FrameThrower · Actors · Richard Crenna
Richard Crenna
3 films · 187 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1972–1982
Born 30 November 1926 · Los Angeles, California, USA · died 17 January 2003
Richard Donald Crenna 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.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 187 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1972–1982
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie1985
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 187 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Richard takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 59% of their frames are night, 59% low key — the look of the work Richard takes.
Time of day
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 187 frames from Richard Crenna's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.