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American born writer, producer, and director
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Biography
Introduction
Robert Engels is an American born writer, producer, and director as well as being a professor of screenwriting at Cal State Fullerton.
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. 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
- Andromeda (8 episodes) (2002-2005)
- Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher (2002) (creator)
- Murder in Small Town X (unknown episodes) (2001)
- seaQuest DSV (2 episodes) (1994)
- Sirens (1 episode) (1993)
- On the Air (3 episodes) (1992)
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) (written by)
- Twin Peaks (11 episodes) (1990-1991)
- Wiseguy (unknown episodes) (1987)
Producer
- Andromeda (executive producer) (2002-2005)
- seaQuest DSV (co-executive producer) (Season 1) (1993-1994)
- On the Air (co-executive producer) (1992)
- Twin Peaks (co-producer) (1990)
Actor
- seaQuest DSV .... Malcolm Lansdowne (3 episodes) (1993-1994)