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: First Blood Part II (1985)
as Col. Samuel Trautman
Rambo (2008)
as Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rambo III (1988)
as Trautman
Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)
as Col. Denton Walters
Body Heat (1981)
as Edmund Walker
Sabrina (1995)
as Patrick Tyson
Leviathan (1989)
as Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson
Wrongfully Accused (1998)
as Fergus Falls
Wait Until Dark (1967)
as Mike Talman
Jade (1995)
as Governor Edwards
Breakheart Pass (1975)
as Gov. Richard Fairchild
Summer Rental (1985)
as Al Pellet
The Sand Pebbles (1966)
as Captain Collins
Un Flic (1972)
as Simon
Death Ship (1980)
as Trevor Marshall
The Evil (1978)
as C.J. Arnold
Marooned (1969)
as Jim Pruett
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997)
as Professor Aronnax
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973)
as Father (voice)
Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978)
as Mike Barry
The Man Called Noon (1973)
as Noon
A Pyromaniac's Love Story (1995)
as Tom Lumpke (uncredited)
The Flamingo Kid (1984)
as Phil Brody
And the Sea Will Tell (1991)
as Vincent Bugliosi
Plaza Suite (1987)
as Roy Hubley
Disneyland '59 (1959)
as Self
Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For (2000)
as Warren Pierce
Out of the Ashes (2003)
as Jake Smith
Montana (1990)
as Hoyce Guthrie
Red Skies of Montana (1952)
as Noxon (uncredited)
Star! (1968)
as Richard Aldrich
Heart Full of Rain (1997)
as Arliss Dockett
Honky Tonk (1974)
as Candy Johnson
Catlow (1971)
as Cowan
Stone Cold Dead (1979)
as Sgt. Boyd
First, You Cry (1978)
as David Towers
Doubletake (1985)
as Frank Janek
The Deserter (1970)
as Major Wade Brown
Made in Paris (1966)
as Herb Stone
Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence (1994)
as Jonathan Stone
Police Story: The Freeway Killings (1987)
as Deputy Chief Bob Devers
Internal Affairs (1988)
as Frank Janek
Over-Exposed (1956)
as Russell Bassett
Passions (1984)
as Richard Kennerly
Wild Horse Hank (1979)
as Pace Bradford
A Fire in the Sky (1978)
as Jason Voight
Doctors' Wives (1971)
as Pete Brennan
Red Sky at Morning (1971)
as Frank Arnold
By Dawn's Early Light (2001)
as Ben Maxwell
Table for Five (1983)
as Mitchell
Our Miss Brooks (1956)
as Walter Denton
We Get to Win This Time (2002)
as Self
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)
as John Goldfarb
Squaring the Circle (1984)
as The Narrator
The Case of the Hillside Stranglers (1989)
as Sgt. Bob Grogan
A Place to Be Loved (1993)
as George Russ
Guts and Glory (2002)
as Self
Double Indemnity (1973)
as Walter Neff
Deep Family Secrets (1997)
as Clay Chadway
Daniel Boone (1981)
as Daniel Boone
Murder in Black and White (1990)
as Frank Janek
Midas Run (1969)
as Warden
It Grows on Trees (1952)
as Ralph Bowen
The Rape of Richard Beck (1985)
as Richard Beck
Kids Like These (1987)
as Bob Goodman
A Girl Named Sooner (1975)
as R.J. 'Mac' McHenry
In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy (1995)
as Luke Constable Sr.
Murder Times Seven (1990)
as Frank Janek
Footsteps (1972)
as Paddy
Last Flight Out (1990)
as Dan Hood
The High Price of Passion (1986)
as Williams Douglas
Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent (1997)
as Himself / Narrator
Janek: The Silent Betrayal (1994)
as Frank Janek
The Forget-Me-Not Murders (1994)
as Frank Janek
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure (1979)
as William Brewster
Terror on Track 9 (1992)
as Det. Frank Janek
Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology (1993)
Actor
Shootout in a One-Dog Town (1974)
as Zack Wells
Stuck with Each Other (1989)
as Bert Medwick
To Serve and Protect (1999)
as Howard Carr
The Day Reagan Was Shot (2001)
as Ronald Reagan
The Ordeal of Bill Carney (1981)
as Mason Rose
Nightmare (1974)
as Howard Faloon
The Making of 'First Blood' (1982)
as Self
Fugitive Family (1980)
as Brian Roberts
The War Between the Tates (1977)
as Professor Brian Tate
Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah (1996)
as John Porter
The Day the Bubble Burst (1982)
as Jesse Livermore
The Pride of St. Louis (1952)
as Paul Dean
A Case of Deadly Force (1986)
as Lawrence O'Donnell Sr.
The Long Lost Life of Edward Smalley (1963)
as Edward Smalley
Afganistan: Land in Crisis (2002)
as Self
Thief (1971)
as Neal Wilkinson
Double Solitaire (1974)
as Charley Potter
Joshua's World (1980)
as Dr. Joshua Torrance
Musical Comedy Tonight II (1981)
as Self
Drawing First Blood: 20 Years Later (2002)
as Self
The Real Las Vegas (1996)
as Narrator (voice)
Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition (1989)
as Narrator