Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 30, 1926
Died
Jan 17, 2003
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Credits
145 titles
Richard Crenna
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