Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Robert Englund, best known for portraying Freddy Krueger in the horror franchise A Nightmare on Elm Street , was honored with a Hollywood star, appropriately, on Halloween. On Friday morning, Englund, 78, was honored with the 2,826th star on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. At the ceremony, where he was honored in the Motion Pictures category, he wore the bladed glove used by the supernatural serial killer, whose victims are stalked in their dreams and then die in real life.