend of Horrors — Self
• 1991Hooray for Horrorwood — Self
• 1991The Horror Hall of Fame II — Self - Host
• 1989The Making of 'Nightmare on Elm Street IV' — Self / Freddy Krueger
• 1986Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors — Self
• New Line: Independent Legacies — Self (archive footage)