Richard Crenna

Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Born
November 30, 1926 (76 years old)
Died
January 17, 2003
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Popular Genres
Thriller TV Movie Drama
Career Span
1952 – 2023

Richard Crenna

1 win
75 nominations
1 Oscar
94 credits

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.

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Personal Info

Born
Nov 30, 1926
From
Los Angeles, California, USA
Known For
Acting
Career
1952 – 2023

Award Recognition

1
Win
75
Nominations
1
Oscar

Complete Filmography

2023

Sly as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2008

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

2003

Out of the Ashes as Jake Smith

2002

Afganistan: Land in Crisis as Self

2001

The Day Reagan Was Shot as Ronald Reagan Award
By Dawn's Early Light as Ben Maxwell

2000

Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For as Warren Pierce Award

1999

To Serve and Protect as Howard Carr

1998

Wrongfully Accused as Fergus Falls Award

1997

Deep Family Secrets as Clay Chadway
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea as Professor Aronnax
Heart Full of Rain as Arliss Dockett
Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent as Himself / Narrator

1996

Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah as John Porter

1995

Sabrina as Patrick Tyson Award
Jade as Governor Edwards
In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy as Luke Constable Sr.

1994

Janek: The Silent Betrayal as Frank Janek
Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence as Jonathan Stone
The Forget-Me-Not Murders as Frank Janek

1993

Hot Shots! Part Deux as Col. Denton Walters Award
A Place To Be Loved as George Russ
Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology

1992

Terror on Track 9 as Det. Frank Janek

1991

And the Sea Will Tell as Vincent Bugliosi

1990

Murder in Black and White as Frank Janek
Montana as Hoyce Guthrie
Murder Times Seven as Frank Janek
Last Flight Out as Dan Hood

1989

Leviathan as Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson Award
The Case of the Hillside Stranglers as Sgt. Bob Grogan
Stuck with Each Other as Bert Medwick
Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition as Narrator

1988

Rambo III as Trautman Award
Internal Affairs as Frank Janek

1987

Police Story: The Freeway Killings as Deputy Chief Bob Devers
Kids Like These as Bob Goodman
Plaza Suite as Roy Hubley

1986

The High Price of Passion as Williams Douglas
A Case of Deadly Force as Lawrence O'Donnell Sr.

1985

Rambo: First Blood Part II as Col. Samuel Trautman Award
Summer Rental as Al Pellet Award
Doubletake as Frank Janek Award
The Rape of Richard Beck as Richard Beck

1984

Squaring the Circle as The Narrator
Passions as Richard Kennerly
The Flamingo Kid as Phil Brody

1983

Table for Five as Mitchell

1982

First Blood as Col. Samuel Trautman Award
The Day the Bubble Burst as Jesse Livermore

1981

Body Heat as Edmund Walker Award
The Ordeal of Bill Carney as Mason Rose
Daniel Boone as Daniel Boone
Musical Comedy Tonight II as Self

1980

Death Ship as Trevor Marshall Award
Fugitive Family as Brian Roberts
Joshua's World as Dr. Joshua Torrance

1979

Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure as William Brewster
Stone Cold Dead as Sgt. Boyd
Wild Horse Hank as Pace Bradford

1978

Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell as Mike Barry Award
A Fire in the Sky as Jason Voight
The Evil as C.J. Arnold
First, You Cry as David Towers

1977

The War Between the Tates as Professor Brian Tate

1975

Breakheart Pass as Gov. Richard Fairchild Award
A Girl Named Sooner as R.J. 'Mac' McHenry

1974

Honky Tonk as Candy Johnson
Nightmare as Howard Faloon
Shootout in a One-Dog Town as Zack Wells
Double Solitaire as Charley Potter

1973

Jonathan Livingston Seagull as Father (voice)
Double Indemnity as Walter Neff
The Man Called Noon as Noon

1972

A Cop as Simon Award
Footsteps as Paddy

1971

Doctors' Wives as Pete Brennan
Catlow as Cowan
Thief as Neal Wilkinson
Red Sky at Morning as Frank Arnold

1970

The Deserter as Major Wade Brown

1969

Marooned as Jim Pruett Award
Midas Run as Mike Warden

1968

Star! as Richard Aldrich Award

1967

Wait Until Dark as Mike Talman

1966

The Sand Pebbles as Captain Collins Award
Made in Paris as Herb Stone

1965

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! as John Goldfarb

1959

Disneyland '59 as Self

1956

Our Miss Brooks as Walter Denton
Over-Exposed as Russell Bassett

1952

Red Skies of Montana as Noxon (uncredited)
The Pride of St. Louis as Paul Dean
It Grows on Trees as Ralph Bowen

Photos & Videos

Featured in Trailers

Rambo
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Hot Shots! Part Deux
First Blood
Rambo III
Wrongfully Accused
The Sand Pebbles
Star!
Summer Rental
Body Heat

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