Richard Crenna

Born · November 30, 1926

Died · January 17, 2003 (76 years old)

Known For: Acting

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

Bio

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

Sly

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.2

2023

Rambo

Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.7

2008

Out of the Ashes

Jake Smith

6.5

2003

Afganistan: Land in Crisis

Self

0.0

2002

The Day Reagan Was Shot

Ronald Reagan

6.4

2001

By Dawn's Early Light

Ben Maxwell

7.5

2001

Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For

Warren Pierce

6.6

2000

Judging Amy

Jared Duff · (12 episodes)

7.5

1999

To Serve and Protect

Howard Carr

6.5

1999

To Serve and Protect

Howard Carr · (2 episodes)

0.0

1999

Wrongfully Accused

Fergus Falls

5.9

1998

Heart Full of Rain

Arliss Dockett

4.0

1997

Deep Family Secrets

Clay Chadway

2.3

1997

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Professor Aronnax

5.7

1997

Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent

Himself / Narrator

0.0

1997

E! True Hollywood Story

(1 episode)

8.1

1996

Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah

John Porter

6.0

1996

Sabrina

Patrick Tyson

6.2

1995

Jade

Governor Edwards

5.4

1995

JAG

Harmon Rabb Sr. (voice) · (2 episodes)

7.3

1995

In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy

Luke Constable Sr.

7.0

1995

Janek: The Silent Betrayal

Frank Janek

1.0

1994

Chicago Hope

(1 episode)

7.2

1994

Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence

Jonathan Stone

1.5

1994

The Forget-Me-Not Murders

Frank Janek

3.3

1994

Hot Shots! Part Deux

Col. Denton Walters

6.5

1993

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

5.5

1993

A Place to Be Loved

George Russ

5.3

1993

Terror on Track 9

Det. Frank Janek

3.3

1992

Intruders

Dr. Neil Chase · (2 episodes)

6.7

1992

Pros and Cons

Mitch O'Hannon · (12 episodes)

6.0

1991

And the Sea Will Tell

Vincent Bugliosi

6.4

1991

And the Sea Will Tell

(2 episodes)

0.0

1991

Murder Times Seven

Frank Janek

0.0

1990

Gabriel's Fire

(0 episode)

6.2

1990

Last Flight Out

Dan Hood

0.0

1990

Montana

Hoyce Guthrie

5.2

1990

Murder in Black and White

Frank Janek

0.0

1990

Stuck with Each Other

Bert Medwick

0.0

1989

Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition

Narrator

0.0

1989

The Case of the Hillside Stranglers

Sgt. Bob Grogan

5.9

1989

Leviathan

Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson

6.0

1989

Internal Affairs

Frank Janek

7.0

1988

Rambo III

Trautman

6.2

1988

Plaza Suite

Roy Hubley

6.0

1987

Kids Like These

Bob Goodman

0.0

1987

Police Story: The Freeway Killings

Deputy Chief Bob Devers

5.3

1987

The High Price of Passion

Williams Douglas

6.0

1986

On Wings of Eagles

H. Ross Perot · (2 episodes)

5.8

1986

A Case of Deadly Force

Lawrence O'Donnell Sr.

0.0

1986

Doubletake

Frank Janek

5.2

1985

Summer Rental

Al Pellet

6.1

1985

The Rape of Richard Beck

Richard Beck

6.5

1985

Rambo: First Blood Part II

Col. Samuel Trautman

6.7

1985

The Flamingo Kid

Phil Brody

6.0

1984

Passions

Richard Kennerly

5.7

1984

Squaring the Circle

The Narrator

5.0

1984

Table for Five

Mitchell

5.5

1983

First Blood

Col. Samuel Trautman

7.5

1982

It Takes Two

(22 episodes)

5.0

1982

The Day the Bubble Burst

Jesse Livermore

2.0

1982

The Ordeal of Bill Carney

Mason Rose

0.0

1981

Daniel Boone

6.0

1981

Body Heat

Edmund Walker

7.0

1981

Musical Comedy Tonight II

Self

7.0

1981

Fugitive Family

Brian Roberts

0.0

1980

Joshua's World

Dr. Joshua Torrance

0.0

1980

Death Ship

Trevor Marshall

5.2

1980

Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure

William Brewster

6.5

1979

Stone Cold Dead

Sgt. Boyd

6.0

1979

Wild Horse Hank

Pace Bradford

4.4

1979

A Fire in the Sky

Jason Voight

5.5

1978

First, You Cry

David Towers

0.0

1978

Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell

Mike Barry

6.4

1978

Centennial

Colonel Frank Skimmerhorn · (12 episodes)

7.6

1978

The Evil

C.J. Arnold

5.8

1978

The War Between the Tates

Professor Brian Tate

0.0

1977

All's Fair

(24 episodes)

7.0

1976

Breakheart Pass

Gov. Richard Fairchild

6.6

1975

A Girl Named Sooner

R.J. 'Mac' McHenry

4.2

1975

Honky Tonk

Candy Johnson

0.0

1974

Double Solitaire

Charley Potter

0.0

1974

Shootout in a One-Dog Town

Zack Wells

0.0

1974

Nightmare

Howard Faloon

7.0

1974

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Father (voice)

6.2

1973

Double Indemnity

Walter Neff

4.8

1973

The Man Called Noon

Noon

5.9

1973

Footsteps

Paddy

0.0

1972

A Cop

Simon

6.6

1972

Thief

Neal Wilkinson

6.8

1971

Catlow

Cowan

5.1

1971

Red Sky at Morning

Frank Arnold

6.7

1971

Doctors' Wives

Pete Brennan

5.0

1971

The Deserter

Major Wade Brown

6.0

1970

Marooned

Jim Pruett

5.9

1969

Midas Run

Mike Warden

4.0

1969

Star!

Richard Aldrich

6.9

1968

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Self · (3 episodes)

6.5

1968

Wait Until Dark

Mike Talman

7.3

1967

The Carol Burnett Show

Self - Guest · (1 episode)

7.7

1967

The Sand Pebbles

Captain Collins

7.2

1966

Made in Paris

Herb Stone

4.7

1966

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

John Goldfarb

3.4

1965

Slattery's People

James Slattery · (36 episodes)

5.0

1964

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Edward Smalley · (1 episode)

5.3

1963

The Danny Kaye Show

Self · (1 episode)

6.3

1963

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Self · (3 episodes)

7.5

1962

The Merv Griffin Show

Self · (1 episode)

5.8

1962

Disneyland '59

Self

6.5

1959

The Real McCoys

Luke McCoy · (224 episodes)

5.6

1957

Our Miss Brooks

Walter Denton

6.2

1956

Over-Exposed

Russell Bassett

5.2

1956

Matinee Theater

(3 episodes)

5.0

1955

Frontier

(1 episode)

5.0

1955

Cheyenne

(1 episode)

5.8

1955

The Millionaire

Ralph McKnight · (1 episode)

5.0

1955

Our Miss Brooks

Walter Denton · (130 episodes)

7.3

1952

It Grows on Trees

Ralph Bowen

7.7

1952

The Pride of St. Louis

Paul Dean

6.9

1952

Red Skies of Montana

Noxon (uncredited)

5.2

1952

I Love Lucy

Arthur Morton · (1 episode)

7.9

1951

Golden Globe Awards

Self - Nominee · (1 episode)

7.0

1944