
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.

Trautman
Rambo III

Col. Samuel Trautman
First Blood

Col. Samuel Trautman
Rambo: First Blood Part II

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
La spina dorsale del diavolo

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

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

Narrator (voice)
The Real Las Vegas

Tom Lumpke (uncredited)
A Pyromaniac's Love Story
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
95
Gender
Male
Birthday
1926-11-30
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Also Known As
Dick Crenna