Richard Crenna
1926-2003
Known for First Blood, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Rambo III.
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.
Movie Credits
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997)
Deep Family Secrets (1997)
Montana (1990)
The Case of the Hillside Stranglers (1989)
Internal Affairs (1988)
Police Story: The Freeway Killings (1987)
The Rape of Richard Beck (1985)
Stone Cold Dead (1979)
Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978)
The Evil (1978)
The Man Called Noon (1973)
Midas Run (1969)
The Day Reagan Was Shot (2001)
Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For (2000)
Wrongfully Accused (1998)
Leviathan (1989)
Rambo III (1988)
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
Summer Rental (1985)
First Blood (1982)
Death Ship (1980)
A Cop (1972)
Catlow (1971)
Doctors' Wives (1971)
Marooned (1969)
Star! (1968)
Over-Exposed (1956)
In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy (1995)
Body Heat (1981)
Breakheart Pass (1975)
The Deserter (1970)
Wait Until Dark (1967)
Made in Paris (1966)
The Sand Pebbles (1966)
Jade (1995)
Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)
Table for Five (1983)
Red Sky at Morning (1971)
The Pride of St. Louis (1952)
Out of the Ashes (2003)
The Flamingo Kid (1984)
Sabrina (1995)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973)
Disneyland '59 (1959)
Our Miss Brooks (1956)
Red Skies of Montana (1952)
A Pyromaniac's Love Story (1995)