Richard Crenna
Birthday: 1926-11-30
Place of Birth: 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.
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First Blood
When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, h...
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Rambo: First Blood Part II
John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last pla...
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Rambo III
Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When ...
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Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
As part of the film's promotion, a mockumentary was aired on HBO. Titled Hearts of Hot Shots! Part D...
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
In the 19th century, an expert marine biologist is hired by the government to determine what's sinki...
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Wait Until Dark
After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As i...
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The Sand Pebbles
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the...
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Breakheart Pass
At the height of the frontier era, a train races through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission...
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Jade
When a prominent art dealer is found murdered, the man's death leads to an intriguing investigation ...
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Death Ship
Survivors of a tragic shipping collision are rescued by a mysterious black ship which appears out of...
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The Flamingo Kid
Brooklyn teenager Jeffrey Willis, thoroughly unhappy with his modest homestead, embraces the other-w...
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Over-Exposed
This titillating bit of pulp sensationalism was the last in a string of "B" films that Cleo Moore st...
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Hot Shots! Part Deux
Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a re...
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Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell
A dog that is a minion of Satan terrorizes a suburban family....
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Marooned
After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to Earth only t...
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Body Heat
During an extreme heatwave, a beautiful Florida woman and a seedy lawyer engage in an affair while p...
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Stone Cold Dead
Sergeant Boyd's police search to find a sniper who has been shooting hookers....
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Leviathan
Underwater deep-sea miners encounter a Soviet wreck and bring back a dangerous cargo to their base o...
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The Day the Bubble Burst
A fictionalized account of how the 1929 stock market crash hurt the elite and the struggling, and th...
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A Cop
A Parisian police chief has an affair, but unbeknownst to him, the boyfriend of the woman he’s havin...
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The Evil
Shortly after moving into a dark, brooding mansion, a psychologist and his co-workers are terrorized...
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Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition
Robert B. Weide's 1989 documentary on the comedian Mort Sahl....
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A Place to Be Loved
Gregory Kingsley, a boy passed off onto social services by his natural mother and abused by his natu...
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Out of the Ashes
The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz...
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Summer Rental
Jack Chester, an overworked air traffic controller, takes his family on vacation to the beach. Thing...
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The Day Reagan Was Shot
The Day Reagan Was Shot is a 2001 film made for television directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh. The film sta...
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Catlow
An outlaw tries to avoid interference as he journeys to Mexico to pull off a $2,000,000 gold robbery...
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Double Indemnity
A scheming wife lures an insurance investigator into helping murder her husband and then declare it ...
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Our Miss Brooks
The big-screen translation of the successful television show of the 1950's. Arden stars as Connie Br...
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The Rape of Richard Beck
The tables turn for cynical police officer Richard Beck when he's viciously attacked by two homicida...
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Red Sky at Morning
Before going off to World War II, Frank Arnold (Richard Crenna) relocates his wife, Ann (Claire Bloo...
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John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
During the Cold War, John Goldfarb crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by...
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Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah
The true story of the disappearance of Sarah Porter. With no help from the police, Sarah's parents a...
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Made in Paris
A pretty fashion buyer visiting Paris on business is courted by a famous designer. Boris Sagal's 196...
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The Deserter
A young cavalry officer finds his woman tortured by the Apaches and blames the Army for not properly...
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The Man Called Noon
Noon is a gunfighter who has become amnesiac. Helped by Rimes, an outlaw who has befriended him, he ...
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Doctors' Wives
The wives of several high-powered doctors feel neglected due to their husbands' focus on their caree...
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A Case of Deadly Force
Fact-based story about a 1975 cover-up of a shooting by two white members of the Boston Tactical Uni...
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Midas Run
A veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of gold o...
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In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy
This is a story of two lovers, Luke and Laurette. Luke is the grandson of a rich Texas family who ra...
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Deep Family Secrets
A tale of hidden family scandals. A young woman journeys back to her birthplace and discovers that m...
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Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
Jessica Fletcher, lecturing at a writers' conference, finds herself called on to solve the killing o...
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The Case of the Hillside Stranglers
The chilling true story of the "two of a kind" killing cousins, Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, be...
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Thief
A professional thief tries to break with his past but has to pull off one last job to pay off a gamb...
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Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence
Still in mourning over the loss of his wife, former cop Jonathan stone moves to Washington. However...
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It Grows on Trees
The Baxters are a typical happy American family trying to live on too little money. Mrs. Polly Baxte...
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Table for Five
J.P. Tannen (Jon Voight) wants a second chance to be a father to his children ... but someone else h...
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And the Sea Will Tell
A wealthy couple (James Brolin and Deidre Hall) are killed on their yacht off the coast of a seclude...
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Sabrina
Sabrina Fairchild, a chauffeur's daughter, grew up at the Long Island estate of the wealthy Larrabee...
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Double Solitaire
With his parents about to celebrate their wedding anniversary, a middle-aged husband agrees to renew...
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Stuck with Each Other
When their stingy boss suddenly drops dead, two coworkers decide to split the million in cash in his...
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Wild Horse Hank
A teenage girl tries to save a herd of wild horses from a local gang intending on capturing and sell...
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By Dawn's Early Light
When Mike Lewis leaves L.A. to stay with his grandfather in Colorado for the summer, he hates the ol...
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Last Flight Out
Fact-based story set in Saigon on April, 1975, shortly after U.S. combat troops have withdrawn, and ...
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A Fire in the Sky
Astronomers discover a comet that they believe will crash into Phoenix, Arizona. They attempt to war...
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Red Skies of Montana
When a large forest fire breaks out in the mountains of Montana, a squad of 'Smoke Jumpers', the par...
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Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
In 1620, the Assembly of the Pilgrims decides to emigrate to the young America because of the persec...
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Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent
Host Richard Crenna reviews various theories on the existence of a site for the legendary Atlantis d...
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The Forget-Me-Not Murders
A detective tries to track down a serial killer who is thought to be targeting the policeman's god-d...
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The Pride of St. Louis
The story of Jerome "Dizzy" Dean, a major-league baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals and Ch...
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Jonathan is sick and tired of the boring life in his seagull clan. He rather experiments with new, a...
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Joshua's World
The pilot story, set in the small town of Strawee, Arkansas in the '30s, follows the experiences of ...
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A Girl Named Sooner
A young girl in the hills of Indiana, who had been abandoned by her family and raised by a bootleggi...
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The Ordeal of Bill Carney
Bill Carney has just been paralyzed from the neck down. He has been taking care of his two sons sinc...
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Passions
A man with a wife and daughter also has a son with another woman. When he dies this little secret is...
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Montana
Hoyce and Bess Guthrie are long married Montana ranchers who come to a major crossroads in their liv...
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To Serve and Protect
Three generations of Dallas police officers join together to track down the deadliest serial killer ...
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Footsteps
A football coach is hired by a small college to shape up its football team, and he finds himself in ...
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Shootout in a One-Dog Town
A small-town banker is forced to protect his town against a vicious gang of bank robbers determined ...
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Squaring the Circle
An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dic...
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Murder Times Seven
For the third time, Lieutenant Janek is forced to face alone a difficult case, which has some brutal...
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Kids Like These
Bob and Joanna, both over 40 years old, have a baby with the Down syndrome. Their doctor advises the...
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Murder in Black and White
A recently appointed black police commissioner is killed. So, Frank Janek is assigned to investigate...
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Daniel Boone
An animated special that presents highlights of the life of Daniel Boone, the famous American trailb...
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Fugitive Family
To the world Brian Roberts looks like a successful businessman, with a lovely wife and two children ...
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Police Story: The Freeway Killings
Thriller/Drama about LAPD detectives tracking down two serial killers who are murdering hookers....
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Plaza Suite
Hilarity abounds in this portrait of three couples successively occupying a suite at the Plaza....
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Internal Affairs
A skilled police detective in a case involving the strange, sadistic murder of a young prostitute wh...
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Wrongfully Accused
Ryan Harrison, a violin god, superstar and sex symbol does not want to cheat on sexy Lauren Goodhue'...
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Doubletake
Two corpses are found in different locations with their heads severed and exchanged. Frank Janek is ...
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Nightmare
A murder witness can't convince the police that the killer lives in the apartment across the courtya...
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Rambo
In Thailand, ex-Green Beret John James Rambo joins a group of mercenaries to venture into war-torn n...
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Terror on Track 9
A New York detective tracks a serial killer who injects his victims with poison at Grand Central Sta...
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First, You Cry
The story of television news correspondent Betty Rollin and her battle with breast cancer, and how h...
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Disneyland '59
Walt Disney and Art Linkletter co-host a live celebration of Disneyland's 1959 expansion that consis...
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Janek: The Silent Betrayal
Police lieutenant Frank Janek is investigating a series of murders in a building owned by a famous B...
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Honky Tonk
In the wild west con-man 'Candy' Johnson heads to Nevada to set up his own gambling den and teams up...
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Musical Comedy Tonight II
A tribute to American musical theater, featuring scenes from "Show Boat", "South Pacific," "Sweet Ch...
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The War Between the Tates
A college professor's well-ordered life is disrupted when his wife discovers he is having an affair ...
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Heart Full of Rain
A young man returns to the family farm after being gone for six years. But it is not until he fights...
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The Real Las Vegas
The Real Las Vegas tells the fascinating story of this fabled place and the people who created it. F...
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A Pyromaniac's Love Story
A pastry boy and the son of a hair-piece mogul become involved in an arson scandal. Sergio is offere...
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