Actor · Acting

Rip Torn

Born 1931-02-06

Died 2019-07-09

📍 Temple, Texas, USA

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.

Filmography 180

as Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited)

Norman Mailer: The American

3 Weeks to Daytona

National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus

American Cowslip

as Trevor O'Hart

The Golden Boys

as Capt. Jeremiah Burgess

as David Sterling

as Lou Lo Duca (voice)

The Making of Marie Antoinette

The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show'

Three Days to Vegas

Marie Antoinette

Forty Shades of Blue

Yours, Mine & Ours

as Commandant Sherman

as Edmund Collins

DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story

as Patches O'Houlihan

Welcome to Mooseport

as Bert Langdon

Men in Black II

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

as Jules Copeland

Freddy Got Fingered

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

as Peter Redmond

A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle

as Detective Manny Garett

as John Scanlon

The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery

Seasons of Love

as Harvey Potter

as Father Robert Grant

as Lionel Banks

as Randall Tyson

as The Narrator

as Zeus (voice)

Trial and Error

as Admiral Winslow

How to Make an American Quilt

James Dean: A Portrait

as Self (Narrator)

Letter to My Killer

as General Dick Panzer

She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal

For Better or Worse

as Warren Shutt

Heart of a Child

as Dr. Leonard Bailey

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

as Self - Guest

The John Larroquette Show

as Bernard Galvin

Where the Rivers Flow North

as Deputy Prescott

A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story

T Bone N Weasel

Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster

as Admiral Paul Yost

The Larry Sanders Show

Fires of Kuwait

as Narrator (voice)

as Brian Stansbury

as Karl Resnick

Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind

as Captain Jack Parsons

Defending Your Life

Beautiful Dreamers

as Walt Whitman

By Dawn's Early Light

as Colonel Fargo

Kojak: None So Blind

as Gideon Hogarth

as Capt. Jack Parsons

Sweet Bird of Youth

Silence Like Glass

as Dr. Markowitz

as Solomon Chandler

Extreme Prejudice

as Sheriff Hank Pearson

Destination: America

as Corbet St. James IV

J. Edgar Hoover

as Lyndon Baines Johnson

Manhunt for Claude Dallas

as Tim Nettleton

North and South

as Buzz Beckerman

The Atlanta Child Murders

as Lewis Slaton

as Wilheim Gehbert

as Dino McLeish

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

as Sheriff Wells

When She Says No

as Stuart Blankfort

as Marsh Turner

Airplane II: The Sequel

as Bud Kruger / President Reagan

The Blue and the Gray

as Ulysses S. Grant

as Harold Benson

The Beastmaster

A Stranger Is Watching

as Artie Taggart

as Clyde Stewart

as General G. E. Dumpston

Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case

as Charles Burt

Sophia Loren: Her Own Story

A Shining Season

The Seduction of Joe Tynan

as Senator Kittner

as Richard M. Nixon

The Eddie Capra Mysteries

The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

as Father Maximilian

The Man Who Fell to Earth

as Nathan Bryce

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan

The President's Plane Is Missing

as George Oldenburg

as Dominic Hoffo

as Raoul Rey O'Houlihan

Tropic of Cancer

as Henry Miller

as The Beard Director (uncredited)

as Dano Villanova

as Victor Roarke

as Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell

Lionpower from MGM

as Self - Dano Villanova (archive footage) (uncredited)

You're a Big Boy Now

as I.H. Chanticleer

One Spy Too Many

The Cincinnati Kid

as William Jefferson Slade

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

12 O'Clock High

as Col. Mark Royce

The Great Adventure

as Lieutenant John C. Freemont

as Donald Burrows

as Sgt. Karl Kasten

Critic's Choice

as Dion Kapakos

as Nicholas Gates

Sweet Bird of Youth

as Tom Finley Jr.

The Mike Douglas Show

as Dr. Nicholas Keefe

The Dick Powell Show

24 Hours in a Woman's Life

as Alvah Clayhorne

as Duncan Corey

The Untouchables

as Harry Strauss

The Untouchables

as Lt. Walter Russell

as Jacob Yellow-Sun

as Lieutenant Harrison

as Lt. George Miller

The Restless Gun

A Face in the Crowd

as Barry Mills (uncredited)

as The Dentist (uncredited)

as Self - Presenter

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Steve Morgan #22

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Ernie Walters

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Locky McCormick

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Solomon Chandler

Kraft Television Theatre

Kraft Television Theatre

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Presenter