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)
- 2009 · Happy Tears as Joe
- 2009 · The Afterlight as Carl
- 2008 · The Golden Boys as Capt. Jeremiah Burgess
- 2008 · August as David Sterling
- 2008 · Lucky Days as Bobo
- 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 · 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
- 2002 · Men in Black II as Zed
- 2001 · Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Jules Copeland
- 2001 · Freddy Got Fingered as Jim Brody
- 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 · 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 · 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 · For Better or Worse as Capt. Cole
- 1994 · Chicago Hope as Warren Shutt
- 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 · 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 · 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 · Silence Like Glass as Dr. Markowitz
- 1989 · Cold Feet as Sheriff
- 1988 · April Morning as Solomon Chandler
- 1987 · Laguna Heat as Joe Datilla
- 1987 · Nadine as Buford Pope
- 1987 · Extreme Prejudice as Sheriff Hank Pearson
- 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
- 1983 · Misunderstood as Will
- 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 · Jinxed! as Harold Benson
- 1982 · The Beastmaster as Maax
- 1980 · First Family as General G. E. Dumpston
- 1980 · One Trick Pony as Walter Fox
- 1979 · A Shining Season as Jack Baker
- 1979 · The Seduction of Joe Tynan as Senator Kittner
- 1979 · Blind Ambition as Richard M. Nixon
- 1978 · Betrayal as Dr. Hartogs
- 1978 · The Eddie Capra Mysteries as
- 1978 · Coma as Dr. George
- 1977 · Nasty Habits as Father Maximilian
- 1976 · The Man Who Fell to Earth as Nathan Bryce
- 1972 · Ghost Story as Jonathon
- 1972 · Slaughter as Dominic Hoffo
- 1971 · Columbo as Leon Lamarr
- 1971 · 1 P.M. as Self
- 1971 · Montserrat as Izquierdo
- 1969 · Coming Apart as Joe
- 1969 · Lions Love as The Beard Director (uncredited)
- 1967 · Mannix as Victor Roarke
- 1966 · One Spy Too Many as Alexander
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 1957 · The Restless Gun as Jody Gilman
- 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
- Future · Heartland as
- 2012 · Bridge of Names as Tom
- 2012 · Norman Mailer: The American as Self
- 2011 · 3 Weeks to Daytona as Sal
- 2011 · National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus as King Looney
- 2009 · American Cowslip as Trevor O'Hart
- 2008 · Turn the River as Quinette
- 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
- 2003 · Rolling Kansas as Oldman
- 2000 · Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows as Self
- 1999 · The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery as Royce
- 1996 · The Hindenburg as Narrator
- 1995 · James Dean: A Portrait as Self (Narrator)
- 1995 · She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal as Adm. Snyder
- 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
- 1991 · Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind as Captain Jack Parsons
- 1990 · Beautiful Dreamers as Walt Whitman
- 1989 · Sweet Bird of Youth as Boss Finley
- 1989 · Hit List as Vic Luca
- 1987 · The King of Love as Jack Kraft
- 1987 · Destination: America as Corbet St. James IV
- 1984 · When She Says No as Stuart Blankfort
- 1982 · A Stranger Is Watching as Artie Taggart
- 1980 · Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case as Charles Burt
- 1980 · Sophia Loren: Her Own Story as Carlo Ponti
- 1979 · Heartland as Clyde Stewart
- 1978 · Steel Cowboy as K.W. Hicks
- 1977 · The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover as Dwight Webb
- 1976 · Birch Interval as Thomas
- 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
- 1971 · Maidstone as Raoul Rey O'Houlihan
- 1970 · Tropic of Cancer as Henry Miller
- 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 Self - Dano Villanova (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1966 · You're a Big Boy Now as I.H. Chanticleer
- 1965 · The Cincinnati Kid as William Jefferson Slade
- 1962 · Sweet Bird of Youth as Thomas 'Tom' J. Finley, Jr.
- 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 · A Face in the Crowd as Barry Mills (uncredited)
- 1956 · Baby Doll as The Dentist (uncredited)