Biografie

He is a keen surfer, and has been shown on Entertainment Tonight (1981) talking about surfing.

Father helped design the U-2 spy plane.

His performance as Freddy Krueger in Nightmare - Mörderische Träume (1984) is ranked #51 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.

Is an avid King of the Hill (1997) fan.

Ranked the #40 top villain for the American Film Institution's Top 100 list of 100 Heroes and Villains for his role as Freddy Krueger.

When I was 9, I went to a birthday party. We were supposed to see a cowboy movie, but the programming got screwed up and we saw Böse Saat (1956) instead. Horrifying. For years I was frightened of girls with pigtails.

I saw an entire magazine of Freddy Krueger tattoos. Hey, I'm a classically trained actor who was doing [Anton Chekhov], and now there are thousands of people walking around America with my tattoo on them. I just take it as pop culture.

I get a lot of teenagers going, 'Yo, Krueger,' and honking their horn and giving me the claw. Yeah, I'm recognized.

Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage.

But it's mostly about pacing yourself when you do these movies.