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Richard Crenna

Richard Crenna

Actor·1926–2003·Los Angeles, California, USA

6 horror credits

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.

Actor6 films

Leviathan

Leviathan

Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson

1989 2.5
Death Ship

Death Ship

Trevor Marshall

1980
Stone Cold Dead

Stone Cold Dead

Sgt. Boyd

1979
Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell

Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell

Mike Barry

1978
The Evil

The Evil

C.J. Arnold

1978 2.0
Wait Until Dark

Wait Until Dark

Mike Talman

1967 3.8