Richard Crenna

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1926-11-30

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

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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Acting History

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