---
name: "Robert Engels"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/robert-engels"
fi1m_id: "robert-engels"
imdb_id: "nm0257306"
tmdb_id: 15797
wikidata_id: "Q892285"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1949"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:38:08.930242+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Robert Engels

## Identity

Robert Engels

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/robert-engels
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** robert-engels
- **IMDb ID:** nm0257306
- **TMDB ID:** 15797
- **Wikidata ID:** Q892285
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Engels, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q892285, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0257306/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15797

Writer. Born 1 January 1949 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1949, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- **Also known as:** Bob Engels
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Engels, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q892285, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0257306/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15797

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Twin Peaks*](https://film.one/tv/twin-peaks.md) (86)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Robert Engels is an American writer, producer and director. He wrote ten episodes of the television series *Twin Peaks* (1990–1991) and served as co-producer on the second season. He co-wrote the feature film *Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me* (1992) with David Lynch.

Engels has also written for *Wiseguy*, *On the Air*, *seaQuest DSV*, *The Adventures of Sinbad* and *Andromeda*, on which he was executive producer and showrunner. He received a Saturn Award nomination for best writing, shared with Lynch, for *Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me*. He is a professor of screenwriting at California State University, Fullerton.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Twin Peaks* (1990), Fi1m 86, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/twin-peaks.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces* (2014), Writer
- *Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher* (2002), Writer
- *Andromeda* (2000), series, Writer
- *The Adventures of Sinbad* (1996), series, Writer, Creative Consultant
- *seaQuest DSV* (1993), series, as Malcolm Lansdowne · Writer
- *On the Air* (1992), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer
- *Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me* (1992), Writer
- *Twin Peaks* (1990), series, Writer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/twin-peaks.md)
- *Wiseguy* (1987), series, Writer

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/robert-engels