Actor info
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Name :
Richard Crenna
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Born :
November 30, 1926 in Los Angeles, California, USA (76 years at death)
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Died :
January 17, 2003
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Known for :
Acting
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Gender :
Male
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Film career :
100 films (1952–2008)
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Also known as :
Dick Crenna, Richard McKenna, Charley Weaver, Richard Donald Crenna
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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.
Notable films
- Rambo (2008) as Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Rambo III (1988) as Trautman
- Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) as Col. Samuel Trautman
- First Blood (1982) as Col. Samuel Trautman
- Body Heat (1981) as Edmund Walker
