One of cinema’s greatest actors is getting a biopic from producer Brian Oliver (Black Swan), based on the book Marlon Brando: The Way It’s Never Been Done Before by George Englund. The author is better known as Brando’s close friend and former director in the film The Ugly American, about “an ambitious scholar [who] becomes […]
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Robert Englund Says He’s Too Old to Play Freddy Krueger
Today in slightly depressing but inevitable news: Robert Englund, the actor who made dream murderer Freddy Krueger immortal, says he’s too old to ever play the character again. Time marches on for all of us, and it seems age has caught up with Mr. Englund to the point where slipping on his razor glove and […]
“Horror Has Always Been Around”: Robert Englund on ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street,’ Playing Bad Guys the Right Way, and His New Movie ‘Nightworld’
I’m talking about bookstores in LA with actor Robert Englund after he picks up the phone for our interview. “Are you a big reader?” I ask him. “If I wasn’t an actor, I’d probably be teaching contemporary literature somewhere.” It’s not what you’d expect from the Nightmare on Elm Street star who played the terrifying […]