Robert Engels

For the German artist, see Robert Engels (artist).

Robert Engels (born 1949) is an American writer, producer, director and professor of screenwriting at Cal State Fullerton. ^[1]

Biography

He graduated from Saint John's Preparatory School in Collegeville, Minn. in 1967. He wrote several episodes of and produced Twin Peaks and also co-wrote the 1992 film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me . ^[2] He is also credited with writing and producing several other television series, such as seaQuest DSV and Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda . In 1993, he was nominated (with David Lynch) for a Saturn Award for best writing, for his work on Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. His only on screen appearances (so far) have been on seaQuest during its first season as Malcolm Lansdowne.

Filmography

Writer

• Wiseguy (3 episodes) (1990)
• Twin Peaks (10 episodes) (1990–1991)
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) (written by)
• On the Air (3 episodes) (1992)
• Sirens (1 episode) (1993)
• seaQuest DSV (2 episodes) (1994)
• The Adventures of Sinbad (2 episodes) (1997)
• Murder in Small Town X (unknown episodes) (2001)
• Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher (2002) (creator)
• Andromeda (8 episodes) (2002–2005)
• Greenleaf (1 episode) (2016)

Producer

• Twin Peaks (co-producer) (1990)
• On the Air (co-executive producer) (1992)
• seaQuest DSV (co-executive producer) (Season 1) (1993–1994)
• Andromeda (executive producer) (2002–2005)

Actor

• seaQuest DSV .... Malcolm Lansdowne (3 episodes) (1993–1994)

References

1. Robert Engels at IMDb
2. "TV: Could 'Twin Peaks' Mysteries Return?". BloodyDisgusting. 23 June 2010.

External links

• Robert Engels at IMDb
• California State University, Fullerton College of Communications, Department of Radio Television Film Faculty