
Richard Crenna
Department: Acting
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.
Known For

Rambo: First Blood Part II
1985

First Blood
1982

Rambo III
1988

Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
1993

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1997

Wait Until Dark
1967

The Sand Pebbles
1966

Breakheart Pass
1975

Jade
1995

Death Ship
1980

The Flamingo Kid
1984

Over-Exposed
1956

Hot Shots! Part Deux
1993

Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell
1978

Marooned
1969

Body Heat
1981

Stone Cold Dead
1979

Leviathan
1989

The Day the Bubble Burst
1982

A Cop
1972

The Evil
1978

Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition
1989

A Place to Be Loved
1993

Out of the Ashes
2003

Summer Rental
1985

The Day Reagan Was Shot
2001

Star!
1968

Catlow
1971

Double Indemnity
1973

Our Miss Brooks
1956

The Rape of Richard Beck
1985

Red Sky at Morning
1971

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
1965

Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah
1996

Made in Paris
1966

The Deserter
1970

The Man Called Noon
1973

Doctors' Wives
1971

A Case of Deadly Force
1986

Midas Run
1969

In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy
1995

Deep Family Secrets
1997

Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
2000

The Case of the Hillside Stranglers
1989

Thief
1971

Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence
1994

It Grows on Trees
1952

Table for Five
1983

And the Sea Will Tell
1991

Sabrina
1995

Double Solitaire
1974

Stuck with Each Other
1989

Wild Horse Hank
1979

The High Price of Passion
1986

By Dawn's Early Light
2001

Last Flight Out
1990

A Fire in the Sky
1978

Red Skies of Montana
1952

Afganistan: Land in Crisis
2002

Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
1979

Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent
1997

The Forget-Me-Not Murders
1994

The Pride of St. Louis
1952

Jonathan Livingston Seagull
1973

Joshua's World
1980

A Girl Named Sooner
1975

The Ordeal of Bill Carney
1981

Passions
1984

Montana
1990

To Serve and Protect
1999

Footsteps
1972

Shootout in a One-Dog Town
1974

Squaring the Circle
1984

Murder Times Seven
1990

Kids Like These
1987

Murder in Black and White
1990

Daniel Boone
1981

Fugitive Family
1980

Police Story: The Freeway Killings
1987

Plaza Suite
1987

Internal Affairs
1988

Wrongfully Accused
1998

Doubletake
1985

Nightmare
1974

Rambo
2008

Terror on Track 9
1992

First, You Cry
1978

Disneyland '59
1959

Janek: The Silent Betrayal
1994

Honky Tonk
1974

Musical Comedy Tonight II
1981

The War Between the Tates
1977

Heart Full of Rain
1997

The Real Las Vegas
1996

A Pyromaniac's Love Story
1995

Gabriel's Fire
1990

Cheyenne
1955

Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963

Judging Amy
1999

E! True Hollywood Story
1996

I Love Lucy
1951

All's Fair
1976

Centennial
1978

Chicago Hope
1994

The Millionaire
1955

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968

The Real McCoys
1957

Slattery's People
1964

Matinee Theater
1955

Frontier
1955

Pros and Cons
1991

It Takes Two
1982

Our Miss Brooks
1952

On Wings of Eagles
1986

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962

Intruders
1992

The Carol Burnett Show
1967

JAG
1995

The Danny Kaye Show
1963

Golden Globe Awards
1944

And the Sea Will Tell
1991

The Merv Griffin Show
1962

To Serve and Protect
1999

Today
1952

Golden Globe Awards
1944

Saturday Night Live
1975

People's Choice Awards
1975