Richard Crenna
Acting

Richard Crenna

Born 30 November 1926 · Los Angeles, California, USA · Died 17 January 2003

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

First Blood
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Rambo III
Hot Shots! Part Deux
Body Heat
Sabrina
Wait Until Dark
Leviathan
Wrongfully Accused
JAG
Jade
Un Flic
Out of the Ashes
The Day Reagan Was Shot
By Dawn's Early Light
Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
To Serve and Protect
Wrongfully Accused
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Deep Family Secrets
Heart Full of Rain
Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah
The Real Las Vegas
Jade
In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy
Sabrina
Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence
The Forget-Me-Not Murders
Hot Shots! Part Deux
A Place to Be Loved
Terror on Track 9
And the Sea Will Tell
Last Flight Out
Montana
Murder Times Seven
Murder in Black and White
Leviathan
Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition
The Case of the Hillside Stranglers
Stuck with Each Other
Rambo III
Internal Affairs
Kids Like These
Police Story: The Freeway Killings
Plaza Suite
A Case of Deadly Force
The High Price of Passion
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Summer Rental
The Rape of Richard Beck
Doubletake
The Flamingo Kid
Passions
Squaring the Circle
Table for Five
Allison Sydney Harrison
First Blood
The Day the Bubble Burst
The Magic Statue
Body Heat
The Ordeal of Bill Carney
Daniel Boone
Death Ship
Fugitive Family
Stone Cold Dead
Wild Horse Hank
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
Better Late Than Never
Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell
The Evil
A Fire in the Sky
First, You Cry
The War Between the Tates
Breakheart Pass
A Girl Named Sooner
Double Solitaire
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
Nightmare
Honky Tonk
Double Indemnity
The Man Called Noon
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Un Flic
Footsteps
Catlow
Red Sky at Morning
Doctors' Wives
Thief
The Deserter
Marooned
Midas Run
Star!
Wait Until Dark
The Sand Pebbles
Made in Paris
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
The Long Lost Life of Edward Smalley
Over-Exposed
Our Miss Brooks
It Grows on Trees
The Pride of St. Louis
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