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I'm basically a movie actor now, and my big roles are mostly horror movies - unless I'm doing a guest star or something - and occasionally I try to get back into television.

Robert Englund

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Robert Englund
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 6
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Robert Barton Englund
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