Rip Torn
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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
Men in Black (1997)
as Zed
Hercules (1997)
as Zeus (voice)
Bee Movie (2007)
as Lou Lo Duca (voice)
Men in Black II (2002)
as Zed
Men in Black 3 (2012)
as Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited)
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story (2004)
as Patches O'Houlihan
Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
as Bud Kruger / President Reagan
Marie Antoinette (2006)
as Louis XV
Senseless (1998)
as Randall Tyson
Down Periscope (1996)
as Admiral Winslow
RoboCop 3 (1993)
as The CEO
Zoom (2006)
as Larraby
Lionpower from MGM (1967)
as Self - Dano Villanova (archive footage) (uncredited)
Silence Like Glass (1989)
as Dr. Markowitz
The Insider (1999)
as John Scanlon
Yours, Mine & Ours (2005)
as Commandant Sherman
The Beastmaster (1982)
as Maax
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
as Nathan Bryce
Defending Your Life (1991)
as Bob Diamond
Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
as Jim Brody
Wonder Boys (2000)
as Q
King of Kings (1961)
as Judas
Extreme Prejudice (1987)
as Sheriff Hank Pearson
Coma (1978)
as Dr. George
How to Make an American Quilt (1995)
as Arthur
Happy Tears (2009)
as Joe
Welcome to Mooseport (2004)
as Bert Langdon
The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
as William Jefferson Slade
Canadian Bacon (1995)
as General Dick Panzer
Pork Chop Hill (1959)
as Lt. Walter Russell
Cross Creek (1983)
as Marsh Turner
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
as Barry Mills (uncredited)
Beyond the Law (1993)
as Deputy Prescott
Baby Doll (1956)
as The Dentist (uncredited)
Summer Rental (1985)
as Scully
For Better or Worse (1995)
as Capt. Cole
Nadine (1987)
as Buford Pope
City Heat (1984)
as Primo Pitt
By Dawn's Early Light (1990)
as Colonel Fargo
Dolly Dearest (1991)
as Karl Resnick
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
as Tom Finley Jr.
Betrayal (1978)
as Dr. Hartogs
Tropic of Cancer (1970)
as Henry Miller
National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus (2011)
as King Looney
One Spy Too Many (1966)
as Alexander
Death Falls (1991)
as Dub Farley
Trial and Error (1997)
as Benny Gibbs
Eulogy (2004)
as Edmund Collins
Crazy Joe (1974)
as Richie
Cotter (1973)
as Roy
Songwriter (1984)
as Dino McLeish
April Morning (1988)
as Solomon Chandler
Where the Rivers Flow North (1993)
as Noel Lord
Sweet Bird of Youth (1989)
as Boss Finley
First Family (1980)
as General G. E. Dumpston
August (2008)
as David Sterling
A Shining Season (1979)
as Jack Baker
The Mouse (1997)
as Trucker 'God'
One Trick Pony (1980)
as Walter Fox
Lions Love (1969)
as The Beard Director (uncredited)
The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979)
as Senator Kittner
Hit List (1989)
as Vic Luca
Flashpoint (1984)
as Sheriff Wells
Coming Apart (1969)
as Joe
A Stranger Is Watching (1982)
as Artie Taggart
The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery (1999)
as Royce
Forty Shades of Blue (2005)
as Alan James
James Dean: A Portrait (1995)
as Self (Narrator)
American Cowslip (2009)
as Trevor O'Hart
Turn the River (2008)
as Quinette
Love Object (2004)
as Novak
Time Limit (1957)
as Lt. George Miller
Beach Red (1967)
as Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell
Critic's Choice (1963)
as Dion Kapakos
Beyond the Law (1968)
as Popcorn
Beer (1985)
as Buzz Beckerman
T Bone N Weasel (1992)
as Happy Sam
Payday (1973)
as Maury Dann
You're a Big Boy Now (1966)
as I.H. Chanticleer
Sol Madrid (1968)
as Dano Villanova
The Making of Marie Antoinette (2007)
as Self
Misunderstood (1983)
as Will
The Golden Boys (2008)
as Capt. Jeremiah Burgess
J. Edgar Hoover (1987)
as Lyndon Baines Johnson
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1984)
as Big Daddy
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977)
as Dwight Webb
Cold Feet (1989)
as Sheriff
Jinxed! (1982)
as Harold Benson
Destination: America (1987)
as Corbet St. James IV
Three Days to Vegas (2007)
as Joe Wallace
Heartland (1981)
as Clyde Stewart
Kojak: None So Blind (1990)
as Gideon Hogarth
Balloon Farm (1999)
as Harvey Potter
Slaughter (1972)
as Dominic Hoffo
Bridge of Names (2012)
as Tom
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case (1980)
as Charles Burt
The Sisters (2005)
as Dr. Chebrin
The President's Plane Is Missing (1973)
as George Oldenburg
Rolling Kansas (2003)
as Oldman
Maidstone (1971)
as Raoul Rey O'Houlihan
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan (1975)
as Glen Tuttle
Nasty Habits (1977)
as Father Maximilian
Scarab (1984)
as Khepera
3 Weeks to Daytona (2011)
as Sal
Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster (1992)
as Admiral Paul Yost
24 Hours in a Woman's Life (1961)
as Paul
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980)
as Carlo Ponti
Maniac Magee (2003)
as George McNab
Bomber's Moon (1958)
as Lieutenant Harrison
Manhunt for Claude Dallas (1986)
as Tim Nettleton
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows (2000)
as Self
My Son Johnny (1991)
as Brian Stansbury
Letter to My Killer (1995)
Actor
Heart of a Child (1994)
as Dr. Leonard Bailey
A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle (2000)
as Detective Manny Garett
Pair of Aces (1990)
as Capt. Jack Parsons
Norman Mailer: The American (2012)
as Self
When She Says No (1984)
as Stuart Blankfort
Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind (1991)
as Captain Jack Parsons
The Execution (1985)
as Wilheim Gehbert
The King of Love (1987)
as Jack Kraft
Fires of Kuwait (1992)
as Narrator (voice)
A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story (1992)
as Bill Morgan
Hero's Island (1962)
as Nicholas Gates
The Hindenburg (1996)
as Narrator
Passing Glory (1999)
as Father Robert Grant
Beautiful Dreamers (1990)
as Walt Whitman
1 P.M. (1971)
as Self
Steel Cowboy (1978)
as K.W. Hicks
The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show' (2007)
as Arthur
Johnny Belinda (1958)
as Locky McCormick
Montserrat (1971)
as Izquierdo
The Afterlight (2009)
as Carl
Birch Interval (1976)
as Thomas
Laguna Heat (1987)
as Joe Datilla
Lucky Days (2008)
as Bobo
Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time (2006)
as Self
Heartland (—)
Actor
She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal (1995)
as Adm. Snyder