Rip Torn
February 6, 1931 (93 years old) in Temple, Texas, USA
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2012 · Men in Black 3 as Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited)
- 2012 · Norman Mailer: The American as Self
- 2011 · National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus as King Looney
- 2009 · Happy Tears as Joe
- 2009 · The Afterlight as Carl
- 2009 · American Cowslip as Trevor O'Hart
- 2008 · The Golden Boys as Capt. Jeremiah Burgess
- 2008 · August as David Sterling
- 2008 · Turn the River as Quinette
- 2008 · Lucky Days as Bobo
- 2007 · Bee Movie as Lou Lo Duca (voice)
- 2007 · The Making of Marie Antoinette as Self
- 2007 · The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show' as Arthur
- 2007 · Three Days to Vegas as Joe Wallace
- 2006 · 30 Rock as Don Geiss
- 2006 · Zoom as Larraby
- 2006 · Marie Antoinette as Louis XV
- 2006 · Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time as Self
- 2005 · Forty Shades of Blue as Alan James
- 2005 · Yours, Mine & Ours as Commandant Sherman
- 2005 · The Sisters as Dr. Chebrin
- 2004 · Eulogy as Edmund Collins
- 2004 · DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story as Patches O'Houlihan
- 2004 · Extreme Dodgeball as
- 2004 · Welcome to Mooseport as Bert Langdon
- 2004 · Love Object as Novak
- 2003 · The Lyon's Den as
- 2003 · Maniac Magee as George McNab
- 2003 · Rolling Kansas as Oldman
- 2002 · Men in Black II as Zed
- 2001 · Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Jules Copeland
- 2001 · Freddy Got Fingered as Jim Brody
- 2000 · Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows as Self
- 2000 · Soul Food as Peter Redmond
- 2000 · Wonder Boys as Q
- 2000 · A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle as Detective Manny Garett
- 1999 · The Insider as John Scanlon
- 1999 · The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery as Royce
- 1999 · Seasons of Love as Spence
- 1999 · Balloon Farm as Harvey Potter
- 1999 · Passing Glory as Father Robert Grant
- 1998 · Will & Grace as Lionel Banks
- 1998 · Senseless as Randall Tyson
- 1997 · Ghost Stories as The Narrator
- 1997 · Men in Black as Zed
- 1997 · Hercules as Zeus (voice)
- 1997 · Trial and Error as Benny Gibbs
- 1996 · The Hindenburg as Narrator
- 1996 · Down Periscope as Admiral Winslow
- 1995 · How to Make an American Quilt as Arthur
- 1995 · Letter to My Killer as
- 1995 · Canadian Bacon as General Dick Panzer
- 1995 · She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal as Adm. Snyder
- 1994 · Chicago Hope as
- 1994 · Heart of a Child as Dr. Leonard Bailey
- 1993 · Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- 1993 · The John Larroquette Show as Bernard Galvin
- 1993 · Where the Rivers Flow North as Noel Lord
- 1993 · Beyond the Law as Deputy Prescott
- 1993 · RoboCop 3 as The CEO
- 1992 · A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story as Bill Morgan
- 1992 · T Bone N Weasel as Happy Sam
- 1992 · Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster as Admiral Paul Yost - Presidential Delegation
- 1992 · The Larry Sanders Show as Arthur
- 1992 · Fires of Kuwait as Narrator (voice)
- 1991 · My Son Johnny as Brian Stansbury
- 1991 · Dolly Dearest as Karl Resnick
- 1991 · Defending Your Life as Bob Diamond
- 1991 · Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind as Captain Jack Parsons
- 1991 · Death Falls as Dub Farley
- 1990 · Beautiful Dreamers as Walt Whitman
- 1990 · By Dawn's Early Light as Colonel Fargo
- 1990 · Kojak: None So Blind as Gideon Hogarth
- 1990 · Pair of Aces as Capt. Jack Parsons
- 1989 · Sweet Bird of Youth as Boss Finley
- 1989 · Silence Like Glass as Dr. Markowitz
- 1989 · Cold Feet as Sheriff
- 1989 · Hit List as Vic Luca
- 1988 · April Morning as Solomon Chandler
- 1987 · The King of Love as Jack Kraft
- 1987 · Laguna Heat as Joe Datilla
- 1987 · Nadine as Buford Pope
- 1987 · Extreme Prejudice as Sheriff Hank Pearson
- 1987 · Destination: America as Corbet St. James IV
- 1987 · J. Edgar Hoover as Lyndon Baines Johnson
- 1986 · Manhunt for Claude Dallas as Tim Nettleton
- 1985 · North and South as Adolphus
- 1985 · Beer as Buzz Beckerman
- 1985 · Summer Rental as Scully
- 1985 · The Atlanta Child Murders as Lewis Slaton
- 1985 · The Execution as Wilheim Gehbert
- 1984 · City Heat as Primo Pitt
- 1984 · Songwriter as Dino McLeish
- 1984 · Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Big Daddy
- 1984 · Scarab as Khepera
- 1984 · Flashpoint as Sheriff Wells
- 1984 · Misunderstood as Will
- 1984 · When She Says No as Stuart Blankfort
- 1983 · Cross Creek as Marsh Turner
- 1982 · Airplane II: The Sequel as Bud Kruger / President Reagan
- 1982 · The Blue and the Gray as Ulysses S. Grant
- 1982 · A Stranger Is Watching as Artie Taggart
- 1982 · Jinxed! as Harold Benson
- 1982 · The Beastmaster as Maax
- 1980 · First Family as General G. E. Dumpston
- 1980 · Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case as Charles Burt
- 1980 · Sophia Loren: Her Own Story as Carlo Ponti
- 1980 · One Trick Pony as Walter Fox
- 1979 · A Shining Season as Jack Baker
- 1979 · Heartland as Clyde Stewart
- 1979 · The Seduction of Joe Tynan as Senator Kittner
- 1979 · Blind Ambition as Richard M. Nixon
- 1978 · Steel Cowboy as K.W. Hicks
- 1978 · Betrayal as Dr. Hartogs
- 1978 · The Eddie Capra Mysteries as
- 1978 · Coma as Dr. George
- 1977 · The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover as Dwight Webb
- 1977 · Nasty Habits as Father Maximilian
- 1976 · Birch Interval as Thomas
- 1976 · The Man Who Fell to Earth as Nathan Bryce
- 1975 · Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan as Glen Tuttle
- 1974 · Crazy Joe as Richie
- 1973 · The President's Plane Is Missing as George Oldenburg
- 1973 · Payday as Maury Dann
- 1973 · Cotter as Roy
- 1972 · Ghost Story as Jonathon
- 1972 · Slaughter as Dominic Hoffo
- 1971 · Columbo as Leon Lamarr
- 1971 · 1 P.M. as Self
- 1971 · Maidstone as Raoul Rey O'Houlihan
- 1971 · Montserrat as Izquierdo
- 1970 · Tropic of Cancer as Henry Miller
- 1969 · Coming Apart as Joe
- 1969 · Lions Love as The Beard Director (uncredited)
- 1968 · Beyond the Law as Popcorn
- 1968 · Sol Madrid as Dano Villanova
- 1967 · Mannix as Victor Roarke
- 1967 · Beach Red as Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell
- 1966 · You're a Big Boy Now as I.H. Chanticleer
- 1966 · One Spy Too Many as Alexander
- 1965 · The Cincinnati Kid as William Jefferson Slade
- 1964 · The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Alexander
- 1964 · 12 O'Clock High as Col. Mark Royce
- 1963 · The Great Adventure as Lieutenant John C. Freemont
- 1963 · Channing as Donald Burrows
- 1963 · Breaking Point as
- 1963 · The Lieutenant as Sgt. Karl Kasten
- 1963 · Critic's Choice as Dion Kapakos
- 1962 · Combat! as Avery
- 1962 · Hero's Island as Nicholas Gates
- 1962 · Sweet Bird of Youth as Thomas 'Tom' J. Finley, Jr.
- 1961 · The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- 1961 · King of Kings as Judas
- 1961 · Ben Casey as
- 1961 · Dr. Kildare as Dr. Nicholas Keefe
- 1961 · The Dick Powell Show as Joel Coles
- 1961 · 24 Hours in a Woman's Life as Paul
- 1960 · Route 66 as Alvah Clayhorne
- 1960 · Thriller as Duncan Corey
- 1959 · The Untouchables as Harry Strauss
- 1959 · The Untouchables as Johnny Mizo
- 1959 · Bonanza as Will Hewitt
- 1959 · Pork Chop Hill as Lt. Walter Russell
- 1959 · Rawhide as Jacob Yellow-Sun
- 1958 · Johnny Belinda as Locky McCormick
- 1958 · Naked City as Ansel Boake
- 1958 · Bomber's Moon as Lieutenant Harrison
- 1957 · Time Limit as Lt. George Miller
- 1957 · The Restless Gun as Jody Gilman
- 1957 · A Face in the Crowd as Barry Mills (uncredited)
- 1956 · Baby Doll as The Dentist (uncredited)
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
- 1955 · Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Steve Morgan #22
- 1955 · Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Ernie Walters
- 1952 · Omnibus as
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Locky McCormick
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Solomon Chandler
- 1947 · Kraft Television Theatre as Somers
- 1947 · Kraft Television Theatre as
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter