
Rip Torn
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 6, 1931
- Died
- July 9, 2019 (aged 88)
- Birthplace
- Temple, Texas, USA
Biography
Elmore Rual "Rip" Torn Jr. (February 6, 1931 – July 9, 2019) was an American actor whose career spanned more than 60 years. He was best known for his roles as Zed in the Men in Black franchise (1997-2002) and Patches O'Houlihan in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004). Torn received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his role in the 1983 film Cross Creek. His work includes the role of Artie, the producer, on The Larry Sanders Show, for which he was nominated for six Emmy Awards, winning in 1996. Torn also won an American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Male in a Series, and two CableACE Awards for his work on the show, and was nominated for a Satellite Award in 1997 as well.
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Filmography

Heartland
Movie

Making Marie Antoinette
Movie · as Self

Norman Mailer: The American
Movie · as Self

Men in Black 3
Movie · as Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited)
Bridge of Names
Movie · as Tom

National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus
Movie · as King Looney

3 Weeks to Daytona
Movie · as Sal

American Cowslip
Movie · as Trevor O'Hart

Happy Tears
Movie · as Joe

The Afterlight
Movie · as Carl

Turn the River
Movie · as Quinette

August
Movie · as David Sterling

Lucky Days
Movie · as Bobo

The Golden Boys
Movie · as Capt. Jeremiah Burgess

Bee Movie
Movie · as Lou Lo Duca (voice)

The Making of Marie Antoinette
Movie · as Self

Three Days to Vegas
Movie · as Joe Wallace

The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show'
Movie · as Arthur

Marie Antoinette
Movie · as Louis XV
Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time
Movie · as Self

Zoom
Movie · as Larraby

30 Rock
TV · as Don Geiss · 8 eps

Forty Shades of Blue
Movie · as Alan James

The Sisters
Movie · as Dr. Chebrin

Yours, Mine & Ours
Movie · as Commandant Sherman

DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
Movie · as Patches O'Houlihan

Eulogy
Movie · as Edmund Collins

Welcome to Mooseport
Movie · as Bert Langdon

Love Object
Movie · as Novak
Extreme Dodgeball
TV · 30 eps

Rolling Kansas
Movie · as Oldman

Maniac Magee
Movie · as George McNab

The Lyon's Den
TV · 3 eps

Men in Black II
Movie · as Zed

Freddy Got Fingered
Movie · as Jim Brody

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TV · as Jules Copeland · 1 ep

Wonder Boys
Movie · as Q

A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle
Movie · as Detective Manny Garett

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Movie · as Self

Soul Food
TV · as Peter Redmond · 1 ep

The Insider
Movie · as John Scanlon

Balloon Farm
Movie · as Harvey Potter

The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery
Movie · as Royce

Passing Glory
Movie · as Father Robert Grant

Seasons of Love
TV · as Spence · 2 eps

Senseless
Movie · as Randall Tyson

Will & Grace
TV · as Lionel Banks · 4 eps

Men in Black
Movie · as Zed

Hercules
Movie · as Zeus (voice)

Trial and Error
Movie · as Benny Gibbs
The Mouse
Movie · as Trucker 'God'

Ghost Stories
TV · as The Narrator · 44 eps

Down Periscope
Movie · as Admiral Winslow

The Hindenburg
Movie · as Narrator

Canadian Bacon
Movie · as General Dick Panzer

How to Make an American Quilt
Movie · as Arthur

Letter to My Killer
Movie

She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal
Movie · as Adm. Snyder

For Better or Worse
Movie · as Capt. Cole

James Dean: A Portrait
Movie · as Self (Narrator)

Heart of a Child
Movie · as Dr. Leonard Bailey

Chicago Hope
TV · as Warren Shutt · 1 ep

RoboCop 3
Movie · as The CEO

Beyond the Law
Movie · as Deputy Prescott

Where the Rivers Flow North
Movie · as Noel Lord

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep

The John Larroquette Show
TV · as Bernard Galvin · 1 ep

Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
Movie · as Admiral Paul Yost

T Bone N Weasel
Movie · as Happy Sam

Fires of Kuwait
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story
Movie · as Bill Morgan

The Larry Sanders Show
TV · as Arthur · 90 eps

Defending Your Life
Movie · as Bob Diamond

Dolly Dearest
Movie · as Karl Resnick

Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind
Movie · as Captain Jack Parsons

Death Falls
Movie · as Dub Farley

My Son Johnny
Movie · as Brian Stansbury

By Dawn's Early Light
Movie · as Colonel Fargo

Pair of Aces
Movie · as Capt. Jack Parsons

Beautiful Dreamers
Movie · as Walt Whitman

Kojak: None So Blind
Movie · as Gideon Hogarth

Cold Feet
Movie · as Sheriff

Hit List
Movie · as Vic Luca

Silence Like Glass
Movie · as Dr. Markowitz

Sweet Bird of Youth
Movie · as Boss Finley

April Morning
Movie · as Solomon Chandler

Extreme Prejudice
Movie · as Sheriff Hank Pearson

Nadine
Movie · as Buford Pope

J. Edgar Hoover
Movie · as Lyndon Baines Johnson

Destination: America
Movie · as Corbet St. James IV
The King of Love
Movie · as Jack Kraft

Laguna Heat
Movie · as Joe Datilla

Manhunt for Claude Dallas
Movie · as Tim Nettleton

Summer Rental
Movie · as Scully

Beer
Movie · as Buzz Beckerman

The Execution
Movie · as Wilheim Gehbert

North and South
TV · as Adolphus · 3 eps

The Atlanta Child Murders
TV · as Lewis Slaton · 2 eps

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Movie · as Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt

City Heat
Movie · as Primo Pitt

Flashpoint
Movie · as Sheriff Wells

Scarab
Movie · as Khepera

Songwriter
Movie · as Dino McLeish

When She Says No
Movie · as Stuart Blankfort

Misunderstood
Movie · as Will

Cross Creek
Movie · as Marsh Turner

Airplane II: The Sequel
Movie · as Bud Kruger / President Reagan

A Stranger Is Watching
Movie · as Artie Taggart

The Beastmaster
Movie · as Maax

Jinxed!
Movie · as Harold Benson

The Blue and the Gray
TV · as Ulysses S. Grant · 3 eps

American Playhouse
TV · as Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt · 1 ep

Heartland
Movie · as Clyde Stewart

One Trick Pony
Movie · as Walter Fox

First Family
Movie · as General G. E. Dumpston

Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
Movie · as Charles Burt

Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
Movie · as Carlo Ponti

The Seduction of Joe Tynan
Movie · as Senator Kittner

A Shining Season
Movie · as Jack Baker

Blind Ambition
TV · as Richard M. Nixon · 4 eps

Coma
Movie · as Dr. George

Steel Cowboy
Movie · as K.W. Hicks

Betrayal
Movie · as Dr. Hartogs

The Eddie Capra Mysteries
TV · 1 ep

The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
Movie · as Dwight Webb

Nasty Habits
Movie · as Father Maximilian

The Man Who Fell to Earth
Movie · as Nathan Bryce

Birch Interval
Movie · as Thomas

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
TV · as Glen Tuttle · 2 eps

Crazy Joe
Movie · as Richie

Payday
Movie · as Maury Dann

The President's Plane Is Missing
Movie · as George Oldenburg

Cotter
Movie · as Roy

Slaughter
Movie · as Dominic Hoffo

Ghost Story
TV · as Jonathon · 1 ep

1 P.M.
Movie · as Self

Maidstone
Movie · as Raoul Rey O'Houlihan

Montserrat
Movie · as Izquierdo

Columbo
TV · as Leon Lamarr · 1 ep

Tropic of Cancer
Movie · as Henry Miller

Coming Apart
Movie · as Joe

Lions Love
Movie · as The Beard Director (uncredited)

Beyond the Law
Movie · as Popcorn

Sol Madrid
Movie · as Dano Villanova

Beach Red
Movie · as Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell

Lionpower from MGM
Movie · as Self - Dano Villanova (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mannix
TV · as Victor Roarke · 1 ep

You're a Big Boy Now
Movie · as I.H. Chanticleer

One Spy Too Many
Movie · as Alexander

The Cincinnati Kid
Movie · as William Jefferson Slade

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV · as Alexander · 2 eps

12 O'Clock High
TV · as Col. Mark Royce · 1 ep

Critic's Choice
Movie · as Dion Kapakos

The Great Adventure
TV · as Lieutenant John C. Freemont · 1 ep

The Lieutenant
TV · as Sgt. Karl Kasten · 1 ep

Breaking Point
TV · 1 ep

Channing
TV · as Donald Burrows · 1 ep

Sweet Bird of Youth
Movie · as Tom Finley Jr.

Hero's Island
Movie · as Nicholas Gates

Combat!
TV · as Avery · 1 ep

King of Kings
Movie · as Judas

24 Hours in a Woman's Life
Movie · as Paul

Ben Casey
TV · 1 ep

Dr. Kildare
TV · as Dr. Nicholas Keefe · 2 eps

The Dick Powell Show
TV · as Joel Coles · 1 ep

The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Route 66
TV · as Alvah Clayhorne · 1 ep

Thriller
TV · as Duncan Corey · 1 ep

Pork Chop Hill
Movie · as Lt. Walter Russell

Bonanza
TV · as Will Hewitt · 1 ep

Rawhide
TV · as Jacob Yellow-Sun · 1 ep

The Untouchables
TV · as Harry Strauss, Johnny Mizo · 1 ep
Johnny Belinda
Movie · as Locky McCormick

Bomber's Moon
Movie · as Lieutenant Harrison

Naked City
TV · as Ansel Boake · 1 ep

Time Limit
Movie · as Lt. George Miller

A Face in the Crowd
Movie · as Barry Mills (uncredited)

The Restless Gun
TV · as Jody Gilman · 1 ep

Baby Doll
Movie · as The Dentist (uncredited)

Tony Awards
TV · as Self - Presenter · 1 ep

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV · as Steve Morgan #22, Ernie Walters · 1 ep

Omnibus
TV · 1 ep

Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Locky McCormick, Solomon Chandler · 1 ep

Kraft Television Theatre
TV · as Somers · 1 ep

Golden Globe Awards
TV · as Self - Presenter · 1 ep







