Rip Torn
Acting • Born 1931-02-06 – Died 2019-07-09
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.
Filmography
186 credits
The Cincinnati Kid
Movie • 1965
William Jefferson Slade
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Movie • 1976
Nathan Bryce
Men in Black II
Movie • 2002
Zed
Men in Black
Movie • 1997
Zed
Canadian Bacon
Movie • 1995
General Dick Panzer
Marie Antoinette
Movie • 2006
Louis XV
Airplane II: The Sequel
Movie • 1982
Bud Kruger / President Reagan
Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time
Movie • 2006
Self
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Movie • 1984
Big Daddy
Extreme Prejudice
Movie • 1987
Sheriff Hank Pearson
Wonder Boys
Movie • 2000
Q
A Stranger Is Watching
Movie • 1982
Artie Taggart
RoboCop 3
Movie • 1993
The CEO
Bee Movie
Movie • 2007
Lou Lo Duca (voice)
By Dawn's Early Light
Movie • 1990
Colonel Fargo
Coma
Movie • 1978
Dr. George
Forty Shades of Blue
Movie • 2005
Alan James
How to Make an American Quilt
Movie • 1995
Arthur
Hercules
Movie • 1997
Zeus (voice)
Defending Your Life
Movie • 1991
Bob Diamond
The Insider
Movie • 1999
John Scanlon
Senseless
Movie • 1998
Randall Tyson
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
Movie • 2004
Patches O'Houlihan
Down Periscope
Movie • 1996
Admiral Winslow
Sweet Bird of Youth
Movie • 1962
Tom Finley Jr.
Rolling Kansas
Movie • 2003
Oldman
Freddy Got Fingered
Movie • 2001
Jim Brody
Balloon Farm
Movie • 1999
Harvey Potter
Dolly Dearest
Movie • 1991
Karl Resnick
Zoom
Movie • 2006
Larraby
Turn the River
Movie • 2008
Quinette
One Trick Pony
Movie • 1980
Walter Fox
King of Kings
Movie • 1961
Judas
You're a Big Boy Now
Movie • 1966
I.H. Chanticleer
Pork Chop Hill
Movie • 1959
Lt. Walter Russell
Nadine
Movie • 1987
Buford Pope
American Cowslip
Movie • 2009
Trevor O'Hart
Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind
Movie • 1991
Captain Jack Parsons
Eulogy
Movie • 2004
Edmund Collins
The Beastmaster
Movie • 1982
Maax
Welcome to Mooseport
Movie • 2004
Bert Langdon
The Sisters
Movie • 2005
Dr. Chebrin
Happy Tears
Movie • 2009
Joe
Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
Movie • 1992
Admiral Paul Yost
Beach Red
Movie • 1967
Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell
Love Object
Movie • 2004
Novak
City Heat
Movie • 1984
Primo Pitt
Time Limit
Movie • 1957
Lt. George Miller
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
Movie • 1979
Senator Kittner
Trial and Error
Movie • 1997
Benny Gibbs
Flashpoint
Movie • 1984
Sheriff Wells
Beyond the Law
Movie • 1993
Deputy Prescott
Heartland
Movie • 1979
Clyde Stewart
Where the Rivers Flow North
Movie • 1993
Noel Lord
Summer Rental
Movie • 1985
Scully
Scarab
Movie • 1984
Khepera
Songwriter
Movie • 1984
Dino McLeish
Coming Apart
Movie • 1969
Joe
Payday
Movie • 1973
Maury Dann
National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus
Movie • 2011
King Looney
Misunderstood
Movie • 1983
Will
Slaughter
Movie • 1972
Dominic Hoffo
Beer
Movie • 1985
Buzz Beckerman
Critic's Choice
Movie • 1963
Dion Kapakos
Jinxed!
Movie • 1982
Harold Benson
One Spy Too Many
Movie • 1966
Alexander
Cold Feet
Movie • 1989
Sheriff
April Morning
Movie • 1988
Solomon Chandler
Tropic of Cancer
Movie • 1970
Henry Miller
Hit List
Movie • 1989
Vic Luca
Norman Mailer: The American
Movie • 2012
Self
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
Movie • 1977
Dwight Webb
Crazy Joe
Movie • 1974
Richie
First Family
Movie • 1980
General G. E. Dumpston
1 P.M.
Movie • 1971
Self
Nasty Habits
Movie • 1977
Father Maximilian
Johnny Belinda
Movie • 1958
Locky McCormick
A Face in the Crowd
Movie • 1957
Barry Mills (uncredited)
Cross Creek
Movie • 1983
Marsh Turner
The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery
Movie • 1999
Royce
Maidstone
Movie • 1971
Raoul Rey O'Houlihan
Beyond the Law
Movie • 1968
Popcorn
Sol Madrid
Movie • 1968
Dano Villanova
Hero's Island
Movie • 1962
Nicholas Gates
The Making of Marie Antoinette
Movie • 2007
Self
Bomber's Moon
Movie • 1958
Lieutenant Harrison
Three Days to Vegas
Movie • 2007
Joe Wallace
Silence Like Glass
Movie • 1989
Dr. Markowitz
J. Edgar Hoover
Movie • 1987
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Men in Black 3
Movie • 2012
Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited)
Destination: America
Movie • 1987
Corbet St. James IV
Passing Glory
Movie • 1999
Father Robert Grant
Steel Cowboy
Movie • 1978
K.W. Hicks
A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle
Movie • 2000
Detective Manny Garett
Yours, Mine & Ours
Movie • 2005
Commandant Sherman
The Afterlight
Movie • 2009
Carl
Pair of Aces
Movie • 1990
Capt. Jack Parsons
The King of Love
Movie • 1987
Jack Kraft
The Execution
Movie • 1985
Wilheim Gehbert
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Movie • 2000
Self
Heart of a Child
Movie • 1994
Dr. Leonard Bailey
Death Falls
Movie • 1991
Dub Farley
Montserrat
Movie • 1971
Izquierdo
August
Movie • 2008
David Sterling
Birch Interval
Movie • 1976
Thomas
Manhunt for Claude Dallas
Movie • 1986
Tim Nettleton
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
Movie • 1980
Charles Burt
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Movie • 1975
Glen Tuttle
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
Movie • 1980
Carlo Ponti
The President's Plane Is Missing
Movie • 1973
George Oldenburg
A Shining Season
Movie • 1979
Jack Baker
Sweet Bird of Youth
Movie • 1989
Boss Finley
When She Says No
Movie • 1984
Stuart Blankfort
My Son Johnny
Movie • 1991
Brian Stansbury
Beautiful Dreamers
Movie • 1990
Walt Whitman
Laguna Heat
Movie • 1987
Joe Datilla
Letter to My Killer
Movie • 1995
Lions Love
Movie • 1969
The Beard Director (uncredited)
Kojak: None So Blind
Movie • 1990
Gideon Hogarth
Baby Doll
Movie • 1956
The Dentist (uncredited)
The Hindenburg
Movie • 1996
Narrator
T Bone N Weasel
Movie • 1992
Happy Sam
Lucky Days
Movie • 2008
Bobo
Cotter
Movie • 1973
Roy
24 Hours in a Woman's Life
Movie • 1961
Paul
She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal
Movie • 1995
Adm. Snyder
The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show'
Movie • 2007
Arthur
Fires of Kuwait
Movie • 1992
Narrator (voice)
Maniac Magee
Movie • 2003
George McNab
A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story
Movie • 1992
Bill Morgan
Betrayal
Movie • 1978
Dr. Hartogs
The Golden Boys
Movie • 2008
Capt. Jeremiah Burgess
For Better or Worse
Movie • 1995
Capt. Cole
James Dean: A Portrait
Movie • 1995
Self (Narrator)
Lionpower from MGM
Movie • 1967
Self - Dano Villanova (archive footage) (uncredited)
3 Weeks to Daytona
Movie • 2011
Sal
Heartland
Movie
Bridge of Names
Movie • 2012
Tom
The Mouse
Movie • 1997
Trucker 'God'
The Great Adventure
TV • 1963
Lieutenant John C. Freemont
The Larry Sanders Show
TV • 1992
Arthur
Route 66
TV • 1960
Alvah Clayhorne
Omnibus
TV • 1952
Naked City
TV • 1958
Ansel Boake
Soul Food
TV • 2000
Peter Redmond
Mannix
TV • 1967
Victor Roarke
Combat!
TV • 1962
Avery
30 Rock
TV • 2006
Don Geiss
Will & Grace
TV • 1998
Lionel Banks
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Locky McCormick
The Lyon's Den
TV • 2003
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993
Self - Guest
Chicago Hope
TV • 1994
Warren Shutt
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Steve Morgan #22
Extreme Dodgeball
TV • 2004
Thriller
TV • 1960
Duncan Corey
Ben Casey
TV • 1961
The Lieutenant
TV • 1963
Sgt. Karl Kasten
The Blue and the Gray
TV • 1982
Ulysses S. Grant
Breaking Point
TV • 1963
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Dr. Nicholas Keefe
Ghost Story
TV • 1972
Jonathon
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
TV • 1978
Channing
TV • 1963
Donald Burrows
North and South
TV • 1985
Adolphus
Seasons of Love
TV • 1999
Spence
Blind Ambition
TV • 1979
Richard M. Nixon
The Atlanta Child Murders
TV • 1985
Lewis Slaton
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Will Hewitt
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Ernie Walters
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Solomon Chandler
Columbo
TV • 1971
Leon Lamarr
The Dick Powell Show
TV • 1961
Joel Coles
Ghost Stories
TV • 1997
The Narrator
The John Larroquette Show
TV • 1993
Bernard Galvin
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TV • 2001
Jules Copeland
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
The Restless Gun
TV • 1957
Jody Gilman
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Presenter
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1964
Alexander
12 O'Clock High
TV • 1964
Col. Mark Royce
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Jacob Yellow-Sun
The Untouchables
TV • 1959
Harry Strauss
The Untouchables
TV • 1959
Johnny Mizo
Kraft Television Theatre
TV • 1947
Somers
Kraft Television Theatre
TV • 1947