
Richard Crenna
Acting
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.
Born: November 30, 1926 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Filmography (75)

Rambo
2008

Out of the Ashes
2003

The Day Reagan Was Shot
2001

Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
2000

Judging Amy
1999

Wrongfully Accused
1998

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1997

E! True Hollywood Story
1996

Sabrina
1995

Jade
1995

JAG
1995

A Pyromaniac's Love Story
1995

Chicago Hope
1994

Hot Shots! Part Deux
1993

A Place to Be Loved
1993

Intruders
1992

And the Sea Will Tell
1991

Gabriel's Fire
1990

Montana
1990

The Case of the Hillside Stranglers
1989

Leviathan
1989

Rambo III
1988

Doubletake
1985

Summer Rental
1985

The Rape of Richard Beck
1985

Rambo: First Blood Part II
1985

The Flamingo Kid
1984

Table for Five
1983

First Blood
1982

It Takes Two
1982

Body Heat
1981

Death Ship
1980

Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
1979

Stone Cold Dead
1979

A Fire in the Sky
1978

Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell
1978

Centennial
1978

The Evil
1978

Lou Grant
1977

Breakheart Pass
1975

Saturday Night Live
1975

A Girl Named Sooner
1975

People's Choice Awards
1975

The Rockford Files
1974

Jonathan Livingston Seagull
1973

Double Indemnity
1973

The Man Called Noon
1973

A Cop
1972

Catlow
1971

Doctors' Wives
1971

Marooned
1969

Star!
1968

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968

Wait Until Dark
1967

The Carol Burnett Show
1967

The Sand Pebbles
1966

Made in Paris
1966

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
1965

Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963

The Danny Kaye Show
1963

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962

The Merv Griffin Show
1962

The Andy Griffith Show
1960

The Real McCoys
1957

Our Miss Brooks
1956

Over-Exposed
1956

Matinee Theater
1955

Frontier
1955

Cheyenne
1955

The Millionaire
1955

It Grows on Trees
1952

The Pride of St. Louis
1952

Today
1952

I Love Lucy
1951

Golden Globe Awards
1944
