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