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