Richard Crenna

Actor

Born November 30, 1926 in Los Angeles, California, USA

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

The Making of 'First Blood'

Rambo

Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited)

Out of the Ashes

Jake Smith

Afganistan: Land in Crisis

Self

We Get to Win This Time

Self

Guts and Glory

Self

Drawing First Blood: 20 Years Later

Self

The Day Reagan Was Shot

Ronald Reagan

By Dawn's Early Light

Ben Maxwell

Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For

Warren Pierce

Judging Amy

Jared Duff

To Serve and Protect

Howard Carr

To Serve and Protect

Howard Carr

Wrongfully Accused

Fergus Falls

Heart Full of Rain

Arliss Dockett

Deep Family Secrets

Clay Chadway

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Professor Aronnax

Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent

Himself / Narrator

The Real Las Vegas

Narrator (voice)

E! True Hollywood Story

Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah

John Porter

Sabrina

Patrick Tyson

Jade

Governor Edwards

JAG

Harmon Rabb Sr. (voice)

In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy

Luke Constable Sr.

A Pyromaniac's Love Story

Tom Lumpke (uncredited)

Chicago Hope

Martin Rockwell

Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence

Jonathan Stone

The Forget-Me-Not Murders

Frank Janek

Hot Shots! Part Deux

Col. Denton Walters

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

A Place to Be Loved

George Russ

Terror on Track 9

Det. Frank Janek

Intruders

Dr. Neil Chase

Pros and Cons

Mitch O'Hannon

And the Sea Will Tell

Vincent Bugliosi

And the Sea Will Tell

Vincent Bugliosi

Murder Times Seven

Frank Janek

Gabriel's Fire

Montana

Hoyce Guthrie

Murder in Black and White

Frank Janek

Stuck with Each Other

Bert Medwick

Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition

Narrator

The Case of the Hillside Stranglers

Sgt. Bob Grogan

Leviathan

Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson

Internal Affairs

Frank Janek

Rambo III

Trautman

Plaza Suite

Roy Hubley

Kids Like These

Bob Goodman

Police Story: The Freeway Killings

Deputy Chief Bob Devers

The High Price of Passion

Williams Douglas

On Wings of Eagles

H. Ross Perot

Doubletake

Frank Janek

Summer Rental

Al Pellet

The Rape of Richard Beck

Richard Beck

Rambo: First Blood Part II

Col. Samuel Trautman

The Flamingo Kid

Phil Brody

Passions

Richard Kennerly

Squaring the Circle

The Narrator

Allison Sydney Harrison

Table for Five

Mitchell

The Magic Statue

First Blood

Col. Samuel Trautman

It Takes Two

Dr. Sam Quinn

The Day the Bubble Burst

Jesse Livermore

The Ordeal of Bill Carney

Mason Rose

Daniel Boone

Body Heat

Edmund Walker

Musical Comedy Tonight II

Self

Fugitive Family

Brian Roberts

Death Ship

Trevor Marshall

Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure

William Brewster

Better Late Than Never

Stone Cold Dead

Sgt. Boyd

Wild Horse Hank

Pace Bradford

A Fire in the Sky

Jason Voight

First, You Cry

David Towers

Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell

Mike Barry

Centennial

Colonel Frank Skimmerhorn

The Evil

C.J. Arnold

Rosetti and Ryan

Lou Grant

James at 16

The War Between the Tates

Professor Brian Tate

All's Fair

Breakheart Pass

Gov. Richard Fairchild

Saturday Night Live

Self - Cameo (uncredited)

A Girl Named Sooner

R.J. 'Mac' McHenry

People's Choice Awards

Self - Host

The Rockford Files

Honky Tonk

Candy Johnson

Double Solitaire

Charley Potter

Shootout in a One-Dog Town

Zack Wells

Nightmare

Howard Faloon

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Father (voice)

Double Indemnity

Walter Neff

The Man Called Noon

Noon

Footsteps

Paddy

Un Flic

Simon

Thief

Neal Wilkinson

Catlow

Cowan

Red Sky at Morning

Frank Arnold

Doctors' Wives

Pete Brennan

The Deserter

Major Wade Brown

Marooned

Jim Pruett

Midas Run

Mike Warden

Star!

Richard Aldrich

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Self

Wait Until Dark

Mike Talman

The Carol Burnett Show

Self

The Sand Pebbles

Captain Collins

Made in Paris

Herb Stone

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

John Goldfarb

Slattery's People

James Slattery

Wendy and Me

No Time for Sergeants

The Long Lost Life of Edward Smalley

Edward Smalley

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Edward Smalley

The Danny Kaye Show

Self

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Self

The Merv Griffin Show

Self

The Andy Griffith Show

Disneyland '59

Self

The Real McCoys

Luke McCoy

Our Miss Brooks

Walter Denton

Over-Exposed

Russell Bassett

Matinee Theater

Frontier

Cheyenne

The Millionaire

Ralph McKnight

Our Miss Brooks

Walter Denton

It Grows on Trees

Ralph Bowen

The Pride of St. Louis

Paul Dean

Red Skies of Montana

Noxon (uncredited)

Today

Himself - Actor

I Love Lucy

Arthur Morton

Golden Globe Awards

Self - Nominee