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Richard Crenna

Acting · Born November 30, 1926 · Los Angeles, California, USA

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.

Movies with Richard Crenna

• Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) — Col. Samuel Trautman
• First Blood (1982) — Col. Samuel Trautman
• Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993) — Col. Denton Walters
• Rambo (2008) — Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Body Heat (1981) — Edmund Walker
• Rambo III (1988) — Trautman
• Sabrina (1995) — Patrick Tyson
• Wrongfully Accused (1998) — Fergus Falls
• Leviathan (1989) — Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson
• Wait Until Dark (1967) — Mike Talman
• Breakheart Pass (1975) — Gov. Richard Fairchild
• Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For (2000) — Warren Pierce

TV shows with Richard Crenna

• Judging Amy (1999) — Jared Duff
• The Real McCoys (1957) — Luke McCoy
• Centennial (1978) — Colonel Frank Skimmerhorn
• Slattery's People (1964) — James Slattery
• Our Miss Brooks (1952) — Walter Denton
• It Takes Two (1982) — Dr. Sam Quinn
• All's Fair (1976)
• Pros and Cons (1991) — Mitch O'Hannon