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