Acting
Richard Crenna
EN, FR cinema · 103 credits
Born
30 November 1926
Died
17 January 2003 (aged 76)
Birthplace
Los Angeles, California, USA
Also known as Dick Crenna · Richard McKenna · Charley Weaver · Richard Donald 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.
Known for
Filmography
Rambo
as Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited)
Out of the Ashes
as Jake Smith
Guts and Glory
as Self
The Day Reagan Was Shot
as Ronald Reagan
By Dawn's Early Light
as Ben Maxwell
Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
as Warren Pierce
To Serve and Protect
as Howard Carr
Wrongfully Accused
as Fergus Falls
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
as Professor Aronnax
Deep Family Secrets
as Clay Chadway
Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent
as Himself / Narrator
Heart Full of Rain
as Arliss Dockett
Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah
as John Porter
The Real Las Vegas
as Narrator (voice)
Jade
as Governor Edwards
In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy
as Luke Constable Sr.
Sabrina
as Patrick Tyson
A Pyromaniac's Love Story
as Tom Lumpke (uncredited)
Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence
as Jonathan Stone
The Forget-Me-Not Murders
as Frank Janek
Hot Shots! Part Deux
as Col. Denton Walters
A Place to Be Loved
as George Russ
Terror on Track 9
as Det. Frank Janek
And the Sea Will Tell
as Vincent Bugliosi
Last Flight Out
as Dan Hood
Montana
as Hoyce Guthrie
Murder Times Seven
as Frank Janek
Murder in Black and White
as Frank Janek
Leviathan
as Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson
The Case of the Hillside Stranglers
as Sgt. Bob Grogan
Stuck with Each Other
as Bert Medwick
Rambo III
as Trautman
Internal Affairs
as Frank Janek
Kids Like These
as Bob Goodman
Police Story: The Freeway Killings
as Deputy Chief Bob Devers
Plaza Suite
as Roy Hubley
A Case of Deadly Force
as Lawrence O'Donnell Sr.
The High Price of Passion
as Williams Douglas
Rambo: First Blood Part II
as Col. Samuel Trautman
Summer Rental
as Al Pellet
The Rape of Richard Beck
as Richard Beck
Doubletake
as Frank Janek
The Flamingo Kid
as Phil Brody
Passions
as Richard Kennerly
Squaring the Circle
as The Narrator
Table for Five
as Mitchell
First Blood
as Col. Samuel Trautman
The Day the Bubble Burst
as Jesse Livermore
Body Heat
as Edmund Walker
The Ordeal of Bill Carney
as Mason Rose
Daniel Boone
as Daniel Boone
Death Ship
as Trevor Marshall
Joshua's World
1980
Joshua's World
as Dr. Joshua Torrance
Fugitive Family
as Brian Roberts
Stone Cold Dead
as Sgt. Boyd
Wild Horse Hank
as Pace Bradford
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
as William Brewster
Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell
as Mike Barry
The Evil
as C.J. Arnold
A Fire in the Sky
as Jason Voight
First, You Cry
as David Towers
The War Between the Tates
as Professor Brian Tate
Breakheart Pass
as Gov. Richard Fairchild
A Girl Named Sooner
as R.J. 'Mac' McHenry
Double Solitaire
as Charley Potter
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
as Zack Wells
Nightmare
as Howard Faloon
Honky Tonk
as Candy Johnson
Double Indemnity
as Walter Neff
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
as Father (voice)
Un Flic
as Simon
Footsteps
as Paddy
Catlow
as Cowan
Red Sky at Morning
as Frank Arnold
Doctors' Wives
as Pete Brennan
Thief
as Neal Wilkinson
The Deserter
as Major Wade Brown
Marooned
as Jim Pruett
Midas Run
as Warden
Star!
as Richard Aldrich
Wait Until Dark
as Mike Talman
The Sand Pebbles
as Captain Collins
Made in Paris
as Herb Stone
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
as John Goldfarb
The Long Lost Life of Edward Smalley
as Edward Smalley
Disneyland '59
as Self
Over-Exposed
as Russell Bassett
Our Miss Brooks
as Walter Denton
It Grows on Trees
as Ralph Bowen
Red Skies of Montana
as Noxon (uncredited)
The Pride of St. Louis
as Paul Dean