Crenna, Richard Donald

▪ 2004

      American actor (b. Nov. 30, 1926, Los Angeles, Calif.—d. Jan. 17, 2003, Los Angeles), became known in the 1940s as such squeaky-voiced radio characters as Oogie Pringle on Date with Judy and Walter Denton in Our Miss Brooks and continued to play the latter role when that series moved to television in the 1950s. He went on to star in another TV series, The Real McCoys, and to acclaimed roles in such films as The Sand Pebbles, Wait Until Dark, Body Heat, and the Rambo movies, as well as in a number of TV series and made-for-TV movies.

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