1926-11-30 Los Angeles, California, USA
Richard Donald Crenna 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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Rambo | Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2008-01-24 |
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Out of the Ashes | Jake Smith | 2003-04-13 |
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Afganistan: Land in Crisis | Self | 2002-05-28 |
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By Dawn's Early Light | Ben Maxwell | 2001-04-15 |
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The Day Reagan Was Shot | Ronald Reagan | 2001-12-09 |
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Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For | Warren Pierce | 2000-05-18 |
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To Serve and Protect | Howard Carr | 1999-02-14 |
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Wrongfully Accused | Fergus Falls | 1998-07-23 |
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Heart Full of Rain | Arliss Dockett | 1997-10-05 |
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Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent | Himself / Narrator | 1997-01-14 |
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Professor Aronnax | 1997-03-23 |
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Deep Family Secrets | Clay Chadway | 1997-04-15 |
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Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah | John Porter | 1996-01-01 |
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Jade | Governor Edwards | 1995-10-13 |
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In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy | Luke Constable Sr. | 1995-09-12 |
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Sabrina | Patrick Tyson | 1995-12-15 |
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Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence | Jonathan Stone | 1994-05-18 |
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The Forget-Me-Not Murders | Frank Janek | 1994-03-29 |
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Janek: The Silent Betrayal | Frank Janek | 1994-12-20 |
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Hot Shots! Part Deux | Col. Denton Walters | 1993-05-21 |
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A Place to Be Loved | George Russ | 1993-04-04 |
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Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology | 1993-05-20 | |
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Terror on Track 9 | Det. Frank Janek | 1992-09-20 |
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And the Sea Will Tell | Vincent Bugliosi | 1991-02-24 |
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Last Flight Out | Dan Hood | 1990-05-22 |
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Montana | Hoyce Guthrie | 1990-02-09 |
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Murder Times Seven | Frank Janek | 1990-10-14 |
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Murder in Black and White | Frank Janek | 1990-01-07 |
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Leviathan | Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson | 1989-03-17 |
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Stuck with Each Other | Bert Medwick | 1989-10-17 |
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The Case of the Hillside Stranglers | Sgt. Bob Grogan | 1989-04-02 |
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Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition | Narrator | 1989-09-18 |
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Rambo III | Trautman | 1988-05-24 |
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Internal Affairs | Frank Janek | 1988-11-06 |
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Kids Like These | Bob Goodman | 1987-11-08 |
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Police Story: The Freeway Killings | Deputy Chief Bob Devers | 1987-05-03 |
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Plaza Suite | Roy Hubley | 1987-12-03 |
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The High Price of Passion | Williams Douglas | 1986-10-29 |
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A Case of Deadly Force | Lawrence O'Donnell Sr. | 1986-04-09 |
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Summer Rental | Al Pellet | 1985-08-09 |
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Doubletake | Frank Janek | 1985-11-24 |
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Rambo: First Blood Part II | Col. Samuel Trautman | 1985-05-21 |
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The Rape of Richard Beck | Richard Beck | 1985-05-27 |
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Squaring the Circle | The Narrator | 1984-05-23 |
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Passions | Richard Kennerly | 1984-10-01 |
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The Flamingo Kid | Phil Brody | 1984-12-21 |
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Table for Five | Mitchell | 1983-02-18 |
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First Blood | Col. Samuel Trautman | 1982-10-22 |
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The Day the Bubble Burst | Jesse Livermore | 1982-02-07 |
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The Ordeal of Bill Carney | Mason Rose | 1981-12-23 |
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Musical Comedy Tonight II | Self | 1981-02-11 |
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Daniel Boone | Daniel Boone | 1981-11-27 |
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Body Heat | Edmund Walker | 1981-08-28 |
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Joshua's World | Dr. Joshua Torrance | 1980-08-21 |
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Fugitive Family | Brian Roberts | 1980-10-01 |
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Death Ship | Trevor Marshall | 1980-03-07 |
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Stone Cold Dead | Sgt. Boyd | 1979-09-14 |
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Wild Horse Hank | Pace Bradford | 1979-01-01 |
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Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure | William Brewster | 1979-11-21 |
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First, You Cry | David Towers | 1978-11-08 |
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Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell | Mike Barry | 1978-10-31 |
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The Evil | C.J. Arnold | 1978-05-05 |
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A Fire in the Sky | Jason Voight | 1978-11-26 |
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The War Between the Tates | Professor Brian Tate | 1977-06-13 |
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Breakheart Pass | Gov. Richard Fairchild | 1975-12-09 |
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A Girl Named Sooner | R.J. 'Mac' McHenry | 1975-06-18 |
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Double Solitaire | Charley Potter | 1974-01-16 |
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Honky Tonk | Candy Johnson | 1974-04-01 |
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Nightmare | Howard Faloon | 1974-01-08 |
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Shootout in a One-Dog Town | Zack Wells | 1974-01-09 |
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Un hombre llamado Noon | Noon | 1973-08-29 |
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull | Father (voice) | 1973-10-23 |
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Double Indemnity | Walter Neff | 1973-10-13 |
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Footsteps | Paddy | 1972-10-03 |
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Un flic | Simon | 1972-10-01 |
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Thief | Neal Wilkinson | 1971-10-09 |
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Catlow | Cowan | 1971-10-01 |
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Red Sky at Morning | Frank Arnold | 1971-05-12 |
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Doctors' Wives | Pete Brennan | 1971-02-03 |
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The Deserter | Major Wade Brown | 1970-12-04 |
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Marooned | Jim Pruett | 1969-12-11 |
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Midas Run | Mike Warden | 1969-05-07 |
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Star! | Richard Aldrich | 1968-07-18 |
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Wait Until Dark | Mike Talman | 1967-10-26 |
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Made in Paris | Herb Stone | 1966-02-09 |
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The Sand Pebbles | Captain Collins | 1966-12-20 |
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John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! | John Goldfarb | 1965-03-24 |
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Disneyland '59 | Self | 1959-06-15 |
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Our Miss Brooks | Walter Denton | 1956-04-24 |
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Over-Exposed | Russell Bassett | 1956-04-01 |
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It Grows on Trees | Ralph Bowen | 1952-09-02 |
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Red Skies of Montana | Noxon (uncredited) | 1952-01-23 |
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The Pride of St. Louis | Paul Dean | 1952-05-02 |