Richard 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.
Filmography
Rambo
2008
as Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited)
Out of the Ashes
2003
as Jake Smith
Afganistan: Land in Crisis
2002
as Self
We Get to Win This Time
2002
as Self
Guts and Glory
2002
as Self
Drawing First Blood: 20 Years Later
2002
as Self
The Day Reagan Was Shot
2001
as Ronald Reagan
By Dawn's Early Light
2001
as Ben Maxwell
Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
2000
as Warren Pierce
To Serve and Protect
1999
as Howard Carr
Wrongfully Accused
1998
as Fergus Falls
Heart Full of Rain
1997
as Arliss Dockett
Deep Family Secrets
1997
as Clay Chadway
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1997
as Professor Aronnax
Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent
1997
as Himself / Narrator
The Real Las Vegas
1996
as Narrator (voice)
Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah
1996
as John Porter
Sabrina
1995
as Patrick Tyson
Jade
1995
as Governor Edwards
In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy
1995
as Luke Constable Sr.
A Pyromaniac's Love Story
1995
as Tom Lumpke (uncredited)
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Janek: The Silent Betrayal
1994
as Frank Janek
Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence
1994
as Jonathan Stone
The Forget-Me-Not Murders
1994
as Frank Janek