Richard Crenna

ActorDirector Nov 30 (died age 76) Los Angeles, California, USA 1944–2008 (64 year career)

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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 i…

Known For

Film

First Blood

Col. Samuel Trautman

Film

Rambo: First Blood Part II

Col. Samuel Trautman

Film

Rambo

Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited)

Film

Rambo III

Trautman

Film

Hot Shots! Part Deux

Col. Denton Walters

Film

Wait Until Dark

Mike Talman

Film

Body Heat

Edmund Walker

Film

Sabrina

Patrick Tyson

Filmography

Acting (125)

Movies (95)

Rambo

2008

as Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.7

Out of the Ashes

2003

as Jake Smith

6.1

Afganistan: Land in Crisis

2002

as Self

By Dawn's Early Light

2001

as Ben Maxwell

5.2

The Day Reagan Was Shot

2001

as Ronald Reagan

6.4

Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For

as Warren Pierce

To Serve and Protect

as Howard Carr

Wrongfully Accused

as Fergus Falls

Deep Family Secrets

as Clay Chadway

Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent

1997

as Himself / Narrator

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

as Professor Aronnax

Heart Full of Rain

as Arliss Dockett

The Real Las Vegas

as Narrator (voice)

Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah

as John Porter

Sabrina

as Patrick Tyson

A Pyromaniac's Love Story

1995

as Tom Lumpke (uncredited)

5.1

Jade

1995

as Governor Edwards

5.5

In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy

1995

as Luke Constable Sr.

7.0

Janek: The Silent Betrayal

1994

as Frank Janek

1.0

The Forget-Me-Not Murders

1994

as Frank Janek

3.0

Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence

1994

as Jonathan Stone

1.5

Hot Shots! Part Deux

1993

as Col. Denton Walters

6.5

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

A Place to Be Loved

as George Russ

Terror on Track 9

as Det. Frank Janek

And the Sea Will Tell

1991

as Vincent Bugliosi

5.9

Murder in Black and White

1990

as Frank Janek

Murder Times Seven

1990

as Frank Janek

Montana

1990

as Hoyce Guthrie

5.8

Last Flight Out

1990

as Dan Hood

Leviathan

1989

as Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson

6.0

Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition

1989

as Narrator

The Case of the Hillside Stranglers

1989

as Sgt. Bob Grogan

6.3

Stuck with Each Other

1989

as Bert Medwick

Rambo III

as Trautman

Internal Affairs

as Frank Janek

Plaza Suite

as Roy Hubley

Police Story: The Freeway Killings

1987

as Deputy Chief Bob Devers

5.3

Kids Like These

1987

as Bob Goodman

10.0

A Case of Deadly Force

1986

as Lawrence O'Donnell Sr.

The High Price of Passion

1986

as Williams Douglas

6.0

Rambo: First Blood Part II

1985

as Col. Samuel Trautman

Summer Rental

as Al Pellet

Doubletake

as Frank Janek

The Rape of Richard Beck

as Richard Beck

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

7.5

The Day the Bubble Burst

as Jesse Livermore

Body Heat

as Edmund Walker

Daniel Boone

as Daniel Boone

The Ordeal of Bill Carney

1981

as Mason Rose

Musical Comedy Tonight II

1981

as Self

7.0

Joshua's World

1980

as Dr. Joshua Torrance

Death Ship

1980

as Trevor Marshall

5.1

Fugitive Family

1980

as Brian Roberts

Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure

as William Brewster

Wild Horse Hank

as Pace Bradford

Stone Cold Dead

as Sgt. Boyd

The Evil

as C.J. Arnold

First, You Cry

as David Towers

A Fire in the Sky

1978

as Jason Voight

5.6

Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell

1978

as Mike Barry

6.3

The War Between the Tates

1977

as Professor Brian Tate

Breakheart Pass

1975

as Gov. Richard Fairchild

6.6

A Girl Named Sooner

1975

as R.J. 'Mac' McHenry

Nightmare

as Howard Faloon

Double Solitaire

as Charley Potter

Honky Tonk

1974

as Candy Johnson

Shootout in a One-Dog Town

1974

as Zack Wells

Double Indemnity

as Walter Neff

The Man Called Noon

as Noon

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

as Father (voice)

A Cop

as Simon

Footsteps

as Paddy

Thief

as Neal Wilkinson

Catlow

as Cowan

Red Sky at Morning

as Frank Arnold

Doctors' Wives

as Pete Brennan

The Deserter

as Major Wade Brown

Marooned

as Jim Pruett

Midas Run

as Mike 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

Disneyland '59

as Self

Over-Exposed

as Russell Bassett

Our Miss Brooks

as Walter Denton

Red Skies of Montana

as Noxon (uncredited)

5.2

It Grows on Trees

1952

as Ralph Bowen

7.7

The Pride of St. Louis

1952

as Paul Dean

6.9

Television (30)

Judging Amy

1999

as Jared Duff

7.5

To Serve and Protect

1999

as Howard Carr

E! True Hollywood Story

1996

8.1

JAG

1995

as Harmon Rabb Sr. (voice)

Chicago Hope

as Martin Rockwell

Intruders

as Dr. Neil Chase

Pros and Cons

as Mitch O'Hannon

And the Sea Will Tell

1991

as Vincent Bugliosi

On Wings of Eagles

as H. Ross Perot

It Takes Two

Centennial

as Colonel Frank Skimmerhorn

All's Fair

Saturday Night Live

as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

7.0

People's Choice Awards

1975

as Self - Host

9.0

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

1968

as Self

6.6

The Carol Burnett Show

as Self - Guest

Slattery's People

as James Slattery

The Danny Kaye Show

as Self

Kraft Suspense Theatre

1963

as Edward Smalley

5.3

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

as Self

7.5

The Merv Griffin Show

as Self

The Real McCoys

as Luke McCoy

Cheyenne

Matinee Theater

The Millionaire

as Ralph McKnight

Frontier

Today

as Himself - Actor

Our Miss Brooks

as Walter Denton

I Love Lucy

as Arthur Morton

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Host

Crew (15)

Movies (3)

Allison Sydney Harrison

1983

Director

The Magic Statue

1982

Director

Better Late Than Never

1979

Director

Television (12)

Turnabout

1979

Director

5.5

Grandpa Goes to Washington

Director

Lou Grant

Director

James at 16

Director

Rosetti and Ryan

Director

The Rockford Files

Director

Summer Fun

Director

No Time for Sergeants

1964

Director

1.0

Wendy and Me

1964

Director

Vacation Playhouse

1963

Director

7.0

The Andy Griffith Show

Director

The Real McCoys

Director