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Richard Crenna

Born Nov. 30, 1926
Los Angeles, California, USA
Died Jan. 17, 2003, aged 76

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" …

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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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113 Acting
15 Directing
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Acting (113)

First Blood (1982)

Col. Samuel Trautman

Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)

Col. Samuel Trautman

Rambo III (1988)

Trautman

Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)

Col. Denton Walters

Body Heat (1981)

Edmund Walker

Sabrina (1995)

Patrick Tyson

Wait Until Dark (1967)

Mike Talman

Leviathan (1989)

Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson

Wrongfully Accused (1998)

Fergus Falls

JAG (1995)

Harmon Rabb Sr. (voice)

Jade (1995)

Governor Edwards

Un Flic (1972)

Simon

The Sand Pebbles (1966)

Captain Collins

I Love Lucy (1951)

Arthur Morton

Summer Rental (1985)

Al Pellet

Breakheart Pass (1975)

Gov. Richard Fairchild

Richard Aldrich

Death Ship (1980)

Trevor Marshall

Marooned (1969)

Jim Pruett

The Flamingo Kid (1984)

Phil Brody

Judging Amy (1999)

Jared Duff

Chicago Hope (1994)

Martin Rockwell

E! True Hollywood Story (1996)

The Evil (1978)

C.J. Arnold

Show all (113)

Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973)

Father (voice)

Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978)

Mike Barry

Centennial (1978)

Colonel Frank Skimmerhorn

Intruders (1992)

Dr. Neil Chase

Out of the Ashes (2003)

Jake Smith

Catlow (1971)

Cowan

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997)

Professor Aronnax

Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For (2000)

Warren Pierce

Cheyenne (1955)

The Man Called Noon (1973)

Noon

Doctors' Wives (1971)

Pete Brennan

Over-Exposed (1956)

Russell Bassett

The Case of the Hillside Stranglers (1989)

Sgt. Bob Grogan

Double Indemnity (1973)

Walter Neff

Stone Cold Dead (1979)

Sgt. Boyd

A Pyromaniac's Love Story (1995)

Tom Lumpke (uncredited)

A Fire in the Sky (1978)

Jason Voight

Table for Five (1983)

Mitchell

The Day Reagan Was Shot (2001)

Ronald Reagan

The Real McCoys (1957)

Luke McCoy

Our Miss Brooks (1956)

Walter Denton

And the Sea Will Tell (1991)

Vincent Bugliosi

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)

John Goldfarb

Made in Paris (1966)

Herb Stone

The Rape of Richard Beck (1985)

Richard Beck

Montana (1990)

Hoyce Guthrie

The Pride of St. Louis (1952)

Paul Dean

Gabriel's Fire (1990)

A Girl Named Sooner (1975)

R.J. 'Mac' McHenry

A Place to Be Loved (1993)

George Russ

Doubletake (1985)

Frank Janek

It Grows on Trees (1952)

Ralph Bowen

Matinee Theater (1955)

Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure (1979)

William Brewster

Midas Run (1969)

Warden

On Wings of Eagles (1986)

H. Ross Perot

Red Skies of Montana (1952)

Noxon (uncredited)

Red Sky at Morning (1971)

Frank Arnold

Terror on Track 9 (1992)

Det. Frank Janek

The Deserter (1970)

Major Wade Brown

The Forget-Me-Not Murders (1994)

Frank Janek

Wild Horse Hank (1979)

Pace Bradford

By Dawn's Early Light (2001)

Ben Maxwell

Nightmare (1974)

Howard Faloon

Deep Family Secrets (1997)

Clay Chadway

Heart Full of Rain (1997)

Arliss Dockett

Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology (1993)

Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963)

Edward Smalley

Our Miss Brooks (1952)

Walter Denton

Passions (1984)

Richard Kennerly

Police Story: The Freeway Killings (1987)

Deputy Chief Bob Devers

The Millionaire (1955)

Ralph McKnight

Thief (1971)

Neal Wilkinson

All's Fair (1976)

Daniel Boone (1981)

Daniel Boone

In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy (1995)

Luke Constable Sr.

Janek: The Silent Betrayal (1994)

Frank Janek

Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence (1994)

Jonathan Stone

Pros and Cons (1991)

Mitch O'Hannon

The Day the Bubble Burst (1982)

Jesse Livermore

The High Price of Passion (1986)

Williams Douglas

To Serve and Protect (1999)

Howard Carr

Footsteps (1972)

Paddy

Frontier (1955)

Internal Affairs (1988)

Frank Janek

It Takes Two (1982)

Dr. Sam Quinn

Kids Like These (1987)

Bob Goodman

Plaza Suite (1987)

Roy Hubley

Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah (1996)

John Porter

Slattery's People (1964)

James Slattery

Squaring the Circle (1984)

The Narrator

A Case of Deadly Force (1986)

Lawrence O'Donnell Sr.

Double Solitaire (1974)

Charley Potter

Fugitive Family (1980)

Brian Roberts

Honky Tonk (1974)

Candy Johnson

Joshua's World (1980)

Dr. Joshua Torrance

Murder in Black and White (1990)

Frank Janek

Murder Times Seven (1990)

Frank Janek

Shootout in a One-Dog Town (1974)

Zack Wells

Stuck with Each Other (1989)

Bert Medwick

The Long Lost Life of Edward Smalley (1963)

Edward Smalley

The Ordeal of Bill Carney (1981)

Mason Rose

The Real Las Vegas (1996)

Narrator (voice)

And the Sea Will Tell (1991)

Vincent Bugliosi

First, You Cry (1978)

David Towers

Last Flight Out (1990)

Dan Hood

Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition (1989)

Narrator

The War Between the Tates (1977)

Professor Brian Tate

To Serve and Protect (1999)

Howard Carr

Directing (15)

The Andy Griffith Show (1960)

The Rockford Files (1974)

Lou Grant (1977)

The Real McCoys (1957)

James at 16 (1977)

Turnabout (1979)

Grandpa Goes to Washington (1978)

Rosetti and Ryan (1977)

Vacation Playhouse (1963)

Allison Sydney Harrison (1983)

Better Late Than Never (1979)

No Time for Sergeants (1964)

Wendy and Me (1964)

Summer Fun (1966)

The Magic Statue (1982)

Appearances (13)

Rambo (2008)

Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Carol Burnett Show (1967)

Self

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968)

Self

People's Choice Awards (1975)

Self - Host

Drawing First Blood: 20 Years Later (2002)

Self

The Danny Kaye Show (1963)

Self

Disneyland '59 (1959)

Self

Musical Comedy Tonight II (1981)

Self

Afganistan: Land in Crisis (2002)

Self

The Making of 'First Blood' (1982)

Self

Guts and Glory (2002)

Self

We Get to Win This Time (2002)

Self

Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent (1997)

Himself / Narrator