Richard Crenna
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1926-11-30
Day of Death
2003-01-17 (76 years old)
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.
Acting
(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)
By Dawn's Early Light
as Ben Maxwell
(2001)
The Day Reagan Was Shot
as Ronald Reagan
(2000)
Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
as Warren Pierce
(1999)
To Serve and Protect
as Howard Carr
(1998)
Wrongfully Accused
as Fergus Falls
(1997)
Deep Family Secrets
as Clay Chadway
(1997)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
as Professor Aronnax
(1997)
Heart Full of Rain
as Arliss Dockett
(1997)
Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent
as Himself / Narrator
(1996)
Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah
as John Porter
(1996)
The Real Las Vegas
as Narrator (voice)
(1995)
In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy
as Luke Constable Sr.
(1995)
Sabrina
as Patrick Tyson
(1995)
A Pyromaniac's Love Story
as Tom Lumpke (uncredited)
(1995)
Jade
as Governor Edwards
(1994)
The Forget-Me-Not Murders
as Frank Janek
(1994)
Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence
as Jonathan Stone
(1994)
Janek: The Silent Betrayal
as Frank Janek
(1993)
Hot Shots! Part Deux
as Col. Denton Walters
(1993)
A Place to Be Loved
as George Russ
(1993)
(1992)
Terror on Track 9
as Det. Frank Janek
(1991)
And the Sea Will Tell
as Vincent Bugliosi
(1990)
Murder in Black and White
as Frank Janek
(1990)
Montana
as Hoyce Guthrie
(1990)
Murder Times Seven
as Frank Janek
(1990)
Last Flight Out
as Dan Hood
(1989)
Leviathan
as Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson
(1989)
The Case of the Hillside Stranglers
as Sgt. Bob Grogan
(1989)
Stuck with Each Other
as Bert Medwick
(1989)
Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition
as Narrator
(1988)
Rambo III
as Trautman
(1988)
Internal Affairs
as Frank Janek
(1987)
Police Story: The Freeway Killings
as Deputy Chief Bob Devers
(1987)
Plaza Suite
as Roy Hubley
(1987)
Kids Like These
as Bob Goodman
(1986)
A Case of Deadly Force
as Lawrence O'Donnell Sr.
(1986)
The High Price of Passion
as Williams Douglas
(1985)
Rambo: First Blood Part II
as Col. Samuel Trautman
(1985)
Summer Rental
as Al Pellet
(1985)
The Rape of Richard Beck
as Richard Beck
(1985)
Doubletake
as Frank Janek
(1984)
Passions
as Richard Kennerly
(1984)
The Flamingo Kid
as Phil Brody
(1984)
Squaring the Circle
as The Narrator
(1983)
Table for Five
as Mitchell
(1982)
First Blood
as Col. Samuel Trautman
(1982)
The Day the Bubble Burst
as Jesse Livermore
(1981)
The Ordeal of Bill Carney
as Mason Rose
(1981)
Body Heat
as Edmund Walker
(1981)
Musical Comedy Tonight II
as Self
(1981)
Daniel Boone
as Daniel Boone
(1980)
Death Ship
as Trevor Marshall
(1980)
Joshua's World
as Dr. Joshua Torrance
(1980)
Fugitive Family
as Brian Roberts
(1979)
Wild Horse Hank
as Pace Bradford
(1979)
Stone Cold Dead
as Sgt. Boyd
(1979)
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
as William Brewster
(1978)
A Fire in the Sky
as Jason Voight
(1978)
The Evil
as C.J. Arnold
(1978)
Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell
as Mike Barry
(1978)
First, You Cry
as David Towers
(1977)
The War Between the Tates
as Professor Brian Tate
(1975)
Breakheart Pass
as Gov. Richard Fairchild
(1975)
A Girl Named Sooner
as R.J. 'Mac' McHenry
(1974)
Honky Tonk
as Candy Johnson
(1974)
Nightmare
as Howard Faloon
(1974)
Double Solitaire
as Charley Potter
(1974)
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
as Zack Wells
(1973)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
as Father (voice)
(1973)
Double Indemnity
as Walter Neff
(1973)
The Man Called Noon
as Noon
(1972)
A Cop
as Simon
(1972)
Footsteps
as Paddy
(1971)
Red Sky at Morning
as Frank Arnold
(1971)
Thief
as Neal Wilkinson
(1971)
Catlow
as Cowan
(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
(1967)
Wait Until Dark
as Mike Talman
(1966)
The Sand Pebbles
as Captain Collins
(1966)
Made in Paris
as Herb Stone
(1965)
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
as John Goldfarb
(1959)
Disneyland '59
as Self
(1956)
Over-Exposed
as Russell Bassett
(1956)
Our Miss Brooks
as Walter Denton
(1952)
Red Skies of Montana
as Noxon (uncredited)
(1952)
The Pride of St. Louis
as Paul Dean
(1952)
It Grows on Trees
as Ralph Bowen
Crew
(1983)
Allison Sydney Harrison
Director
(1982)
The Magic Statue
Director
(1979)
Better Late Than Never
Director