FrameThrower · Actors · Robert Englund
Robert Englund
7 films · 426 frames · top-billed in 5 · 1984–1994
Born 6 June 1947 · Glendale, California, USA
Robert Barton Englund 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.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 7 films · 426 frames · top-billed in 5 · 1984–1994
- Time Machine Award2007
How their films are shot
Measured across 426 frames from the 7 films we hold. This is the look of the work Robert takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 7 films we hold, 73% of their frames are night, 66% low key — the look of the work Robert takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
New Nightmare
1994 · Self / Freddy Krueger
Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare
1991 · Freddy Krueger
A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
1989 · Freddy Krueger
A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
1988 · Freddy Krueger
A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge
1985 · Freddy Krueger
A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987 · Freddy Krueger
A Nightmare On Elm Street
1984 · Fred Krueger
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 426 frames from Robert Englund's 7 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.