Person Details

Birthday: 1926-11-30 02:14:26

Death: 2003-01-17 02:14:26

Aliases: Dick Crenna

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

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Movie Involvements: 84

TV Involvements: 22


Most Famous Work

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Crenna, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Most Famous Work

The Millionaire
Average
5

The Millionaire

(1955) Ralph McKnight
JAG
Average
7

JAG

(1995) Harmon Rabb Sr. (voice)
Judging Amy
Average
8

Judging Amy

(1999) Jared Duff
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Average
5

Kraft Suspense Theatre

(1963) Edward Smalley
Slattery's People
Average
5

Slattery's People

(1964) James Slattery
Rambo III
Average
6

Rambo III

(1988) Trautman
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Average
7

Rambo: First Blood Part II

(1985) Col. Samuel Trautman
Rambo
Average
7

Rambo

(2008) Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited)

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2023 Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2008 Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited)
2003 Jake Smith
2002 Self
2001 Ronald Reagan
Ben Maxwell
2000 Warren Pierce
1999 Jared Duff
Howard Carr
1998 Fergus Falls
1997 Arliss Dockett
Clay Chadway
Professor Aronnax
Himself / Narrator
1996 N/A
John Porter
1995 Patrick Tyson
Governor Edwards
Harmon Rabb Sr. (voice)
Luke Constable Sr.
1994 Frank Janek
N/A
Jonathan Stone
Frank Janek
1993 Col. Denton Walters
N/A
George Russ
1992 Det. Frank Janek
Dr. Neil Chase
1991 Mitch O'Hannon
Vincent Bugliosi
1990 Frank Janek
N/A
Dan Hood
Hoyce Guthrie
Frank Janek
1989 Bert Medwick
Narrator
Sgt. Bob Grogan
Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson
1988 Frank Janek
Trautman
1987 Roy Hubley
Bob Goodman
Deputy Chief Bob Devers
1986 Williams Douglas
H. Ross Perot
Lawrence O'Donnell Sr.
1985 Lieutenant Frank Janek
Frank Janek
Al Pellet
Richard Beck
Col. Samuel Trautman
1984 Phil Brody
Mike Talman (archive footage) (uncredited)
Richard Kennerly
The Narrator
1983 Mitchell
1982 Col. Samuel Trautman
N/A
Jesse Livermore
1981 Mason Rose
Daniel Boone
Edmund Walker
Self
1980 Brian Roberts
Dr. Joshua Torrance
Trevor Marshall
1979 William Brewster
Sgt. Boyd
Pace Bradford
1978 Jason Voight
David Towers
Mike Barry
Colonel Frank Skimmerhorn
C.J. Arnold
1977 Professor Brian Tate
1976 N/A
1975 Gov. Richard Fairchild
R.J. 'Mac' McHenry
1974 Candy Johnson
Charley Potter
Zack Wells
Howard Faloon
1973 Father (voice)
Walter Neff
Noon
1972 Paddy
Simon
1971 Neal Wilkinson
Cowan
Frank Arnold
Pete Brennan
1970 Major Wade Brown
1969 Jim Pruett
Mike Warden
1968 Richard Aldrich
1967 Mike Talman
Self - Guest
Self
1966 Captain Collins
Herb Stone
1965 John Goldfarb
1964 James Slattery
1963 Edward Smalley
Self
1962 Self
1959 Self
1957 Luke McCoy
1956 Walter Denton
Russell Bassett
1955 N/A
N/A
N/A
Ralph McKnight
1952 Walter Denton
Ralph Bowen
Paul Dean
Noxon (uncredited)
1951 Arthur Morton
Year Character Movie/Tv

Directing


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