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Richard Crenna: Roles
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Richard Crenna eschewed his good guy roles by playing Mike Talman, one of the cons who does appreciate Suzie's intelligence. Jack Weston, a great comic actor... goes for more visceral drama, and his performance as the buffoon is right on target. And what about Mr. Alan Arkin? His cold, insensitive evil is just right!!! Little Julie Herrod as Gloria also does a credible job.
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Richard Crenna played the role of Bronco Thompson, Marjorie’s boyfriend and later husband on the later years of the program. Crenna had a long and successful acting career in radio, television and movies. He played teenage boys on several different radio programs, with his best-know radio role no doubt the dopey and devoted high school student Walter Denton on “Our Miss Brooks.” He moved from radio to television as Walter Denton, and then had a major television hit playing Luke McCoy on “The Real McCoys” from 1957-1963.
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Richard Donald Crenna was born in Los Angeles in 1926. At age 10, he played a squeaky-voiced kid on radio's ''Burns and Allen Show.'' After serving in the Army during World War II, Mr. Crenna was cast as the squeaky-voiced teenager Walter Denton on the radio comedy ''Our Miss Brooks'' with Eve Arden and moved with the show to television in 1952. After that, he began working steadily, moving effortlessly between television and film roles. Mr. Crenna played the pitcher Daffy Dean in the 1953 film ''Pride of St. Louis.'' From 1957 through 1963, he starred with Walter Brennan on the long-running CBS comedy ''The Real McCoys.''
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Crenna is perhaps best known for his role as John Rambo's ex-Commanding Officer "Colonel Trautman" in the first three Rambo films. He ... spoofed the role in Hot Shots! Part Deux, as a homage to his Rambo character. He also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6714 Hollywood Blvd.
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When The Real McCoys ended in 1964, Crenna made yet another career change -- switching from situation comedies to straight dramatic roles. He won the title role in Slattery's People, playing an idealistic state legislator. The series, which co-starred a still unknown Ed Asner, was produced by Bing Crosby's production company -- and filmed at Desilu.
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The following year, Crenna decided to sorta let Walter Denton die, and took a decidedly mature role in the sleazy exploitation film Over-Exposed (1956). It was a fully grown Crenna who took on the role of Luke McCoy on the Walter Brennan TV series The Real McCoys, which ran from 1957 through 1963 and which gave Crenna his first opportunities as a director.
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