
Richard Crenna
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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Rambo
as Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited)

Out of the Ashes
as Jake Smith

Afganistan: Land in Crisis
as Self

We Get to Win This Time
as Self

Guts and Glory
as Self

Drawing First Blood: 20 Years Later
as Self

The Day Reagan Was Shot
as Ronald Reagan

By Dawn's Early Light
as Ben Maxwell

Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
as Warren Pierce

Judging Amy
as Jared Duff

To Serve and Protect
as Howard Carr

To Serve and Protect
as Howard Carr

Wrongfully Accused
as Fergus Falls

Heart Full of Rain
as Arliss Dockett

Deep Family Secrets
as Clay Chadway

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
as Professor Aronnax

Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent
as Himself / Narrator

The Real Las Vegas
as Narrator (voice)

E! True Hollywood Story
as Unknown

Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah
as John Porter

Sabrina
as Patrick Tyson

Jade
as Governor Edwards

JAG
as Harmon Rabb Sr. (voice)

In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy
as Luke Constable Sr.

A Pyromaniac's Love Story
as Tom Lumpke (uncredited)

Chicago Hope
as Martin Rockwell

Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence
as Jonathan Stone

The Forget-Me-Not Murders
as Frank Janek

Hot Shots! Part Deux
as Col. Denton Walters

Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
as Unknown

A Place to Be Loved
as George Russ

Terror on Track 9
as Det. Frank Janek

Intruders
as Dr. Neil Chase

Pros and Cons
as Mitch O'Hannon

And the Sea Will Tell
as Vincent Bugliosi

And the Sea Will Tell
as Vincent Bugliosi

Murder Times Seven
as Frank Janek

Gabriel's Fire
as Unknown

Montana
as Hoyce Guthrie

Murder in Black and White
as Frank Janek

Stuck with Each Other
as Bert Medwick

Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition
as Narrator

The Case of the Hillside Stranglers
as Sgt. Bob Grogan

Leviathan
as Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson

Internal Affairs
as Frank Janek

Rambo III
as Trautman

Plaza Suite
as Roy Hubley

Kids Like These
as Bob Goodman

Police Story: The Freeway Killings
as Deputy Chief Bob Devers

The High Price of Passion
as Williams Douglas

On Wings of Eagles
as H. Ross Perot

A Case of Deadly Force
as Lawrence O'Donnell Sr.

Doubletake
as Frank Janek

Summer Rental
as Al Pellet

The Rape of Richard Beck
as Richard Beck

Rambo: First Blood Part II
as Col. Samuel Trautman

The Flamingo Kid
as Phil Brody

Passions
as Richard Kennerly

Squaring the Circle
as The Narrator

Table for Five
as Mitchell

It Takes Two
as Dr. Sam Quinn

The Day the Bubble Burst
as Jesse Livermore

The Making of 'First Blood'
as Self

The Ordeal of Bill Carney
as Mason Rose

Daniel Boone
as Daniel Boone

Body Heat
as Edmund Walker

Musical Comedy Tonight II
as Self

Fugitive Family
as Brian Roberts

Death Ship
as Trevor Marshall

Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
as William Brewster

Stone Cold Dead
as Sgt. Boyd

Wild Horse Hank
as Pace Bradford

A Fire in the Sky
as Jason Voight

First, You Cry
as David Towers

Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell
as Mike Barry

Centennial
as Colonel Frank Skimmerhorn

The Evil
as C.J. Arnold

The War Between the Tates
as Professor Brian Tate

All's Fair
as Unknown

Breakheart Pass
as Gov. Richard Fairchild

Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

A Girl Named Sooner
as R.J. 'Mac' McHenry

People's Choice Awards
as Self - Host

Honky Tonk
as Candy Johnson

Double Solitaire
as Charley Potter

Shootout in a One-Dog Town
as Zack Wells

Nightmare
as Howard Faloon

Jonathan Livingston Seagull
as Father (voice)

Double Indemnity
as Walter Neff

The Man Called Noon
as Noon

Footsteps
as Paddy

Un Flic
as Simon

Thief
as Neal Wilkinson

Catlow
as Cowan

Red Sky at Morning
as Frank Arnold

Doctors' Wives
as Pete Brennan

The Deserter
as Major Wade Brown

Marooned
as Jim Pruett

Midas Run
as Warden

Star!
as Richard Aldrich

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
as Self

Wait Until Dark
as Mike Talman

The Carol Burnett Show
as Self

The Sand Pebbles
as Captain Collins

Made in Paris
as Herb Stone

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
as John Goldfarb

Slattery's People
as James Slattery

The Long Lost Life of Edward Smalley
as Edward Smalley

Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Edward Smalley

The Danny Kaye Show
as Self

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self

The Merv Griffin Show
as Self

Disneyland '59
as Self

The Real McCoys
as Luke McCoy

Our Miss Brooks
as Walter Denton

Over-Exposed
as Russell Bassett

Matinee Theater
as Unknown

Frontier
as Unknown

Cheyenne
as Unknown

The Millionaire
as Ralph McKnight

Our Miss Brooks
as Walter Denton

It Grows on Trees
as Ralph Bowen

The Pride of St. Louis
as Paul Dean

Red Skies of Montana
as Noxon (uncredited)

Today
as Himself - Actor

I Love Lucy
as Arthur Morton

Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee

Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Host
