Richard crenna cause of death
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Richard Crenna
American actor (1926–2003)
Richard Crenna | |
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Crenna in a 1961 publicity photo | |
| Born | Richard Donald Crenna (1926-11-30)November 30, 1926 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Died | January 17, 2003(2003-01-17) (aged 76) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Education | Belmont Senior High School |
| Alma mater | University of Southern California(BA)[1] |
| Occupations | |
| Years active | 1937–2003 |
| Spouses | Joan Grisham (m. 1950; div. 1955)Penni Sweeney (m. 1959) |
| Children | 3 |
| Allegiance | United States |
| Service / branch | United States Army |
| Years of service | 1945–1946[2] |
| Battles / wars | World War II |
Richard Donald Crenna (November 30, 1926 – January 17, 2003) was an American actor and television director.[3]
Crenna starred in such motion pictures as Made in Paris (1966), Marooned (1969), Breakheart Pass (1975), The Evil (1978), First Blood (1982), Rambo: First Blood Part II (198
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Richard Crenna Biography
Born November 30, 1926, in Los Angeles, CA; died of heart failure, January 17, 2003, in Los Angeles, CA. Actor. Richard Crenna's career spanned more than 60 years from the heyday of radio to the rise of television. He was an actor, a director, a producer, and an active member of the Screen Actors Guild. His varied career included television situation comedies and dramas as well as made–for–TV movies. He acted in films and may be most remembered for his role as Colonel Trautman in Sylvester Stallone's Rambo series.
Crenna grew up in Los Angeles, where his mother managed a small chain of family owned hotels. His father was a pharmacist. While in junior high Crenna signed up for drama classes, because he thought he could goof off while hanging out with the prettiest girls. He became a child radio actor when he was recruited with a number of classmates to play a part on the Boy Scout Jamboree. Crenna was a member of the show's Beaver Patrol for the next eleven years.
Crenna finished high school and studied English
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Crenna's big radio role was on Our Miss Brooks , which made the quantum leap from the airwaves to the picture tube. Crenna, however, didn't go with it, his character having been written out. It was a door that closed, but another opened: The Real McCoys . The Real McCoys chronicled the dirt-diggin' adventures of a family from Smokey Corners, West Virginia, that then relocates out in sunny California. Walter Brennan played the affable patriarch, Amos, while Crenna got the job as Luke, one of the grand-son. Luke had a sister played by Lydia Reed and a brother--also named Luke, yeee-hawww!--played by Michael Winkelman. Good old-fashioned conservative values were portrayed, presumably at the will of Walter Brennan. In one episode, Grandpa's witching rod finds water while those crazy new-fangled scientists weren't able to. Eventually, though he was able to make his voice sound youthful and though he tended to play people considerably younger than hi...
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