Richard Crenna
Actor
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
First Blood
as Col. Samuel Trautman 1982
Rambo: First Blood Part II
as Col. Samuel Trautman 1985
Rambo
as Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited) 2008
Rambo III
as Trautman 1988
Hot Shots! Part Deux
as Col. Denton Walters 1993
Sabrina
as Patrick Tyson 1995
Body Heat
as Edmund Walker 1981
Wait Until Dark
as Mike Talman 1967
Leviathan
as Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson 1989
Wrongfully Accused
as Fergus Falls 1998
Jade
as Governor Edwards 1995
A Cop
as Simon 1972
The Sand Pebbles
as Captain Collins 1966
Star!
as Richard Aldrich 1968
Summer Rental
as Al Pellet 1985
Breakheart Pass
as Gov. Richard Fairchild 1975
Death Ship
as Trevor Marshall 1980