Richard Crenna: movies and TV shows
Richard Crenna has 147 credits in the archive: 103 films and 44 TV series, from 1944 to 2008. Highest rated: People's Choice Awards (9.2/10).
Career timeline
1944 – 2008 · busiest year: 1978 (6 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Rambo | Col. Samuel Trautman (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 6.7 | 81 |
| 2003 | Out of the Ashes | Jake Smith | Film | 6.1 | 76 |
| 2002 | We Get to Win This Time | Self | Film | — | 75 |
| 2002 | Guts and Glory | Self | Film | — | 75 |
| 2002 | Drawing First Blood: 20 Years Later | Self | Film | 6.4 | 75 |
| 2002 | Afganistan: Land in Crisis | Self | Film | 9.0 | 75 |
| 2001 | The Day Reagan Was Shot | Ronald Reagan | Film | 6.5 | 74 |
| 2001 | By Dawn's Early Light | Ben Maxwell | Film | 6.0 | 74 |
| 2000 | Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For | Warren Pierce | Film | 6.8 | 73 |
| 1999 | Judging Amy | Jared Duff | TV | 7.5 | 72 |
| 1999 | To Serve and Protect | Howard Carr | Film | 6.7 | 72 |
| 1999 | To Serve and Protect | Howard Carr | TV | — | 72 |
| 1998 | Wrongfully Accused | Fergus Falls | Film | 6.0 | 71 |
| 1997 | Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent | Himself / Narrator | Film | — | 70 |
| 1997 | Deep Family Secrets | Clay Chadway | Film | 3.5 | 70 |
| 1997 | Heart Full of Rain | Arliss Dockett | Film | 5.3 | 70 |
| 1997 | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Professor Aronnax | Film | 5.8 | 70 |
| 1996 | E! True Hollywood Story | TV | 8.2 | 69 | |
| 1996 | Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah | John Porter | Film | 7.0 | 69 |
| 1996 | The Real Las Vegas | Narrator (voice) | Film | 9.0 | 69 |
| 1995 | JAG | Harmon Rabb Sr. (voice) | TV | 7.3 | 68 |
| 1995 | Sabrina | Patrick Tyson | Film | 6.2 | 68 |
| 1995 | Jade | Governor Edwards | Film | 5.5 | 68 |
| 1995 | A Pyromaniac's Love Story | Tom Lumpke (uncredited) | Film | 5.2 | 68 |
| 1995 | In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy | Luke Constable Sr. | Film | 7.3 | 68 |
| 1994 | Chicago Hope | Martin Rockwell | TV | 7.2 | 67 |
| 1994 | The Forget-Me-Not Murders | Frank Janek | Film | 3.7 | 67 |
| 1994 | Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence | Jonathan Stone | Film | 3.3 | 67 |
| 1994 | Janek: The Silent Betrayal | Frank Janek | Film | 3.3 | 67 |
| 1993 | Hot Shots! Part Deux | Col. Denton Walters | Film | 6.6 | 66 |
| 1993 | Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology | Film | 5.5 | 66 | |
| 1993 | A Place to Be Loved | George Russ | Film | 5.6 | 66 |
| 1992 | Intruders | Dr. Neil Chase | TV | 7.0 | 65 |
| 1992 | Terror on Track 9 | Det. Frank Janek | Film | 3.8 | 65 |
| 1991 | And the Sea Will Tell | Vincent Bugliosi | Film | 6.3 | 64 |
| 1991 | And the Sea Will Tell | Vincent Bugliosi | TV | — | 64 |
| 1991 | Pros and Cons | Mitch O'Hannon | TV | 6.3 | 64 |
| 1990 | Gabriel's Fire | TV | 6.9 | 63 | |
| 1990 | Murder in Black and White | Frank Janek | Film | 7.0 | 63 |
| 1990 | Montana | Hoyce Guthrie | Film | 6.1 | 63 |
| 1990 | Last Flight Out | Dan Hood | Film | — | 63 |
| 1990 | Murder Times Seven | Frank Janek | Film | 7.0 | 63 |
| 1989 | Leviathan | Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson | Film | 6.0 | 62 |
| 1989 | The Case of the Hillside Stranglers | Sgt. Bob Grogan | Film | 6.5 | 62 |
| 1989 | Stuck with Each Other | Bert Medwick | Film | 9.0 | 62 |
| 1989 | Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition | Narrator | Film | — | 62 |
| 1988 | Rambo III | Trautman | Film | 6.2 | 61 |
| 1988 | Internal Affairs | Frank Janek | Film | 8.0 | 61 |
| 1987 | Plaza Suite | Roy Hubley | Film | 8.0 | 60 |
| 1987 | Kids Like These | Bob Goodman | Film | 9.0 | 60 |
| 1987 | Police Story: The Freeway Killings | Deputy Chief Bob Devers | Film | 6.3 | 60 |
| 1986 | A Case of Deadly Force | Lawrence O'Donnell Sr. | Film | 8.0 | 59 |
| 1986 | On Wings of Eagles | H. Ross Perot | TV | 6.0 | 59 |
| 1986 | The High Price of Passion | Williams Douglas | Film | 6.7 | 59 |
| 1985 | Rambo: First Blood Part II | Col. Samuel Trautman | Film | 6.7 | 58 |
| 1985 | The Rape of Richard Beck | Richard Beck | Film | 6.9 | 58 |
| 1985 | Summer Rental | Al Pellet | Film | 6.1 | 58 |
| 1985 | Doubletake | Frank Janek | Film | 5.0 | 58 |
| 1984 | Passions | Richard Kennerly | Film | 6.8 | 57 |
| 1984 | The Flamingo Kid | Phil Brody | Film | 6.0 | 57 |
| 1984 | Squaring the Circle | The Narrator | Film | 5.0 | 57 |
| 1983 | Table for Five | Mitchell | Film | 5.7 | 56 |
| 1983 | Allison Sydney Harrison | Film | 8.0 | 56 | |
| 1982 | First Blood | Col. Samuel Trautman | Film | 7.5 | 55 |
| 1982 | It Takes Two | Dr. Sam Quinn | TV | 6.0 | 55 |
| 1982 | The Day the Bubble Burst | Jesse Livermore | Film | 5.0 | 55 |
| 1982 | The Magic Statue | Film | — | 55 | |
| 1981 | Body Heat | Edmund Walker | Film | 7.0 | 54 |
| 1981 | The Ordeal of Bill Carney | Mason Rose | Film | 10.0 | 54 |
| 1981 | Daniel Boone | Daniel Boone | Film | 8.3 | 54 |
| 1981 | Musical Comedy Tonight II | Self | Film | 7.0 | 54 |
| 1980 | Death Ship | Trevor Marshall | Film | 5.1 | 53 |
| 1980 | Joshua's World | Dr. Joshua Torrance | Film | 8.0 | 53 |
| 1980 | Fugitive Family | Brian Roberts | Film | 8.0 | 53 |
| 1979 | Wild Horse Hank | Pace Bradford | Film | 5.0 | 52 |
| 1979 | Better Late Than Never | Film | 9.0 | 52 | |
| 1979 | Stone Cold Dead | Sgt. Boyd | Film | 5.9 | 52 |
| 1979 | Turnabout | TV | 6.0 | 52 | |
| 1979 | Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure | William Brewster | Film | 6.7 | 52 |
| 1978 | Centennial | Colonel Frank Skimmerhorn | TV | 7.7 | 51 |
| 1978 | First, You Cry | David Towers | Film | — | 51 |
| 1978 | The Evil | C.J. Arnold | Film | 5.8 | 51 |
| 1978 | Grandpa Goes to Washington | TV | 7.5 | 51 | |
| 1978 | A Fire in the Sky | Jason Voight | Film | 5.8 | 51 |
| 1978 | Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell | Mike Barry | Film | 6.4 | 51 |
| 1977 | Lou Grant | TV | 7.3 | 50 | |
| 1977 | James at 16 | TV | 6.8 | 50 | |
| 1977 | Rosetti and Ryan | TV | 7.0 | 50 | |
| 1977 | The War Between the Tates | Professor Brian Tate | Film | — | 50 |
| 1976 | All's Fair | TV | 7.7 | 49 | |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Cameo (uncredited) | TV | 6.9 | 48 |
| 1975 | People's Choice Awards | Self - Host | TV | 9.2 | 48 |
| 1975 | Breakheart Pass | Gov. Richard Fairchild | Film | 6.6 | 48 |
| 1975 | A Girl Named Sooner | R.J. 'Mac' McHenry | Film | 5.3 | 48 |
| 1974 | The Rockford Files | TV | 7.6 | 47 | |
| 1974 | Nightmare | Howard Faloon | Film | 7.0 | 47 |
| 1974 | Honky Tonk | Candy Johnson | Film | 8.0 | 47 |
| 1974 | Shootout in a One-Dog Town | Zack Wells | Film | 10.0 | 47 |
| 1974 | Double Solitaire | Charley Potter | Film | 10.0 | 47 |
| 1973 | The Man Called Noon | Noon | Film | 5.9 | 46 |
| 1973 | Jonathan Livingston Seagull | Father (voice) | Film | 6.1 | 46 |
| 1973 | Double Indemnity | Walter Neff | Film | 4.7 | 46 |
| 1972 | Un Flic | Simon | Film | 6.6 | 45 |
| 1972 | Footsteps | Paddy | Film | 6.5 | 45 |
| 1971 | Doctors' Wives | Pete Brennan | Film | 5.0 | 44 |
| 1971 | Catlow | Cowan | Film | 5.1 | 44 |
| 1971 | Red Sky at Morning | Frank Arnold | Film | 7.1 | 44 |
| 1971 | Thief | Neal Wilkinson | Film | 7.4 | 44 |
| 1970 | The Deserter | Major Wade Brown | Film | 6.5 | 43 |
| 1969 | Marooned | Jim Pruett | Film | 6.0 | 42 |
| 1969 | Midas Run | Mike Warden | Film | 4.7 | 42 |
| 1968 | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | Self | TV | 6.8 | 41 |
| 1968 | Star! | Richard Aldrich | Film | 6.9 | 41 |
| 1967 | The Carol Burnett Show | Self | TV | 7.7 | 40 |
| 1967 | Wait Until Dark | Mike Talman | Film | 7.3 | 40 |
| 1966 | Made in Paris | Herb Stone | Film | 4.9 | 39 |
| 1966 | The Sand Pebbles | Captain Collins | Film | 7.2 | 39 |
| 1966 | Summer Fun | TV | — | 39 | |
| 1965 | John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! | John Goldfarb | Film | 3.8 | 38 |
| 1964 | Wendy and Me | TV | 8.0 | 37 | |
| 1964 | Slattery's People | James Slattery | TV | 7.0 | 37 |
| 1964 | No Time for Sergeants | TV | 1.0 | 37 | |
| 1963 | Kraft Suspense Theatre | Edward Smalley | TV | 6.5 | 36 |
| 1963 | The Danny Kaye Show | Self | TV | 7.0 | 36 |
| 1963 | Vacation Playhouse | TV | 8.0 | 36 | |
| 1963 | The Long Lost Life of Edward Smalley | Edward Smalley | Film | 9.0 | 36 |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Self | TV | 7.5 | 35 |
| 1962 | The Merv Griffin Show | Self | TV | 6.6 | 35 |
| 1960 | The Andy Griffith Show | TV | 7.6 | 33 | |
| 1959 | Disneyland '59 | Self | Film | 7.3 | 32 |
| 1957 | The Real McCoys | Luke McCoy | TV | 5.9 | 30 |
| 1957 | The Real McCoys | TV | 5.9 | 30 | |
| 1956 | Our Miss Brooks | Walter Denton | Film | 6.6 | 29 |
| 1956 | Over-Exposed | Russell Bassett | Film | 5.2 | 29 |
| 1955 | Cheyenne | TV | 6.1 | 28 | |
| 1955 | Matinee Theater | TV | 5.3 | 28 | |
| 1955 | The Millionaire | Ralph McKnight | TV | 5.8 | 28 |
| 1955 | Frontier | TV | 7.5 | 28 | |
| 1952 | Today | Himself - Actor | TV | 5.6 | 25 |
| 1952 | Our Miss Brooks | Walter Denton | TV | 7.5 | 25 |
| 1952 | Red Skies of Montana | Noxon (uncredited) | Film | 6.0 | 25 |
| 1952 | It Grows on Trees | Ralph Bowen | Film | 8.4 | 25 |
| 1952 | The Pride of St. Louis | Paul Dean | Film | 7.0 | 25 |
| 1951 | I Love Lucy | Arthur Morton | TV | 7.9 | 24 |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Nominee | TV | 7.1 | 17 |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Host | TV | 7.1 | 17 |
| The Making of 'First Blood' | Film | 6.0 | — |