Richard Crenna
Acting • Born 1926-11-30 – Died 2003-01-17
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.
Filmography
127 credits
First Blood
Movie • 1982
Col. Samuel Trautman
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Movie • 1985
Col. Samuel Trautman
Rambo III
Movie • 1988
Trautman
Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
Movie • 1993
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Movie • 1997
Professor Aronnax
Wait Until Dark
Movie • 1967
Mike Talman
The Sand Pebbles
Movie • 1966
Captain Collins
Breakheart Pass
Movie • 1975
Gov. Richard Fairchild
Jade
Movie • 1995
Governor Edwards
Death Ship
Movie • 1980
Trevor Marshall
The Flamingo Kid
Movie • 1984
Phil Brody
Over-Exposed
Movie • 1956
Russell Bassett
Hot Shots! Part Deux
Movie • 1993
Col. Denton Walters
Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell
Movie • 1978
Mike Barry
Marooned
Movie • 1969
Jim Pruett
Body Heat
Movie • 1981
Edmund Walker
Stone Cold Dead
Movie • 1979
Sgt. Boyd
Leviathan
Movie • 1989
Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson
The Day the Bubble Burst
Movie • 1982
Jesse Livermore
A Cop
Movie • 1972
Simon
The Evil
Movie • 1978
C.J. Arnold
Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition
Movie • 1989
Narrator
A Place to Be Loved
Movie • 1993
George Russ
Out of the Ashes
Movie • 2003
Jake Smith
Summer Rental
Movie • 1985
Al Pellet
The Day Reagan Was Shot
Movie • 2001
Ronald Reagan
Star!
Movie • 1968
Richard Aldrich
Catlow
Movie • 1971
Cowan
Double Indemnity
Movie • 1973
Walter Neff
Our Miss Brooks
Movie • 1956
Walter Denton
The Rape of Richard Beck
Movie • 1985
Richard Beck
Red Sky at Morning
Movie • 1971
Frank Arnold
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
Movie • 1965
John Goldfarb
Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah
Movie • 1996
John Porter
Made in Paris
Movie • 1966
Herb Stone
The Deserter
Movie • 1970
Major Wade Brown
The Man Called Noon
Movie • 1973
Noon
Doctors' Wives
Movie • 1971
Pete Brennan
A Case of Deadly Force
Movie • 1986
Lawrence O'Donnell Sr.
Midas Run
Movie • 1969
Mike Warden
In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy
Movie • 1995
Luke Constable Sr.
Deep Family Secrets
Movie • 1997
Clay Chadway
Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
Movie • 2000
Warren Pierce
The Case of the Hillside Stranglers
Movie • 1989
Sgt. Bob Grogan
Thief
Movie • 1971
Neal Wilkinson
Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence
Movie • 1994
Jonathan Stone
It Grows on Trees
Movie • 1952
Ralph Bowen
Table for Five
Movie • 1983
Mitchell
And the Sea Will Tell
Movie • 1991
Vincent Bugliosi
Sabrina
Movie • 1995
Patrick Tyson
Double Solitaire
Movie • 1974
Charley Potter
Stuck with Each Other
Movie • 1989
Bert Medwick
Wild Horse Hank
Movie • 1979
Pace Bradford
The High Price of Passion
Movie • 1986
Williams Douglas
By Dawn's Early Light
Movie • 2001
Ben Maxwell
Last Flight Out
Movie • 1990
Dan Hood
A Fire in the Sky
Movie • 1978
Jason Voight
Red Skies of Montana
Movie • 1952
Noxon (uncredited)
Afganistan: Land in Crisis
Movie • 2002
Self
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
Movie • 1979
William Brewster
Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent
Movie • 1997
Himself / Narrator
The Forget-Me-Not Murders
Movie • 1994
Frank Janek
The Pride of St. Louis
Movie • 1952
Paul Dean
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Movie • 1973
Father (voice)
Joshua's World
Movie • 1980
Dr. Joshua Torrance
A Girl Named Sooner
Movie • 1975
R.J. 'Mac' McHenry
The Ordeal of Bill Carney
Movie • 1981
Mason Rose
Passions
Movie • 1984
Richard Kennerly
Montana
Movie • 1990
Hoyce Guthrie
To Serve and Protect
Movie • 1999
Howard Carr
Footsteps
Movie • 1972
Paddy
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
Movie • 1974
Zack Wells
Squaring the Circle
Movie • 1984
The Narrator
Murder Times Seven
Movie • 1990
Frank Janek
Kids Like These
Movie • 1987
Bob Goodman
Murder in Black and White
Movie • 1990
Frank Janek
Daniel Boone
Movie • 1981
Daniel Boone
Fugitive Family
Movie • 1980
Brian Roberts
Police Story: The Freeway Killings
Movie • 1987
Deputy Chief Bob Devers
Plaza Suite
Movie • 1987
Roy Hubley
Internal Affairs
Movie • 1988
Frank Janek
Wrongfully Accused
Movie • 1998
Fergus Falls
Doubletake
Movie • 1985
Frank Janek
Nightmare
Movie • 1974
Howard Faloon
Rambo
Movie • 2008
Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited)
Terror on Track 9
Movie • 1992
Det. Frank Janek
First, You Cry
Movie • 1978
David Towers
Disneyland '59
Movie • 1959
Self
Janek: The Silent Betrayal
Movie • 1994
Frank Janek
Honky Tonk
Movie • 1974
Candy Johnson
Musical Comedy Tonight II
Movie • 1981
Self
The War Between the Tates
Movie • 1977
Professor Brian Tate
Heart Full of Rain
Movie • 1997
Arliss Dockett
The Real Las Vegas
Movie • 1996
Narrator (voice)
A Pyromaniac's Love Story
Movie • 1995
Tom Lumpke (uncredited)
Gabriel's Fire
TV • 1990
Cheyenne
TV • 1955
Kraft Suspense Theatre
TV • 1963
Edward Smalley
Judging Amy
TV • 1999
Jared Duff
E! True Hollywood Story
TV • 1996
I Love Lucy
TV • 1951
Arthur Morton
All's Fair
TV • 1976
Centennial
TV • 1978
Colonel Frank Skimmerhorn
Chicago Hope
TV • 1994
Martin Rockwell
The Millionaire
TV • 1955
Ralph McKnight
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
TV • 1968
Self
The Real McCoys
TV • 1957
Luke McCoy
Slattery's People
TV • 1964
James Slattery
Matinee Theater
TV • 1955
Frontier
TV • 1955
Pros and Cons
TV • 1991
Mitch O'Hannon
It Takes Two
TV • 1982
Our Miss Brooks
TV • 1952
Walter Denton
On Wings of Eagles
TV • 1986
H. Ross Perot
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
Intruders
TV • 1992
Dr. Neil Chase
The Carol Burnett Show
TV • 1967
Self - Guest
JAG
TV • 1995
Harmon Rabb Sr. (voice)
The Danny Kaye Show
TV • 1963
Self
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
And the Sea Will Tell
TV • 1991
The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
Self
To Serve and Protect
TV • 1999
Howard Carr
Today
TV • 1952
Himself - Actor
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Host
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
People's Choice Awards
TV • 1975
Self - Host