<Tr> <Th> Awards </Th> <Td> American Campaign Medal European--African--Middle Eastern Campaign Medal Asiatic--Pacific Campaign Medal World War II Victory Medal </Td> </Tr> <P> Richard Donald Crenna (November 30, 1926--January 17, 2003) was an American motion picture, television, and radio actor and occasional television director . </P> <P> Richard Crenna starred in such motion pictures as The Sand Pebbles, Wait Until Dark, Un Flic, Body Heat, the first three Rambo movies, Hot Shots! Part Deux, and The Flamingo Kid . Crenna's first success came on radio in 1948 as high school student "Walter Denton" co-starring with Eve Arden and Gale Gordon in the CBS network series Our Miss Brooks . Crenna continued with the long running comedy in its 1952 move into television . He also had a role as "Luke McCoy" in the ABC television, and later CBS, series The Real McCoys (1957--63). </P> <P> Crenna was born November 30, 1926, in Los Angeles, the only child of Edith J. (née Pollette), who was a hotel manager in Los Angeles, and Dominick Anthony Crenna, a pharmacist . His parents were both of Italian descent . Crenna attended Virgil Junior High School, followed by Belmont High School in Los Angeles, from which he graduated in 1944 . </P>

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