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If you don't invest in the characters, you don't care if they get killed. It's more fun if you know them.

Robert Englund

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Robert Englund
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 6
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Television Actor
Voice Actor
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Glendale
California
USA
Robert Barton Englund
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