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Acting
Birthday:
November 30, 1926
Place of Birth:
Los Angeles, California, USA
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Richard Crenna
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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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Sly | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2008 | Rambo | Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2003 | Out of the Ashes | Jake Smith |
| 2002 | Afganistan: Land in Crisis | Self |
| 2001 | The Day Reagan Was Shot | Ronald Reagan |
| 2001 | By Dawn's Early Light | Ben Maxwell |
| 2000 | Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For | Warren Pierce |
| 1999 | To Serve and Protect | Howard Carr |
| 1998 | Wrongfully Accused | Fergus Falls |
| 1997 | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Professor Aronnax |
| 1997 | Deep Family Secrets | Clay Chadway |
| 1997 | Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent | Himself / Narrator |
| 1997 | Heart Full of Rain | Arliss Dockett |
| 1996 | Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah | John Porter |
| 1995 | Jade | Governor Edwards |
| 1995 | In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy | Luke Constable Sr. |
| 1995 | Sabrina | Patrick Tyson |
| 1994 | Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence | Jonathan Stone |
| 1994 | The Forget-Me-Not Murders | Frank Janek |
| 1994 | Janek: The Silent Betrayal | Frank Janek |
| 1993 | Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology | |
| 1993 | Hot Shots! Part Deux | Col. Denton Walters |
| 1993 | A Place to Be Loved | George Russ |
| 1992 | Terror on Track 9 | Det. Frank Janek |
| 1991 | And the Sea Will Tell | Vincent Bugliosi |
| 1990 | Last Flight Out | Dan Hood |
| 1990 | Montana | Hoyce Guthrie |
| 1990 | Murder Times Seven | Frank Janek |
| 1990 | Murder in Black and White | Frank Janek |
| 1989 | Leviathan | Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson |
| 1989 | Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition | Narrator |
| 1989 | The Case of the Hillside Stranglers | Sgt. Bob Grogan |
| 1989 | Stuck with Each Other | Bert Medwick |
| 1988 | Rambo III | Trautman |
| 1988 | Internal Affairs | Frank Janek |
| 1987 | Kids Like These | Bob Goodman |
| 1987 | Police Story: The Freeway Killings | Deputy Chief Bob Devers |
| 1987 | Plaza Suite | Roy Hubley |
| 1986 | A Case of Deadly Force | Lawrence O'Donnell Sr. |
| 1986 | The High Price of Passion | Williams Douglas |
| 1985 | Rambo: First Blood Part II | Col. Samuel Trautman |
| 1985 | Summer Rental | Al Pellet |
| 1985 | The Rape of Richard Beck | Richard Beck |
| 1985 | Doubletake | Frank Janek |
| 1984 | The Flamingo Kid | Phil Brody |
| 1984 | Passions | Richard Kennerly |
| 1984 | Squaring the Circle | The Narrator |
| 1983 | Table for Five | Mitchell |
| 1982 | First Blood | Col. Samuel Trautman |
| 1982 | The Day the Bubble Burst | Jesse Livermore |
| 1981 | Body Heat | Edmund Walker |
| 1981 | The Ordeal of Bill Carney | Mason Rose |
| 1981 | Daniel Boone | Daniel Boone |
| 1981 | Musical Comedy Tonight II | Self |
| 1980 | Death Ship | Trevor Marshall |
| 1980 | Joshua's World | Dr. Joshua Torrance |
| 1980 | Fugitive Family | Brian Roberts |
| 1979 | Stone Cold Dead | Sgt. Boyd |
| 1979 | Wild Horse Hank | Pace Bradford |
| 1979 | Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure | William Brewster |
| 1978 | Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell | Mike Barry |
| 1978 | The Evil | C.J. Arnold |
| 1978 | A Fire in the Sky | Jason Voight |
| 1978 | First, You Cry | David Towers |
| 1977 | The War Between the Tates | Professor Brian Tate |
| 1975 | Breakheart Pass | Gov. Richard Fairchild |
| 1975 | A Girl Named Sooner | R.J. 'Mac' McHenry |
| 1974 | Double Solitaire | Charley Potter |
| 1974 | Shootout in a One-Dog Town | Zack Wells |
| 1974 | Nightmare | Howard Faloon |
| 1974 | Honky Tonk | Candy Johnson |
| 1973 | Double Indemnity | Walter Neff |
| 1973 | The Man Called Noon | Noon |
| 1973 | Jonathan Livingston Seagull | Father (voice) |
| 1972 | A Cop | Simon |
| 1972 | Footsteps | Paddy |
| 1971 | Catlow | Cowan |
| 1971 | Red Sky at Morning | Frank Arnold |
| 1971 | Doctors' Wives | Pete Brennan |
| 1971 | Thief | Neal Wilkinson |
| 1970 | The Deserter | Major Wade Brown |
| 1969 | Marooned | Jim Pruett |
| 1969 | Midas Run | Mike Warden |
| 1968 | Star! | Richard Aldrich |
| 1967 | Wait Until Dark | Mike Talman |
| 1966 | The Sand Pebbles | Captain Collins |
| 1966 | Made in Paris | Herb Stone |
| 1965 | John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! | John Goldfarb |
| 1959 | Disneyland '59 | Self |
| 1956 | Over-Exposed | Russell Bassett |
| 1956 | Our Miss Brooks | Walter Denton |
| 1952 | It Grows on Trees | Ralph Bowen |
| 1952 | Red Skies of Montana | Noxon (uncredited) |
| 1952 | The Pride of St. Louis | Paul Dean |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Judging Amy | Jared Duff |
| 1999 | To Serve and Protect | Howard Carr |
| 1996 | E! True Hollywood Story | |
| 1995 | JAG | Harmon Rabb Sr. (voice) |
| 1994 | Chicago Hope | |
| 1992 | Intruders | Dr. Neil Chase |
| 1991 | Pros and Cons | Mitch O'Hannon |
| 1991 | And the Sea Will Tell | |
| 1990 | Gabriel's Fire | |
| 1986 | On Wings of Eagles | H. Ross Perot |
| 1982 | It Takes Two | |
| 1978 | Centennial | Colonel Frank Skimmerhorn |
| 1976 | All's Fair | |
| 1968 | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | Self |
| 1967 | The Carol Burnett Show | Self - Guest |
| 1964 | Slattery's People | James Slattery |
| 1963 | Kraft Suspense Theatre | Edward Smalley |
| 1963 | The Danny Kaye Show | Self |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Self |
| 1962 | The Merv Griffin Show | Self |
| 1957 | The Real McCoys | Luke McCoy |
| 1955 | Cheyenne | |
| 1955 | The Millionaire | Ralph McKnight |
| 1955 | Matinee Theater | |
| 1955 | Frontier | |
| 1952 | Our Miss Brooks | Walter Denton |
| 1951 | I Love Lucy | Arthur Morton |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Nominee |