Editing Richard Crenna (section)

===Early television years===
Crenna played Walter Denton on radio's ''[[Our Miss Brooks]]'', remaining with the cast when it moved into television in 1952.<ref name="Kilgannon nytimes" /> He remained with the show until it was canceled in 1957. He guest-starred on the ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' episode "The Young Fans", with [[Janet Waldo]] and on the 1955–56 anthology series ''[[Frontier (1955 TV series)|Frontier]]'',<ref name="Lentz 2004">{{cite book |last=Lentz III |first=Harris M. |date=2004 |title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2003 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sXrGCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA92 |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |publisher=McFarland & Company |page=92 |isbn=0-7864-1756-0}}</ref> in the lead role of the episode titled "The Ten Days of John Leslie". In 1955, he was the guest star on ''[[The Millionaire (TV series)|The Millionaire]]'' in the episode "The Ralph McKnight Story".
[[File:Richard Crenna Bernadette Peters Alls Fair 1977.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Crenna and [[Bernadette Peters]] in ''[[All's Fair (1976 TV series)|All's Fair]]'', 1976]]
Crenna appeared in 1956 on the television series ''[[Father Knows Best]]'' in the episode "The Promising Young Man" as a young man named Woody. In 1957, he played a bank robber on ''[[Cheyenne (TV series)|Cheyenne]]'' (season 2, episode 19).<ref name="Lentz 2004" />

After ''Our Miss Brooks'' was canceled in 1957, Crenna joined the cast of the comedy series ''[[The Real McCoys]]'' as Luke McCoy; his co-star was [[Walter Brennan]], who played Grandpa Amos McCoy. Crenna ultimately became one of the series's four directors during its six-year run (1957–1963).<ref name="McLellan latimes">{{cite news |last=McLellan |first=Dennis |date=January 19, 2003 |title=Richard Crenna, 75; Actor Made Transition From Comedy to Drama |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jan-19-me-crenna19-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=March 2, 2018}}</ref>