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