He guest-starred on the I Love Lucy episode "The Young Fans", with Janet Waldo and on NBC's 1955–56 anthology series Frontier, in the lead role of the episode entitled "The Ten Days of John Leslie". He remained with the show until it was canceled in 1957. He appeared as a delivery boy in My Favorite Husband (episode "Liz Cooks Dinner for 12"), was Oogie Pringle on A Date With Judy (episode "The Competitive Diet", among several other episodes of the show) and as a teenager on The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (episode "Watching the Neighbor's Daughter".)Ĭrenna and Kathleen Nolan in The Real McCoys, 1960Ĭrenna played Walter Denton on radio's Our Miss Brooks, remaining with the cast when it moved into television in 1952. He also originated the role of geeky Walter Denton on the Radio Comedy Our Miss Brooks alongside Eve Arden and Gale Gordon in 1948, and followed that role when the series moved to television in 1952. In the following year, he started playing Walter "Bronco" Thompson on The Great Gildersleeve, a role he played until 1954. In 1937, he had gained his first role, that of "the kid who did everything wrong" on Boy Scout Jamboree, a show on which he continued to appear occasionally in numerous roles until 1948.
Acting career Radio years Ĭrenna got his acting start on radio. Īfter his Army service, Crenna attended the University of Southern California, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature and was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. Army during World War II, entering the Army in February 1945 and serving until August 1946. Crenna attended Virgil Junior High School, followed by Belmont High School in Los Angeles, from which he graduated in 1944. His parents were both of Italian descent. (née Pollette), who was a hotel manager in Los Angeles, and Dominick Anthony Crenna, a pharmacist. Crenna was born November 30, 1926, in Los Angeles, the only child of Edith J.
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