Richard Crenna Ruined EVERYTHING He Was In

I argue that Lucille Ball ruined EVERYTHING she was in. Loud, pushy, and not remotely funny. Oh, except in that made for TV movie she did about being a homeless woman. She was hysterical in that, but still ruined it as it was meant to be a drama.

I agree.

Dead behind the eyes. The poor man's Bill Holden. He helped ruin that Julie Andrews' Gertrude Lawrence movie. His appearance told me that Robert Wise must have had no taste and that SOM must have been a fluke.

I strongly disagree. In his early years he was hot as blazes. I grew up on "The Real McCoys", a show many of you will have never even heard of. He was so gorgeous. Tall, hairy chested, beautiful head of hair, and face so handsome, my young loins burned for him back in the day.

He was in some tv movie around 1985 where he gets fucked up the ass by some criminals and the doctor in the hospital is Meredith Baxter Lesbian.

He didn't look Italian at all.

He could never be as horrible as Mrs Dani Levy.

R4... and JUST FOR THAT he should be remembered... I know, i know it was (that scene) supposed to be so wrong and horrible, but I have to admit it was a turn on to watch because it wasn't real of course, and to see his acting/facial expressions....

The Rape of Richard Beck

[quote] He was like 26 when he was on "I Love Lucy" and he still ruined that show?

I don’t know, did he?

OP = George Segal

"How a horny husband named Dick became a pussy-bottom named Richard: 'DEADLY JUSTICE.'"

Crenna was okay as Luke in The Real McCoys.

OMG now we have an anti-Richard Crenna loon on DL.

R10 I always mixed those two up as well!

#1 in that preview clip, notice the rainblow flag behind that knife wielding bad guy?

#2: in that about to occur rape, the guy doing all the talking was nicely beefy (and horny!) so at least he got impregnated by a beefy alpha, not some ugly dirty druggie... Hmm, interesting how he says he is going to let the other guy go first! Does he not know that he will then be screwing a hole with has a load in it already? Must have been willingly into "sloppy seconds"!..

Recently I had to watch and research "The Rape of Richard Beck" for a project. There's a nice short interview with Crenna about it here in which he discusses the filming of the scene and says that having a female director was helpful. He wore boxers that said "Please Be Kind" on his ass to break the ice.

At one time he was considered for the role of Darrin on “Bewitched”. I honestly can’t imagine how that would have gone.

Isn’t he in the last half hour of STAR! which is a lengthy 2.5-3 hours? If anyone ruined that movie it was Julie. Daniel Massey was the only good thing in it.

He did not RUIN Rambo!! ....... or Rambo: First Blood.......or Rambo: First Blood Part Two....

I have no memory of him and Bernadette Peters in this flop...... Crenna was cast a lot for 40 plus years....... people in the industry must have liked him..

He was okay in Wait Until Dark

He was good in “Body Heat”.

I thought he was a good actor and also hunky, so I may be an outlier.

Loved him in “It Takes Two” with DL fave Patty Duke. Also starred Joel Brooks, Anthony Edwards, Della Reese, and Helen Hunt. The kitchen on the set of “It Takes Two” was later used as the kitchen on the set of “The Golden Girls”.

He also did a wonderful turn on “Judging Amy” as the rich boyfriend of Tyne Daly’s character. They played against each other wonderfully. He died mid-season and they had to rewrite a number of episodes to accommodate his sickness and then the episode where they were to be married.

kind of hunky in "Body Heat."

According to Patty Duke, Crenna was a HARD-right Conservatives. Even more Conservatives than Ronald Reagan!

He was FANTASTIC in Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell.

R25 he does give off that vibe

Crenna was great in the 90s alien abduction miniseries Intruders.

[quote] kind of hunky in "Body Heat."

There's nothing chunky about that body. That's a real man's body.

Crenna was well-liked by fellow actors, including those like Patty Duke or Kathleen Nolan, who did not share his politics. His name comes up in the TV Academy reviews more than once in a positive light. He was not someone who could carry an A-list picture but you could say the same thing about ex-movie stars who did well in television. He was good in dramas and sit-coms. He was supposed to be goofy on "Our Miss Brooks" and he managed to not embarrass himself on "The Real McCoys" which was a sort of proto-"Beverly Hillbillies".

He's no Monte Markham.

[quote] kind of hunky in "Body Heat."

[quote] There's nothing chunky about that body. That's a real man's body.

Ooops, R24 I just realized I read your post completely wrong and you said "hunky", not "chunky". My apologies for my pathetic eyesight. And I agree with you, he was hunky.

Monte Markham played a homo on "The Golden Girls". He was Blanche's brother who came out as gay on the show.

Tyne Daly, who's very liberal, also had wonderful things to say about him.

It's nice to know that your concerns in life are so minor, OP.

He was hilarious as Buck in Raised to be Rotten on The Carol Burnett Show.

NO. I don't want to hear this TRASH about Richard Crenna. He was talented, sexy, and did a lot of good stuff, starting with "The Real McCoys," when I NOTICED him. So shut the fuck up.

You tell 'em R37! You were raised right!

It looks like his son was dating… OLEEBIA!

Hot!

I liked him and I thought his episode of "I Love Lucy" was a hoot.

The OP was obviously not raised right.

I get him George Segal and Ron Leibman all confused. I wonder if Ron died of covid. Pneumonia in Dec of 2019. Jessica I supposed died of a broken heart

"What a nasty, bitter cunt!"

R31- Monte Markham appeared on an early episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show- ca. 1971. He was really good looking at that time.

Who did he play on I Love Lucy?

JACK: Maybe something with an umbrella. [TO THE WAITRESS] Excuse me, miss. Yeah, we're ready to order over here. What's good?

WAITRESS: What's good? Me in Hawaii with Richard Crenna.

ROSARIO: I heard that, sister.

r47

He played a teen ager (heaven to Stockard Channing) in love with Lucy