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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Crenna, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Known For

Col. Samuel Trautman

First Blood

Col. Samuel Trautman

Rambo: First Blood Part II

Trautman

Rambo III

Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology

Professor Aronnax

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Mike Talman

Wait Until Dark

Captain Collins

The Sand Pebbles

Gov. Richard Fairchild

Breakheart Pass

Governor Edwards

Jade

Trevor Marshall

Death Ship

Phil Brody

The Flamingo Kid

Russell Bassett

Over-Exposed

Col. Denton Walters

Hot Shots! Part Deux

Mike Barry

Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell

Jim Pruett

Marooned

Edmund Walker

Body Heat

Sgt. Boyd

Stone Cold Dead

Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson

Leviathan

Jesse Livermore

The Day the Bubble Burst

Simon

Un flic

C.J. Arnold

The Evil

Narrator

Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition

George Russ

A Place to Be Loved

Jake Smith

Out of the Ashes

Al Pellet

Summer Rental

Ronald Reagan

The Day Reagan Was Shot

Richard Aldrich

Star!

Cowan

Catlow

Walter Neff

Double Indemnity

Walter Denton

Our Miss Brooks

Richard Beck

The Rape of Richard Beck

Frank Arnold

Red Sky at Morning

John Goldfarb

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

John Porter

Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah

Herb Stone

Made in Paris

Major Wade Brown

The Deserter

Noon

Un hombre llamado Noon

Pete Brennan

Doctors' Wives

Lawrence O'Donnell Sr.

A Case of Deadly Force

Mike Warden

Midas Run

Luke Constable Sr.

In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy

Clay Chadway

Deep Family Secrets

Warren Pierce

Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For

Sgt. Bob Grogan

The Case of the Hillside Stranglers

Neal Wilkinson

Thief

Jonathan Stone

Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence

Ralph Bowen

It Grows on Trees

Mitchell

Table for Five

Vincent Bugliosi

And the Sea Will Tell

Patrick Tyson

Sabrina

Charley Potter

Double Solitaire

Bert Medwick

Stuck with Each Other

Pace Bradford

Wild Horse Hank

Williams Douglas

The High Price of Passion

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Sly

Ben Maxwell

By Dawn's Early Light

Dan Hood

Last Flight Out

Jason Voight

A Fire in the Sky

Noxon (uncredited)

Red Skies of Montana

Self

Afganistan: Land in Crisis

William Brewster

Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure

Himself / Narrator

Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent

Frank Janek

The Forget-Me-Not Murders

Paul Dean

The Pride of St. Louis

Father (voice)

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Dr. Joshua Torrance

Joshua's World

R.J. 'Mac' McHenry

A Girl Named Sooner

Mason Rose

The Ordeal of Bill Carney

Richard Kennerly

Passions

Hoyce Guthrie

Montana

Howard Carr

To Serve and Protect

Paddy

Footsteps

Zack Wells

Shootout in a One-Dog Town

The Narrator

Squaring the Circle

Frank Janek

Murder Times Seven

Bob Goodman

Kids Like These

Frank Janek

Murder in Black and White

Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone

Brian Roberts

Fugitive Family

Deputy Chief Bob Devers

Police Story: The Freeway Killings

Roy Hubley

Plaza Suite

Frank Janek

Internal Affairs

Fergus Falls

Wrongfully Accused

Frank Janek

Doubletake

Howard Faloon

Nightmare

Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited)

Rambo

Det. Frank Janek

Terror on Track 9

David Towers

First, You Cry

Self

Disneyland '59

Frank Janek

Janek: The Silent Betrayal

Candy Johnson

Honky Tonk

Self

Musical Comedy Tonight II

Professor Brian Tate

The War Between the Tates

Arliss Dockett

Heart Full of Rain

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

94

Gender

Male

Birthday

1926-11-30

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Also Known As

Dick Crenna