Richard Crenna

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1926-11-30 (77 years old)

Deathday

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 th...

Acting

1985

Rambo: First Blood Part II

as Col. Samuel Trautman

1982

First Blood

as Col. Samuel Trautman

1988

Rambo III

as Trautman

1997

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

as Professor Aronnax

1967

Wait Until Dark

as Mike Talman

1966

The Sand Pebbles

as Captain Collins

1975

Breakheart Pass

as Gov. Richard Fairchild

1995

Jade

as Governor Edwards

1980

Death Ship

as Trevor Marshall

1984

The Flamingo Kid

as Phil Brody

1956

Over-Exposed

as Russell Bassett

1993

Hot Shots! Part Deux

as Col. Denton Walters

1969

Marooned

as Jim Pruett

1981

Body Heat

as Edmund Walker

1979

Stone Cold Dead

as Sgt. Boyd

1989

Leviathan

as Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson

1982

The Day the Bubble Burst

as Jesse Livermore

1972

A Cop

as Simon

1978

The Evil

as C.J. Arnold

1993

A Place to Be Loved

as George Russ

2003

Out of the Ashes

as Jake Smith

1985

Summer Rental

as Al Pellet

2001

The Day Reagan Was Shot

as Ronald Reagan

1968

Star!

as Richard Aldrich

1971

Catlow

as Cowan

1973

Double Indemnity

as Walter Neff

1956

Our Miss Brooks

as Walter Denton

1985

1971

Red Sky at Morning

as Frank Arnold

1966

Made in Paris

as Herb Stone

1970

The Deserter

as Major Wade Brown

1971

Doctors' Wives

as Pete Brennan

1986

A Case of Deadly Force

as Lawrence O'Donnell Sr.

1969

Midas Run

as Mike Warden

1995

1997

Deep Family Secrets

as Clay Chadway

1971

Thief

as Neal Wilkinson

1952

It Grows on Trees

as Ralph Bowen

1983

Table for Five

as Mitchell

1991

And the Sea Will Tell

as Vincent Bugliosi

1995

Sabrina

as Patrick Tyson

1974

Double Solitaire

as Charley Potter

1989

Stuck with Each Other

as Bert Medwick

1979

Wild Horse Hank

as Pace Bradford

1986

The High Price of Passion

as Williams Douglas

2023

Sly

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2001

By Dawn's Early Light

as Ben Maxwell

1990

Last Flight Out

as Dan Hood

1978

A Fire in the Sky

as Jason Voight

1952

Red Skies of Montana

as Noxon (uncredited)

1979

1994

1952

1973

1980

Joshua's World

as Dr. Joshua Torrance

1975

A Girl Named Sooner

as R.J. 'Mac' McHenry

1981

1984

Passions

as Richard Kennerly

1990

Montana

as Hoyce Guthrie

1999

To Serve and Protect

as Howard Carr

1972

Footsteps

as Paddy

1984

Squaring the Circle

as The Narrator

1990

Murder Times Seven

as Frank Janek

1987

Kids Like These

as Bob Goodman

1990

1981

Daniel Boone

as Daniel Boone

1980

Fugitive Family

as Brian Roberts

1987

Police Story: The Freeway Killings

as Deputy Chief Bob Devers

1987

Plaza Suite

as Roy Hubley

1988

Internal Affairs

as Frank Janek

1998

Wrongfully Accused

as Fergus Falls

1985

Doubletake

as Frank Janek

1974

Nightmare

as Howard Faloon

2008

Rambo

as Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited)

1992

Terror on Track 9

as Det. Frank Janek

1978

First, You Cry

as David Towers

1959

1994

1974

Honky Tonk

as Candy Johnson

1977

The War Between the Tates

as Professor Brian Tate

1997

Heart Full of Rain

as Arliss Dockett

Production

1982

The Magic Statue

as Director

1979

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