Talk:Robert Englund

Sequels
The line read "Freddy Krueger in the horror film A Nightmare On Elm Street and its seven sequels." I changed seven to six because there are only six sequels that are possible when considering Wes Craven's New Nightmare is not a sequel. It takes place in a different movie universe, so I am pretty sure it cannot be considered a sequel. This isn't that important, but I wanted to say something before someone reverted. Robert 21:33, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Who DOESN'T consider New Nightmare a sequel? It's Freddy vs. Jason that's not a sequel. 65.185.165.85 (talk) 00:14, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Born in 1947 or 1949?
Figure it out. Until then, I'm removing the birthyear. --64.18.122.132 21:18, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

So, why does it stand 1947 now? Many sites says he is born in 1949 and I can't see any arguments here to why it stands 1947. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.230.193.22 (talk) 11:58, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

What about Christopher Lee as vampire Dracula?
"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." What about Christopher Lee? I know both he and the vampire Dracula character were absent from Brides of Dracula-however, Lee then went on to play Dracula in seven Hammer sequels (without the role of Dracula going to anyone else in these sequels), Jess Franco's El Conde Dracula, One More Time, In Search of Dracula, and Dracula Pere et Fils (though I am told that the vampire in that last film was not Dracula, despite the film's title). Note that Scars of Dracula, One More Time, El Conde Dracula, and Taste the Blood of Dracula all came out in 1970. 21:29, 9 February 2008 (UTC)Enda80 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Enda80 (talk • contribs)

Swedish Predecessors?
I heard that his family comes from Sweden,since Englund is a Swedish last name,can anyone confirm this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.235.144.148 (talk) 15:58, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Addition to Robert Englund (comment)
Main Wikipedia article does not mention his being occasionally featured in the sci-fi series "V" (as a lizard alien.) J. Rotello Knoxville, TN josephrot@aol.com 76.123.251.161 (talk) 01:23, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Also doesn't mention his appearance in an episode of Charlie's Angels. The episode was called "Harrigan's Angel" 1980. He played a clever photographic engraver for the main antagonist, and whose photo was a key part of a heist. SeaBeeDee User:SeaBeeDee(talk) 22:03, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

...only actors ever to play a horror character in each and every sequel
"Englund 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 in the Hellraiser film series. Including Tobin Bell as the "Jigsaw Killer" from the Saw franchise, the three make up the only actors ever to play a horror character in each and every sequel"

What about Warwick Davis, the Leprechaun. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.66.100.238 (talk) 22:56, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

New most recent appearance.
He was on Hawaii Five-0 November 1, 2011, as a homeless man suspected of being a serial killer. Bizzybody (talk) 02:22, 2 November 2011 (UTC) He was on an episode of Criminal Minds 4/4/12 "Heathridge Manor" playing the local police detective in Oregon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.125.53.18 (talk) 17:18, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Can he speak Swedish or not?
According to the current info on the page it says that he can speak Swedish fairly well, though in a Q&A in Sweden on 2nd March 2013 he says otherwise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMOy5a_lHn4

He says in the first few minutes that the only Swedish word he knows is "Skeppsbron" which is a Restaurant in Sweden. This might have been a joke but it seems that he does not speak Swedish well or perhaps at all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.65.81.197 (talk) 21:15, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

his role catapulted him to nationally syndicated fame, and Englund became the first new horror movie star since Sir Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing in the 1960s What is “nationally syndicated fame”? Surely he just became famous - both nationally and internationally? To what does the “syndicated” refer? “Catapulted” doesn’t sound very encyclopaedic either. The next bit doesn’t actually read well either - Cushing and Lee became famous in the Fifties, not the Sixties to begin with, but the difficulty is how do you establis that no one else other than them, became famous after they did, but before Englund? I’d submit that Linda Blair became famous for The Exorcist before him, but as the measure of fame is subjective, then it might be better left out altogether? Jock123 (talk) 14:07, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

There should be something at the top reading...
Not to be confused with Ryan Stiles. (Or, something in the article explaining that they look similar.) Reason: That was how I ended up here. George Rodney Maruri Game (talk) 22:40, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Really? Ron Stiles is 6'6" and Robert Englund is 5'10", Englund is 10 years older, Stiles has a full head of hair while Englund is balding, their careers have taken totally different paths (horror vs. comedy) - not sure how you'd confuse the two — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:801:4280:A710:F0BA:118B:E500:4A12 (talk) 07:42, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

Born in 1949
I watched an interview a while back where he said he was 35 when A Nightmare on Elm Street came out which would mean he was born in 1949. Thebatman97808 (talk) 23:16, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

Even the source provided for his birth date says he was more than likely born in 1949. Thebatman97808 (talk) 23:20, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

Robert Englund played on the many series V
Robert Englund also played on the mini series called V in the 1980’s. 2601:C2:1681:ABE0:78CD:EF7C:EA8E:2CAE (talk) 22:33, 28 May 2023 (UTC)


 * That's already mentioned in his TV credits and in Career. 2603:6080:5D00:2562:5DD9:AA65:C3D0:922B (talk) 15:02, 7 June 2023 (UTC)