About
Rip Torn
Overview
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
Acting |
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| 2012 | Men in Black 3 | Actor | Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited) | 64 Fair |
| 2012 | Norman Mailer: The American | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2011 | National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus | Actor | King Looney | 56 Average |
| 2009 | Happy Tears | Actor | Joe | 58 Average |
| 2009 | The Afterlight | Actor | Carl | N/A N/A |
| 2009 | American Cowslip | Actor | Trevor O'Hart | 58 Average |
| 2008 | The Golden Boys | Actor | Capt. Jeremiah Burgess | 59 Average |
| 2008 | August | Actor | David Sterling | 58 Average |
| 2008 | Turn the River | Actor | Quinette | 58 Average |
| 2008 | Lucky Days | Actor | Bobo | N/A N/A |
| 2007 | Bee Movie | Actor | Lou Lo Duca (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2007 | The Making of Marie Antoinette | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2007 | The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show' | Actor | Arthur | N/A N/A |
| 2007 | Three Days to Vegas | Actor | Joe Wallace | 58 Average |
| 2006 | Zoom | Actor | Larraby | 55 Average |
| 2006 | Marie Antoinette | Actor | Louis XV | 65 Fair |
| 2006 | Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2005 | Forty Shades of Blue | Actor | Alan James | 58 Average |
| 2005 | Yours, Mine & Ours | Actor | Commandant Sherman | 60 Fair |
| 2005 | The Sisters | Actor | Dr. Chebrin | 58 Average |
| 2004 | Eulogy | Actor | Edmund Collins | 60 Fair |
| 2004 | DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story | Actor | Patches O'Houlihan | 63 Fair |
| 2004 | Extreme Dodgeball | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2004 | Welcome to Mooseport | Actor | Bert Langdon | 56 Average |
| 2004 | Love Object | Actor | Novak | 58 Average |
| 2003 | Maniac Magee | Actor | George McNab | N/A N/A |
| 2003 | Rolling Kansas | Actor | Oldman | 59 Average |
| 2002 | Men in Black II | Actor | Zed | 63 Fair |
| 2001 | Freddy Got Fingered | Actor | Jim Brody | 53 Average |
| 2000 | Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2000 | Wonder Boys | Actor | Q | 63 Fair |
| 2000 | A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle | Actor | Detective Manny Garett | N/A N/A |
| 1999 | The Insider | Actor | John Scanlon | 71 Good |
| 1999 | The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery | Actor | Royce | 58 Average |
| 1999 | Seasons of Love | Actor | Spence | N/A N/A |
| 1999 | Balloon Farm | Actor | Harvey Potter | 58 Average |
| 1999 | Passing Glory | Actor | Father Robert Grant | 59 Average |
| 1998 | Senseless | Actor | Randall Tyson | 60 Fair |
| 1997 | Ghost Stories | Actor | The Narrator | 69 Fair |
| 1997 | Men in Black | Actor | Zed | 71 Good |
| 1997 | Hercules | Actor | Zeus (voice) | 74 Good |
| 1997 | Trial and Error | Actor | Benny Gibbs | 58 Average |
| 1996 | The Hindenburg | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 1996 | Down Periscope | Actor | Admiral Winslow | 60 Fair |
| 1995 | How to Make an American Quilt | Actor | Arthur | 60 Fair |
| 1995 | Letter to My Killer | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 1995 | Canadian Bacon | Actor | General Dick Panzer | 58 Average |
| 1995 | She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal | Actor | Adm. Snyder | 58 Average |
| 1994 | Heart of a Child | Actor | Dr. Leonard Bailey | 58 Average |
| 1993 | Where the Rivers Flow North | Actor | Noel Lord | 59 Average |
| 1993 | Beyond the Law | Actor | Deputy Prescott | 59 Average |
| 1993 | RoboCop 3 | Actor | The CEO | 51 Average |
| 1992 | A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story | Actor | Bill Morgan | 58 Average |
| 1992 | T Bone N Weasel | Actor | Happy Sam | 58 Average |
| 1992 | Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster | Actor | Admiral Paul Yost - Presidential Delegation | 58 Average |
| 1992 | The Larry Sanders Show | Actor | Arthur | 73 Good |
| 1992 | Fires of Kuwait | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 1991 | My Son Johnny | Actor | Brian Stansbury | 58 Average |
| 1991 | Dolly Dearest | Actor | Karl Resnick | 58 Average |
| 1991 | Defending Your Life | Actor | Bob Diamond | 62 Fair |
| 1991 | Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind | Actor | Captain Jack Parsons | 58 Average |
| 1991 | Death Falls | Actor | Dub Farley | 58 Average |
| 1990 | Beautiful Dreamers | Actor | Walt Whitman | 58 Average |
| 1990 | By Dawn's Early Light | Actor | Colonel Fargo | 59 Average |
| 1990 | Kojak: None So Blind | Actor | Gideon Hogarth | 59 Average |
| 1990 | Pair of Aces | Actor | Capt. Jack Parsons | 58 Average |
| 1989 | Sweet Bird of Youth | Actor | Boss Finley | 59 Average |
| 1989 | Silence Like Glass | Actor | Dr. Markowitz | 59 Average |
| 1989 | Cold Feet | Actor | Sheriff | 59 Average |
| 1989 | Hit List | Actor | Vic Luca | 59 Average |
| 1988 | April Morning | Actor | Solomon Chandler | 59 Average |
| 1987 | The King of Love | Actor | Jack Kraft | N/A N/A |
| 1987 | Laguna Heat | Actor | Joe Datilla | 58 Average |
| 1987 | Nadine | Actor | Buford Pope | 58 Average |
| 1987 | Extreme Prejudice | Actor | Sheriff Hank Pearson | 59 Average |
| 1987 | Destination: America | Actor | Corbet St. James IV | N/A N/A |
| 1987 | J. Edgar Hoover | Actor | Lyndon Baines Johnson | N/A N/A |
| 1986 | Manhunt for Claude Dallas | Actor | Tim Nettleton | 59 Average |
| 1985 | North and South | Actor | Adolphus | 72 Good |
| 1985 | Beer | Actor | Buzz Beckerman | 58 Average |
| 1985 | Summer Rental | Actor | Scully | 59 Average |
| 1985 | The Atlanta Child Murders | Actor | Lewis Slaton | 68 Fair |
| 1985 | The Execution | Actor | Wilheim Gehbert | 59 Average |
| 1984 | City Heat | Actor | Primo Pitt | 58 Average |
| 1984 | Songwriter | Actor | Dino McLeish | 58 Average |
| 1984 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Actor | Big Daddy | 58 Average |
| 1984 | Scarab | Actor | Khepera | 58 Average |
| 1984 | Flashpoint | Actor | Sheriff Wells | 59 Average |
| 1984 | Misunderstood | Actor | Will | 59 Average |
| 1984 | When She Says No | Actor | Stuart Blankfort | N/A N/A |
| 1983 | Cross Creek | Actor | Marsh Turner | 59 Average |
| 1982 | Airplane II: The Sequel | Actor | Bud Kruger / President Reagan | 60 Fair |
| 1982 | The Blue and the Gray | Actor | Ulysses S. Grant | 69 Fair |
| 1982 | A Stranger Is Watching | Actor | Artie Taggart | 58 Average |
| 1982 | Jinxed! | Actor | Harold Benson | 58 Average |
| 1982 | The Beastmaster | Actor | Maax | 60 Fair |
| 1980 | First Family | Actor | General G. E. Dumpston | 58 Average |
| 1980 | Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case | Actor | Charles Burt | 59 Average |
| 1980 | Sophia Loren: Her Own Story | Actor | Carlo Ponti | 58 Average |
| 1980 | One Trick Pony | Actor | Walter Fox | 58 Average |
| 1979 | A Shining Season | Actor | Jack Baker | 59 Average |
| 1979 | Heartland | Actor | Clyde Stewart | 59 Average |
| 1979 | The Seduction of Joe Tynan | Actor | Senator Kittner | 59 Average |
| 1979 | Blind Ambition | Actor | Richard M. Nixon | 69 Fair |
| 1978 | Steel Cowboy | Actor | K.W. Hicks | N/A N/A |
| 1978 | Betrayal | Actor | Dr. Hartogs | N/A N/A |
| 1978 | Coma | Actor | Dr. George | 62 Fair |
| 1977 | The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover | Actor | Dwight Webb | 58 Average |
| 1977 | Nasty Habits | Actor | Father Maximilian | 59 Average |
| 1976 | Birch Interval | Actor | Thomas | 59 Average |
| 1976 | The Man Who Fell to Earth | Actor | Nathan Bryce | 61 Fair |
| 1975 | Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan | Actor | Glen Tuttle | 58 Average |
| 1974 | Crazy Joe | Actor | Richie | 59 Average |
| 1973 | The President's Plane Is Missing | Actor | George Oldenburg | 58 Average |
| 1973 | Payday | Actor | Maury Dann | 59 Average |
| 1973 | Cotter | Actor | Roy | N/A N/A |
| 1972 | Slaughter | Actor | Dominic Hoffo | 58 Average |
| 1971 | 1 P.M. | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1971 | Maidstone | Actor | Raoul Rey O'Houlihan | 58 Average |
| 1971 | Montserrat | Actor | Izquierdo | N/A N/A |
| 1970 | Tropic of Cancer | Actor | Henry Miller | 58 Average |
| 1969 | Coming Apart | Actor | Joe | 59 Average |
| 1969 | Lions Love | Actor | The Beard Director (uncredited) | 58 Average |
| 1968 | Beyond the Law | Actor | Popcorn | 58 Average |
| 1968 | Sol Madrid | Actor | Dano Villanova | 59 Average |
| 1967 | Beach Red | Actor | Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell | 59 Average |
| 1966 | You're a Big Boy Now | Actor | I.H. Chanticleer | 59 Average |
| 1966 | One Spy Too Many | Actor | Alexander | 58 Average |
| 1965 | The Cincinnati Kid | Actor | William Jefferson Slade | 62 Fair |
| 1963 | Critic's Choice | Actor | Dion Kapakos | 58 Average |
| 1962 | Hero's Island | Actor | Nicholas Gates | 58 Average |
| 1962 | Sweet Bird of Youth | Actor | Thomas 'Tom' J. Finley, Jr. | 60 Fair |
| 1961 | King of Kings | Actor | Judas | 62 Fair |
| 1961 | 24 Hours in a Woman's Life | Actor | Paul | N/A N/A |
| 1959 | Pork Chop Hill | Actor | Lt. Walter Russell | 59 Average |
| 1958 | Johnny Belinda | Actor | Locky McCormick | N/A N/A |
| 1958 | Bomber's Moon | Actor | Lieutenant Harrison | N/A N/A |
| 1957 | Time Limit | Actor | Lt. George Miller | 59 Average |
| 1957 | A Face in the Crowd | Actor | Barry Mills (uncredited) | 64 Fair |
| 1956 | Baby Doll | Actor | The Dentist (uncredited) | 61 Fair |
Directing |
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| 1988 | The Telephone | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
Production |
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| 2008 | Lucky Days | Production | Executive Producer | N/A N/A |
Crew |
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| 1977 | Harlan County U.S.A. | Crew | Thanks | 61 Fair |