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
| Birth Location | Los Angeles, California, USA |
|---|---|
| Born | 1926-11-30 |
| Died | 2003-01-17 |
Movies
Sly
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023
Rambo
as Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited)
2008
Out of the Ashes
as Jake Smith
2003
Afganistan: Land in Crisis
as Self
2002
The Day Reagan Was Shot
as Ronald Reagan
2001
By Dawn's Early Light
as Ben Maxwell
2001
Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
as Warren Pierce
2000
To Serve and Protect
as Howard Carr
1999
Wrongfully Accused
as Fergus Falls
1998
Heart Full of Rain
as Arliss Dockett
1997
Deep Family Secrets
as Clay Chadway
1997
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
as Professor Aronnax
1997
Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent
as Himself / Narrator
1997
Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah
as John Porter
1996
Sabrina
as Patrick Tyson
1995
Jade
as Governor Edwards
1995
In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy
as Luke Constable Sr.
1995
Janek: The Silent Betrayal
as Frank Janek
1994
Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence
as Jonathan Stone
1994
The Forget-Me-Not Murders
as Frank Janek
1994
Hot Shots! Part Deux
as Col. Denton Walters
1993
A Place To Be Loved
as George Russ
1993
Terror on Track 9
as Det. Frank Janek
1992
And the Sea Will Tell
as Vincent Bugliosi
1991
Murder Times Seven
as Frank Janek
1990
Last Flight Out
as Dan Hood
1990
Montana
as Hoyce Guthrie
1990
Murder in Black and White
as Frank Janek
1990
Stuck with Each Other
as Bert Medwick
1989
Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition
as Narrator
1989
The Case of the Hillside Stranglers
as Sgt. Bob Grogan
1989
Leviathan
as Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson
1989
Internal Affairs
as Frank Janek
1988
Rambo III
as Trautman
1988
Plaza Suite
as Roy Hubley
1987
Kids Like These
as Bob Goodman
1987
Police Story: The Freeway Killings
as Deputy Chief Bob Devers
1987
The High Price of Passion
as Williams Douglas
1986
A Case of Deadly Force
as Lawrence O'Donnell Sr.
1986
Doubletake
as Frank Janek
1985
Summer Rental
as Al Pellet
1985
The Rape of Richard Beck
as Richard Beck
1985
Rambo: First Blood Part II
as Col. Samuel Trautman
1985
The Flamingo Kid
as Phil Brody
1984
Terror in the Aisles
as Mike Talman (archive footage) (uncredited)
1984
Passions
as Richard Kennerly
1984
Squaring the Circle
as The Narrator
1984
Table for Five
as Mitchell
1983
First Blood
as Col. Samuel Trautman
1982
The Day the Bubble Burst
as Jesse Livermore
1982
The Ordeal of Bill Carney
as Mason Rose
1981
Daniel Boone
as Daniel Boone
1981
Body Heat
as Edmund Walker
1981
Musical Comedy Tonight II
as Self
1981
Fugitive Family
as Brian Roberts
1980
Death Ship
as Trevor Marshall
1980
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
as William Brewster
1979
Stone Cold Dead
as Sgt. Boyd
1979
Wild Horse Hank
as Pace Bradford
1979
A Fire in the Sky
as Jason Voight
1978
First, You Cry
as David Towers
1978
Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell
as Mike Barry
1978
The Evil
as C.J. Arnold
1978
The War Between the Tates
as Professor Brian Tate
1977
Breakheart Pass
as Gov. Richard Fairchild
1975
A Girl Named Sooner
as R.J. 'Mac' McHenry
1975
Honky Tonk
as Candy Johnson
1974
Double Solitaire
as Charley Potter
1974
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
as Zack Wells
1974
Nightmare
as Howard Faloon
1974
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
as Father
1973
Double Indemnity
as Walter Neff
1973
The Man Called Noon
as Noon
1973
Footsteps
as Paddy
1972
Un Flic
as Simon
1972
Thief
as Neal Wilkinson
1971
Catlow
as Cowan
1971
Red Sky at Morning
as Frank Arnold
1971
Doctors' Wives
as Pete Brennan
1971
The Deserter
as Major Wade Brown
1970
Marooned
as Jim Pruett
1969
Midas Run
as Mike Warden
1969
Star!
as Richard Aldrich
1968
Wait Until Dark
as Mike Talman
1967
The Sand Pebbles
as Captain Collins
1966
Made in Paris
as Herb Stone
1966
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
as John Goldfarb
1965
Disneyland '59
as Self
1959
Our Miss Brooks
as Walter Denton
1956
Over-Exposed
as Russell Bassett
1956
It Grows on Trees
as Ralph Bowen
1952
The Pride of St. Louis
as Paul Dean
1952
Red Skies of Montana
as Noxon (uncredited)
1952
Movies
Allison Sydney Harrison
Director
1983
The Magic Statue
Director
1982
Better Late Than Never
Director
1979
