Richard Crenna
Born in Los Angeles, California, USA — Nov 30 1926• Died Jan 17 2003
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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…
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Richard Crenna's Credits
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JAG
Harmon Rabb Sr. (voice)
The Andy Griffith Show
Directing
Chicago Hope
Martin Rockwell
Judging Amy
Jared Duff
The Rockford Files
Directing
I Love Lucy
Arthur Morton
Matinee Theater
Cheyenne
The Carol Burnett Show
Self
Lou Grant
Directing
People's Choice Awards
Self - Host
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Edward Smalley
The Millionaire
Ralph McKnight
The Real McCoys
Luke McCoy
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self
The Danny Kaye Show
Self
Rambo
Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited)
First Blood
Col. Samuel Trautman
Centennial
Colonel Frank Skimmerhorn
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Col. Samuel Trautman
Rambo III
Trautman
Vacation Playhouse
Directing
Frontier
Our Miss Brooks
Walter Denton
Sabrina
Patrick Tyson
Gabriel's Fire
Body Heat
Edmund Walker
All's Fair
Slattery's People
James Slattery
Hot Shots! Part Deux
Col. Denton Walters
It Takes Two
Wendy and Me
Directing
Jade
Governor Edwards
Intruders
Dr. Neil Chase
The Sand Pebbles
Captain Collins
Summer Fun
Directing
Wrongfully Accused
Fergus Falls
Leviathan
Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson
No Time for Sergeants
Directing
Breakheart Pass
Gov. Richard Fairchild
On Wings of Eagles
H. Ross Perot
Grandpa Goes to Washington
Directing
Marooned
Jim Pruett
Montana
Hoyce Guthrie
Summer Rental
Al Pellet
E! True Hollywood Story
Turnabout
Directing
Star!
Richard Aldrich
James at 16
Directing
Pros and Cons
Mitch O'Hannon
The Flamingo Kid
Phil Brody
Doubletake
Frank Janek
Wait Until Dark
Mike Talman
Passions
Richard Kennerly
Rosetti and Ryan
Directing
And the Sea Will Tell
Vincent Bugliosi
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
John Goldfarb
A Cop
Simon
The Day the Bubble Burst
Jesse Livermore
Death Ship
Trevor Marshall
Catlow
Cowan
Doctors' Wives
Pete Brennan
Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
Warren Pierce
The Rape of Richard Beck
Richard Beck
Midas Run
Mike Warden
Table for Five
Mitchell
The Day Reagan Was Shot
Ronald Reagan
Honky Tonk
Candy Johnson
Better Late Than Never
Directing
Footsteps
Paddy
Murder Times Seven
Frank Janek
Thief
Neal Wilkinson
Our Miss Brooks
Walter Denton
Red Skies of Montana
Noxon (uncredited)
A Fire in the Sky
Jason Voight
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Father (voice)
Wild Horse Hank
Pace Bradford
Stone Cold Dead
Sgt. Boyd
Last Flight Out
Dan Hood
The Ordeal of Bill Carney
Mason Rose
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
William Brewster
The Deserter
Major Wade Brown
Made in Paris
Herb Stone
Out of the Ashes
Jake Smith
Allison Sydney Harrison
Directing
Musical Comedy Tonight II
Self
The Evil
C.J. Arnold
Over-Exposed
Russell Bassett
Police Story: The Freeway Killings
Deputy Chief Bob Devers
Squaring the Circle
The Narrator
To Serve and Protect
Howard Carr
By Dawn's Early Light
Ben Maxwell
The Magic Statue
Directing
Double Indemnity
Walter Neff
A Place to Be Loved
George Russ
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Professor Aronnax
The Case of the Hillside Stranglers
Sgt. Bob Grogan
A Pyromaniac's Love Story
Tom Lumpke (uncredited)
Terror on Track 9
Det. Frank Janek
Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence
Jonathan Stone
First, You Cry
David Towers
Internal Affairs
Frank Janek
The War Between the Tates
Professor Brian Tate
Red Sky at Morning
Frank Arnold
And the Sea Will Tell
Vincent Bugliosi
A Girl Named Sooner
R.J. 'Mac' McHenry
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
Zack Wells
The Forget-Me-Not Murders
Frank Janek
Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell
Mike Barry
Disneyland '59
Self
Murder in Black and White
Frank Janek
The High Price of Passion
Williams Douglas
A Case of Deadly Force
Lawrence O'Donnell Sr.
Deep Family Secrets
Clay Chadway
The Man Called Noon
Noon
Janek: The Silent Betrayal
Frank Janek
To Serve and Protect
Howard Carr
Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone
In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy
Luke Constable Sr.
Stuck with Each Other
Bert Medwick
Kids Like These
Bob Goodman
Nightmare
Howard Faloon
Fugitive Family
Brian Roberts
Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah
John Porter
Afganistan: Land in Crisis
Self
Plaza Suite
Roy Hubley
It Grows on Trees
Ralph Bowen
Heart Full of Rain
Arliss Dockett
The Pride of St. Louis
Paul Dean
Double Solitaire
Charley Potter
Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
Joshua's World
Dr. Joshua Torrance
Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition
Narrator
The Real Las Vegas
Narrator (voice)
Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent
Himself / Narrator