Richard Crenna
- Acting
- November 30, 1926 · Los Angeles, California, USA
- January 17, 2003
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
Filmography
- Rambo · Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Out of the Ashes · Jake Smith
- Afganistan: Land in Crisis · Self
- We Get to Win This Time · Self
- Guts and Glory · Self
- Drawing First Blood: 20 Years Later · Self
- The Day Reagan Was Shot · Ronald Reagan
- By Dawn's Early Light · Ben Maxwell
- Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For · Warren Pierce
- Judging Amy · Jared Duff
- To Serve and Protect · Howard Carr
- To Serve and Protect · Howard Carr
- Wrongfully Accused · Fergus Falls
- Heart Full of Rain · Arliss Dockett
- Deep Family Secrets · Clay Chadway
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea · Professor Aronnax
- Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent · Himself / Narrator
- The Real Las Vegas · Narrator (Voice)
- E! True Hollywood Story
- Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah · John Porter
- Sabrina · Patrick Tyson
- Jade · Governor Edwards
- JAG · Harmon Rabb Sr. (Voice)
- In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy · Luke Constable Sr.
- A Pyromaniac's Love Story · Tom Lumpke (uncredited)
- Janek: The Silent Betrayal · Frank Janek
- Chicago Hope · Martin Rockwell
- Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence · Jonathan Stone
- The Forget-Me-Not Murders · Frank Janek
- Hot Shots! Part Deux · Col. Denton Walters
- Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
- A Place to Be Loved · George Russ
- Terror on Track 9 · Det. Frank Janek
- Intruders · Dr. Neil Chase
- Pros and Cons · Mitch O'Hannon
- And the Sea Will Tell · Vincent Bugliosi
- And the Sea Will Tell · Vincent Bugliosi
- Murder Times Seven · Frank Janek
- Gabriel's Fire
- Last Flight Out · Dan Hood
- Montana · Hoyce Guthrie
- Murder in Black and White · Frank Janek
- Stuck with Each Other · Bert Medwick
- Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition · Narrator
- The Case of the Hillside Stranglers · Sgt. Bob Grogan
- Leviathan · Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson
- Internal Affairs · Frank Janek
- Rambo III · Trautman
- Plaza Suite · Roy Hubley
- Kids Like These · Bob Goodman
- Police Story: The Freeway Killings · Deputy Chief Bob Devers
- The High Price of Passion · Williams Douglas
- On Wings of Eagles · H. Ross Perot
- A Case of Deadly Force · Lawrence O'Donnell Sr.
- Doubletake · Frank Janek
- Summer Rental · Al Pellet
- The Rape of Richard Beck · Richard Beck
- Rambo: First Blood Part II · Col. Samuel Trautman
- The Flamingo Kid · Phil Brody
- Passions · Richard Kennerly
- Squaring the Circle · The Narrator
- Allison Sydney Harrison · Director
- Table for Five · Mitchell
- The Magic Statue · Director
- First Blood · Col. Samuel Trautman
- It Takes Two · Dr. Sam Quinn
- The Day the Bubble Burst · Jesse Livermore
- The Making of 'First Blood' · Self
- The Ordeal of Bill Carney · Mason Rose
- Daniel Boone · Daniel Boone
- Body Heat · Edmund Walker
- Musical Comedy Tonight II · Self
- Fugitive Family · Brian Roberts
- Joshua's World · Dr. Joshua Torrance
- Death Ship · Trevor Marshall
- Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure · William Brewster
- Better Late Than Never · Director
- Stone Cold Dead · Sgt. Boyd
- Turnabout · Director
- Wild Horse Hank · Pace Bradford