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
Men in Black II (2002)
as Zed
Men in Black 3 (2012)
as Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited)
Bee Movie (2007)
as Lou Lo Duca (voice)
Hercules (1997)
as Zeus (voice)
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story (2004)
as Patches O'Houlihan
Marie Antoinette (2006)
as Louis XV
Zoom (2006)
as Larraby
The Insider (1999)
as John Scanlon
Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
as Bud Kruger / President Reagan
Yours, Mine & Ours (2005)
as Commandant Sherman
Down Periscope (1996)
as Admiral Winslow
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
as Nathan Bryce
RoboCop 3 (1993)
as The CEO
Silence Like Glass (1989)
as Dr. Markowitz
Welcome to Mooseport (2004)
as Bert Langdon
Senseless (1998)
as Randall Tyson
Making Marie Antoinette (2026)
as Self (archive footage)
City Heat (1984)
as Primo Pitt
Happy Tears (2009)
as Joe
The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
as William Jefferson Slade
Death Falls (1991)
as Dub Farley
Defending Your Life (1991)
as Bob Diamond
Betrayal (1978)
as Dr. Hartogs
Coma (1978)
as Dr. George
The Beastmaster (1982)
as Maax
How to Make an American Quilt (1995)
as Arthur
Wonder Boys (2000)
as Q
Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
as Jim Brody
King of Kings (1961)
as Judas
Extreme Prejudice (1987)
as Sheriff Hank Pearson
Beyond the Law (1993)
as Deputy Prescott
Summer Rental (1985)
as Scully
Balloon Farm (1999)
as Harvey Potter
The Mouse (1997)
as Trucker 'God'
National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus (2011)
as King Looney
One Trick Pony (1980)
as Walter Fox
By Dawn's Early Light (1990)
as Colonel Fargo
Canadian Bacon (1995)
as General Dick Panzer
Baby Doll (1956)
as The Dentist (uncredited)
Pork Chop Hill (1959)
as Lt. Walter Russell
Cotter (1973)
as Roy
Time Limit (1957)
as Lt. George Miller
Lionpower from MGM (1967)
as Self - Dano Villanova (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
as Barry Mills (uncredited)
Dolly Dearest (1991)
as Karl Resnick
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
as Tom Finley Jr.
Songwriter (1984)
as Dino McLeish
Cross Creek (1983)
as Marsh Turner
The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979)
as Senator Kittner
Letter to My Killer (1995)
Actor
Beach Red (1967)
as Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell
A Stranger Is Watching (1982)
as Artie Taggart
Slaughter (1972)
as Dominic Hoffo
Lions Love (1969)
as The Beard Director (uncredited)
Trial and Error (1997)
as Benny Gibbs
Flashpoint (1984)
as Sheriff Wells
Eulogy (2004)
as Edmund Collins
Heartland (—)
Actor
T Bone N Weasel (1992)
as Happy Sam
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows (2000)
as Self
August (2008)
as David Sterling
Nadine (1987)
as Buford Pope
A Shining Season (1979)
as Jack Baker
Forty Shades of Blue (2005)
as Alan James
Love Object (2004)
as Novak
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977)
as Dwight Webb
You're a Big Boy Now (1966)
as I.H. Chanticleer
The King of Love (1987)
as Jack Kraft
One Spy Too Many (1966)
as Alexander
For Better or Worse (1995)
as Capt. Cole
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case (1980)
as Charles Burt
Heartland (1981)
as Clyde Stewart
When She Says No (1984)
as Stuart Blankfort
Sweet Bird of Youth (1989)
as Boss Finley
Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind (1991)
as Captain Jack Parsons
Turn the River (2008)
as Quinette
J. Edgar Hoover (1987)
as Lyndon Baines Johnson
April Morning (1988)
as Solomon Chandler
Rolling Kansas (2003)
as Oldman
The Execution (1985)
as Wilheim Gehbert
Norman Mailer: The American (2012)
as Self
The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery (1999)
as Royce
Hit List (1989)
as Vic Luca
The Hindenburg (1996)
as Narrator
Scarab (1984)
as Khepera
3 Weeks to Daytona (2011)
as Sal
Jinxed! (1982)
as Harold Benson
Misunderstood (1983)
as Will
Critic's Choice (1963)
as Dion Kapakos
Nasty Habits (1977)
as Father Maximilian
The President's Plane Is Missing (1973)
as George Oldenburg
A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle (2000)
as Detective Manny Garett
American Cowslip (2009)
as Trevor O'Hart
Cold Feet (1989)
as Sheriff
Manhunt for Claude Dallas (1986)
as Tim Nettleton
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980)
as Carlo Ponti
The Making of Marie Antoinette (2007)
as Self
Where the Rivers Flow North (1993)
as Noel Lord
Kojak: None So Blind (1990)
as Gideon Hogarth
Heart of a Child (1994)
as Dr. Leonard Bailey
Crazy Joe (1974)
as Richie
Beautiful Dreamers (1990)
as Walt Whitman
Three Days to Vegas (2007)
as Joe Wallace
Beer (1985)
as Buzz Beckerman
Destination: America (1987)
as Corbet St. James IV
Hero's Island (1962)
as Nicholas Gates
The Sisters (2005)
as Dr. Chebrin
Birch Interval (1976)
as Thomas
Bridge of Names (2012)
as Tom
Payday (1973)
as Maury Dann
She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal (1995)
as Adm. Snyder
Montserrat (1971)
as Izquierdo
Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster (1992)
as Admiral Paul Yost
Pair of Aces (1990)
as Capt. Jack Parsons
A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story (1992)
as Bill Morgan
Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time (2006)
as Self
The Golden Boys (2008)
as Capt. Jeremiah Burgess
Passing Glory (1999)
as Father Robert Grant
Sol Madrid (1968)
as Dano Villanova
Tropic of Cancer (1970)
as Henry Miller
James Dean: A Portrait (1995)
as Self (Narrator)
24 Hours in a Woman's Life (1961)
as Paul
The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show' (2007)
as Arthur
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1984)
as Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
First Family (1980)
as General G. E. Dumpston
1 P.M. (1971)
as Self
Maidstone (1971)
as Raoul Rey O'Houlihan
Laguna Heat (1987)
as Joe Datilla
Beyond the Law (1968)
as Popcorn
My Son Johnny (1991)
as Brian Stansbury
Fires of Kuwait (1992)
as Narrator (voice)
Steel Cowboy (1978)
as K.W. Hicks
Coming Apart (1969)
as Joe
Bomber's Moon (1958)
as Lieutenant Harrison
Maniac Magee (2003)
as George McNab
Johnny Belinda (1958)
as Locky McCormick
Lucky Days (2008)
as Bobo
The Afterlight (2009)
as Carl