Richard Crenna
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Crenna, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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- Born:
- Nov 30, 1926 In Los Angeles, California, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 111
- First Appeared:
- In the series I Love Lucy 1951-10-15
- Latest Project:
- Movie Internal Affairs 2022
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Internal Affairs | Frank Janek | 2022 |
| Movie | Rambo | Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2008-01-24 |
| Movie | Out of the Ashes | Jake Smith | 2003-04-13 |
| Movie | Drawing First Blood | Himself | 2002-05-28 |
| Movie | By Dawn's Early Light | Ben Maxwell | 2001-04-15 |
| Movie | The Day Reagan Was Shot | Ronald Reagan | 2001-12-09 |
| Movie | Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For | Warren Pierce | 2000-05-18 |
| Movie | To Serve and Protect | Howard Carr | 1999-02-14 |
| Series | Judging Amy | Jared Duff | 1999-09-19 |
| Movie | Wrongfully Accused | Lieutenant Fergus Falls | 1998-07-23 |
| Movie | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Professor Aronnax | 1997-03-23 |
| Movie | Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent | Himself / Narrator | 1997-01-14 |
| Movie | Deep Family Secrets | Clay Chadway | 1997-04-15 |
| Movie | Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah | John Porter | 1996-01-01 |
| Series | E! True Hollywood Story | Unknown | 1996-03-29 |
| Series | JAG | Harmon Rabb Sr. (voice) | 1995-09-23 |
| Movie | In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy | Luke Constable Sr. | 1995-09-12 |
| Movie | Jade | Governor Edwards | 1995-10-13 |
| Movie | Sabrina | Patrick Tyson | 1995-12-15 |
| Series | Chicago Hope | Unknown | 1994-09-18 |
| Movie | The Forget-Me-Not Murders | Frank Janek | 1994-03-29 |
| Movie | The Silent Betrayal | Frank Janek | 1994-12-20 |
| Movie | A Place To Be Loved | George Russ | 1993-04-04 |
| Movie | Hot Shots! Part Deux | Col. Denton Walters | 1993-05-21 |
| Series | Intruders | Dr. Neil Chase | 1992-05-17 |
| Movie | Terror on Track 9 | Det. Frank Janek | 1992-09-20 |
| Movie | And the Sea Will Tell | Vincent Bugliosi | 1991-04-24 |
| Series | Pros and Cons | Mitch O'Hannon | 1991-09-26 |
| Movie | Murder in Black and White | Frank Janek | 1990-01-07 |
| Movie | Montana | Hoyce Guthrie | 1990-02-09 |
| Movie | Last Flight Out | Dan Hood | 1990-05-22 |
| Movie | Murder Times Seven | Frank Janek | 1990-10-14 |
| Series | Gabriel's Fire | Unknown | 1990-09-12 |
| Movie | Leviathan | Dr. Glen Thompson | 1989-03-17 |
| Movie | The Case of the Hillside Stranglers | Sgt. Bob Grogan | 1989-04-02 |
| Movie | Rambo III | Trautman | 1988-05-24 |
| Movie | Police Story: The Freeway Killings | Deputy Chief Bob Devers | 1987-05-03 |
| Movie | Kids Like These | Bob Goodman | 1987-11-08 |
| Movie | Plaza Suite | Roy Hubley | 1987-12-03 |
| Movie | A Case of Deadly Force | Lawrence O'Donnell Sr. | 1986-04-09 |
| Series | On Wings Of Eagles | H. Ross Perot | 1986-05-18 |
| Movie | The High Price of Passion | Williams Douglas | 1986-10-29 |
| Movie | Rambo: First Blood Part II | Col. Samuel Trautman | 1985-05-21 |
| Movie | The Rape of Richard Beck | Richard Beck | 1985-05-27 |
| Movie | Summer Rental | Al Pellet | 1985-08-09 |
| Movie | Doubletake | Frank Janek | 1985-11-24 |
| Series | Janek | Lieutenant Frank Janek | 1985-11-24 |
| Movie | Squaring the Circle | The Narrator | 1984-05-23 |
| Movie | The Flamingo Kid | Phil Brody | 1984-12-21 |
| Movie | Passions | Richard Kennerly | 1984-10-01 |
| Movie | Table for Five | Mitchell | 1983-02-18 |
| Series | It Takes Two | Unknown | 1982-10-14 |
| Movie | First Blood | Col. Samuel Trautman | 1982-10-22 |
| Movie | Musical Comedy Tonight II | Unknown | 1981-02-11 |
| Series | Sylvia Fine Kaye's Musical Comedy Tonight II | Self | 1981-02-11 |
| Movie | Body Heat | Edmund Walker | 1981-08-28 |
| Movie | The Ordeal of Bill Carney | Mason Rose | 1981-11-23 |
| Movie | Daniel Boone | Daniel Boone | 1981-11-27 |
| Movie | Death Ship | Trevor Marshall | 1980-03-07 |
| Movie | Fugitive Family | Brian Roberts / Matthews | 1980-10-01 |
| Movie | Wild Horse Hank | Pace Bradford | 1979-01-01 |
| Movie | Stone Cold Dead | Sgt. Boyd | 1979-09-14 |
| Movie | Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure | William Brewster | 1979-11-21 |
| Series | Musical Comedy Tonight | Self | 1979-10-01 |
| Series | Centennial | Colonel Frank Skimmerhorn | 1978-10-01 |
| Movie | Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell | Mike Barry | 1978-10-31 |
| Movie | The Evil | C.J. Arnold | 1978-05-05 |
| Movie | A Fire in the Sky | Jason Voight | 1978-11-26 |
| Movie | First, You Cry | David Towers | 1978-11-08 |
| Series | All's Fair | Unknown | 1976-09-20 |
| Movie | Breakheart Pass | Governor Fairchild | 1975-12-25 |
| Movie | A Girl Named Sooner | R.J. 'Mac' McHenry | 1975-06-18 |
| Movie | Nightmare | Howard Faloon | 1974-01-08 |
| Movie | Shootout in a One-Dog Town | Unknown | 1974-01-09 |
| Movie | Honky Tonk | Candy Johnson | 1974-04-01 |
| Movie | Double Indemnity | Walter Neff | 1973-10-13 |
| Movie | The Man Called Noon | Noon | 1973-08-29 |
| Movie | Jonathan Livingston Seagull | Father | 1973-10-23 |
| Movie | Un Flic | Simon | 1972-09-30 |
| Movie | Footsteps | Paddy | 1972-10-03 |
| Movie | Red Sky at Morning | Frank Arnold | 1971-05-12 |
| Movie | Doctors' Wives | Dr. Peter Brennan | 1971-02-03 |
| Movie | Thief | Neal Wilkinson | 1971-10-09 |
| Movie | Catlow | Cowan | 1971-10-01 |
| Movie | The Deserter | Major Wade Brown | 1970-12-04 |
| Movie | Midas Run | Mike Warden | 1969-05-07 |
| Movie | Marooned | Jim Pruett | 1969-12-11 |
| Series | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | Unknown | 1968-01-22 |
| Movie | Star! | Richard Aldrich, Producer | 1968-07-18 |
| Series | The Carol Burnett Show | Unknown | 1967-09-11 |
| Movie | Wait Until Dark | Mike Talman | 1967-10-26 |
| Movie | Made in Paris | Herb Stone | 1966-02-09 |
| Movie | The Sand Pebbles | Captain Collins | 1966-12-20 |
| Movie | John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! | John Goldfarb | 1965-03-24 |
| Series | Slattery's People | Unknown | 1964-09-21 |
| Series | The Danny Kaye Show | Self | 1963-09-25 |
| Series | Kraft Suspense Theatre | Unknown | 1963-10-10 |
| Series | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Unknown | 1962-10-01 |
| Movie | Disneyland '59 | Self | 1959-06-15 |
| Series | The Real McCoys | Unknown | 1957-10-03 |
| Movie | Our Miss Brooks | Walter Denton | 1956-04-24 |
| Movie | Over-Exposed | Russell Bassett | 1956-04-01 |
| Series | Cheyenne | Unknown | 1955-09-20 |
| Series | The Millionaire | Unknown | 1955-01-19 |
| Series | Frontier | Unknown | 1955-09-25 |
| Series | Matinee Theater | Unknown | 1955-10-31 |
| Movie | The Pride of St. Louis | Paul Dean | 1952-01-01 |
| Movie | Red Skies of Montana | Noxon (uncredited) | 1952-01-23 |
| Movie | It Grows on Trees | Ralph Bowen | 1952-09-02 |
| Series | Our Miss Brooks | Walter Denton | 1952-10-03 |
| Series | I Love Lucy | Arthur Morton | 1951-10-15 |
