Richard Crenna raises his forearm and waves his hand. The fingers are just a little splayed and gently curved forward. The gesture is unmistakable -- it's Ronald Reagan's.

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Richard Donald Crenna (November 30, 1926 – January 17, 2003) was an American motion picture, television, and radio actor and occasional television director. He starred in such motion pictures as ...

Richard Crenna, who gained fame on TV’s Our Miss Brooks and The Real McCoys but made a successful transition from comedy to drama on television and in movies including The Sand Pebbles and Body ...

Crenna's work as a tough-guy cop became a staple. He played Lt. Frank Janek in a series of television movies during the '80s and early '90s, and appeared in 1999 in a four-hour television series ...

Richard Crenna, who gained fame on TV's "Our Miss Brooks" and "The Real McCoys" and made a successful transition from comedy to drama on television and in movies such as "The Sand Pebbles" and ...

Richard Crenna, an Emmy award-winning character actor who starred as a lovesick teenager on the 1950s sitcom "Our Miss Brooks" and as Sylvester Stallone's Green Beret mentor in three "Rambo" films ...

Richard Crenna, the Emmy award-winning character actor who starred as a lovesick teenager on "Our Miss Brooks" and Sylvester Stallone's Green Beret mentor in the "Rambo" films, has died. He was 76.