Richard Crenna

Richard Crenna

Country: USA

Total Credits at Criticker: 61 (Actor), 2 (Director)

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    First Blood
    A mentally unstable Vietnam war vet, when abused with a small town's police force, begins a one man war with it (imdb)
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    Hot Shots! Part Deux
    "Rambo" parody in which Topper Harley leads a rescue team into Iraq to save Iraqi war prisoners and all of their previous rescue teams. (imdb)
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    Body Heat
    In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband. (imdb)
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    Wrongfully Accused
    Ryan Harrison is framed for murder and must prove himself innocent by finding a mysterious one-eyed, one-armed, one-legged man after escaping from a bus accident on the way to jail. (imdb)
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    Sabrina
    An ugly duckling having undergone a remarkable change, still harbors feelings for her crush: a carefree playboy, but not before his business-focused brother has something to say about it. (imdb)
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    Summer Rental
    Jack Chester, an overworked air traffic controller, takes his family on vacation to the beach. Things immediately start to go wrong for the Chesters... (imdb)
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    Rambo: First Blood Part II
    John Rambo is removed from prison by his former superior, Colonel Samuel Troutman, for a top-secret... (imdb)
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    Wait Until Dark
    A recently blinded woman is terrorized by a trio of thugs while they search for a heroin stuffed doll they believe is in her apartment. (imdb)
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    Jade
    Someone does a nasty hatchet job on a San Fransisco big noise and the Assistant D.A. takes charge of the investigation... (imdb)
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    The Sand Pebbles
    Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the "rice-bowl" system which runs the ship and the uneasy sybiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. (imdb)
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    Rambo III
    Rambo's Vietnam commanding officer Colonel Trautman is held hostage in Afghanistan, and its up to Rambo to rescue him. (imdb)
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    Jonathan Livingston Seagull
    Jonathan is sick and tired of the boring life in his sea-gull clan. He rather experiments with new, always more daring flying techniques. (imdb)
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    Leviathan
    Underwater deep-sea miners encounter a Soviet wreck and bring back a dangerous cargo to their base on the ocean floor with horrifying results. In a story owing a lot to _Alien_ and _The Thing_, the crew of the mining base must fight to survive against a genetic mutation that hunts them down one by one. (imdb)
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    Dirty Money
    Bank robbery in small town ends with one of the robbers being wounded. The loot from the robbery is just a asset for the even more spectacular heist. Simon, gang leader and Paris night club owner, must also deal with police comissaire Edouard Colemane, who happens to be his good friend. (imdb)
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    The Flamingo Kid
    Jeffrey feels boxed in; in his home, in his life, in his dreams. At the Flamingo beach club his eyes are opened to a world filled with what he sees as beautiful people and perfect lives. He turns his back on his family in pursuit of easy street... (imdb)
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    Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell
    A dog that is a minion of Satan terrorizes a suburban family. (imdb)
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    Marooned
    After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to earth only to find their rockets wont fire. After initially thinking they might have to abandon them in orbit, NASA decides to launch a daring rescue. Their plans are complicated by a Hurricane headed towards the launch site and a shrinking air supply in the astronauts capsule. (imdb)
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    Intruders
    Intruders (1992) - TV Movie
    All over the world, people report they've been visited by aliens, taken aboard spaceships and medically examined. The authorities appear to know all about these visits but won't acknowledge it publicly. This film focuses on two 'victims' who struggle to live normal lives, but the aliens keep coming back. All is explained (perhaps ?) at the end. (imdb)
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    Breakheart Pass
    Train with medical supplies and small U.S. Army unit is heading through Rocky mountains towards plagued Fort Humboldt. Among its passengers are territory governor, priest, doctor and U.S. Marshal with his prisoner, John Deakin. However, nothing on that train is what it seems. (imdb)
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    Catlow
    An outlaw tries to avoid interference as he journeys to pull off a $2-million gold robbery. (imdb)
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    Death Ship
    A cruise ship is run over by a Nazi Flying Dutchman (Flying Deutschland?). Several survivors are taken on board, including the captain, who begins to imagine himself its fuehrer.
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    The Deserter
    Bitter over his wife's death due to what he believes was army negligence, Capt. Viktor Kaleb deserts the cavalry and disappears into the southwestern wasteland. But when marauding Apaches set up a stronghold just out of the cavalry's reach in Mexico, Kaleb is given amnesty in exchange for leading a small band of especially trained soldiers to wipe out the Indian stronghold. (imdb)
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    Shootout in a One-Dog Town
    A small-town banker is forced to protect his town against a vicious gang of bank robbers determined to get the $200,000 stored in his bank. (imdb)
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    The Evil
    The pure evil that lurks underneath a Civil War-era house awaits its opportunity to be unleashed once more upon the world--or at least, upon the latest inhabitants of the house.
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    John Goldfarb, Please Come Home
    U-2 Pilot "wrong Way" Goldfarb lands in oil-rich Fawzia, whose king has an American in his Harem (myself)
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    Star!
    Film based on life of actress Gertrude Lawrence, on- and offstage, takes the opportunity to feature extravagant musical production numbers with 'Julie Andrews,' acting, singing and dancing. (imdb)
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    Deep Family Secrets
    A young woman journeys back to her birthplace and discovers that much of what she had always taken for granted concerning her family life was a lie. (imdb)
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    Midas Run
    A veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of gold out of an irritation for never being knighted. (imdb)
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    Centennial
    Centennial (1978) - TV Mini-Series
    The economic and cultural growth of Colorado spanning two centuries from the mid-1700s to the late-1970s. (imdb)
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    It Grows on Trees
    What happens when an American family gets two trees that grow spendable money. (imdb)
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    Made in Paris
    Maggie Scott (Ann-Margret), a fashion buyer in Paris on her first buying spree where she meets famous fashion designer Mark Fontaine (Louis Jourdan) and he immediately gives her the big rush. When Maggie appears to have lost the lucrative contract with Fontaine, her boss Ted Barclay (Chad Everett), the son of her company's owner, comes to Paris to straighten things out, making an even bigger mess of things. (imdb)
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    Our Miss Brooks
    A high school teacher has to rescue the professor she loves from his grasping mother. (TCM.com)
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    Over-Exposed
    Stars Cleo Moore as a voluptuous blonde who becomes a successful commercial photographer. Richard Crenna plays a reporter who takes a special interest in Moore's career. The beauteous picture taker becomes involved in a blackmail plot when she goes to work for a Confidential-type magazine, nearly losing her life to mobsters. (allmovie.com)
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    Stone Cold Dead
    A dedicated cop eventually tracks down a killer on the loose in a major metropolitan city - the killer being a sniper who attacks and later sends photos of his victims - all prostitutes - to the police. (BFI)
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    On Wings of Eagles
    On Wings of Eagles (1986) - TV Mini-Series
    As the Ayatollah Khomeini takes over Iran, two executives of the Texas based Electronic Data System's (EDS) are arrested in Tehran and held for $13,000,000 ransom. H. Ross Perot, the company head, tries diplomatic approaches to get his executives released. When that fails, he hires a retired Army Colonel to head up a rescue mission. (imdb)
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    Deadly Justice
    This bold and thought-provoking TV movie centers on a bigoted and sexist police officer (the late Richard Crenna) who has always believed that rape victims "ask for it", but finds himself re-thinking his belief after he is sexually assaulted himself. (imdb)
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    The Hillside Stranglers
    The true chilling story of the "two of a kind", killin' cousins Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, better known as the Hillside Stranglers, is told in this TV drama. The movie concentrates on the killers story, as well as on the life of Officer Bob Grogan, who investigated their case. Look for the real Bob Grogan as the Washington cop who arrests Kenneth Bianchi! (imdb)
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    A Fire in the Sky
    Astronomers discover a comet that they believe will crash into Phoenix, Arizona. They attempt to warn officials, but no one believes them. (imdb)
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    And the Sea Will Tell
    Partially filmed in Hawaii and Tahiti, And the Sea Will Tell was a two-part TV movie based on a real murder case. A wealthy couple (James Brolin and Deidre Hall) are killed on their yacht off the coast of a secluded South American island called Palmyra. The suspects are a hippyish pair (Hart Bochner and Rachel Ward) whom the rich folks had befriended. (allmovie.com)
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    The Man Called Noon
    Noon is a gunfighter who has become amnesiac. Helped by Rimes, an outlaw who has befriended him, he tries to figure out who he is actually. It gradually appears that his wife and kid have been murdered. As time goes by, Noon also recalls a fortune hidden somewhere. Niland, a scheming judge, and Peg Cullane, a greedy will do everything to prevent Noon and Rimes from achieving their end while Fan Davidge, a woman living in a ghost town, will support them. (imdb)
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    The Pride of St. Louis
    The story of Jerome "Dizzy" Dean, a major-league baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs in the 1930s and 1940s. (imdb)
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    Red Sky at Morning
    In this drama, based on a novel by Richard Bradford, an adolescent boy and his mother are sent to live in New Mexico after his father goes off to fight WWII. The move is hard on both mother and son. The boy, one of the few whites in the area, must deal with making friends, the strange new land, and first love. Meanwhile, his mother becomes increasingly withdrawn. When they learn that his father has been killed, the son must fight with his mother's lover to become the real head of the household. (imdb)
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    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
    Michael Anderson directed this TV movie version of Jules Verne's oft-adapted science fiction classic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Richard Crenna stars as Henry Aronnax, a marine biologist, who, along with his crew, must confront the maniacal genius Captain Nemo (Ben Cross), helmsman of the Nautilus. Paul Gross and Julie Cox also star (allrovi.com)
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    Out of the Ashes
    Based on a true story, film follows the journey of Gisella Perl, a Jewish-Hungarian doctor who manages to survive Auschwitz. Decades later, she's applying for U.S. citizenship when she becomes accused of colluding with the Nazis. Her judge and jury are three INS investigators who must decide her fate. (imdb)
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    The Day Reagan Was Shot
    On March 30, 1981, John Hinckley attempts to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in front of the Washington Hilton. While Reagan is in the hospital, Secretary of State Alexander Haig takes control at the White House, only to find himself close to nuclear conflict with the Soviet Union. A thought-provoking portrait of an infamous day in American history that was fraught with far more chaos than the public knew. (tvguide.com)
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    Doctors\
    The wives of several high-powered doctors feel neglected due to their husbands' focus on their careers, so they embark on a regimen of sex, drugs and booze. (imdb)
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    Table for Five
    J. P. Tannen takes his three children for a vacation cruise. They usually live with their mother and step-father, but now J. P. feels capable of taking them. Emotional tragedy strikes, causing battles parent against parent, and parent against child. J. P. tries to show his children that he loves them. (imdb)
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    Mayflower: The Pilgrims\
    In 1620, the Assembly of the Pilgrims decides to emigrate to the young America because of the persecution they suffer by the English crown. The film tells the adventurous journey of the Pilgrims to an unknown land and future. (imdb)
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    By Dawn\
    When Mike Lewis leaves L.A. to stay with his grandfather in Colorado for the summer, he hates the old man's cowboy ways. When Mike demands to go home, the old man agrees and saddles up a couple of horses for a six week trip toward California, home, the Pacific and redemption. (imdb)
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    Double Indemnity
    A scheming wife lures an insurance investigator into helping murder her husband and then declare it an accident. The investigator's boss, not knowing his man is involved in it, suspects murder and sets out to prove it. (imdb)
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    In the Name of Love: a Texas Tragedy
    A wealthy disabled man falls for a mysterious, beautiful woman, but his family conspire to end their romance, convinced she is only after his money.
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    A Case of Deadly Force
    Fact-based story about a 1975 cover-up of a shooting by two white members of the Boston Tactical Unit. While on stakeout on a suspected getaway car used in a armed robbery, the two gunned down a black man who entered the car. The two claimed the man had a gun and they shot in self-defence. The man's widow knew her husband would not be carrying a weapon and hired a former cop, with his four sons, who had become a lawyer to prove her case. This proved to be a landmark legal decision.
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    Passions
    Passions (1984) - TV Movie
    A man with a wife and daughter also has a son with another woman. When he dies this little secret is revealed to the wife. She then sets out to make her and her son suffer by trying to throw them out of the house he bought for them but now it legally belongs to his wife. And at the same time, wanting to ensure her son's future, she sues his estate for her son's education fund. While they are butting heads, they both discover that they were both deceived by him.
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    Last Flight Out
    Fact based story set in Saigon in April, 1975 shortly after the US combat troops have withdrawn and immediately before the Communist forces over run the city. American citizens try to help South Vietnamese refugees escape on the last commercial flight that will be permitted to leave the city.
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    Murder, She Wrote: A Story To Die For
    Jessica Fletcher becomes a speaker at Speakers' Incorporated attended by various authors. Russian author Uri Malenkovitch also attends to promote his book about the KGB. When he is killed, Jessica must help a struggling writer who is accused of his murder. (imdb)
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    Our Miss Brooks
    Miss Brooks teaches English at Madison High, rents a room from Mrs. Davis, gets rides to school with student Walter, fights with Principal Conklin, and tries to snag shy biology teacher Boynton. In the last year she switches to Mrs. Nestor's private school.
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    Montana
    Montana (1990) - TV Movie
    Hoyce and Bess Guthrie are long married Montana ranchers who come to a major crossroads in their lives. An oil company has offered to buy them out and Hoyce wants to sell while Bess hopes to keep the land in the family for future generations. (imdb)
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    Murder in Black and White
    A recently appointed black police commissioner is killed. So, Frank Janek is assigned to investigate.
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    The Real McCoys
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    Wild Horse Hank
    A teenage girl tries to save a herd of wild horses from a local gang intending on capturing and selling them for dogmeat. Unfortunately the nearest Federal land where the horses will be safe lies one hundred and fifty miles away, over badlands and a mountain range. (imdb)
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    The Day the Bubble Burst
    A fictionalized account of how the 1929 stock market crash hurt the elite and the struggling, and the forces that may have caused the crash to occur.
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