Richard Crenna

Acting · Born 1926-11-30 in Los Angeles, California, USA

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: First Blood Part II as Col. Samuel Trautman
• First Blood as Col. Samuel Trautman
• Rambo III as Trautman
• Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea as Professor Aronnax
• Wait Until Dark as Mike Talman
• The Sand Pebbles as Captain Collins
• Breakheart Pass as Gov. Richard Fairchild
• Jade as Governor Edwards
• Death Ship as Trevor Marshall