Richard Crenna

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.

Richard Crenna is known for work in acting across film and television. New Release currently presents 19 verified screen credits connected to this profile.

Selected work includes We Get to Win This Time (2002), Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For (2000), Sabrina (1995), Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993), Leviathan (1989), Rambo III (1988), On Wings of Eagles (1986), Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985).

The recorded credits span 1957 to 2002, including 16 movies and 3 TV shows. The filmography below lists available titles, release years and known roles.

This profile is updated as additional verified information becomes available.