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Richard Crenna

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1926-11-30

Day of Death

2003-01-17

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

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.

Filmography (95)

⭐ 6.7 Role: Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited)

Rambo

2008
⭐ 6.2 Role: Jake Smith

Out of the Ashes

2003
⭐ 9.0 Role: Self

Afganistan: Land in Crisis

2002
⭐ 6.5 Role: Ronald Reagan

The Day Reagan Was Shot

2001
⭐ 6.0 Role: Ben Maxwell

By Dawn's Early Light

2001
⭐ 6.8 Role: Warren Pierce

Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For

2000
⭐ 6.7 Role: Howard Carr

To Serve and Protect

1999
⭐ 6.0 Role: Fergus Falls

Wrongfully Accused

1998
⭐ 5.3 Role: Arliss Dockett

Heart Full of Rain

1997
⭐ 3.5 Role: Clay Chadway

Deep Family Secrets

1997
⭐ 5.8 Role: Professor Aronnax

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

1997
⭐ 0 Role: Himself / Narrator

Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent

1997
⭐ 9.0 Role: Narrator (voice)

The Real Las Vegas

1996
⭐ 7.0 Role: John Porter

Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah

1996
⭐ 6.2 Role: Patrick Tyson

Sabrina

1995