Richard Crenna
Date of birth: 1926-11-30
Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Dick Crenna, Richard McKenna, Charley Weaver, Richard Donald 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.
Movie Credits
First Blood
1982-10-22
When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, h
Rambo: First Blood Part II
1985-05-21
John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last pla
Rambo III
1988-05-24
Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When
Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
1993-05-20
As part of the film's promotion, a mockumentary was aired on HBO. Titled Hearts of Hot Shots! Part D
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1997-03-23
In the 19th century, an expert marine biologist is hired by the government to determine what's sinki
Wait Until Dark
1967-10-26
After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As i
The Sand Pebbles
1966-12-20
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the
Breakheart Pass
1975-12-09
At the height of the frontier era, a train races through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission
Jade
1995-10-13
When a prominent art dealer is found murdered, the man's death leads to an intriguing investigation
Death Ship
1980-03-07
Survivors of a tragic shipping collision are rescued by a mysterious black ship which appears out of
The Flamingo Kid
1984-12-21
Brooklyn teenager Jeffrey Willis, thoroughly unhappy with his modest homestead, embraces the other-w
Over-Exposed
1956-04-01
This titillating bit of pulp sensationalism was the last in a string of "B" films that Cleo Moore st
Hot Shots! Part Deux
1993-05-21
Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a re
Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell
1978-10-31
A dog that is a minion of Satan terrorizes a suburban family.
Marooned
1969-12-11
After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to Earth only t
Body Heat
1981-08-28
During an extreme heatwave, a beautiful Florida woman and a seedy lawyer engage in an affair while p
Stone Cold Dead
1979-09-14
Sergeant Boyd's police search to find a sniper who has been shooting hookers.
Leviathan
1989-03-17
Underwater deep-sea miners encounter a Soviet wreck and bring back a dangerous cargo to their base o
The Day the Bubble Burst
1982-02-07
A fictionalized account of how the 1929 stock market crash hurt the elite and the struggling, and th
A Cop
1972-10-01
A Parisian police chief has an affair, but unbeknownst to him, the boyfriend of the woman he’s havin
The Evil
1978-05-05
Shortly after moving into a dark, brooding mansion, a psychologist and his co-workers are terrorized
Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition
1989-09-18
Robert B. Weide's 1989 documentary on the comedian Mort Sahl.
A Place to Be Loved
1993-04-04
Gregory Kingsley, a boy passed off onto social services by his natural mother and abused by his natu
Out of the Ashes
2003-04-13
The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz
Summer Rental
1985-08-09
Jack Chester, an overworked air traffic controller, takes his family on vacation to the beach. Thing
The Day Reagan Was Shot
2001-12-09
The Day Reagan Was Shot is a 2001 film made for television directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh. The film sta
Star!
1968-07-18
Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.
Catlow
1971-10-01
An outlaw tries to avoid interference as he journeys to Mexico to pull off a $2,000,000 gold robbery
Double Indemnity
1973-10-13
A scheming wife lures an insurance investigator into helping murder her husband and then declare it
Our Miss Brooks
1956-04-24
The big-screen translation of the successful television show of the 1950's. Arden stars as Connie Br
The Rape of Richard Beck
1985-05-27
The tables turn for cynical police officer Richard Beck when he's viciously attacked by two homicida
Red Sky at Morning
1971-05-12
Before going off to World War II, Frank Arnold (Richard Crenna) relocates his wife, Ann (Claire Bloo
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
1965-03-24
During the Cold War, John Goldfarb crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by
Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah
1996-01-01
The true story of the disappearance of Sarah Porter. With no help from the police, Sarah's parents a
Made in Paris
1966-02-09
A pretty fashion buyer visiting Paris on business is courted by a famous designer. Boris Sagal's 196
The Deserter
1970-12-04
A young cavalry officer finds his woman tortured by the Apaches and blames the Army for not properly
The Man Called Noon
1973-08-29
Noon is a gunfighter who has become amnesiac. Helped by Rimes, an outlaw who has befriended him, he
Doctors' Wives
1971-02-03
The wives of several high-powered doctors feel neglected due to their husbands' focus on their caree
A Case of Deadly Force
1986-04-09
Fact-based story about a 1975 cover-up of a shooting by two white members of the Boston Tactical Uni
Midas Run
1969-05-07
A veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of gold o
In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy
1995-09-12
This is a story of two lovers, Luke and Laurette. Luke is the grandson of a rich Texas family who ra
Deep Family Secrets
1997-04-15
A tale of hidden family scandals. A young woman journeys back to her birthplace and discovers that m
Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
2000-05-18
Jessica Fletcher, lecturing at a writers' conference, finds herself called on to solve the killing o
The Case of the Hillside Stranglers
1989-04-02
The chilling true story of the "two of a kind" killing cousins, Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, be
Thief
1971-10-09
A professional thief tries to break with his past but has to pull off one last job to pay off a gamb
Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence
1994-05-18
Still in mourning over the loss of his wife, former cop Jonathan stone moves to Washington. However
It Grows on Trees
1952-09-02
The Baxters are a typical happy American family trying to live on too little money. Mrs. Polly Baxte
Table for Five
1983-02-18
J.P. Tannen (Jon Voight) wants a second chance to be a father to his children ... but someone else h
And the Sea Will Tell
1991-02-24
A wealthy couple (James Brolin and Deidre Hall) are killed on their yacht off the coast of a seclude
Sabrina
1995-12-15
Sabrina Fairchild, a chauffeur's daughter, grew up at the Long Island estate of the wealthy Larrabee
Double Solitaire
1974-01-16
With his parents about to celebrate their wedding anniversary, a middle-aged husband agrees to renew
Stuck with Each Other
1989-10-17
When their stingy boss suddenly drops dead, two coworkers decide to split the million in cash in his
Wild Horse Hank
1979-01-01
A teenage girl tries to save a herd of wild horses from a local gang intending on capturing and sell
The High Price of Passion
1986-10-29
A college professor becomes obsessed with a prostitute.
By Dawn's Early Light
2001-04-15
When Mike Lewis leaves L.A. to stay with his grandfather in Colorado for the summer, he hates the ol
Last Flight Out
1990-05-22
Fact-based story set in Saigon on April, 1975, shortly after U.S. combat troops have withdrawn, and
A Fire in the Sky
1978-11-26
Astronomers discover a comet that they believe will crash into Phoenix, Arizona. They attempt to war
Red Skies of Montana
1952-01-23
When a large forest fire breaks out in the mountains of Montana, a squad of 'Smoke Jumpers', the par
Afganistan: Land in Crisis
2002-05-28
Produced for the "Rambo III" Special Edition DVD.
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
1979-11-21
In 1620, the Assembly of the Pilgrims decides to emigrate to the young America because of the persec
Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent
1997-01-14
Host Richard Crenna reviews various theories on the existence of a site for the legendary Atlantis d
The Forget-Me-Not Murders
1994-03-29
A detective tries to track down a serial killer who is thought to be targeting the policeman's god-d
The Pride of St. Louis
1952-05-02
The story of Jerome "Dizzy" Dean, a major-league baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals and Ch
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
1973-10-23
Jonathan is sick and tired of the boring life in his seagull clan. He rather experiments with new, a
Joshua's World
1980-08-21
The pilot story, set in the small town of Strawee, Arkansas in the '30s, follows the experiences of
A Girl Named Sooner
1975-06-18
A young girl in the hills of Indiana, who had been abandoned by her family and raised by a bootleggi
The Ordeal of Bill Carney
1981-12-23
Bill Carney has just been paralyzed from the neck down. He has been taking care of his two sons sinc
Passions
1984-10-01
A man with a wife and daughter also has a son with another woman. When he dies this little secret is
Montana
1990-02-09
Hoyce and Bess Guthrie are long married Montana ranchers who come to a major crossroads in their liv
To Serve and Protect
1999-02-14
Three generations of Dallas police officers join together to track down the deadliest serial killer
Footsteps
1972-10-03
A football coach is hired by a small college to shape up its football team, and he finds himself in
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
1974-01-09
A small-town banker is forced to protect his town against a vicious gang of bank robbers determined
Squaring the Circle
1984-05-23
An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dic
Murder Times Seven
1990-10-14
For the third time, Lieutenant Janek is forced to face alone a difficult case, which has some brutal
Kids Like These
1987-11-08
Bob and Joanna, both over 40 years old, have a baby with the Down syndrome. Their doctor advises the
Murder in Black and White
1990-01-07
A recently appointed black police commissioner is killed. So, Frank Janek is assigned to investigate
Daniel Boone
1981-11-27
An animated special that presents highlights of the life of Daniel Boone, the famous American trailb
Fugitive Family
1980-10-01
To the world Brian Roberts looks like a successful businessman, with a lovely wife and two children
Police Story: The Freeway Killings
1987-05-03
Thriller/Drama about LAPD detectives tracking down two serial killers who are murdering hookers.
Plaza Suite
1987-12-03
Hilarity abounds in this portrait of three couples successively occupying a suite at the Plaza.
Internal Affairs
1988-11-06
A skilled police detective in a case involving the strange, sadistic murder of a young prostitute wh
Wrongfully Accused
1998-07-23
Ryan Harrison, a violin god, superstar and sex symbol does not want to cheat on sexy Lauren Goodhue'
Doubletake
1985-11-24
Two corpses are found in different locations with their heads severed and exchanged. Frank Janek is
Nightmare
1974-01-08
A murder witness can't convince the police that the killer lives in the apartment across the courtya
Rambo
2008-01-24
In Thailand, ex-Green Beret John James Rambo joins a group of mercenaries to venture into war-torn n
Terror on Track 9
1992-09-20
A New York detective tracks a serial killer who injects his victims with poison at Grand Central Sta
First, You Cry
1978-11-08
The story of television news correspondent Betty Rollin and her battle with breast cancer, and how h
Disneyland '59
1959-06-15
Walt Disney and Art Linkletter co-host a live celebration of Disneyland's 1959 expansion that consis
Janek: The Silent Betrayal
1994-12-20
Police lieutenant Frank Janek is investigating a series of murders in a building owned by a famous B
Honky Tonk
1974-04-01
In the wild west con-man 'Candy' Johnson heads to Nevada to set up his own gambling den and teams up
Musical Comedy Tonight II
1981-02-11
A tribute to American musical theater, featuring scenes from "Show Boat", "South Pacific," "Sweet Ch
The War Between the Tates
1977-06-13
A college professor's well-ordered life is disrupted when his wife discovers he is having an affair
Heart Full of Rain
1997-10-05
A young man returns to the family farm after being gone for six years. But it is not until he fights
The Real Las Vegas
1996-12-01
The Real Las Vegas tells the fascinating story of this fabled place and the people who created it. F
A Pyromaniac's Love Story
1995-04-28
A pastry boy and the son of a hair-piece mogul become involved in an arson scandal. Sergio is offere