Richard Crenna
Acting
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.
Known for
2008Rambo
Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited)
2003Out of the Ashes
Jake Smith
2002Afganistan: Land in Crisis
Self
2001The Day Reagan Was Shot
Ronald Reagan
2001By Dawn's Early Light
Ben Maxwell
2000Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
Warren Pierce
1999To Serve and Protect
Howard Carr
1998Wrongfully Accused
Fergus Falls
199720,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Professor Aronnax
1997Deep Family Secrets
Clay Chadway
1997Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent
Himself / Narrator
1997Heart Full of Rain
Arliss Dockett
1996Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah
John Porter
1996The Real Las Vegas
Narrator (voice)
1995Jade
Governor Edwards
1995In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy
Luke Constable Sr.
1995Sabrina
Patrick Tyson
1995A Pyromaniac's Love Story
Tom Lumpke (uncredited)
1994Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence
Jonathan Stone
1994The Forget-Me-Not Murders
Frank Janek
1993Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
1993Hot Shots! Part Deux
Col. Denton Walters
1993A Place to Be Loved
George Russ
1992Terror on Track 9
Det. Frank Janek
