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