- Born Name: Richard Donald Crenna
- Birthday: 1926-11-30 (Year-Month-Day)
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- Spouse(s): Penni Sweeney (1959-2003)
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- Medium: Actor, director, producer
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Richard Crenna, 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 ABCs 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 Slatterys 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.