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Richard Crenna

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Richard Crenna

Born November 30, 1926 in Los Angeles, California, USADied January 17, 200388 films

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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First Blood posterFirst watchFirst Blood19827.5as Col. Samuel TrautmanWhen former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his…View film

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88 films as actor
  1. 2003Out of the AshesJake Smith
  2. 2001The Day Reagan Was ShotRonald Reagan
  3. 2001By Dawn's Early LightBen Maxwell
  4. 2000Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die ForWarren Pierce
  5. 1999To Serve and ProtectHoward Carr
  6. 1998Wrongfully AccusedFergus Falls
  7. 1997Heart Full of RainArliss Dockett
  8. 1997Deep Family SecretsClay Chadway
  9. 199720,000 Leagues Under the SeaProfessor Aronnax
  10. 1996Race Against Time: The Search for SarahJohn Porter
  11. 1995SabrinaPatrick Tyson
  12. 1995JadeGovernor Edwards
  13. 1995In the Name of Love: A Texas TragedyLuke Constable Sr.
  14. 1995A Pyromaniac's Love StoryTom Lumpke (uncredited)
  15. 1994Janek: The Silent BetrayalFrank Janek
  16. 1994Jonathan Stone: Threat of InnocenceJonathan Stone
  17. 1994The Forget-Me-Not MurdersFrank Janek
  18. 1993Hot Shots! Part DeuxCol. Denton Walters
  19. 1993A Place to Be LovedGeorge Russ
  20. 1992Terror on Track 9Det. Frank Janek
  21. 1991And the Sea Will TellVincent Bugliosi
  22. 1990Murder Times SevenFrank Janek
  23. 1990Last Flight OutDan Hood
  24. 1990MontanaHoyce Guthrie
  25. 1990Murder in Black and WhiteFrank Janek
  26. 1989Stuck with Each OtherBert Medwick
  27. 1989The Case of the Hillside StranglersSgt. Bob Grogan
  28. 1989LeviathanDr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson
  29. 1988Internal AffairsFrank Janek
  30. 1988Rambo IIITrautman
  31. 1987Plaza SuiteRoy Hubley
  32. 1987Kids Like TheseBob Goodman
  33. 1987Police Story: The Freeway KillingsDeputy Chief Bob Devers
  34. 1986The High Price of PassionWilliams Douglas
  35. 1986A Case of Deadly ForceLawrence O'Donnell Sr.
  36. 1985DoubletakeFrank Janek
  37. 1985Summer RentalAl Pellet
  38. 1985The Rape of Richard BeckRichard Beck
  39. 1985Rambo: First Blood Part IICol. Samuel Trautman
  40. 1984The Flamingo KidPhil Brody
  41. 1984PassionsRichard Kennerly
  42. 1984Squaring the CircleThe Narrator
  43. 1983Table for FiveMitchell
  44. 1982First BloodCol. Samuel Trautman
  45. 1982The Day the Bubble BurstJesse Livermore
  46. 1981The Ordeal of Bill CarneyMason Rose
  47. 1981Daniel BooneDaniel Boone
  48. 1981Body HeatEdmund Walker
  49. 1980Fugitive FamilyBrian Roberts
  50. 1980Joshua's WorldDr. Joshua Torrance
  51. 1980Death ShipTrevor Marshall
  52. 1979Mayflower: The Pilgrims' AdventureWilliam Brewster
  53. 1979Stone Cold DeadSgt. Boyd
  54. 1979Wild Horse HankPace Bradford
  55. 1978A Fire in the SkyJason Voight
  56. 1978First, You CryDavid Towers
  57. 1978Devil Dog: The Hound of HellMike Barry
  58. 1978The EvilC.J. Arnold
  59. 1977The War Between the TatesProfessor Brian Tate
  60. 1975Breakheart PassGov. Richard Fairchild
  61. 1975A Girl Named SoonerR.J. 'Mac' McHenry
  62. 1974Honky TonkCandy Johnson
  63. 1974Double SolitaireCharley Potter
  64. 1974Shootout in a One-Dog TownZack Wells
  65. 1974NightmareHoward Faloon
  66. 1973Jonathan Livingston SeagullFather (voice)
  67. 1973Double IndemnityWalter Neff
  68. 1973The Man Called NoonNoon
  69. 1972FootstepsPaddy
  70. 1972Un FlicSimon
  71. 1971ThiefNeal Wilkinson
  72. 1971CatlowCowan
  73. 1971Red Sky at MorningFrank Arnold
  74. 1971Doctors' WivesPete Brennan
  75. 1970The DeserterMajor Wade Brown
  76. 1969MaroonedJim Pruett
  77. 1969Midas RunWarden
  78. 1968Star!Richard Aldrich
  79. 1967Wait Until DarkMike Talman
  80. 1966The Sand PebblesCaptain Collins
  81. 1966Made in ParisHerb Stone
  82. 1965John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!John Goldfarb
  83. 1963The Long Lost Life of Edward SmalleyEdward Smalley
  84. 1956Our Miss BrooksWalter Denton
  85. 1956Over-ExposedRussell Bassett
  86. 1952It Grows on TreesRalph Bowen
  87. 1952The Pride of St. LouisPaul Dean
  88. 1952Red Skies of MontanaNoxon (uncredited)