Crenna portrayed the state senator James Slattery of California in the TV series Slattery's People ( 1965 – 66 ), and for his acting in this series, he was twice nominated for Emmy Awards with slightly different names: for " Outstanding Individual Achievements in Entertainment ", in 1965, and for " Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Series ", in 1965.

During the 1970s Crenna continued his acting in such Western dramas such as Catlow, Breakheart Pass, and A Man Called Noon.

Except for Chandler, the entire radio cast of Arden, Gordon, Richard Crenna ( Walter Denton ), Gloria McMillan ( Harriet Conklin ), and Jane Morgan ( landlady Margaret Davis ) played the same roles on television.

Crenna was in one of the few TV political dramatic series Slattery's People on CBS.

Crenna was awarded with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6714 Hollywood Boulevard.

At the time of his death, Crenna was portraying the recurring character of " Jared Duff " in the series Judging Amy on CBS-TV.

** Marooned ( film ), a 1969 film starring Gregory Peck and Richard Crenna, based on the novel

In the 1978 miniseries based on Michener's novel, Frank Skimmerhorn was portrayed by Richard Crenna.

She also had a recurring role on It Takes Two opposite Richard Crenna and Patty Duke, three episodes of Crazy Like a Fox, four episodes of Charlie & Co. opposite Flip Wilson, 227 with best friend Marla Gibbs, MacGyver, Night Court, Dream On, Designing Women, Picket Fences, That's So Raven and The Young and the Restless.

Lieutenant Fergus Falls ( Richard Crenna ) arrives on the scene, takes charge, barks out orders and vows to do whatever it takes to capture the fugitive.

Throughout the film, Richard Crenna [...] seems right on the verge of making his Tommy Lee Jones imitation truly great, but he always just misses, maybe because he has only his attitude to work with.

Her past TV and film work includes Cold Case, CSI, Crossing Jordan, JAG, Murder She Wrote, Judging Amy, acclaimed mini series Intruders with Richard Crenna, Guardian, a recurring role on The O. C.

On television, Kearns reprised his radio roles on The Jack Benny Program and also appeared with Eve Arden and Richard Crenna in eight episodes of Our Miss Brooks ( 1953 – 1955 ) as Superintendent Stone, a role that he had played on radio.

Richard Donald Crenna ( November 30, 1926 – January 17, 2003 ) was an American motion picture, television, and radio actor and occasional television director.

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.

* Walter Denton ( Richard Crenna, billed at the time as Dick Crenna ), a Madison High student, well-intentioned and clumsy, with a nasally high, cracking voice, often driving Miss Brooks ( his self-professed favorite teacher ) to school in a broken-down jalopy.

* November 30 – Richard Crenna, American actor ( d. 2003 )

In the 1986 miniseries, Perot was portrayed by Richard Crenna.

Holman informs the Captain ( Richard Crenna ), who declines to authorize an engine shutdown for the repair.

: Many Italian Americans actors became well known in movies and TV, such as: Don Ameche, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anne Bancroft ( Anna Italiano ), Ernest Borgnine ( Ermes Borgnino ), Robert Alda, Alan Alda, Lou Costello, Frank Langella, Frankie Avalon ( Avallone ), Annette Funicello, James Darren ( Ercolani ), Jimmy Durante, Anthony Franciosa, Sal Mineo, Ben Gazzara, Harry Guardino, Aldo Ray ( DaRe ), Richard Conte, Bernadette Peters ( Lazzara ), Connie Stevens ( Concetta Ingoglia ), Richard Crenna, Dom DeLuise, Armand Assante, Susan Sarandon, Danny DeVito, Joe Mantegna, John Travolta, Tony Danza, Alyssa Milano, Paul Sorvino, Mira Sorvino, Al Pacino, Liza Minnelli, Rene Russo, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Nicolas Cage ( Coppola ), Stanley Tucci, Marissa Tomei, John Turturro and Sylvester Stallone.

During the course of filming the series in 1969 Le Mesurier was flown to Venice over a series of weekends for filming Midas Run, an Alf Kjellin-directed crime film that also starred Richard Crenna, Anne Heywood and Fred Astaire.

Crenna played " Colonel Trautman " in the first three Rambo movies.

Crenna was born in Los Angeles, the only child of Edith J.

( née Pollette ), who was a hotel manager in Los Angeles, and Dominick Anthony Crenna, a pharmacist.

Crenna attended Virgil Junior High School, followed by Belmont High School in Los Angeles.

Following High School, Crenna served in the US Army during World War II.

Crenna participated in WWII serving in the infantry as a Radioman-where he saw combat duty in the European theater at the Battle of the Bulge.

Crenna also served in the Pacific theater decoding Japanese intercepts.

Following WWII, Crenna attended the University of Southern California where he Majored in English.

Later, Crenna became one of the four directors of the series during its six-year run.

Crenna was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for " Best TV Star-Male " in 1965, for this same role.

Crenna was rewarded with an Emmy Award, and a nomination for a Golden Globe Award, for his performance as the main character in the movie The Rape of Richard Beck.

Crenna portrayed the character of New York City Police Lieutenant of Detectives Frank Janek in a series of seven popular made for television films starting in 1988 and ending in 1994.

Crenna is perhaps best known today for his role as John Rambo's ex-commanding Officer " Colonel Sam Trautman " in the first three Rambo films, a role for which he was hired after the actor Kirk Douglas left the production just one day into the filming of the first movie of the series.

At one point in the game when the skinny old man in suspenders who was acting as umpire got in the way of a thrown ball and took it painfully in the kidneys, he lay there unattended while players and spectators wrangled over whether the ball was `` dead '' or the base runners were free to score.

John Huston was reported to be easily bored during production, and admired Bogart ( who also got bored easily off camera ) not just for his acting talent but for his intense concentration on the set.

During this time period, he got an occasional bit television role, but left acting briefly to teach in order to support himself.

So I thought, I got enough problems trying to get an acting job, so I invented Martin Sheen.

He began his remarks by stating, " At least you've got the acting president of the United States ," referring to his role as fictional president Josiah Bartlet on The West Wing.

Captain Cresap's initial actions were innocuous, establishing a second ferry in the upper Conejohela down river from John Wright's but near his father-in-laws settlement at Peach Bottom, and demanding settlers either move out or pay Maryland for the right bank lands they'd already received from Pennsylvania, but here events soon got out of hand, blew up, and soon started Cresap's War by acting on behalf of Maryland as a henchman of Lord Baltimore confiscating farms near Peach Bottom and Wrightsville, establishing a second ferry there.

Burghoff was born in Bristol, Connecticut and got started in acting and drumming during his high school years in Delavan, Wisconsin.

José's singing career did not go much further, but he soon began acting in telenovelas and got a job co-hosting the Saturday night program A Millon in 1983, along with Hector Marcano, & Sonia Noemí, on WAPA-TV.

You guys got to stop acting like cowboys-acting wild.

Downey got his first post-rehab acting job in August 2001, lip-syncing in the video for Elton John's single " I Want Love ".

Phoenix and his siblings were eventually discovered by one of Hollywood's leading children's agents, Iris Burton, who got the five children acting work, mainly doing commercials and television show appearances.

I got a big chance to do some real acting in The Postman Always Rings Twice, and I'm not going to slip back if I can help it.

She got her first acting break on Broadway in Sigmund Romberg's Forbidden Melody in 1936.

Willcox often emphasised the fact that music and acting for her complemented one another: " I got to do both.

He got enrolled in acting classes by the age of nine and began his professional rapping career in 1985.

He was asked to audition for a role by casting director Lyn Stalmaster and got his first acting role in Kung Fu: The Movie, a feature-length television movie which was a follow-up to the 1970s television series Kung Fu.

Bostwick attended San Diego's United States International University in 1967, majoring in acting, got his start on the Hillbarn Theatre stage now located in Foster City, and worked for a time as a circus performer.

By another version, the officer was acting officially, as the Nazi authorities had in mind some kind of " special treatment " for Korczak ( some prominent Jews with international reputations got sent to Theresienstadt ).

LaVern helped her find an acting agent and got her started in the industry by introducing Jada to many of her celebrity friends including Keenan.

When he got older, he tried stunt acting like his father and worked on commercials for a while.

She got to experience acting on the stage, on film, and on television and was able to experience so many different characters that she could learn from each one in her own life.

In between the first and second seasons of Superman, Reeves got sporadic acting assignments in one-shot TV anthology programs and in two feature films, Forever Female ( 1953 ) and Fritz Lang's The Blue Gardenia ( 1953 ).

Guy nervously steps into the shadows with Bruno, literally behind the bars of an iron fence ; " You've got me acting like I'm a criminal ", he says.

He soon got involved in the Indian struggle for freedom from the British Raj, and started acting as a defense lawyer for leaders of the Indian freedom movement whom the British authorities had imprisoned in the 1942 Quit India movement.