Richard Crenna

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.

Filmography (131 Appearances)

Rambo

2008

Out of the Ashes

2003

Afganistan: Land in Crisis

2002

We Get to Win This Time

2002

Guts and Glory

2002

Drawing First Blood: 20 Years Later

2002

The Day Reagan Was Shot

2001

By Dawn's Early Light

2001

Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For

2000

Judging Amy

1999

To Serve and Protect

1999

To Serve and Protect

1999

Wrongfully Accused

1998

Heart Full of Rain

1997

Deep Family Secrets

1997

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

1997

Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent

1997

The Real Las Vegas

1996

E! True Hollywood Story

1996

Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah

1996

Sabrina

1995

Jade

1995

JAG

1995

In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy

1995

A Pyromaniac's Love Story

1995

Janek: The Silent Betrayal

1994

Chicago Hope

1994

Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence

1994

The Forget-Me-Not Murders

1994

Hot Shots! Part Deux

1993

Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology

1993

A Place to Be Loved

1993

Terror on Track 9

1992

Intruders

1992

Pros and Cons

1991

And the Sea Will Tell

1991

And the Sea Will Tell

1991

Murder Times Seven

1990

Gabriel's Fire

1990

Last Flight Out

1990

Montana

1990

Murder in Black and White

1990

Stuck with Each Other

1989

Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition

1989

The Case of the Hillside Stranglers

1989

Leviathan

1989

Internal Affairs

1988

Rambo III

1988

Plaza Suite

1987

Kids Like These

1987

Police Story: The Freeway Killings

1987

The High Price of Passion

1986

On Wings of Eagles

1986

A Case of Deadly Force

1986

Doubletake

1985

Summer Rental

1985

The Rape of Richard Beck

1985

Rambo: First Blood Part II

1985

The Flamingo Kid

1984

Passions

1984

Squaring the Circle

1984

Table for Five

1983

First Blood

1982

It Takes Two

1982

The Day the Bubble Burst

1982

The Making of 'First Blood'

1982

The Ordeal of Bill Carney

1981

Daniel Boone

1981

Body Heat

1981

Musical Comedy Tonight II

1981

Fugitive Family

1980

Joshua's World

1980

Death Ship

1980

Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure

1979

Stone Cold Dead

1979

Wild Horse Hank

1979

A Fire in the Sky

1978

First, You Cry

1978

Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell

1978

Centennial

1978

The Evil

1978

The War Between the Tates

1977

All's Fair

1976

Breakheart Pass

1975

Saturday Night Live

1975

A Girl Named Sooner

1975

People's Choice Awards

1975

Honky Tonk

1974

Double Solitaire

1974

Shootout in a One-Dog Town

1974

Nightmare

1974

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

1973

Double Indemnity

1973

The Man Called Noon

1973

Footsteps

1972

Un Flic

1972

Thief

1971

Catlow

1971

Red Sky at Morning

1971

Doctors' Wives

1971

The Deserter

1970

Marooned

1969

Midas Run

1969

Star!

1968

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

1968

Wait Until Dark

1967

The Carol Burnett Show

1967

The Sand Pebbles

1966

Made in Paris

1966

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

1965

Slattery's People

1964

The Long Lost Life of Edward Smalley

1963

Kraft Suspense Theatre

1963

The Danny Kaye Show

1963

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

The Merv Griffin Show

1962

Disneyland '59

1959

The Real McCoys

1957

Our Miss Brooks

1956

Over-Exposed

1956

Matinee Theater

1955

Frontier

1955

Cheyenne

1955

The Millionaire

1955

Our Miss Brooks

1952

It Grows on Trees

1952

The Pride of St. Louis

1952

Red Skies of Montana

1952 Debut

Today

1952

I Love Lucy

1951

Golden Globe Awards

1944
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