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Richard Crenna
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Director, Actor Born: November 30, 1927 in Los Angeles, CA Death: January 16, 2003 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:American actor "Richard Crenna" started out as a radio performer at age 11, demonstrating an astonishing range for one so young. The momentum of his career was unaffected by an army hitch and time spent earning an English degree at the University of Southern California. But even though he was by then in his twenties, Crenna found himself still playing adolescents, notably squeaky-voiced high schooler Walter Denton on the radio comedy "Our Miss Brooks". That he was able to play characters of virtually any age was overlooked by movie and TV casting directors, who could see Crenna only in callow-juvenile roles. After making an excellent impression as ballplayer Daffy Dean in the 1953 film "Pride of St. Louis", for example, Crenna wasn't cast in another film until the 1955 movie version of "Our Miss Brooks"--in which, at 29, he was Walter Denton once more. The following year, Crenna decided "to sorta let... Full Biography
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