Robert Rusler is an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 film and television actor.

Rusler was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana

Fort Wayne, Indiana

Fort Wayne is a city in the US state of Indiana and the county seat of Allen County. The population was 253,691 at the 2010 Census making it the 74th largest city in the United States and the second largest in Indiana...

, the son of Maria Elena (née

Married and maiden names

A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage. When a person assumes the family name of her spouse, the new name replaces the maiden name....

 Varela) and Richard C. Rusler. He moved to Waikiki Beach in Hawaii

Hawaii

Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...

, where he started surfing

Surfing

Surfing' is a surface water sport in which the surfer rides a surfboard on the crest and face of a wave which is carrying the surfer towards the shore...

 and skateboarding

Skateboarding

Skateboarding is an action sport which involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard.Skateboarding can be a recreational activity, an art form, a job, or a method of transportation. Skateboarding has been shaped and influenced by many skateboarders throughout the years. A 2002 report...

 on a semi-professional level, competiting in local tournaments. Then he and his family moved to Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

, where he studied martial arts

Martial arts

Martial arts are extensive systems of codified practices and traditions of combat, practiced for a variety of reasons, including self-defense, competition, physical health and fitness, as well as mental and spiritual development....

 and entered many competitions. After high school, Robert wanted to try his hand as an actor and began taking acting classes at the Loft Studio with Peggy Feury and William Taylor

William Taylor

William Taylor was a British scholar, polyglot, and translator of German romantic literature.-Early life:He was born in Norwich, East Anglia, England on 7 November 1765, the only child of William Taylor , a wealthy Norwich merchant with European trade connections, by his wife Sarah , second...

.

His first film was the 1985 hit comedy film Weird Science

Weird Science (film)

Weird Science is a 1985 American teen comedy film written and directed by John Hughes and starring Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, and Kelly LeBrock...

as Max; he is also well known for his role in the 1985 horror film

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge

A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge is a 1985 American slasher film and the second film in the Nightmare on Elm Street film series. The film was directed by Jack Sholder and stars Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Rusler and Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger. Despite the film's title,...

as Grady and Richard Lawson in the 1991 TV film Stephen King's Sometimes They Come Back

Sometimes They Come Back

"Sometimes They Come Back" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the March 1974 issue of Cavalier and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift.-Setting:...

. Rusler has starred on some television series, such as the short lived 1990 series The Outsiders

The Outsiders (TV series)

The Outsiders is an American drama series that aired in 1990 on Fox. Based on the characters from the 1967 novel of the same title by S. E. Hinton, the series was executive produced by the 1983 film's director Francis Ford Coppola.-Synopsis:...

as Tim Shepard

Shepard Family

The Shepard Family is a fictitious family in several of the novels of S.E. Hinton The family consists of a mother and stepfather , sons Tim and Curly and daughter Angela...

, and in the 1993 short lives series Angel Falls, but his best known TV role was in the 1990s hit science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 series Babylon 5

Babylon 5

Babylon 5 is an American science fiction television series created, produced and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski. The show centers on a space station named Babylon 5: a focal point for politics, diplomacy, and conflict during the years 2257–2262...

as Warren Keffer in season 2 (1994–1995). He has acted in the 1995 sci-fi video game flight simulator, Wing Commander IV which starred Mark Hamill

Mark Hamill

Mark Richard Hamill is an American actor, voice artist, producer, director, and writer, best known for his role as Luke Skywalker in the original trilogy of Star Wars. More recently, he has received acclaim for his voice work, in such roles as the Joker in Batman: The Animated Series, Firelord...

 and Malcolm McDowell

Malcolm McDowell

Malcolm McDowell is an English actor with a career spanning over forty years.McDowell is principally known for his roles in the controversial films If...., O Lucky Man!, A Clockwork Orange and Caligula...

. He also recently appeared in an episode of the TV series The Unit.

Rusler has made guest appearances on television shows ranging from The Facts of Life

The Facts of Life (TV series)

The Facts of Life is an American sitcom that originally ran on the NBC television network from August 24, 1979 to May 7, 1988. A spin-off of the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, the series' premise focused on Edna Garrett as she becomes a housemother at the fictional Eastland School, a prestigious...

, Snoops, Cold Case, Medium

Medium (TV series)

Medium is an American television drama series that premiered on NBC on January 3, 2005, and ended on CBS on January 21, 2011. Themed on supernatural gifts, its lead character, Allison DuBois , is a medium employed as a consultant for the Phoenix, Arizona district attorney's office...

, The Unit

The Unit

The Unit is an American action-drama television series that focuses on a top-secret military unit modeled after the real-life U.S. Army special operations unit commonly known as Delta Force...

, The Closer

The Closer

The Closer is an American crime drama, starring Kyra Sedgwick as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, a Georgia police detective who often closes her cases using sometimes-questionable methods...

, 24

24 (TV series)

24 is an American television series produced for the Fox Network and syndicated worldwide, starring Kiefer Sutherland as Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer. Each 24-episode season covers 24 hours in the life of Bauer, using the real time method of narration...

, Navy NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and Enterprise

Star Trek: Enterprise

Star Trek: Enterprise is a science fiction television series. It follows the adventures of humanity's first warp 5 starship, the Enterprise, ten years before the United Federation of Planets shown in previous Star Trek series was formed.Enterprise premiered on September 26, 2001...

in the season 3 episode "Anomaly" as Orgoth. He has appeared in a Heineken

Heineken

Heineken is a Dutch beer which has been brewed by Heineken International since 1873. It is available in a 4.6% alcohol variety in countries such as Ireland. It is the flagship product of the Heineken company and is made of purified water, malted barley, hops, and yeast. In 1886 H...

 commercial directed by Oliver Stone

Oliver Stone

William Oliver Stone is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Stone became well known in the late 1980s and the early 1990s for directing a series of films about the Vietnam War, for which he had previously participated as an infantry soldier. His work frequently focuses on...

.

Film and Television Credits

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985	The Facts of Life The Facts of Life (TV series) The Facts of Life is an American sitcom that originally ran on the NBC television network from August 24, 1979 to May 7, 1988. A spin-off of the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, the series' premise focused on Edna Garrett as she becomes a housemother at the fictional Eastland School, a prestigious...	Neil	(1979 TV series) Episodes: "Gone With the Wind Part 1" and "Gone With the Wind Part 2"
1985	Weird Science Weird Science (film) Weird Science is a 1985 American teen comedy film written and directed by John Hughes and starring Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, and Kelly LeBrock...	Max	Film
1985	A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge is a 1985 American slasher film and the second film in the Nightmare on Elm Street film series. The film was directed by Jack Sholder and stars Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Rusler and Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger. Despite the film's title,...	Ron Grady	Film
1986	Dangerously Close	n/a	Film
1986	Vamp Vamp (film) -Plot:Two college students, Keith and AJ, want to hire a stripper for their college initiation party, so they go to a dark, seedy part of town to look for a good candidate. They visit a nightclub in a barren, desolate, no-mans land section where the police rarely patrol...	A.J.	Film
1986	Thrashin' Thrashin' Conversely, Brolin had turned down the role of Thom Hansen on 21 Jump Street, which ultimately went to Depp.-Continuing reaction to the film: Sixteen years after initial release, the MTV series Jackass, in a February 2002 episode, played homage to the "jousting scene" with "maces and man-purse" in...	Tommy Hook	Film
1987	Tonight's the Night	Kenny Costner	TV Movie
1989	Shag Shag (1989 film) Shag is a 1989 comedy film starring Bridget Fonda, Phoebe Cates, Annabeth Gish, Page Hannah, Jeff Yagher and Scott Coffey. The film features Carolina shag dancing and was produced in cooperation with the North Carolina Film Commission. The soundtrack album was on Sire/Warner Bros...	Buzz	Film
1990	The Outsiders The Outsiders (TV series) The Outsiders is an American drama series that aired in 1990 on Fox. Based on the characters from the 1967 novel of the same title by S. E. Hinton, the series was executive produced by the 1983 film's director Francis Ford Coppola.-Synopsis:...	Tim Shepard	TV Series (13 episodes)
1991	Sometimes They Come Back Sometimes They Come Back "Sometimes They Come Back" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the March 1974 issue of Cavalier and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift.-Setting:...	Richard Lawson	TV Movie
1992	Final Embrace	Kyle Lambton	Film
1992	Crisis in the Kremlin Crisis in the Kremlin (film) Crisis in the Kremlin is a 1992 action/drama film.-Plot:In the last days of the Soviet Union a Central Intelligence Agency agent is sent to Moscow to keep Mikhail Gorbachev safe from an assassination plot, and teams up with a veteran KGB agent....	Jack Reilly	Film
1993	Amityville: A New Generation Amityville: A New Generation Amityville: A New Generation is the seventh installment in the Amityville Horror saga. It was released direct to video in 1993. Republic Pictures released this movie in R-rated and unrated versions...	Ray	Video
1993	Angel Falls	Toby Riopelle	TV series
1994–1995	Babylon 5 Babylon 5 Babylon 5 is an American science fiction television series created, produced and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski. The show centers on a space station named Babylon 5: a focal point for politics, diplomacy, and conflict during the years 2257–2262...	Lt. Warren Keffer	TV series (22 episodes)
1995	Murder, She Wrote Murder, She Wrote Murder, She Wrote is an American television mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher. The series aired for 12 seasons from 1984 to 1996 on the CBS network, with 264 episodes transmitted. It was followed by four TV films and a spin-off series,...	Pete Menteer	(1984 TV series) Episode: "The Secret of Gila Junction"
1995	Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom is the fourth main game in Chris Roberts' Wing Commander science fiction space combat simulator video game series, produced by Origin Systems and released by Electronic Arts for the PC in 1995 and the Sony PlayStation in 1997...	Seether	Film
1997	The Underworld	Dick	TV Movie
1999	Mike Hammer, Private Eye Mike Hammer, Private Eye Mike Hammer, Private Eye is an American syndicated television program based on the adventures of the fictitious private detective Mike Hammer, created by novelist Mickey Spillane...	Jimmy Grecco	(1997 TV series) Episode: "The Long Road to Nowhere"
1999	Wasted in Babylon	Chaz	Film
1999	Snoops	n/a	(1999 TV series) Episode: "Bedfellas"
2002	Robbery Homicide Division Robbery Homicide Division Robbery Homicide Division was an American police procedural television series on CBS, created by Barry Schindel with executive producer Michael Mann.-Premise:...	Greg Canton	(2002 TV series) Episode: "In/Famous"
2003	Star Trek: Enterprise Star Trek: Enterprise Star Trek: Enterprise is a science fiction television series. It follows the adventures of humanity's first warp 5 starship, the Enterprise, ten years before the United Federation of Planets shown in previous Star Trek series was formed.Enterprise premiered on September 26, 2001...	Orgoth	(2001 TV series) Episode: "Anomaly"
2003	L.A. Dragnet	n/a	(2003 TV series) Episode: "Slice of Life"
2004	The Whole Ten Yards The Whole Ten Yards The Whole Ten Yards is a 2004 American Comedy film directed by Howard Deutch and sequel to the 2000 film The Whole Nine Yards. The film stars Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Amanda Peet, Natasha Henstridge, and Kevin Pollak.- Plot :...	Policeman #2	Film
2004	Cold Case	Lt. Nash Cavanaugh	(2003 TV series) Episode: "The Plan"
2004	Air Strike	Ben Garrett	Video
2004	NCIS NCIS (TV series) NCIS, formerly known as NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, is an American police procedural drama television series revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the U.S...	Lt. Col. Curtis Teague	(2003 TV series) Episode: "Vanished"
2005	Rebound	Falcon Coach	Film
2006	24 24 (TV series) 24 is an American television series produced for the Fox Network and syndicated worldwide, starring Kiefer Sutherland as Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer. Each 24-episode season covers 24 hours in the life of Bauer, using the real time method of narration...	Hank	(2001 TV series) Episode: "Day 5: 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m."
2006	Surveillance Surveillance (2006 film) Surveillance is a 2006 film directed by Fritz Kiersch. It stars Armand Assante and Nick Cornish.-Cast:*Armand Assante as Harley*Nick Cornish as Dennis*Laurie Fortier as Claire*Robert Rusler as Ben Palmer*Nando Betancur as Stock Boy...	Ben Palmer	Film
2006	Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Chrisitan Hosoi	Himself	Documentary Documentary A documentary is a creative work of non-fiction, including:* Documentary film, including television* Radio documentary* Documentary photographyRelated terms include:...
2006	Shifted	Skippy, Tail O' The Pup Employee	Film
2006	The Hunt Chronicles	Himself	Video
2006	The Hunt The Hunt (2006 film) The Hunt is a 2006 film directed by Fritz Kiersch. It stars Joe Michael Burke and Cliff De Young.-Cast:*Joe Michael Burke as Jack *Cliff De Young as John Kraw*Mitchell Burns as Clint*Robert Rusler as Atticus Monroe*Amy Briede as Tessa Kraw...	Atticus Monroe	Film
2006	Horror's Hallowed Grounds	Himself	(2006 TV series) (1 episode)
2007	Forfeit	Jimmy	Film
2007	Agenda	Alec Foster	Film
2007	The Closer The Closer The Closer is an American crime drama, starring Kyra Sedgwick as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, a Georgia police detective who often closes her cases using sometimes-questionable methods...	Joe White	(2005 TV series) Episode: "Lovers Leap"
2007	The Unit The Unit The Unit is an American action-drama television series that focuses on a top-secret military unit modeled after the real-life U.S. Army special operations unit commonly known as Delta Force...	Colonel	(2006 TV series) Episode: "M.P.s"
2008	Medium Medium (TV series) Medium is an American television drama series that premiered on NBC on January 3, 2005, and ended on CBS on January 21, 2011. Themed on supernatural gifts, its lead character, Allison DuBois , is a medium employed as a consultant for the Phoenix, Arizona district attorney's office...	David Barrington	(2005 TV series) Episode: "Do You Hear What I Hear?"
2008	LA LA Land La La Land La La Land may refer to:* A nickname for the city of Los Angeles* A euphemism for a state of unconsciousness* "La La Land" , a single by Demi Lovato* La La Land, an album by indie rock band Plants and Animals...	Jerry Flaxman	Film
2010	Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy is a 2010 American four-hour direct-to-DVD documentary film that chronicles the entire Nightmare on Elm Street franchise and the rise of New Line Cinema. Written by Thommy Hutson, produced by Daniel Farrands and Thommy Hutson, and co-directed by Daniel...	Himself	Documentary
2010	The Black Belle	Robert Rustler	Film
2011	Delivered	Wiggs	Film

External links