Richard Crenna
Acting
- Born:
- 1926-11-30
- Died:
- 2003-01-17
- Place of birth:
- Los Angeles, California, USA
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.
Known For
Filmography
Rambo
Out of the Ashes
Afganistan: Land in Crisis
We Get to Win This Time
Guts and Glory
Drawing First Blood: 20 Years Later
The Day Reagan Was Shot
By Dawn's Early Light
Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
Judging Amy
To Serve and Protect
To Serve and Protect
Wrongfully Accused
Heart Full of Rain
Deep Family Secrets
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent
The Real Las Vegas
E! True Hollywood Story
Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah
Sabrina
Jade
JAG
In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy
A Pyromaniac's Love Story
Janek: The Silent Betrayal
Chicago Hope
Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence
The Forget-Me-Not Murders
Hot Shots! Part Deux
Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
A Place to Be Loved
Terror on Track 9
Intruders
Pros and Cons
And the Sea Will Tell
And the Sea Will Tell
Murder Times Seven
Gabriel's Fire
Last Flight Out
Montana
Murder in Black and White
Stuck with Each Other
Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition
The Case of the Hillside Stranglers
Leviathan
Internal Affairs
Rambo III
Plaza Suite
Kids Like These
Police Story: The Freeway Killings
The High Price of Passion
On Wings of Eagles
A Case of Deadly Force
Doubletake
Summer Rental
The Rape of Richard Beck
Rambo: First Blood Part II
The Flamingo Kid
Passions
Squaring the Circle
Table for Five
First Blood
It Takes Two
The Day the Bubble Burst
The Making of 'First Blood'
The Ordeal of Bill Carney
Daniel Boone
Body Heat
Musical Comedy Tonight II
Fugitive Family
Joshua's World
Death Ship
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
Stone Cold Dead
Wild Horse Hank
A Fire in the Sky
First, You Cry
Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell
Centennial
The Evil
The War Between the Tates
All's Fair
Breakheart Pass
Saturday Night Live
A Girl Named Sooner
People's Choice Awards
Honky Tonk
Double Solitaire
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
Nightmare
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Double Indemnity
The Man Called Noon
Footsteps
Un Flic
Thief
Catlow
Red Sky at Morning
Doctors' Wives
The Deserter
Marooned
Midas Run
Star!
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Wait Until Dark
The Carol Burnett Show
The Sand Pebbles
Made in Paris
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
Slattery's People
The Long Lost Life of Edward Smalley
Kraft Suspense Theatre
The Danny Kaye Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Merv Griffin Show
Disneyland '59
The Real McCoys
Our Miss Brooks
Over-Exposed
Matinee Theater
Frontier
Cheyenne
The Millionaire
Our Miss Brooks
It Grows on Trees
The Pride of St. Louis
Red Skies of Montana
Today
I Love Lucy
Golden Globe Awards