
Richard Crenna
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 30, 1926
- Died
- January 17, 2003 (aged 76)
- Birthplace
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Biography
Richard Donald Crenna (November 30, 1926 – January 17, 2003) was an American motion picture, television, and radio actor and occasional television director. He starred in such motion pictures as The Sand Pebbles, Wait Until Dark, Body Heat, the first three Rambo movies, Hot Shots! Part Deux, and The Flamingo Kid. Crenna played "Walter Denton" in the CBS radio and CBS-TV network series Our Miss Brooks, and "Luke McCoy" in ABC's TV comedy series, The Real McCoys, (1957–63), which moved to CBS-TV in September 1962. Crenna was in one of the few TV political dramatic series Slattery's People on CBS. Crenna played "Colonel Trautman" in the first three Rambo movies. He also played "Frank Skimmerhorn" in the critically acclaimed mini-series Centennial.
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Filmography

Rambo
Movie · as Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited)

Out of the Ashes
Movie · as Jake Smith

Afganistan: Land in Crisis
Movie · as Self

We Get to Win This Time
Movie · as Self

Guts and Glory
Movie · as Self

Drawing First Blood: 20 Years Later
Movie · as Self

The Day Reagan Was Shot
Movie · as Ronald Reagan

By Dawn's Early Light
Movie · as Ben Maxwell

Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
Movie · as Warren Pierce

To Serve and Protect
Movie · as Howard Carr

Judging Amy
TV · as Jared Duff · 12 eps

To Serve and Protect
TV · as Howard Carr · 2 eps

Wrongfully Accused
Movie · as Fergus Falls

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Movie · as Professor Aronnax

Deep Family Secrets
Movie · as Clay Chadway

Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent
Movie · as Himself / Narrator

Heart Full of Rain
Movie · as Arliss Dockett

Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah
Movie · as John Porter

The Real Las Vegas
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

E! True Hollywood Story
TV · 1 ep

Jade
Movie · as Governor Edwards

In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy
Movie · as Luke Constable Sr.

Sabrina
Movie · as Patrick Tyson

A Pyromaniac's Love Story
Movie · as Tom Lumpke (uncredited)

JAG
TV · as Harmon Rabb Sr. (voice) · 2 eps

Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence
Movie · as Jonathan Stone

The Forget-Me-Not Murders
Movie · as Frank Janek
Janek: The Silent Betrayal
Movie · as Frank Janek

Chicago Hope
TV · as Martin Rockwell · 1 ep

Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
Movie

Hot Shots! Part Deux
Movie · as Col. Denton Walters

A Place to Be Loved
Movie · as George Russ

Terror on Track 9
Movie · as Det. Frank Janek

Intruders
TV · as Dr. Neil Chase · 2 eps

And the Sea Will Tell
Movie · as Vincent Bugliosi

Pros and Cons
TV · as Mitch O'Hannon · 12 eps

And the Sea Will Tell
TV · as Vincent Bugliosi · 2 eps

Last Flight Out
Movie · as Dan Hood

Montana
Movie · as Hoyce Guthrie

Murder Times Seven
Movie · as Frank Janek

Murder in Black and White
Movie · as Frank Janek

Gabriel's Fire
TV

Leviathan
Movie · as Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson

Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition
Movie · as Narrator

The Case of the Hillside Stranglers
Movie · as Sgt. Bob Grogan

Stuck with Each Other
Movie · as Bert Medwick

Rambo III
Movie · as Trautman

Internal Affairs
Movie · as Frank Janek

Kids Like These
Movie · as Bob Goodman

Police Story: The Freeway Killings
Movie · as Deputy Chief Bob Devers

Plaza Suite
Movie · as Roy Hubley

A Case of Deadly Force
Movie · as Lawrence O'Donnell Sr.

The High Price of Passion
Movie · as Williams Douglas

On Wings of Eagles
TV · as H. Ross Perot · 2 eps

Rambo: First Blood Part II
Movie · as Col. Samuel Trautman

Summer Rental
Movie · as Al Pellet

The Rape of Richard Beck
Movie · as Richard Beck

Doubletake
Movie · as Frank Janek

The Flamingo Kid
Movie · as Phil Brody

Passions
Movie · as Richard Kennerly

Squaring the Circle
Movie · as The Narrator

Table for Five
Movie · as Mitchell

First Blood
Movie · as Col. Samuel Trautman

The Day the Bubble Burst
Movie · as Jesse Livermore

The Making of 'First Blood'
Movie · as Self

It Takes Two
TV · as Dr. Sam Quinn · 22 eps

Body Heat
Movie · as Edmund Walker

The Ordeal of Bill Carney
Movie · as Mason Rose

Daniel Boone
Movie · as Daniel Boone

Musical Comedy Tonight II
Movie · as Self

Death Ship
Movie · as Trevor Marshall
Joshua's World
Movie · as Dr. Joshua Torrance

Fugitive Family
Movie · as Brian Roberts

Stone Cold Dead
Movie · as Sgt. Boyd

Wild Horse Hank
Movie · as Pace Bradford

Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
Movie · as William Brewster

Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell
Movie · as Mike Barry

The Evil
Movie · as C.J. Arnold

A Fire in the Sky
Movie · as Jason Voight

First, You Cry
Movie · as David Towers

Centennial
TV · as Colonel Frank Skimmerhorn · 12 eps

The War Between the Tates
Movie · as Professor Brian Tate

All's Fair
TV · 24 eps

Breakheart Pass
Movie · as Gov. Richard Fairchild

A Girl Named Sooner
Movie · as R.J. 'Mac' McHenry

Saturday Night Live
TV · as Self - Cameo (uncredited) · 1 ep

People's Choice Awards
TV · as Self - Host · 1 ep

Double Solitaire
Movie · as Charley Potter

Shootout in a One-Dog Town
Movie · as Zack Wells

Nightmare
Movie · as Howard Faloon

Honky Tonk
Movie · as Candy Johnson

Double Indemnity
Movie · as Walter Neff

The Man Called Noon
Movie · as Noon

Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Movie · as Father (voice)

Un Flic
Movie · as Simon

Footsteps
Movie · as Paddy

Catlow
Movie · as Cowan

Red Sky at Morning
Movie · as Frank Arnold

Doctors' Wives
Movie · as Pete Brennan

Thief
Movie · as Neal Wilkinson

The Deserter
Movie · as Major Wade Brown

Marooned
Movie · as Jim Pruett

Midas Run
Movie · as Warden

Star!
Movie · as Richard Aldrich

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
TV · as Self · 3 eps

Wait Until Dark
Movie · as Mike Talman

The Carol Burnett Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep

The Sand Pebbles
Movie · as Captain Collins

Made in Paris
Movie · as Herb Stone

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
Movie · as John Goldfarb

Slattery's People
TV · as James Slattery · 36 eps

The Long Lost Life of Edward Smalley
Movie · as Edward Smalley

Kraft Suspense Theatre
TV · as Edward Smalley · 1 ep

The Danny Kaye Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV · as Self · 3 eps

The Merv Griffin Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Disneyland '59
Movie · as Self

The Real McCoys
TV · as Luke McCoy · 224 eps

Over-Exposed
Movie · as Russell Bassett

Our Miss Brooks
Movie · as Walter Denton

Cheyenne
TV · 1 ep

The Millionaire
TV · as Ralph McKnight · 1 ep

Matinee Theater
TV · 3 eps

Frontier
TV · 1 ep

It Grows on Trees
Movie · as Ralph Bowen

Red Skies of Montana
Movie · as Noxon (uncredited)

The Pride of St. Louis
Movie · as Paul Dean

Our Miss Brooks
TV · as Walter Denton · 130 eps

Today
TV · as Himself - Actor · 1 ep

I Love Lucy
TV · as Arthur Morton · 1 ep

Golden Globe Awards
TV · as Self - Nominee, Self - Host · 1 ep


