Highest rated as cast or director
Centennial
1978 · 1 Season
Wait Until Dark
1967
Body Heat
1981
The Sand Pebbles
1966
First Blood
1982
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.
Acted in 110
2000s
- 2008
- 2003
- 2001
The Day Reagan Was Shot
Ronald Reagan
By Dawn's Early Light
Ben Maxwell
- 2000
1990s
- 1999
To Serve and Protect
Howard Carr
To Serve and Protect
Howard Carr · 2 episodes
- 1998
- 1997
Heart Full of Rain
Arliss Dockett
Deep Family Secrets
Clay Chadway
- 1996
E! True Hollywood Story
TV
Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah
John Porter
- 1995
In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy
Luke Constable Sr.
A Pyromaniac's Love Story
Tom Lumpke (uncredited)
- 1994
Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence
Jonathan Stone
The Forget-Me-Not Murders
Frank Janek
- 1993
Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
Movie
A Place to Be Loved
George Russ
- 1992
Terror on Track 9
Det. Frank Janek
Intruders
Dr. Neil Chase · 2 episodes
- 1991
Pros and Cons
Mitch O'Hannon · 12 episodes
And the Sea Will Tell
Vincent Bugliosi
And the Sea Will Tell
Vincent Bugliosi · 2 episodes
- 1990
Murder Times Seven
Frank Janek
Gabriel's Fire
TV
Last Flight Out
Dan Hood
Murder in Black and White
Frank Janek
1980s
- 1989
Stuck with Each Other
Bert Medwick
- 1988
Internal Affairs
Frank Janek
- 1987
Plaza Suite
Roy Hubley
Kids Like These
Bob Goodman
Police Story: The Freeway Killings
Deputy Chief Bob Devers
- 1986
The High Price of Passion
Williams Douglas
On Wings of Eagles
H. Ross Perot · 2 episodes
A Case of Deadly Force
Lawrence O'Donnell Sr.
- 1985
Doubletake
Frank Janek
The Rape of Richard Beck
Richard Beck
- 1984
The Flamingo Kid
Phil Brody
Squaring the Circle
The Narrator
- 1983
Table for Five
Mitchell
- 1982
It Takes Two
Dr. Sam Quinn · 22 episodes
The Day the Bubble Burst
Jesse Livermore
- 1981
The Ordeal of Bill Carney
Mason Rose
Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone
- 1980
Fugitive Family
Brian Roberts
1970s
- 1979
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
William Brewster
Wild Horse Hank
Pace Bradford
- 1978
A Fire in the Sky
Jason Voight
First, You Cry
David Towers
- 1977
The War Between the Tates
Professor Brian Tate
- 1976
All's Fair
TV
- 1975
A Girl Named Sooner
R.J. 'Mac' McHenry
- 1974
Honky Tonk
Candy Johnson
Double Solitaire
Charley Potter
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
Zack Wells
Nightmare
Howard Faloon
- 1973
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Father (voice)
- 1972
Footsteps
Paddy
Un Flic
Simon
- 1971
Thief
Neal Wilkinson
Catlow
Cowan
Red Sky at Morning
Frank Arnold
Doctors' Wives
Pete Brennan
- 1970
1960s
- 1969
Midas Run
Warden
- 1968
Star!
Richard Aldrich
- 1967
- 1966
Made in Paris
Herb Stone
- 1965
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
John Goldfarb
- 1964
- 1963
The Long Lost Life of Edward Smalley
Edward Smalley
1950s
- 1957
- 1956
Our Miss Brooks
Walter Denton
Over-Exposed
Russell Bassett
- 1955
- 1952
It Grows on Trees
Ralph Bowen
The Pride of St. Louis
Paul Dean
- 1951
Directed 11
1980s
- 1983
Allison Sydney Harrison
Director
- 1982
The Magic Statue
Director
1970s
- 1979
Better Late Than Never
Director
- 1977
Rosetti and Ryan
Director
James at 16
Director
- 1974
1960s
- 1964
Wendy and Me
Director
- 1960
1950s
- 1957
Appearances19
2000s
- 2002
Afganistan: Land in Crisis
Self
We Get to Win This Time
Self
Guts and Glory
Self
1990s
- 1997
Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent
Himself / Narrator
- 1996
The Real Las Vegas
Narrator (voice)
1980s
- 1989
Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition
Narrator
- 1982
The Making of 'First Blood'
Self
- 1981
Musical Comedy Tonight II
Self
1970s
- 1975
1960s
- 1968
- 1967
- 1963
- 1962
1950s
- 1959
Disneyland '59
Self
- 1952
