Rip Torn
February 6, 1931 (94 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)
- 2011 · 3 Weeks to Daytona as Sal
- 2009 · Happy Tears as Joe
- 2009 · The Afterlight as Carl
- 2009 · American Cowslip as Trevor O'Hart
- 2007 · Bee Movie as Lou Lo Duca (voice)
- 2006 · 30 Rock as Don Geiss
- 2006 · Zoom as Larraby
- 2006 · Marie Antoinette as Louis XV
- 2005 · Yours, Mine & Ours as Commandant Sherman
- 2004 · Eulogy as Edmund Collins
- 2004 · DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story as Patches O'Houlihan
- 2004 · Love Object as Novak
- 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
- 1999 · Passing Glory as Father Robert Grant
- 1998 · Will & Grace as Lionel Banks
- 1998 · Senseless as Randall Tyson
- 1997 · Men in Black as Zed
- 1997 · Hercules as Zeus (voice)
- 1996 · Down Periscope as Admiral Winslow
- 1995 · For Better or Worse as Capt. Cole
- 1994 · Chicago Hope as
- 1993 · Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- 1993 · The John Larroquette Show as Bernard Galvin
- 1993 · Beyond the Law as Deputy Prescott
- 1992 · Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster as Admiral Paul Yost - Presidential Delegation
- 1992 · The Larry Sanders Show as Arthur
- 1991 · Defending Your Life as Bob Diamond
- 1990 · Beautiful Dreamers as Walt Whitman
- 1989 · Silence Like Glass as Dr. Markowitz
- 1988 · April Morning as Solomon Chandler
- 1987 · Laguna Heat as Joe Datilla
- 1987 · Nadine as Buford Pope
- 1985 · North and South as Adolphus
- 1985 · Beer as Buzz Beckerman
- 1985 · The Execution as Wilheim Gehbert
- 1984 · Scarab as Khepera
- 1983 · Misunderstood as Will
- 1983 · Cross Creek as Marsh Turner
- 1982 · Airplane II: The Sequel as Bud Kruger / President Reagan
- 1982 · A Stranger Is Watching as Artie Taggart
- 1980 · First Family as General G. E. Dumpston
- 1979 · Heartland as Clyde Stewart
- 1979 · The Seduction of Joe Tynan as Senator Kittner
- 1978 · Coma as Dr. George
- 1977 · Nasty Habits as Father Maximilian
- 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 · Payday as Maury Dann
- 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
- 1967 · Mannix as Victor Roarke
- 1966 · You're a Big Boy Now as I.H. Chanticleer
- 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
- 1962 · Combat! as Avery
- 1961 · The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- 1961 · Ben Casey as
- 1961 · Dr. Kildare as Dr. Nicholas Keefe
- 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 · Rawhide as Jacob Yellow-Sun
- 1958 · Naked City as Ansel Boake
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
- 1955 · Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Steve Morgan #22
- 1955 · Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Ernie Walters
- 1952 · Omnibus as
- 1947 · Kraft Television Theatre as Somers
- 1947 · Kraft Television Theatre as
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter
- Future · Heartland as
- 2012 · Norman Mailer: The American as Self
- 2011 · National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus as King Looney
- 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 · 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 · Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time as Self
- 2005 · Forty Shades of Blue as Alan James
- 2005 · The Sisters as Dr. Chebrin
- 2004 · Extreme Dodgeball as
- 2004 · Welcome to Mooseport as Bert Langdon
- 2003 · The Lyon's Den as
- 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
- 1997 · Ghost Stories as The Narrator
- 1997 · Trial and Error as Benny Gibbs
- 1996 · The Hindenburg as Narrator
- 1995 · How to Make an American Quilt as Arthur
- 1995 · James Dean: A Portrait as Self (Narrator)
- 1995 · Letter to My Killer as
- 1995 · Canadian Bacon as General Dick Panzer
- 1995 · She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal as Adm. Snyder
- 1994 · Heart of a Child as Dr. Leonard Bailey
- 1993 · Where the Rivers Flow North as Noel Lord
- 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 · Fires of Kuwait as Narrator (voice)
- 1991 · My Son Johnny as Brian Stansbury
- 1991 · Dolly Dearest as Karl Resnick
- 1991 · Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind as Captain Jack Parsons
- 1991 · Death Falls as Dub Farley
- 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 · Cold Feet as Sheriff
- 1989 · Hit List as Vic Luca
- 1987 · The King of Love as Jack Kraft
- 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 · Summer Rental as Scully
- 1985 · The Atlanta Child Murders as Lewis Slaton
- 1984 · City Heat as Primo Pitt
- 1984 · Songwriter as Dino McLeish
- 1984 · Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Big Daddy
- 1984 · Flashpoint as Sheriff Wells
- 1984 · When She Says No as Stuart Blankfort
- 1982 · The Blue and the Gray as Ulysses S. Grant
- 1982 · Jinxed! as Harold Benson
- 1982 · The Beastmaster as Maax
- 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 · Blind Ambition as Richard M. Nixon
- 1978 · Steel Cowboy as K.W. Hicks
- 1978 · Betrayal as Dr. Hartogs
- 1978 · The Eddie Capra Mysteries as
- 1977 · The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover as Dwight Webb
- 1976 · Birch Interval as Thomas
- 1973 · The President's Plane Is Missing as George Oldenburg
- 1973 · Cotter as Roy
- 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 · Beach Red as Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell
- 1967 · Lionpower from MGM as
- 1966 · One Spy Too Many as Alexander
- 1965 · The Cincinnati Kid as William Jefferson Slade
- 1963 · Channing as Donald Burrows
- 1963 · Breaking Point as
- 1963 · The Lieutenant as Sgt. Karl Kasten
- 1963 · Critic's Choice as Dion Kapakos
- 1962 · Hero's Island as Nicholas Gates
- 1962 · Sweet Bird of Youth as Thomas 'Tom' J. Finley, Jr.
- 1961 · King of Kings as Judas
- 1961 · The Dick Powell Show as Joel Coles
- 1961 · 24 Hours in a Woman's Life as Paul
- 1959 · Pork Chop Hill as Lt. Walter Russell
- 1958 · Johnny Belinda as Locky McCormick
- 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)
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Locky McCormick
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Solomon Chandler