Richard Donald Crenna

 Richard Donald Crenna (November 30, 1926 – January 17, 2003)

Crenna was a motion picture, television, and radio actor and occasional television director. After World War II, Richard Crenna attended the University of Southern California where he majored in English, eventually receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree and was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. Crenna got his acting start on radio. In 1937, he had gained his first role that of "the kid who did everything wrong" on Boy Scout Jamboree, a show on which he continued to appear occasionally in numerous roles until 1948. He also starred in such motion pictures as The Sand Pebbles, Wait Until Dark, Un Flic, Body Heat, the first three Rambo movies,Hot Shots! Part Deux, the remake of Sabrina, and The Flamingo Kid. Crenna played "Walter Denton" in the CBS radio network 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. He guest starred on the I Love Lucy episode "The Young Fans" with Janet Waldo and on NBC's 1955–56 anthology series, Frontier, in the lead role of the episode entitled "The Ten Days of John Leslie". During the 1970s, Crenna continued his acting in such Western dramas such as Catlow, Breakheart Pass, and The Man Called Noon. He made a notable performance in Jean-Pierre Melville's final film Un Flic in 1972. In 1978 in the NBC-TV miniseries, Centennial, based on James A. Michener's historical novel Centennial, Crenna played the part of the deranged religious fanatic, Colonel Frank Skimmerhorn, who ordered a massacre of American Indians in Colorado in 1864. Crenna was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6714 Hollywood Boulevard. Richard Crenna died on January 17, 2003 at age 76. His remains were cremated.