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Freddy

Who didin't had nightmares after seeing this movie?, when in all movies there was just "slash-the-teens" script, freddy came to show the rest of the world how to have fun with your pray :)

Robert Barton Englund (born June 6, 1949) is an American actor, perhaps best known for playing the fictional serial killer, Freddy Krueger, in the A 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.

Career
Since his first film, Buster and Billie, in 1974, Englund has made over 100 appearances on film and television. His early roles usually typed him as a nerd or a redneck and before the Nightmare on Elm Street series, his most notable part was that of Willie, the lovably innocent alien in the 1983 miniseries V, the 1984 sequel V: The Final Battle, and V: The Series

After his huge success as Freddy Krueger, Englund became the first new horror movie star since Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing in the 1960s. His association with the genre led him to top-billed roles in The Phantom of the Opera (1989), The Mangler (1995), and 2001 Maniacs (2005). While no longer a headliner, today he is revered by horror fans as an elder statesman of the genre.

He is one of only two actors to play a horror character eight consecutive times, the other being Doug Bradley, who portrayed the Pinhead character eight times. Englund has said that he enjoys the role of Freddy as it gives him a break from always playing the nice guy; indeed, many people who have worked with Englund attest to his congeniality.

Englund's TV appearances include guest spots on the science fiction series Babylon 5 and Sliders, as well as Knight Rider, where he played a phantom haunting a film studio. He provided the voice of magician Felix Faust in Justice League and The Riddler on The Batman. Now most recently he will voice the villain The Vulture on the new show The Spectacular Spider-Man. On the witch drama Charmed (Episode: "Size Matters"), he played a demon who used the services of a lackey to lure people into a decrepit household (of which he lived in the walls) and shrank them down to action figure size.

Englund made his directorial début with the 1989 horror film 976-EVIL. He is currently directing his second feature titled Killer Pad, a horror-comedy about three friends who score a place in the Hollywood Hills and refuse to believe that the house is actually a portal to Hell.

Robert is scheduled to appear at Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors convention in Chicago, IL on February 22, 2008.

His page : http://www.robertenglund.com/indexc.html

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