Richard Crenna
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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.
Known for
Credits
First Blood (1982)
as Col. Samuel Trautman
Rambo (2008)
as Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
as Col. Samuel Trautman
Rambo III (1988)
as Trautman
Body Heat (1981)
as Edmund Walker
Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)
as Col. Denton Walters
Sabrina (1995)
as Patrick Tyson
Leviathan (1989)
as Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson
Jade (1995)
as Governor Edwards
Wait Until Dark (1967)
as Mike Talman
The Sand Pebbles (1966)
as Captain Collins
Wrongfully Accused (1998)
as Fergus Falls
Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For (2000)
as Warren Pierce
Breakheart Pass (1975)
as Gov. Richard Fairchild
Summer Rental (1985)
as Al Pellet
Death Ship (1980)
as Trevor Marshall
A Cop (1972)
as Simon
The Evil (1978)
as C.J. Arnold
Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978)
as Mike Barry
The Case of the Hillside Stranglers (1989)
as Sgt. Bob Grogan
By Dawn's Early Light (2001)
as Ben Maxwell
Marooned (1969)
as Jim Pruett
Star! (1968)
as Richard Aldrich
The Day the Bubble Burst (1982)
as Jesse Livermore
The Flamingo Kid (1984)
as Phil Brody
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973)
as Father (voice)
Passions (1984)
as Richard Kennerly
Catlow (1971)
as Cowan
Honky Tonk (1974)
as Candy Johnson
Out of the Ashes (2003)
as Jake Smith
And the Sea Will Tell (1991)
as Vincent Bugliosi
Made in Paris (1966)
as Herb Stone
Midas Run (1969)
as Mike Warden
A Fire in the Sky (1978)
as Jason Voight
Internal Affairs (1988)
as Frank Janek
Table for Five (1983)
as Mitchell
Deep Family Secrets (1997)
as Clay Chadway
The Day Reagan Was Shot (2001)
as Ronald Reagan
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)
as John Goldfarb
A Pyromaniac's Love Story (1995)
as Tom Lumpke (uncredited)
Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology (1993)
Actor
Our Miss Brooks (1956)
as Walter Denton
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997)
as Professor Aronnax
Last Flight Out (1990)
as Dan Hood
The Rape of Richard Beck (1985)
as Richard Beck
Plaza Suite (1987)
as Roy Hubley
The Deserter (1970)
as Major Wade Brown
Doctors' Wives (1971)
as Pete Brennan
First, You Cry (1978)
as David Towers
The Man Called Noon (1973)
as Noon
Police Story: The Freeway Killings (1987)
as Deputy Chief Bob Devers
Double Indemnity (1973)
as Walter Neff
Nightmare (1974)
as Howard Faloon
Doubletake (1985)
as Frank Janek
Montana (1990)
as Hoyce Guthrie
Stone Cold Dead (1979)
as Sgt. Boyd
Disneyland '59 (1959)
as Self
Wild Horse Hank (1979)
as Pace Bradford
Daniel Boone (1981)
as Daniel Boone
Footsteps (1972)
as Paddy
We Get to Win This Time (2002)
as Self
The Ordeal of Bill Carney (1981)
as Mason Rose
Joshua's World (1980)
as Dr. Joshua Torrance
Terror on Track 9 (1992)
as Det. Frank Janek
Red Skies of Montana (1952)
as Noxon (uncredited)
The High Price of Passion (1986)
as Williams Douglas
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure (1979)
as William Brewster
Double Solitaire (1974)
as Charley Potter
Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence (1994)
as Jonathan Stone
Guts and Glory (2002)
as Self
Red Sky at Morning (1971)
as Frank Arnold
Murder in Black and White (1990)
as Frank Janek
Shootout in a One-Dog Town (1974)
as Zack Wells
A Case of Deadly Force (1986)
as Lawrence O'Donnell Sr.
Over-Exposed (1956)
as Russell Bassett
The Forget-Me-Not Murders (1994)
as Frank Janek
Janek: The Silent Betrayal (1994)
as Frank Janek
A Place to Be Loved (1993)
as George Russ
The War Between the Tates (1977)
as Professor Brian Tate
Murder Times Seven (1990)
as Frank Janek
Fugitive Family (1980)
as Brian Roberts
In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy (1995)
as Luke Constable Sr.
The Making of 'First Blood' (—)
Actor
Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent (1997)
as Himself / Narrator
Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah (1996)
as John Porter
Musical Comedy Tonight II (1981)
as Self
Squaring the Circle (1984)
as The Narrator
A Girl Named Sooner (1975)
as R.J. 'Mac' McHenry
Kids Like These (1987)
as Bob Goodman
To Serve and Protect (1999)
as Howard Carr
Stuck with Each Other (1989)
as Bert Medwick
Afganistan: Land in Crisis (2002)
as Self
Thief (1971)
as Neal Wilkinson
The Pride of St. Louis (1952)
as Paul Dean
Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition (1989)
as Narrator
Heart Full of Rain (1997)
as Arliss Dockett
It Grows on Trees (1952)
as Ralph Bowen
The Real Las Vegas (1996)
as Narrator (voice)