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.
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Movies (40)
Rambo
as Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited)
2008
Out of the Ashes
as Jake Smith
2003
Afganistan: Land in Crisis
as Self
2002
The Day Reagan Was Shot
as Ronald Reagan
2001
By Dawn's Early Light
as Ben Maxwell
2001
Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
as Warren Pierce
2000
To Serve and Protect
as Howard Carr
1999
Wrongfully Accused
as Fergus Falls
1998
Heart Full of Rain
as Arliss Dockett
1997
Deep Family Secrets
as Clay Chadway
1997
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
as Professor Aronnax
1997
Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent
as Himself / Narrator
1997
The Real Las Vegas
as Narrator (voice)
1996
Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah
as John Porter
1996
Sabrina
as Patrick Tyson
1995
Jade
as Governor Edwards
1995
In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy
as Luke Constable Sr.
1995
A Pyromaniac's Love Story
as Tom Lumpke (uncredited)
1995
Janek: The Silent Betrayal
as Frank Janek
1994
Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence
as Jonathan Stone
1994
The Forget-Me-Not Murders
as Frank Janek
1994
Hot Shots! Part Deux
as Col. Denton Walters
1993
Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
1993
A Place to Be Loved
as George Russ
1993
Terror on Track 9
as Det. Frank Janek
1992
And the Sea Will Tell
as Vincent Bugliosi
1991
Murder Times Seven
as Frank Janek
1990
Last Flight Out
as Dan Hood
1990
Montana
as Hoyce Guthrie
1990
Murder in Black and White
as Frank Janek
1990
Stuck with Each Other
as Bert Medwick
1989
Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition
as Narrator
1989
The Case of the Hillside Stranglers
as Sgt. Bob Grogan
1989
Leviathan
as Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson
1989
Internal Affairs
as Frank Janek
1988
Rambo III
as Trautman
1988
Plaza Suite
as Roy Hubley
1987
Kids Like These
as Bob Goodman
1987
Police Story: The Freeway Killings
as Deputy Chief Bob Devers
1987
The High Price of Passion
as Williams Douglas
1986
TV Shows (10)
Judging Amy
as Jared Duff
1999
To Serve and Protect
as Howard Carr
1999
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
JAG
as Harmon Rabb Sr. (voice)
1995
Chicago Hope
as Martin Rockwell
1994
Intruders
as Dr. Neil Chase
1992
Pros and Cons
as Mitch O'Hannon
1991
And the Sea Will Tell
1991
Gabriel's Fire
1990
On Wings of Eagles
as H. Ross Perot
1986