Born 1926 (age 76) · Los Angeles, California, USA
Appears in 140 titles

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
7.5
First Blood
1982
as Col. Samuel Trautman
Rambo: First Blood Part II
6.7
Rambo: First Blood Part II
1985
as Col. Samuel Trautman
Rambo
6.7
Rambo
2008
as Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rambo III
6.2
Rambo III
1988
as Trautman
Hot Shots! Part Deux
6.5
Hot Shots! Part Deux
1993
as Col. Denton Walters
Sabrina
6.2
Sabrina
1995
as Patrick Tyson
Body Heat
7.0
Body Heat
1981
as Edmund Walker
Wait Until Dark
7.3
Wait Until Dark
1967
as Mike Talman
Leviathan
6.0
Leviathan
1989
as Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson
Wrongfully Accused
6.0
Wrongfully Accused
1998
as Fergus Falls
A Cop
6.6
A Cop
1972
as Simon
Jade
5.5
Jade
1995
as Governor Edwards
The Sand Pebbles
7.2
The Sand Pebbles
1966
as Captain Collins
Star!
6.9
Star!
1968
as Richard Aldrich
Summer Rental
6.1
Summer Rental
1985
as Al Pellet
Breakheart Pass
6.6
Breakheart Pass
1975
as Gov. Richard Fairchild
Death Ship
5.1
Death Ship
1980
as Trevor Marshall
Marooned
5.9
Marooned
1969
as Jim Pruett
The Flamingo Kid
6.0
The Flamingo Kid
1984
as Phil Brody
The Evil
5.8
The Evil
1978
as C.J. Arnold