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Richard Crenna
Richard Crenna

Richard Crenna

ActingBorn November 30, 1926Died January 17, 2003 (age 76)Los Angeles, California, USA

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.

Filmography

2008
Rambo

as Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited)

Movie
2003
Out of the Ashes

as Jake Smith

Movie
2002Movie
2002Movie
2001
The Day Reagan Was Shot

as Ronald Reagan

Movie
2001
By Dawn's Early Light

as Ben Maxwell

Movie
2000Movie
1999
Judging Amy

as Jared Duff

TV
1999
To Serve and Protect

as Howard Carr

Movie
1999
To Serve and Protect

as Howard Carr

TV
1998
Wrongfully Accused

as Fergus Falls

Movie
1997
Heart Full of Rain

as Arliss Dockett

Movie
1997
Deep Family Secrets

as Clay Chadway

Movie
1997
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

as Professor Aronnax

Movie
1997Movie
1996
The Real Las Vegas

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
1995
Sabrina

as Patrick Tyson

Movie
1995
Jade

as Governor Edwards

Movie
1995
JAG

as Harmon Rabb Sr. (voice)

TV
1995Movie
1995
A Pyromaniac's Love Story

as Tom Lumpke (uncredited)

Movie
1994Movie
1994
Chicago Hope

as Martin Rockwell

TV
1994Movie
1994Movie
1993
Hot Shots! Part Deux

as Col. Denton Walters

Movie
1993
A Place to Be Loved

as George Russ

Movie
1992
Terror on Track 9

as Det. Frank Janek

Movie
1992
Intruders

as Dr. Neil Chase

TV
1991
Pros and Cons

as Mitch O'Hannon

TV
1991
And the Sea Will Tell

as Vincent Bugliosi

Movie
1991
And the Sea Will Tell

as Vincent Bugliosi

TV
1990
Murder Times Seven

as Frank Janek

Movie
1990
Last Flight Out

as Dan Hood

Movie
1990
Montana

as Hoyce Guthrie

Movie
1990Movie
1989
Stuck with Each Other

as Bert Medwick

Movie
1989Movie
1989
Leviathan

as Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson

Movie
1988
Internal Affairs

as Frank Janek

Movie
1988
Rambo III

as Trautman

Movie
1987
Plaza Suite

as Roy Hubley

Movie
1987
Kids Like These

as Bob Goodman

Movie
1987
Police Story: The Freeway Killings

as Deputy Chief Bob Devers

Movie
1986
The High Price of Passion

as Williams Douglas

Movie
1986
On Wings of Eagles

as H. Ross Perot

TV
1986
A Case of Deadly Force

as Lawrence O'Donnell Sr.

Movie
1985
Doubletake

as Frank Janek

Movie
1985
Summer Rental

as Al Pellet

Movie
1985Movie
1985
Rambo: First Blood Part II

as Col. Samuel Trautman

Movie
1984
The Flamingo Kid

as Phil Brody

Movie
1984
Passions

as Richard Kennerly

Movie
1984
Squaring the Circle

as The Narrator

Movie
1983
Table for Five

as Mitchell

Movie
1982
First Blood

as Col. Samuel Trautman

Movie
1982
The Day the Bubble Burst

as Jesse Livermore

Movie
1981Movie
1981
Daniel Boone

as Daniel Boone

Movie
1981
Body Heat

as Edmund Walker

Movie
1980
Fugitive Family

as Brian Roberts

Movie
1980
Joshua's World

as Dr. Joshua Torrance

Movie
1980
Death Ship

as Trevor Marshall

Movie
1979Movie
1979
Stone Cold Dead

as Sgt. Boyd

Movie
1979
Wild Horse Hank

as Pace Bradford

Movie
1978
A Fire in the Sky

as Jason Voight

Movie
1978
First, You Cry

as David Towers

Movie
1978Movie
1978
Centennial

as Colonel Frank Skimmerhorn

TV
1978
The Evil

as C.J. Arnold

Movie
1977
The War Between the Tates

as Professor Brian Tate

Movie
1975
Breakheart Pass

as Gov. Richard Fairchild

Movie
1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

TV
1975
A Girl Named Sooner

as R.J. 'Mac' McHenry

Movie
1975TV
1974
Honky Tonk

as Candy Johnson

Movie
1974
Double Solitaire

as Charley Potter

Movie
1974Movie
1974
Nightmare

as Howard Faloon

Movie
1973Movie
1973
Double Indemnity

as Walter Neff

Movie
1973Movie
1972
Footsteps

as Paddy

Movie
1972
A Cop

as Simon

Movie
1971
Thief

as Neal Wilkinson

Movie
1971
Catlow

as Cowan

Movie
1971
Red Sky at Morning

as Frank Arnold

Movie
1971
Doctors' Wives

as Pete Brennan

Movie
1970
The Deserter

as Major Wade Brown

Movie
1969
Marooned

as Jim Pruett

Movie
1969
Midas Run

as Mike Warden

Movie
1968
Star!

as Richard Aldrich

Movie
1967
Wait Until Dark

as Mike Talman

Movie
1966
The Sand Pebbles

as Captain Collins

Movie
1966
Made in Paris

as Herb Stone

Movie
1965Movie
1964
Slattery's People

as James Slattery

TV
1963
Kraft Suspense Theatre

as Edward Smalley

TV
1963TV
1959Movie
1957
The Real McCoys

as Luke McCoy

TV
1956
Our Miss Brooks

as Walter Denton

Movie
1956
Over-Exposed

as Russell Bassett

Movie
1955TV
1955TV
1955
The Millionaire

as Ralph McKnight

TV
1952
Our Miss Brooks

as Walter Denton

TV
1952
It Grows on Trees

as Ralph Bowen

Movie
1952Movie
1952
Red Skies of Montana

as Noxon (uncredited)

Movie
1952
Today

as Himself - Actor

TV
1951
I Love Lucy

as Arthur Morton

TV
1944
Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

TV
1944
Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Host

TV

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayNovember 30, 1926
Day of DeathJanuary 17, 2003
Place of BirthLos Angeles, California, USA
Popularity1.7