Richard Crenna
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Crenna, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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- Born:
- Nov 30, 1926 In Los Angeles, California, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 107
- First Appeared:
- In the series I Love Lucy 1951-10-15
- Latest Project:
- Movie Sly 2023-09-16
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Sly | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2023-09-16 |
| Movie | Rambo | Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2008-01-24 |
| Movie | Out of the Ashes | Jake Smith | 2003-04-13 |
| Movie | By Dawn's Early Light | Ben Maxwell | 2001-04-15 |
| Movie | The Day Reagan Was Shot | Ronald Reagan | 2001-12-09 |
| Movie | Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For | Warren Pierce | 2000-05-18 |
| Movie | To Serve and Protect | Howard Carr | 1999-02-14 |
| Series | Judging Amy | Jared Duff | 1999-09-19 |
| Movie | Wrongfully Accused | Fergus Falls | 1998-07-23 |
| Movie | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Professor Aronnax | 1997-03-23 |
| Movie | Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent | Himself / Narrator | 1997-01-14 |
| Movie | Heart Full of Rain | Arliss Dockett | 1997-10-05 |
| Movie | Deep Family Secrets | Clay Chadway | 1997-04-15 |
| Movie | Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah | John Porter | 1996-01-01 |
| Series | E! True Hollywood Story | Unknown | 1996-08-21 |
| Movie | In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy | Luke Constable Sr. | 1995-09-12 |
| Movie | Jade | Governor Edwards | 1995-10-13 |
| Movie | Sabrina | Patrick Tyson | 1995-12-15 |
| Movie | The Forget-Me-Not Murders | Frank Janek | 1994-03-29 |
| Movie | Janek: The Silent Betrayal | Frank Janek | 1994-12-20 |
| Series | Chicago Hope | Unknown | 1994-09-18 |
| Movie | A Place To Be Loved | George Russ | 1993-04-04 |
| Movie | Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology | 1993-05-20 | |
| Movie | Hot Shots! Part Deux | Col. Denton Walters | 1993-05-21 |
| Series | Intruders | Dr. Neil Chase | 1992-05-17 |
| Movie | Terror on Track 9 | Det. Frank Janek | 1992-09-20 |
| Movie | And the Sea Will Tell | Vincent Bugliosi | 1991-02-24 |
| Series | Pros and Cons | Mitch O'Hannon | 1991-09-26 |
| Movie | Montana | Hoyce Guthrie | 1990-02-09 |
| Movie | Last Flight Out | Dan Hood | 1990-05-22 |
| Series | Gabriel's Fire | 1990-09-12 | |
| Movie | Murder Times Seven | Frank Janek | 1990-10-14 |
| Movie | Leviathan | Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson | 1989-03-17 |
| Movie | The Case of the Hillside Stranglers | Sgt. Bob Grogan | 1989-04-02 |
| Movie | Rambo III | Trautman | 1988-05-24 |
| Movie | Police Story: The Freeway Killings | Deputy Chief Bob Devers | 1987-05-03 |
| Movie | Kids Like These | Bob Goodman | 1987-11-08 |
| Movie | Plaza Suite | Roy Hubley | 1987-12-03 |
| Series | On Wings of Eagles | H. Ross Perot | 1986-05-18 |
| Movie | A Case of Deadly Force | Lawrence O'Donnell Sr. | 1986-04-09 |
| Movie | The High Price of Passion | Williams Douglas | 1986-10-29 |
| Movie | Rambo: First Blood Part II | Col. Samuel Trautman | 1985-05-21 |
| Movie | The Rape of Richard Beck | Richard Beck | 1985-05-27 |
| Movie | Summer Rental | Al Pellet | 1985-08-09 |
| Movie | Doubletake | Frank Janek | 1985-11-24 |
| Movie | Squaring the Circle | The Narrator | 1984-05-23 |
| Movie | Passions | Richard Kennerly | 1984-10-01 |
| Movie | The Flamingo Kid | Phil Brody | 1984-12-21 |
| Movie | Terror in the Aisles | Mike Talman (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1984-10-26 |
| Movie | Table for Five | Mitchell | 1983-02-18 |
| Movie | The Day the Bubble Burst | Jesse Livermore | 1982-02-07 |
| Movie | First Blood | Col. Samuel Trautman | 1982-10-22 |
| Series | It Takes Two | 1982-10-14 | |
| Movie | Musical Comedy Tonight II | Self | 1981-02-11 |
| Movie | Body Heat | Edmund Walker | 1981-08-28 |
| Movie | The Ordeal of Bill Carney | Mason Rose | 1981-12-23 |
| Movie | Daniel Boone | Daniel Boone | 1981-11-27 |
| Movie | Death Ship | Trevor Marshall | 1980-03-07 |
| Movie | Fugitive Family | Brian Roberts | 1980-10-01 |
| Movie | Stone Cold Dead | Sgt. Boyd | 1979-09-14 |
| Movie | Wild Horse Hank | Pace Bradford | 1979-01-01 |
| Movie | Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure | William Brewster | 1979-11-21 |
| Movie | The Evil | C.J. Arnold | 1978-05-05 |
| Series | Centennial | Colonel Frank Skimmerhorn | 1978-10-01 |
| Movie | First, You Cry | David Towers | 1978-11-08 |
| Movie | A Fire in the Sky | Jason Voight | 1978-11-26 |
| Movie | Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell | Mike Barry | 1978-10-31 |
| Series | All's Fair | 1976-09-20 | |
| Movie | Breakheart Pass | Gov. Richard Fairchild | 1975-12-09 |
| Movie | A Girl Named Sooner | R.J. 'Mac' McHenry | 1975-06-18 |
| Movie | Nightmare | Howard Faloon | 1974-01-08 |
| Movie | Honky Tonk | Candy Johnson | 1974-04-01 |
| Movie | Shootout in a One-Dog Town | Zack Wells | 1974-01-09 |
| Movie | The Man Called Noon | Noon | 1973-08-29 |
| Movie | Jonathan Livingston Seagull | Father (voice) | 1973-10-23 |
| Movie | Double Indemnity | Walter Neff | 1973-10-13 |
| Movie | A Cop | Simon | 1972-10-01 |
| Movie | Footsteps | Paddy | 1972-10-03 |
| Movie | Red Sky at Morning | Frank Arnold | 1971-05-12 |
| Movie | Doctors' Wives | Pete Brennan | 1971-02-03 |
| Movie | Catlow | Cowan | 1971-10-01 |
| Movie | Thief | Neal Wilkinson | 1971-10-09 |
| Movie | The Deserter | Major Wade Brown | 1970-12-04 |
| Movie | Midas Run | Mike Warden | 1969-05-07 |
| Movie | Marooned | Jim Pruett | 1969-12-11 |
| Movie | Star! | Richard Aldrich | 1968-07-18 |
| Series | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | Unknown | 1967-09-09 |
| Movie | Wait Until Dark | Mike Talman | 1967-10-26 |
| Movie | Made in Paris | Herb Stone | 1966-02-09 |
| Movie | The Sand Pebbles | Captain Collins | 1966-12-20 |
| Movie | John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! | John Goldfarb | 1965-03-24 |
| Series | Slattery's People | James Slattery | 1964-09-21 |
| Series | Kraft Suspense Theatre | Unknown | 1963-10-10 |
| Series | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Unknown | 1962-10-01 |
| Movie | Disneyland '59 | Self | 1959-06-15 |
| Series | The Real McCoys | Luke McCoy | 1957-10-03 |
| Movie | Over-Exposed | Russell Bassett | 1956-04-01 |
| Movie | Our Miss Brooks | Walter Denton | 1956-04-24 |
| Series | The Millionaire | Unknown | 1955-01-19 |
| Series | Cheyenne | Unknown | 1955-09-20 |
| Series | Frontier | Unknown | 1955-09-25 |
| Series | Matinee Theater | Unknown | 1955-10-31 |
| Movie | The Pride of St. Louis | Paul Dean | 1952-05-02 |
| Movie | Red Skies of Montana | Noxon (uncredited) | 1952-01-23 |
| Movie | It Grows on Trees | Ralph Bowen | 1952-09-02 |
| Series | Our Miss Brooks | Walter Denton | 1952-10-03 |
| Series | I Love Lucy | Unknown | 1951-10-15 |