Richard Crenna — Actor (42)
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And the Sea Will Tell (1991) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
And the Sea Will Tell
director: Tommy Lee Wallace actor: Richard Crenna / Rachel Ward …
other title: Nur die See kennt die Wahrheit / Seawind – Segeltörn ins Jenseits
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. It’s fairly clear that the hippies were involved in the crime: The question is, did the man do it while the girl looked on helplessly, or was she a willing accomplice?
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Our Miss Brooks (1956) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Our Miss Brooks
director: Al Lewis actor: Eve Arden / Robert Rockwell …
The big-screen translation of the successful television show of the 1950's. Arden stars as Connie Brooks, wisecracking English teacher at Madison High School, still hoping to tie the knot with shy biology teacher Philip Boynton (Robert Rockwell).
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Internal Affairs (1988) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Internal Affairs
director: Michael Tuchner actor: Richard Crenna / Kate Capshaw …
A skilled police detective in a case involving the strange, sadistic murder of a young prostitute who has been killed in exactly the same fashion as a young nightclub singer in Saigon during the Vietnam War. At the same time, the detective attempts to ferret out corruption in the police ranks.
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The Man Called Noon (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Un hombre llamado Noon
director: Peter Collinson actor: Richard Crenna / Stephen Boyd …
other title: Lo chiamavano mezzogiorno / Der Mann aus El Paso …
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.
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A Case of Deadly Force (1986) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
A Case of Deadly Force
director: Michael Miller actor: Richard Crenna / John Shea …
other title: Im Netz der Gewalt / Un caso de fuerza mayor
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-defense. Police investigation decided it was a rightful shooting. The man's widow knew her husband would not be carrying a weapon and became determined to prove her husband's innocence. She hired a former cop who had become a lawyer to prove her case. Working with his four sons, the lawyer team takes on the police force in what eventually proved to be a landmark legal decision. Written by John Sacksteder
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Nightmare (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Nightmare
director: William Hale actor: Richard Crenna / Patty Duke …
other title: Incubo
A murder witness can't convince the police that the killer lives in the apartment across the courtyard from him, and he realizes he is the sniper's next victim.
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Double Indemnity (1973) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Double Indemnity
director: Jack Smight actor: Richard Crenna / Lee J. Cobb …
other title: Assurance sur la mort
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.
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Doubletake (1985) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Doubletake
director: Jud Taylor actor: Richard Crenna / Beverly D'Angelo …
Two corpses are found in different locations with their heads severed and exchanged. Frank Janek is called on to head the team of detectives investigating. Meanwhile, Janek is trying to find out why an old friend and colleague committed suicide, which eventually leads to a romantic situation with photographer Caroline Wallace and the discovery of some major corruption among his superiors, all of which has little or nothing to do with the murder story.
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Over-Exposed (1956) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Over-Exposed
director: Lewis Seiler actor: Cleo Moore / Richard Crenna …
This titillating bit of pulp sensationalism was the last in a string of "B" films that Cleo Moore starred in at Columbia. Moore plays Lila Crane, an ambitious clip-joint floozie turned photographer with flexible morals and a penchant for fast money.
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A Fire in the Sky (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
A Fire in the Sky
director: Jerry Jameson actor: Richard Crenna / Elizabeth Ashley …
other title: Feuer aus dem All / Du Feu dans le ciel
Astronomers discover a comet that they believe will crash into Phoenix, Arizona. They attempt to warn officials, but without 100% certainty, the governor of Arizona is reticent to cause a panic. Even after a television news reporter discovers the truth and threatens to go live with it, the response is understated enough to doom some residents of Phoenix to certain death.
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It Grows on Trees (1952) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
It Grows on Trees
director: Arthur Lubin actor: Irene Dunne / Dean Jagger …
other title: El árbol del dinero / Ça pousse sur les arbres
The Baxters are a typical happy American family trying to live on too little money. Mrs. Polly Baxter acquires two mysterious trees that got into a nursery shipment by mistake. They turn out to be money trees. After initial problems, Polly decides to spend the money.
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Midas Run (1969) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Midas Run
director: Alf Kjellin actor: Richard Crenna / Anne Heywood …
other title: Gestatten, das sind meine Kohlen! / La huida de Midas …
A veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of gold out of an irritation for never being knighted.
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The Sand Pebbles (1966) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Skybridge WikiData
The Sand Pebbles
director: Robert Wise actor: Steve McQueen / Richard Attenborough …
other title: Quelli della San Pablo / Kanonbåden San Pablo …
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS 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 symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.
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Centennial (1978) [TV] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Centennial
actor: Robert Conrad / Richard Chamberlain …
other title: Colorado / Colorado Sagaen …
The economic and cultural growth of town of Centennial, Colorado, through the intertwining lives of the brave men and women inhabiting it. Spanning two centuries from the settling of the area in the 1700s, to the late 1970s.