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Richard Crenna (1926-2003) was an American actor. Crenna most famous roles were in the following movies: The Sand Pebbles, Wait Until Dark, Body Heat, the first three Rambo movies, and The Flamingo Kid. His IMDb page shows 120 credits between 1950 and 2003. This page will rank Richard Crenna movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, cameos, and movies not released in North America were not included in the rankings.
Richard Crenna Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
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| 1966 | The Sand Pebbles (1966) AA Best Picture Nom |
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| 1967 | Wait until Dark (1967) |  |
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| 1982 | First Blood (1982) | |
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| 1981 | Body Heat (1981) |  |
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| 1968 | Star! (1968) | |
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| 1985 | Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) | |
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| 1995 | Sabrina (1995) | |
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| 1993 | Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993) |  |
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| 1952 | The Pride of St. Louis (1952) | |
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| 1984 | The Flamingo Kid (1984) | |
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| 1969 | Marooned (1969) | |
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| 1988 | Rambo III (1988) | |
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| 1975 | Breakheart Pass (1975) |  |
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| 1971 | Red Sky At Morning (1971) | |
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| 1972 | A Cop/Un Flic (1972) | |
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| 1956 | Our Miss Brooks (1956) | |
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| 1952 | It Grows On Trees (1952) | |
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| 1965 | John Golfarb Please Come Home (1965) | |
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| 1971 | Doctors' Wives (1971) | |
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| 1973 | Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973) | |
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| 1970 | The Devil's Backbone/The Deserter (1970) | |
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| 1998 | Wrongfully Accused (1998) |  |
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| 1983 | Table for Five (1983) |  |
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| 1985 | Summer Rental (1985) | |
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| 1956 | Over-Exposed (1956) | |
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| 1952 | Red Skies of Montana (1952) | |
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| 1969 | Midas Run (1969) |  |
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| 1966 | Made in Paris (1966) | |
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| 1989 | Leviathan (1989) | |
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| 1973 | The Man Called Noon (1973) | |
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| 1995 | A Pyromaniac's Love Story (1995) |  |
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| 1978 | The Evil (1978) | |
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| 1971 | Catlow (1971) | |
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| 1980 | Death Ship (1980) | |
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| 1979 | Stone Cold Dead (1979) | |
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| 1995 | Jade (1995) | |
Richard Crenna Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
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| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | ||||
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| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | B.O. Rank by Year | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | S |
| 1 | The Sand Pebbles (1966) AA Best Picture Nom |
Steve McQueen & Richard Attenborough |
33.80 | 330.7 | 330.70 | 3 | 83 | 08 / 00 | 99.2 | |
| 2 | Wait until Dark (1967) | Audrey Hepburn & Alan Arkin |
19.80 | 176.0 | 176.00 | 14 | 88 | 01 / 00 | 97.6 | |
| 3 | First Blood (1982) | Sylvester Stallone | 47.20 | 173.1 | 459.10 | 12 | 77 | 00 / 00 | 94.8 | |
| 4 | Body Heat (1981) | William Hurt & Kathleen Turner |
24.10 | 93.3 | 93.30 | 36 | 86 | 00 / 00 | 89.6 | |
| 6 | Star! (1968) | Daniel Massey & Julie Andrews |
12.00 | 98.7 | 98.70 | 33 | 71 | 07 / 00 | 87.2 | |
| 5 | Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) | Sylvester Stallone | 150.40 | 456.8 | 912.20 | 2 | 44 | 01 / 00 | 87.1 | |
| 7 | Sabrina (1995) | Harrison Ford & Greg Kinnear |
53.70 | 133.0 | 216.30 | 33 | 62 | 02 / 00 | 85.8 | |
| 8 | Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993) | Charlie Sheen & Lloyd Bridges |
38.90 | 101.4 | 101.40 | 40 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 79.9 | |
| 9 | The Pride of St. Louis (1952) | Baseball Movies & Dan Dailey |
4.50 | 88.7 | 88.70 | 70 | 63 | 01 / 00 | 78.9 | |
| 10 | The Flamingo Kid (1984) | Matt Dillon & Directed by Garry Marshall |
23.90 | 76.5 | 76.50 | 44 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 77.2 | |
| 11 | Marooned (1969) | Gregory Peck & Gene Hackman |
12.40 | 94.4 | 94.40 | 25 | 54 | 03 / 01 | 76.0 | |
| 12 | Rambo III (1988) | Sylvester Stallone | 53.70 | 140.9 | 495.80 | 16 | 42 | 00 / 00 | 74.2 | |
| 13 | Breakheart Pass (1975) | Charles Bronson & Ben Johnson |
6.50 | 33.9 | 33.90 | 60 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 65.8 | |
| 14 | Red Sky At Morning (1971) | Richard Thomas | 3.60 | 23.8 | 23.80 | 76 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 63.4 | |
| 15 | A Cop/Un Flic (1972) | Alain Delon & Catherine Deneuve |
2.90 | 18.6 | 62.00 | 93 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 58.6 | |
| 15 | Our Miss Brooks (1956) | Eve Arden | 1.60 | 31.5 | 35.90 | 153 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 57.9 | |
| 17 | It Grows On Trees (1952) | Irene Dunne & Dean Jagger |
2.50 | 49.0 | 49.00 | 133 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 56.8 | |
| 18 | John Golfarb Please Come Home (1965) | Shirley MacLaine & Peter Ustinov |
7.00 | 74.3 | 74.30 | 43 | 48 | 00 / 00 | 54.5 | |
| 20 | Doctors' Wives (1971) | Gene Hackman & Dyan Cannon |
8.90 | 58.4 | 58.40 | 41 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 54.2 | |
| 19 | Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973) | Dorothy McGuire | 4.80 | 29.5 | 29.50 | 65 | 60 | 02 / 00 | 53.1 | |
| 21 | The Devil's Backbone/The Deserter (1970) | John Huston & Ricardo Montalban |
1.50 | 10.5 | 10.50 | 122 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 53.0 | |
| 22 | Wrongfully Accused (1998) | Leslie Nielsen | 9.60 | 22.1 | 22.10 | 122 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 46.3 | |
| 23 | Table for Five (1983) | Jon Voight | 2.40 | 8.3 | 8.30 | 108 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 39.1 | |
| 25 | Summer Rental (1985) | John Candy | 24.70 | 75.0 | 75.00 | 35 | 40 | 00 / 00 | 36.9 | |
| 24 | Over-Exposed (1956) | Jack Albertson | 0.40 | 8.5 | 8.50 | 203 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 34.4 | |
| 26 | Red Skies of Montana (1952) | Richard Widmark & Jeffrey Hunter |
3.50 | 68.1 | 68.10 | 100 | 41 | 00 / 00 | 34.2 | |
| 27 | Midas Run (1969) | Fred Astaire & Roddy McDowall |
0.90 | 6.5 | 10.80 | 145 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 28.2 | |
| 28 | Made in Paris (1966) | Ann-Margret & Louis Jourdan |
3.20 | 31.9 | 31.90 | 74 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 27.5 | |
| 30 | Leviathan (1989) | Peter Weller | 15.70 | 42.6 | 51.30 | 63 | 43 | 00 / 00 | 22.3 | |
| 29 | The Man Called Noon (1973) | Stephen Boyd | 0.70 | 4.2 | 4.20 | 162 | 54 | 00 / 00 | 20.4 | |
| 31 | A Pyromaniac's Love Story (1995) | William Baldwin & John Leguizamo |
0.30 | 0.9 | 0.90 | 221 | 54 | 00 / 00 | 18.6 | |
| 32 | The Evil (1978) | Joanna Pettet | 1.80 | 8.4 | 8.40 | 118 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 18.0 | |
| 33 | Catlow (1971) | Yul Brynner | 2.00 | 13.0 | 13.00 | 121 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 16.8 | |
| 34 | Death Ship (1980) | George Kennedy | 4.10 | 16.9 | 16.90 | 109 | 45 | 00 / 00 | 13.3 | |
| 35 | Stone Cold Dead (1979) | Paul Williams | 0.90 | 3.7 | 3.70 | 146 | 48 | 00 / 00 | 11.7 | |
| 36 | Jade (1995) | David Caruso & Michael Biehn |
9.90 | 24.4 | 24.40 | 116 | 41 | 00 / 00 | 11.1 |
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I have also recently watched Richard in three TV movies – Jonathan Stone: The Threat of Innocence; The Forget me Not Murders; and the thriller Deep Family Secrets co-starring Angie Dickinson.
Indeed his television career was massive and Wikipedia gives details of 78 productions that he appeared in between 1952 [debuting on the small screen in the popular I Love Lucy show] and 2003.
In 2014 he also surfaced in a Rambo video game. That was 11 years after Richard’s death but as I never watched it I don’t know precisely how they worked him into it; though as the video includes scenes from his 3 Rambo outings that Bruce mentions above I presume that it is in repeats of some of these scenes that Richard appears.
When he died he had a reported net worth equivalent to about $14 million in today’s money. Although he was never a major star his overall prolific output in both big and small screens have in my opinion made him worthy of a profile by Cogerson at one stage or another. Well done Bruce.
Hey Bob….thanks for the further details of his television career. I agree with you….it was indeed massive….and happened for a very long time. I am sure they lifted his voice from the movies…to get him in the video game. Thanks for the information on his net worth. Good stuff as always.
Richard Crenna especially as he got older has always reminded me slightly of William Holden both in physical appearance and acting style and I think that Bruce’s fine little miniature above from Wait Until Dark to an extent bears out my contention in relation to the physical appearance aspect. I have seen Richard in 5 movies:
1/Wait Until Dark
2/Sabrina [1995]
3/Red Skies of Montana***
4/Jade
5/One of the Rambo movies. I have seen only one ever in that entire franchise and I can’t recall which one it was.
***This Widmark flick was among Crenna’s first 3 movies [which were made between 1950 and 52] and in all 3 of them he was uncredited. Another one of the 3 was the musical Starlift and in it Crenna had the walk-on part of a cinema usher!
Hey Bob…thanks for sharing your thoughts on Richard Crenna. I can see you thinking as he age he looked like William Holden. Tally count: 13 for me, 9 for Flora and 5 for you. As for Red Skies of Montana…I included it here….because at least his character had a name….”Noxon”….the other two gave him no name…so they did not make the list.
As for the Rambo movies…seen one..then you have seen them all. Part 1: Rambo quietly living his life. Part 2: Bad guys do something to piss Rambo off. Part 3: Rambo kills everybody. Part 4: Rambo goes back to his quiet life….lol. Good stuff as always.
In summer camp in 1970 they showed us Wait Until Dark. I don’t know how they chose some of the movies they decided were for kids. Other strange ones they showed included The Defector with Montgomery Clift and 23 Paces to Baker Street with Van Johnson but I’m going off topic.
Richard Crenna is # 757 on the 2020 Oracle of Bacon Top 1000 Center of the Hollywood Universe list. These are the actors on this list he has appeared with.
6 MARTIN SHEEN Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)
29 HARRISON FORD Sabrina (1995)
33 SYLVESTER STALLONE First Blood (1982)
33 SYLVESTER STALLONE Rambo III (1988)
33 SYLVESTER STALLONE Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
39 RODDY MCDOWELL Midas Run (1969)
45 GEORGE KENNEDY Death Ship (1980)
50 ALAN ARKIN Wait Until Dark (1967)
78 GENE HACKMAN Doctors’ Wives (1971)
78 GENE HACKMAN Marooned (1969)
82 IAN BANNEN The Deserter (1971)
90 RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH The Sand Pebbles (1966)
93 PETER USTINOV John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)
99 RIP TORN Summer Rental (1985)
106 SHIRLEY MACLAINE John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)
132 WILLIAM HURT Body Heat (1981)
140 MICKEY ROURKE Body Heat (1981)
141 CANDICE BERGEN The Sand Pebbles (1966)
162 JOHN TURTURRO The Flamingo Kid (1984)
168 JAMES HONG The Sand Pebbles (1966)
170 JON VOIGHT Table for Five (1983)
194 CHARLES DURNING Breakheart Pass (1975)
204 MIKE STARR A Pyromaniac’s Love Story (1995)
207 JEFF COREY Catlow (1971)
243 LESLIE NIELSEN Wrongfully Accused (1998)
244 ED LAUTER Breakheart Pass (1975)
290 GREGORY PECK Marooned (1969)
303 CLAIRE BLOOM Red Sky at Morning (1971)
305 STEVEN BERKOFF Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
309 JOHN LEGUIZAMO A Pyromaniac’s Love Story (1995)
314 PAUL GIAMATTI Sabrina (1995)
315 CHARLES BRONSON Breakheart Pass (1975)
315 CHARLES BRONSON Red Skies of Montana (1952)
323 BRIAN DENNEHY First Blood (1982)
337 CATHERINE DENEUVE A Cop (1972)
352 TELLY SAVALAS John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)
354 ALAIN DELON A Cop (1972)
364 BRUCE GREENWOOD First Blood (1982)
366 ANN-MARGRET Made in Paris (1966)
368 CESAR ROMERO Midas Run (1969)
372 LLOYD BRIDGES Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)
396 ROY SCHEIDER Star! (1968)
398 MEL FERRER Wait Until Dark (1967)
403 ARMIN MUELLER-STAHL A Pyromaniac’s Love Story (1995)
405 HAL HOLBROOK Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973)
420 KEVIN COSTNER Table for Five (1983)
427 SAUL RUBINEK Death Ship (1980)
433 CHARLIE SHEEN Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)
441 TERI GARR John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)
454 VALERIA GOLINO Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)
466 CHARLES NAPIER Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
467 JOHN WOOD Sabrina (1995)
471 MATT DILLON The Flamingo Kid (1984)
482 MICHAEL LERNER A Pyromaniac’s Love Story (1995)
501 RALPH BELLAMY Doctors’ Wives (1971)
502 RICHARD WIDMARK Red Skies of Montana (1952)
514 ADOLFO CELI Midas Run (1969)
519 JAMES BROLIN John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)
537 WOODY STRODE The Deserter (1971)
558 MICHAEL WINCOTT Wild Horse Hank (1979)
562 WILFRID HYDE-WHITE John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)
567 MAURICE DENHAM Midas Run (1969)
580 YUL BRYNNER Catlow (1971)
592 ANGIE DICKINSON Sabrina (1995)
602 MARISA TOMEI The Flamingo Kid (1984)
622 CHAZZ PALMINTERI JADE (1995)
626 BEN JOHNSON Breakheart Pass (1975)
635 FANNY ARDANT SABRINA (1995)
636 MICHAEL BIEHN Jade (1995)
650 CLYDE KUSATSU Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)
695 SALLY KIRKLAND Breakheart Pass (1975)
708 ERNIE HUDSON Leviathan (1989)
717 SLIM PICKENS The Deserter (1971)
721 LOUIS JOURDAN Made in Paris (1966)
722 JOHN HUSTON The Deserter (1971)
733 MICHAEL IRONSIDE Stone Cold Dead (1979)
751 RALPH RICHARDSON Midas Run (1969)
788 MARCEL DALIO Made in Paris (1966)
803 PETER WELLER Leviathan (1989)
825 NEHEMIAH PERSOFF Red Sky at Morning (1971)
857 KURTWOOD SMITH Rambo III (1988)
890 JULIA ORMOND SABRINA (1995)
894 JENNY AGUTTER STAR! (1968)
931 JOHN LE MESURIER Midas Run (1969)
934 RICHARD ANDERSON Doctors’ Wives (1971)
956 LEE GRANT Marooned (1969)
973 JOHN CANDY Summer Rental (1985)
Dick appeared with 16 Oscar winners, lower than Eva Gabor (like the Mendoza line isn’t it).
ALAN ARKIN Wait Until Dark (1967)
AUDREY HEPBURN Wait Until Dark (1967)
BEN JOHNSON Breakheart Pass (1975)
DEAN JAGGER It Grows on Trees (1952)
GENE HACKMAN Doctors’ Wives (1971)
GENE HACKMAN Marooned (1969)
GEORGE KENNEDY Death Ship (1980)
GREGORY PECK Marooned (1969)
JACK ALBERTSON OVER-EXPOSED (1956)
JON VOIGHT Table for Five (1983)
JULIE ANDREWS Star! (1968)
LEE GRANT Marooned (1969)
MARISA TOMEI The Flamingo Kid (1984)
PETER USTINOV John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)
SHIRLEY MACLAINE John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)
WILLIAM HURT Body Heat (1981)
YUL BRYNNER Catlow (1971)
Hey Dan. Good information on Richard Crenna. Wait Until Dark sound like a good movie to show kids…but then again, I thought showing John Carpenter’s The Thing to my five-year was a good movie to show kids…so I might not be a good judge on proper kid movies.
So Richard has a spot in the Top 1000. Not sure I would have guessed that. Looking at the first list….our winner of the most frequent Oracle Co-Star goes to Sly Stallone. All three of their movies are from the Rambo series. The last one (not Crenna’s last one) was horrible.
Looking at the second list…16 Oscar winning co-stars….on the low end. I just saw his movie with Julie Andews….Star! was a long long musical with Crenna getting the girl at the end of the movie. Good stuff. Remember…you are the man!
I have seen 9 Richard Crenna movies.
The HIGHEST rated movie I have seen is The Sand Pebbles.
The highest rated movie I have NOT seen is First Blood.
The LOWEST rated movie I have seen is Made in Paris.
Favourite Richard Crenna Movies:
Wait Until Dark
Hot Shots! Part Deux
Other Richard Crenna Movies I Have seen:
Marooned
The Pride of St. Louis
Breakheart Pass
Our Miss Brooks
Red Skies of Montana
Made in Paris
Hey Flora…thanks for checking out our Richard Crenna page. He was one of the “Joel” subjects. Tally count…13 for me and 9 for you. I have seen both of your favorites. Surprised that Body Heat is not one of the ones you have seen. I would say Wait Until Dark, The Flamingo Kid and Body Heat are my Top 3 Crenna movies. In my opinion you are not missing much when it comes to Rambo. Good stuff as always.
Great UMR Page
Thank you Mike.