Richard Crenna
95 movies · 33 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 30, 1926
- Died
- Jan 17, 2003 (age 76)
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Also known as
- Dick Crenna · Richard McKenna · Charley Weaver · Richard Donald Crenna
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.
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Known for
Richard Crenna: movies and TV shows
Acting (114)
- 2008 Rambo
as Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2003 Out of the Ashes
as Jake Smith
- 2001 The Day Reagan Was Shot
as Ronald Reagan
- 2001 By Dawn's Early Light
as Ben Maxwell
- 2000 Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
as Warren Pierce
- 1999
- 1999 To Serve and Protect
as Howard Carr
- 1999
- 1998 Wrongfully Accused
as Fergus Falls
- 1997 Heart Full of Rain
as Arliss Dockett
- 1997 Deep Family Secrets
as Clay Chadway
- 1997 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
as Professor Aronnax
- 1996 The Real Las Vegas
as Narrator (voice)
- 1996
- 1996 Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah
as John Porter
- 1995 Sabrina
as Patrick Tyson
- 1995 Jade
as Governor Edwards
- 1995
- 1995 In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy
as Luke Constable Sr.
- 1995 A Pyromaniac's Love Story
as Tom Lumpke (uncredited)
- 1994 Janek: The Silent Betrayal
as Frank Janek
- 1994
- 1994 Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence
as Jonathan Stone
- 1994 The Forget-Me-Not Murders
as Frank Janek
- 1993 Hot Shots! Part Deux
as Col. Denton Walters
- 1993
- 1993 A Place to Be Loved
as George Russ
- 1992 Terror on Track 9
as Det. Frank Janek
- 1992
- 1991
- 1991 And the Sea Will Tell
as Vincent Bugliosi
- 1991
- 1990 Murder Times Seven
as Frank Janek
- 1990 Gabriel's Fire · TV
- 1990 Last Flight Out
as Dan Hood
- 1990 Montana
as Hoyce Guthrie
- 1990 Murder in Black and White
as Frank Janek
- 1989 Stuck with Each Other
as Bert Medwick
- 1989 Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition
as Narrator
- 1989 The Case of the Hillside Stranglers
as Sgt. Bob Grogan
- 1989 Leviathan
as Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson
- 1988 Internal Affairs
as Frank Janek
- 1988 Rambo III
as Trautman
- 1987 Plaza Suite
as Roy Hubley
- 1987 Kids Like These
as Bob Goodman
- 1987 Police Story: The Freeway Killings
as Deputy Chief Bob Devers
- 1986 The High Price of Passion
as Williams Douglas
- 1986
- 1986 A Case of Deadly Force
as Lawrence O'Donnell Sr.
- 1985 Doubletake
as Frank Janek
- 1985 Summer Rental
as Al Pellet
- 1985 The Rape of Richard Beck
as Richard Beck
- 1985 Rambo: First Blood Part II
as Col. Samuel Trautman
- 1984 The Flamingo Kid
as Phil Brody
- 1984 Passions
as Richard Kennerly
- 1984 Squaring the Circle
as The Narrator
- 1983 Table for Five
as Mitchell
- 1982 First Blood
as Col. Samuel Trautman
- 1982
- 1982 The Day the Bubble Burst
as Jesse Livermore
- 1981 The Ordeal of Bill Carney
as Mason Rose
- 1981 Daniel Boone
as Daniel Boone
- 1981 Body Heat
as Edmund Walker
- 1980 Fugitive Family
as Brian Roberts
- 1980 Joshua's World
as Dr. Joshua Torrance
- 1980 Death Ship
as Trevor Marshall
- 1979 Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
as William Brewster
- 1979 Stone Cold Dead
as Sgt. Boyd
- 1979 Wild Horse Hank
as Pace Bradford
- 1978 A Fire in the Sky
as Jason Voight
- 1978 First, You Cry
as David Towers
- 1978 Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell
as Mike Barry
- 1978
- 1978 The Evil
as C.J. Arnold
- 1977 The War Between the Tates
as Professor Brian Tate
- 1976
- 1975 Breakheart Pass
as Gov. Richard Fairchild
- 1975 A Girl Named Sooner
as R.J. 'Mac' McHenry
- 1974 Honky Tonk
as Candy Johnson
- 1974 Double Solitaire
as Charley Potter
- 1974 Shootout in a One-Dog Town
as Zack Wells
- 1974 Nightmare
as Howard Faloon
- 1973 Jonathan Livingston Seagull
as Father (voice)
- 1973 Double Indemnity
as Walter Neff
- 1973 The Man Called Noon
as Noon
- 1972 Footsteps
as Paddy
- 1972 Un Flic
as Simon
- 1971 Thief
as Neal Wilkinson
- 1971 Catlow
as Cowan
- 1971 Red Sky at Morning
as Frank Arnold
- 1971 Doctors' Wives
as Pete Brennan
- 1970 The Deserter
as Major Wade Brown
- 1969 Marooned
as Jim Pruett
- 1969 Midas Run
as Warden
- 1968 Star!
as Richard Aldrich
- 1967 Wait Until Dark
as Mike Talman
- 1966 The Sand Pebbles
as Captain Collins
- 1966 Made in Paris
as Herb Stone
- 1965 John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
as John Goldfarb
- 1964
- 1963 The Long Lost Life of Edward Smalley
as Edward Smalley
- 1963
- 1957
- 1956 Our Miss Brooks
as Walter Denton
- 1956 Over-Exposed
as Russell Bassett
- 1955
- 1955
- 1955
- 1955
- 1952
- 1952 It Grows on Trees
as Ralph Bowen
- 1952 The Pride of St. Louis
as Paul Dean
- 1952 Red Skies of Montana
as Noxon (uncredited)
- 1951
Behind the camera (15)
- 1983 Allison Sydney Harrison
Director
- 1982 The Magic Statue
Director
- 1979 Better Late Than Never
Director
- 1979
- 1978
- 1977
- 1977
- 1977
- 1974
- 1966
- 1964
- 1964
- 1963
- 1960
- 1957
Talk shows and appearances (17)
- 2002
- 2002
- 2002
- 2002
- 1997
- 1982
- 1981
- 1975 Saturday Night Live
1 episode
- 1975 People's Choice Awards
1 episode
- 1968 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
3 episodes
- 1967 The Carol Burnett Show
1 episode
- 1963 The Danny Kaye Show
1 episode
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
3 episodes
- 1962 The Merv Griffin Show
1 episode
- 1959
- 1952 Today
1 episode
- 1944 Golden Globe Awards
2 episodes