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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 30, 1926
Died
January 17, 2003
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Also Known As
- Dick Crenna
- Richard McKenna
- Charley Weaver
- Richard Donald Crenna
Richard Crenna
1.2 Popularity
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
6.7
Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rambo
2008
6.1
Jake Smith
Out of the Ashes
2003
0.0
Self
Afganistan: Land in Crisis
2002
6.4
Ronald Reagan
The Day Reagan Was Shot
2001
5.2
Ben Maxwell
By Dawn's Early Light
2001
6.7
Warren Pierce
Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
2000
7.5
Jared Duff
Judging Amy
1999
0.0
Howard Carr
To Serve and Protect
1999
6.5
Howard Carr
To Serve and Protect
1999
6.0
Fergus Falls
Wrongfully Accused
1998
Credits
Rambo
as Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited)
2008
6.7
Out of the Ashes
as Jake Smith
2003
6.1
Afganistan: Land in Crisis
as Self
2002
0.0
The Day Reagan Was Shot
as Ronald Reagan
2001
6.4
By Dawn's Early Light
as Ben Maxwell
2001
5.2
Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
as Warren Pierce
2000
6.7
Judging Amy
as Jared Duff
1999
7.5
To Serve and Protect
as Howard Carr
1999
0.0
To Serve and Protect
as Howard Carr
1999
6.5
Wrongfully Accused
as Fergus Falls
1998
6.0
Heart Full of Rain
as Arliss Dockett
1997
4.0
Deep Family Secrets
as Clay Chadway
1997
2.3
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
as Professor Aronnax
1997
5.7
Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent
as Himself / Narrator
1997
0.0
The Real Las Vegas
as Narrator (voice)
1996
0.0
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
8.1
Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah
as John Porter
1996
6.0
Sabrina
as Patrick Tyson
1995
6.2
Jade
as Governor Edwards
1995
5.5
JAG
as Harmon Rabb Sr. (voice)
1995
7.3
In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy
as Luke Constable Sr.
1995
7.0
A Pyromaniac's Love Story
as Tom Lumpke (uncredited)
1995
5.1
🎬
Janek: The Silent Betrayal
as Frank Janek
1994
1.0
Chicago Hope
as Martin Rockwell
1994
7.2
Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence
as Jonathan Stone
1994
1.5
The Forget-Me-Not Murders
as Frank Janek
1994
3.0
Hot Shots! Part Deux
as Col. Denton Walters
1993
6.5
Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
1993
5.5
A Place to Be Loved
as George Russ
1993
5.3
Terror on Track 9
as Det. Frank Janek
1992
2.8
Intruders
as Dr. Neil Chase
1992
6.9
Pros and Cons
as Mitch O'Hannon
1991
6.0
And the Sea Will Tell
1991
0.0
And the Sea Will Tell
as Vincent Bugliosi
1991
5.9
Murder Times Seven
as Frank Janek
1990
0.0
Gabriel's Fire
1990
6.8
🎬
Last Flight Out
as Dan Hood
1990
0.0
Montana
as Hoyce Guthrie
1990
6.0
Murder in Black and White
as Frank Janek
1990
0.0
Stuck with Each Other
as Bert Medwick
1989
0.0
Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition
as Narrator
1989
0.0
The Case of the Hillside Stranglers
as Sgt. Bob Grogan
1989
6.3
Leviathan
as Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson
1989
6.0
Internal Affairs
as Frank Janek
1988
7.0
Rambo III
as Trautman
1988
6.2
Plaza Suite
as Roy Hubley
1987
6.0
Kids Like These
as Bob Goodman
1987
10.0
Police Story: The Freeway Killings
as Deputy Chief Bob Devers
1987
5.3
The High Price of Passion
as Williams Douglas
1986
6.0
On Wings of Eagles
as H. Ross Perot
1986
5.8
🎬
A Case of Deadly Force
as Lawrence O'Donnell Sr.
1986
0.0
Doubletake
as Frank Janek
1985
4.5
Summer Rental
as Al Pellet
1985
6.1
The Rape of Richard Beck
as Richard Beck
1985
6.5
Rambo: First Blood Part II
as Col. Samuel Trautman
1985
6.7
The Flamingo Kid
as Phil Brody
1984
6.0
Passions
as Richard Kennerly
1984
5.7
Squaring the Circle
as The Narrator
1984
5.0
Table for Five
as Mitchell
1983
5.5
First Blood
as Col. Samuel Trautman
1982
7.5
It Takes Two
1982
5.0
The Day the Bubble Burst
as Jesse Livermore
1982
2.0
The Ordeal of Bill Carney
as Mason Rose
1981
0.0
Daniel Boone
as Daniel Boone
1981
6.0
Body Heat
as Edmund Walker
1981
7.0
Musical Comedy Tonight II
as Self
1981
7.0
Fugitive Family
as Brian Roberts
1980
0.0
🎬
Joshua's World
as Dr. Joshua Torrance
1980
0.0
Death Ship
as Trevor Marshall
1980
5.2
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
as William Brewster
1979
6.5
Stone Cold Dead
as Sgt. Boyd
1979
5.9
Wild Horse Hank
as Pace Bradford
1979
4.4
A Fire in the Sky
as Jason Voight
1978
5.5
First, You Cry
as David Towers
1978
0.0
Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell
as Mike Barry
1978
6.3
Centennial
as Colonel Frank Skimmerhorn
1978
7.7
The Evil
as C.J. Arnold
1978
5.7
The War Between the Tates
as Professor Brian Tate
1977
0.0
All's Fair
1976
7.0
Breakheart Pass
as Gov. Richard Fairchild
1975
6.6
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975
7.0
A Girl Named Sooner
as R.J. 'Mac' McHenry
1975
4.7
Honky Tonk
as Candy Johnson
1974
0.0
Double Solitaire
as Charley Potter
1974
0.0
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
as Zack Wells
1974
0.0
Nightmare
as Howard Faloon
1974
7.0
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
as Father (voice)
1973
6.0
Double Indemnity
as Walter Neff
1973
4.5
The Man Called Noon
as Noon
1973
5.8
Footsteps
as Paddy
1972
0.0
A Cop
as Simon
1972
6.6
Thief
as Neal Wilkinson
1971
6.8
Catlow
as Cowan
1971
5.0
Red Sky at Morning
as Frank Arnold
1971
6.7
Doctors' Wives
as Pete Brennan
1971
4.8
The Deserter
as Major Wade Brown
1970
6.0
Marooned
as Jim Pruett
1969
5.9
Midas Run
as Mike Warden
1969
3.6
Star!
as Richard Aldrich
1968
6.9
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
as Self
1968
6.6
Wait Until Dark
as Mike Talman
1967
7.3
The Carol Burnett Show
as Self - Guest
1967
7.7
The Sand Pebbles
as Captain Collins
1966
7.2
Made in Paris
as Herb Stone
1966
4.7
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
as John Goldfarb
1965
3.1
Slattery's People
as James Slattery
1964
5.0
Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Edward Smalley
1963
5.3
The Danny Kaye Show
as Self
1963
6.3
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
6.2
Disneyland '59
as Self
1959
6.5
The Real McCoys
as Luke McCoy
1957
5.6
Our Miss Brooks
as Walter Denton
1956
6.2
Over-Exposed
as Russell Bassett
1956
5.1
Matinee Theater
1955
5.0
Frontier
1955
5.0
Cheyenne
1955
6.0
The Millionaire
as Ralph McKnight
1955
5.0
Our Miss Brooks
as Walter Denton
1952
7.3
It Grows on Trees
as Ralph Bowen
1952
7.7
The Pride of St. Louis
as Paul Dean
1952
6.9
Red Skies of Montana
as Noxon (uncredited)
1952
5.2
Today
as Himself - Actor
1952
5.6
I Love Lucy
as Arthur Morton
1951
7.9
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Host
1944
7.2