Robert Englund

Freddy’s back.

The star of the ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ series says he’s retired from putting on that hideous scarred face and those creepy knife fingers.

“I think he respects horror movies. He doesn't make fun of them.”

It's hard to imagine Luke Skywalker being played by anyone but Mark Hamill in the original 'Star Wars' trilogy, but it very well could have happened. And according to 'Nightmare on Elm Street' icon Robert Englund, better known to audiences as Freddy Krueger, it might not have happened at all had he not once told a teenage boy about the part after coming home from a failed 'Star Wars' audition himself.