Richard Crenna
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 30, 1926
- Died
- January 17, 2003
- Birthplace
- Los Angeles, California, USA
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.
Filmography
Rambo 2008
as Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited)
Out of the Ashes 2003
as Jake Smith
Drawing First Blood: 20 Years Later 2002
as Self
Guts and Glory 2002
as Self
We Get to Win This Time 2002
as Self
Afganistan: Land in Crisis 2002
as Self
The Day Reagan Was Shot 2001
as Ronald Reagan
By Dawn's Early Light 2001
as Ben Maxwell
Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For 2000
as Warren Pierce
To Serve and Protect 1999
as Howard Carr
Wrongfully Accused 1998
as Fergus Falls
Heart Full of Rain 1997
as Arliss Dockett
Deep Family Secrets 1997
as Clay Chadway
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1997
as Professor Aronnax
Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent 1997
as Himself / Narrator
The Real Las Vegas 1996
as Narrator (voice)
Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah 1996
as John Porter
Sabrina 1995
as Patrick Tyson
Jade 1995
as Governor Edwards
In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy 1995
as Luke Constable Sr.
A Pyromaniac's Love Story 1995
as Tom Lumpke (uncredited)
- Janek: The Silent Betrayal
Janek: The Silent Betrayal 1994
as Frank Janek
Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence 1994
as Jonathan Stone
The Forget-Me-Not Murders 1994
as Frank Janek
Hot Shots! Part Deux 1993
as Col. Denton Walters
Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology 1993
Actor
A Place to Be Loved 1993
as George Russ
Terror on Track 9 1992
as Det. Frank Janek
And the Sea Will Tell 1991
as Vincent Bugliosi
Murder Times Seven 1990
as Frank Janek
Last Flight Out 1990
as Dan Hood
Montana 1990
as Hoyce Guthrie
Murder in Black and White 1990
as Frank Janek
Stuck with Each Other 1989
as Bert Medwick
Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition 1989
as Narrator
The Case of the Hillside Stranglers 1989
as Sgt. Bob Grogan
Leviathan 1989
as Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson
Internal Affairs 1988
as Frank Janek
Rambo III 1988
as Trautman
Plaza Suite 1987
as Roy Hubley
Kids Like These 1987
as Bob Goodman
Police Story: The Freeway Killings 1987
as Deputy Chief Bob Devers
The High Price of Passion 1986
as Williams Douglas
A Case of Deadly Force 1986
as Lawrence O'Donnell Sr.
Doubletake 1985
as Frank Janek
Summer Rental 1985
as Al Pellet
The Rape of Richard Beck 1985
as Richard Beck
Rambo: First Blood Part II 1985
as Col. Samuel Trautman
The Flamingo Kid 1984
as Phil Brody
Passions 1984
as Richard Kennerly
Squaring the Circle 1984
as The Narrator
Allison Sydney Harrison 1983
Director
Table for Five 1983
as Mitchell
The Magic Statue 1982
Director
First Blood 1982
as Col. Samuel Trautman
The Day the Bubble Burst 1982
as Jesse Livermore
The Making of 'First Blood' 1982
as Self
The Ordeal of Bill Carney 1981
as Mason Rose
Daniel Boone 1981
as Daniel Boone
Body Heat 1981
as Edmund Walker
Musical Comedy Tonight II 1981
as Self
Fugitive Family 1980
as Brian Roberts
- Joshua's World
Joshua's World 1980
as Dr. Joshua Torrance
Death Ship 1980
as Trevor Marshall
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure 1979
as William Brewster
Better Late Than Never 1979
Director
Stone Cold Dead 1979
as Sgt. Boyd
Wild Horse Hank 1979
as Pace Bradford
A Fire in the Sky 1978
as Jason Voight
First, You Cry 1978
as David Towers
Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell 1978
as Mike Barry
The Evil 1978
as C.J. Arnold
The War Between the Tates 1977
as Professor Brian Tate
Breakheart Pass 1975
as Gov. Richard Fairchild
A Girl Named Sooner 1975
as R.J. 'Mac' McHenry
Honky Tonk 1974
as Candy Johnson
Double Solitaire 1974
as Charley Potter
Shootout in a One-Dog Town 1974
as Zack Wells
Nightmare 1974
as Howard Faloon
Jonathan Livingston Seagull 1973
as Father (voice)
Double Indemnity 1973
as Walter Neff
The Man Called Noon 1973
as Noon
Footsteps 1972
as Paddy
Un Flic 1972
as Simon
Thief 1971
as Neal Wilkinson
Catlow 1971
as Cowan
Red Sky at Morning 1971
as Frank Arnold
Doctors' Wives 1971
as Pete Brennan
The Deserter 1970
as Major Wade Brown
Marooned 1969
as Jim Pruett
Midas Run 1969
as Warden
Star! 1968
as Richard Aldrich
Wait Until Dark 1967
as Mike Talman
The Sand Pebbles 1966
as Captain Collins
Made in Paris 1966
as Herb Stone
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! 1965
as John Goldfarb
The Long Lost Life of Edward Smalley 1963
as Edward Smalley
Disneyland '59 1959
as Self
Our Miss Brooks 1956
as Walter Denton
Over-Exposed 1956
as Russell Bassett
It Grows on Trees 1952
as Ralph Bowen
The Pride of St. Louis 1952
as Paul Dean
Red Skies of Montana 1952
as Noxon (uncredited)
Credits from TMDB.