Personal Info
Birth date
1965-09-20 (59 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
Also known as
-Robert Rusler
Biography
Robert Rusler (born September 20, 1965) is an American film and television actor. Rusler was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the son of Maria Elena (née Varela) and Richard C. Rusler. He moved to Waikiki Beach in Hawaii, where he started surfing and skateboarding on a semi-professional level, competiting in local tournaments. Then he and his family moved to Los Angeles, where he studied martial arts 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. His first film was the 1985 hit comedy film Weird Science as Max; he is also well known for his role in the 1985 horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge as Grady and Richard Lawson in the 1991 TV film Stephen King's Sometimes They Come Back. Rusler has starred on some television series, such as the short lived 1990 series The Outsiders as Tim Shepard, and in the 1993 short lives series Angel Falls, but his best known TV role was in the 1990s hit science fiction series Babylon 5 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 and Malcolm McDowell. 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, Snoops, Cold Case, Medium, The Unit, The Closer, 24, Navy NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and Enterprise in the season 3 episode "Anomaly" as Orgoth. He has appeared in a Heineken commercial directed by Oliver Stone. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Filmography
NCIS
7.623
Overview:
From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has a shred of evidence connected to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position.Bones
8.215
Overview:
Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.Murder, She Wrote
7.5
Overview:
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.Star Trek: Enterprise
7.6
Overview:
During the mid-22nd century, a century before Captain Kirk's five-year mission, Jonathan Archer captains the United Earth ship Enterprise during the early years of Starfleet, leading up to the Earth-Romulan War and the formation of the Federation.Babylon 5
8.039
Overview:
Babylon 5 is a five-mile long space station located in neutral space. Built by the Earth Alliance in the 2250s, its goal is to maintain peace among the various alien races by providing a sanctuary where grievances and negotiations can be worked out among duly appointed ambassadors. A council made up of representatives from the five major space-faring civilizations - the Earth Alliance, Minbari Federation, Centauri Republic, Narn Regime, and Vorlon Empire - work with the League of Non-Aligned Worlds to keep interstellar relations under control. Aside from its diplomatic function, Babylon 5 also serves as a military post for Earth and a port of call for travelers, traders, businessmen, criminals, and Rangers.S.W.A.T.
8.067
Overview:
A locally born and bred S.W.A.T. lieutenant is torn between loyalty to the streets and duty to his fellow officers when he's tasked to run a highly-trained unit that's the last stop for solving crimes in Los Angeles.The Facts of Life
7
Overview:
Mrs. Edna Garrett, housemother and dietitian at the Eastland School, teaches a group of girls in her charge how to solve those problems that every teenager has to face.Medium
7.464
Overview:
Allison Dubois works in the District Attorney’s office using her natural intuition about people and her ability to communicate with the dead to help to solve crimes. Her dreams often give her clues to the whereabouts of missing people.24
7.787
Overview:
Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.The Closer
7.9
Overview:
Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson transfers from Atlanta to LA to head up a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. Johnson's quirky personality and hard-nosed approach often rubs her colleagues the wrong way, but her reputation as one of the world's best interrogator eventually wins over even her toughest critics.Cold Case
7.774
Overview:
The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly Rush combines her natural instincts with the updated technology available today to bring about justice for all the victims she can.The Unit
7.3
Overview:
A covert team of special forces operatives risk their lives on undercover missions around the globe, while their wives maintain the homefront, protecting their husbands' secrets.Mike Hammer, Private Eye
6.5
Overview:
Detective Mike Hammer uses his savvy grit against deceptive enemies in Southern California.Light as a Feather
7.8
Overview:
Five teen girls deal with the supernatural fallout stemming from an innocent game of “Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board.” When the girls start dying off in the exact way that was predicted, the survivors must figure out why they’re being targeted — and whether the evil force hunting them down is one of their own.The Outsiders
7.3
Overview:
The story of the Curtis brothers, a group of troubled teens in 1960s Oklahoma, struggling to make it as a family. A follow-up to the novel and film of the same name.Angel Falls
8
Overview:
Angel Falls is a drama series that aired from August 26, 1993 to September 30, 1993. The premise of the series is Rae Dawn Snow and her teenage son moving back to her Montana hometown after the death of her father.Snoops
7
Overview:
Glenn Hall runs a less-than-conventional detective. Her staff includes Roberta Young, a detective who goes to great lengths to get the job done; Manny Lott, the resident technology wiz; and Dana Plant, a former Santa Monica police detective.A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
5.777
Overview:
Jesse Walsh moves with his family into the home of the lone survivor from a series of attacks by dream-stalking monster, Freddy Krueger. There, he is bedeviled by nightmares and inexplicably violent impulses.Weird Science
6.551
Overview:
Two unpopular teenagers, Gary and Wyatt, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Their desperation to be liked leads them to "create" a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing creation is a gorgeous woman, Lisa, whose purpose is to boost their confidence level by putting them into situations which require Gary and Wyatt to act like men.The Whole Ten Yards
5.746
Overview:
Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski now spends his days compulsively cleaning his house and perfecting his culinary skills with his wife, Jill, a purported assassin who has yet to pull off a clean hit. Suddenly, an uninvited and unwelcome connection to their past unexpectedly shows up on Jimmy and Jill's doorstep; it's Oz, and he's begging them to help him rescue his wife, Cynthia.The Debt Collector
5.831
Overview:
A classically-trained martial artist goes to work as a debt collector for the mob. The job seems easy enough, until one “client” pulls him into a situation deeper than could ever be expected.Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
7.8
Overview:
For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office across eight terrifying, spectacular films.Sometimes They Come Back
5.9
Overview:
Desperate for a job to help him support his family, Jim Norman takes a position teaching high school in the town where his brother was murdered in front of him by teenage bullies twenty-seven years before. The teens who committed the crime are long dead, but now the kids in Jim's new class keep dying and being replaced by new students who look like the deceased hoodlums.The Manor
5.5
Overview:
After suffering a stroke, Judith moves into a historic nursing home, where she begins to suspect something supernatural is preying on the residents. With no one willing to believe her, Judith must either escape the confines of the manor, or fall victim to the evil that dwells within it.Thrashin'
6.3
Overview:
Corey and his band of skater buddies sometimes make mischief, but they're more interested in girls and having fun on their boards than in getting into any real trouble. Notorious enemy crew the Daggers, led by Tommy Hook, get their kicks terrorizing the locals at Venice Beach. When Corey starts dating Tommy's kid sister Chrissy, the Daggers are furious. The boys then take their beef to the "L.A. Massacre," a deadly skate race down a canyon road.Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street
6.625
Overview:
Mark Patton sets the records straight about the controversial 1985 sequel to A Nightmare on Elm Street, which ended his acting career, just as it was about to begin.Vamp
5.851
Overview:
Two fraternity pledges go to a sleazy bar in search of a stripper for their college friends, unaware it is occupied by vampires.In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994
7.3
Overview:
Film icons and genre experts share observations, experiences, and analysis to help reframe, deconstruct, and re-contextualize the "lost" decade of horror: the '90s.Amityville: A New Generation
4.185
Overview:
Keyes, a successful photographer who lives at the border of Skid Row, notices a homeless man with a strange old mirror. Immediately struck by it for reasons he cannot explain, he convinces the man to sell it to him, soon behaving in increasingly erratic and unhinged ways.Acting
TBAThe Last Days of Belle Starr as W. H. H. Clayton
2025Garden of Eden as Matheo Eden
2024In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994 as Self - Interviewee
2024Wildfire as David Richards
2022FredHeads: The Documentary as Himself
2021The Manor as George
2021Pretty Boy as Edward
2021Jakob's Wife as Tom Low
2020In Search of Darkness: Part II as Self
2019Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street as Self
2018Light as a Feather (3 Episodes) as Mr. Morris
2018Concrete Kids as Jerry
2018The Debt Collector as Tarva
2018The Wedding Do Over as Gary
2017S.W.A.T. (1 Episode) as Moretti
2017The Unwilling as Rich
2016Blood Feast as Fuad Ramses
2015Tales of Halloween as Mr. Blake
2012Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever as Self
2011Delivered as Wiggs
2010Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy as Self
2008LA LA Land as Jerry Flaxman
2007Agenda as Alec Foster
2006Surveillance as Ben Palmer
2006The Hunt as Atticus Monroe
2006The Unit (1 Episode) as Unknown
2005Bones (1 Episode) as Hunter Sherman
2005The Closer (1 Episode) as Joe White
2005Medium (1 Episode) as David Barrington
2004The Whole Ten Yards as Policeman #2
2003Air Strike as Unknown
2003Cold Case (1 Episode) as Lt. Nash Cavanaugh
2003NCIS (1 Episode) as Curtis Teague
200124 (1 Episode) as Hank
2001Star Trek: Enterprise (1 Episode) as Orgoth
1999Snoops (1 Episode) as Jake Hammersmith
1997Mike Hammer, Private Eye (1 Episode) as Unknown
1994Babylon 5 (22 Episodes) as Warren Keffer
1993Amityville: A New Generation as Ray
1993Angel Falls (6 Episodes) as Toby Riopelle
1992Final Embrace as Kyle Lambton
1992Crisis in the Kremlin as Jack Reilly
1991Sometimes They Come Back as Lawson
1990The Outsiders (13 Episodes) as Tim Shepherd
1989Shag as Buzz Ravenel
1987Tonight's the Night as Kenny Costner
1986Thrashin' as Tommy Hook
1986Vamp as AJ
1986Dangerously Close as Unknown
1985A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge as Ron Grady
1985Weird Science as Max
1984Murder, She Wrote (1 Episode) as Pete Menteer
1979The Facts of Life (2 Episodes) as Unknown
Writing
2013Black Asylum ... Screenplay
Directing
2013Black Asylum ... Director
Production
2013Black Asylum ... Producer