
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
Acting History
2008
Rambo as Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited)
2003Out of the Ashes as Jake Smith
2002Afganistan: Land in Crisis as Self
2001The Day Reagan Was Shot as Ronald Reagan
2001By Dawn's Early Light as Ben Maxwell
2000Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For as Warren Pierce
1999Judging Amy as Jared Duff
1999To Serve and Protect as Howard Carr
1999To Serve and Protect as Howard Carr
1998Wrongfully Accused as Fergus Falls
1997Heart Full of Rain as Arliss Dockett
1997Deep Family Secrets as Clay Chadway
199720,000 Leagues Under the Sea as Professor Aronnax
1997Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent as Himself / Narrator
1996The Real Las Vegas as Narrator (voice)
1996E! True Hollywood Story
1996Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah as John Porter
1995Sabrina as Patrick Tyson
1995Jade as Governor Edwards
1995JAG as Harmon Rabb Sr. (voice)
1995In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy as Luke Constable Sr.
1995A Pyromaniac's Love Story as Tom Lumpke (uncredited)
1994Janek: The Silent Betrayal as Frank Janek
1994Chicago Hope as Martin Rockwell
1994Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence as Jonathan Stone
1994The Forget-Me-Not Murders as Frank Janek
1993Hot Shots! Part Deux as Col. Denton Walters
1993Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
1993A Place to Be Loved as George Russ
1992Terror on Track 9 as Det. Frank Janek
1992Intruders as Dr. Neil Chase
1991Pros and Cons as Mitch O'Hannon
1991And the Sea Will Tell as Vincent Bugliosi
1991And the Sea Will Tell
1990Murder Times Seven as Frank Janek
1990Gabriel's Fire
1990Last Flight Out as Dan Hood
1990Montana as Hoyce Guthrie
1990Murder in Black and White as Frank Janek
1989Stuck with Each Other as Bert Medwick
1989Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition as Narrator
1989The Case of the Hillside Stranglers as Sgt. Bob Grogan
1989Leviathan as Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson
1988Internal Affairs as Frank Janek
1988Rambo III as Trautman
1987Plaza Suite as Roy Hubley
1987Kids Like These as Bob Goodman
1987Police Story: The Freeway Killings as Deputy Chief Bob Devers
1986The High Price of Passion as Williams Douglas
1986On Wings of Eagles as H. Ross Perot
1986A Case of Deadly Force as Lawrence O'Donnell Sr.
1985Doubletake as Frank Janek
1985Summer Rental as Al Pellet
1985The Rape of Richard Beck as Richard Beck
1985Rambo: First Blood Part II as Col. Samuel Trautman
1984The Flamingo Kid as Phil Brody
1984Passions as Richard Kennerly
1984Squaring the Circle as The Narrator
1983Table for Five as Mitchell
1982First Blood as Col. Samuel Trautman
1982It Takes Two
1982The Day the Bubble Burst as Jesse Livermore
1981The Ordeal of Bill Carney as Mason Rose
1981Daniel Boone as Daniel Boone
1981Body Heat as Edmund Walker
1981Musical Comedy Tonight II as Self
1980Fugitive Family as Brian Roberts
1980Joshua's World as Dr. Joshua Torrance
1980Death Ship as Trevor Marshall
1979Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure as William Brewster
1979Stone Cold Dead as Sgt. Boyd
1979Wild Horse Hank as Pace Bradford
1978A Fire in the Sky as Jason Voight
1978First, You Cry as David Towers
1978Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell as Mike Barry
1978Centennial as Colonel Frank Skimmerhorn
1978The Evil as C.J. Arnold
1977The War Between the Tates as Professor Brian Tate
1976All's Fair
1975Breakheart Pass as Gov. Richard Fairchild
1975Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975A Girl Named Sooner as R.J. 'Mac' McHenry
1974Honky Tonk as Candy Johnson
1974Double Solitaire as Charley Potter
1974Shootout in a One-Dog Town as Zack Wells
1974Nightmare as Howard Faloon
1973Jonathan Livingston Seagull as Father (voice)
1973Double Indemnity as Walter Neff
1973The Man Called Noon as Noon
1972Footsteps as Paddy
1972A Cop as Simon
1971Thief as Neal Wilkinson
1971Catlow as Cowan
1971Red Sky at Morning as Frank Arnold
1971Doctors' Wives as Pete Brennan
1970The Deserter as Major Wade Brown
1969Marooned as Jim Pruett
1969Midas Run as Mike Warden
1968Star! as Richard Aldrich
1968Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self
1967Wait Until Dark as Mike Talman
1967The Carol Burnett Show as Self - Guest
1966The Sand Pebbles as Captain Collins
1966Made in Paris as Herb Stone
1965John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! as John Goldfarb
1964Slattery's People as James Slattery
1963Kraft Suspense Theatre as Edward Smalley
1963The Danny Kaye Show as Self
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1962The Merv Griffin Show as Self
1959Disneyland '59 as Self
1957The Real McCoys as Luke McCoy
1956Our Miss Brooks as Walter Denton
1956Over-Exposed as Russell Bassett
1955Matinee Theater
1955Frontier
1955Cheyenne
1955The Millionaire as Ralph McKnight
1952Our Miss Brooks as Walter Denton
1952It Grows on Trees as Ralph Bowen
1952The Pride of St. Louis as Paul Dean
1952Red Skies of Montana as Noxon (uncredited)
1952Today as Himself - Actor
1951I Love Lucy as Arthur Morton
1944Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
1944Golden Globe Awards as Self - Host








