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Rip Torn

Rip Torn
  • Name: Rip Torn
  • Birthday: 1931-02-06
  • Also known as: Elmore Rual Torn Jr.,Elmore Rual "Rip" Torn Jr.,Elmor Torn,ریپ تورن
  • Place of birth: Temple, Texas, USA
  • Popularity: 1.722
Biography: 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... Read More

Movies:

Title Release date
Men in Black 3   as  Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited) 2012-05-23
Norman Mailer: The American   as  Self 2012-05-18
National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus   as  King Looney 2011-08-05
Happy Tears   as  Joe 2009-10-16
The Afterlight   as  Carl 2009-10-10
American Cowslip   as  Trevor O'Hart 2009-07-24
The Golden Boys   as  Capt. Jeremiah Burgess 2008-12-11
August   as  David Sterling 2008-05-16
Turn the River   as  Quinette 2008-05-09
Lucky Days   as  Bobo 2008-04-25
Bee Movie   as  Lou Lo Duca (voice) 2007-10-28
The Making of Marie Antoinette   as  Self 2007-07-02
The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show'   as  Arthur 2007-04-17
Three Days to Vegas   as  Joe Wallace 2007-02-02
Zoom   as  Larraby 2006-08-11
Marie Antoinette   as  Louis XV 2006-05-24
Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time   as  Self 2006-05-02
Forty Shades of Blue   as  Alan James 2005-12-07
Yours, Mine & Ours   as  Commandant Sherman 2005-11-23
The Sisters   as  Dr. Chebrin 2005-04-23
Eulogy   as  Edmund Collins 2004-10-15
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story   as  Patches O'Houlihan 2004-06-18
Welcome to Mooseport   as  Bert Langdon 2004-02-24
Love Object   as  Novak 2004-02-13
Maniac Magee   as  George McNab 2003-02-23
Rolling Kansas   as  Oldman 2003-01-24
Men in Black II   as  Zed 2002-07-03
Freddy Got Fingered   as  Jim Brody 2001-04-20
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows   as  Self 2000-09-27
Wonder Boys   as  Q 2000-02-22
A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle   as  Detective Manny Garett 2000-02-09
The Insider   as  John Scanlon 1999-10-28
The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery   as  Royce 1999-07-21
Balloon Farm   as  Harvey Potter 1999-03-28
Passing Glory   as  Father Robert Grant 1999-02-21
Senseless   as  Randall Tyson 1998-02-20
Men in Black   as  Zed 1997-07-02
Hercules   as  Zeus (voice) 1997-06-13
Trial and Error   as  Benny Gibbs 1997-05-30
The Hindenburg   as  Narrator 1996-09-24
Down Periscope   as  Admiral Winslow 1996-03-01
How to Make an American Quilt   as  Arthur 1995-10-06
Letter to My Killer 1995-08-09
Canadian Bacon   as  General Dick Panzer 1995-06-08
She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal   as  Adm. Snyder 1995-05-22
Heart of a Child   as  Dr. Leonard Bailey 1994-05-09
Where the Rivers Flow North   as  Noel Lord 1993-06-14
Beyond the Law   as  Deputy Prescott 1993-04-22
RoboCop 3   as  The CEO 1993-01-21
A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story   as  Bill Morgan 1992-11-29
T Bone N Weasel   as  Happy Sam 1992-11-02
Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster   as  Admiral Paul Yost - Presidential Delegation 1992-09-13
Fires of Kuwait   as  Narrator (voice) 1992-06-09
My Son Johnny   as  Brian Stansbury 1991-11-10
Dolly Dearest   as  Karl Resnick 1991-09-01
Defending Your Life   as  Bob Diamond 1991-03-22
Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind   as  Captain Jack Parsons 1991-01-01
Death Falls   as  Dub Farley 1991-01-01
Beautiful Dreamers   as  Walt Whitman 1990-06-05
By Dawn's Early Light   as  Colonel Fargo 1990-05-19
Kojak: None So Blind   as  Gideon Hogarth 1990-04-07
Pair of Aces   as  Capt. Jack Parsons 1990-01-14
Sweet Bird of Youth   as  Boss Finley 1989-10-01
Silence Like Glass   as  Dr. Markowitz 1989-07-06
Cold Feet   as  Sheriff 1989-05-19
Hit List   as  Vic Luca 1989-03-03
April Morning   as  Solomon Chandler 1988-04-24
The King of Love   as  Jack Kraft 1987-11-19
Laguna Heat   as  Joe Datilla 1987-11-15
Nadine   as  Buford Pope 1987-08-07
Extreme Prejudice   as  Sheriff Hank Pearson 1987-04-24
Destination: America   as  Corbet St. James IV 1987-04-03
J. Edgar Hoover   as  Lyndon Baines Johnson 1987-01-11
Manhunt for Claude Dallas   as  Tim Nettleton 1986-10-26
Beer   as  Buzz Beckerman 1985-08-30
Summer Rental   as  Scully 1985-08-09
The Execution   as  Wilheim Gehbert 1985-01-14
City Heat   as  Primo Pitt 1984-12-07
Songwriter   as  Dino McLeish 1984-10-14
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof   as  Big Daddy 1984-08-19
Scarab   as  Khepera 1984-06-22
Flashpoint   as  Sheriff Wells 1984-04-19
Misunderstood   as  Will 1984-03-30
When She Says No   as  Stuart Blankfort 1984-01-30
Cross Creek   as  Marsh Turner 1983-09-21
Airplane II: The Sequel   as  Bud Kruger / President Reagan 1982-12-10
A Stranger Is Watching   as  Artie Taggart 1982-10-28
Jinxed!   as  Harold Benson 1982-10-22
The Beastmaster   as  Maax 1982-08-16
First Family   as  General G. E. Dumpston 1980-12-25
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case   as  Charles Burt 1980-10-30
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story   as  Carlo Ponti 1980-10-26
One Trick Pony   as  Walter Fox 1980-10-03
A Shining Season   as  Jack Baker 1979-12-26
Heartland   as  Clyde Stewart 1979-09-22
The Seduction of Joe Tynan   as  Senator Kittner 1979-08-17
Steel Cowboy   as  K.W. Hicks 1978-12-06
Betrayal   as  Dr. Hartogs 1978-11-13
Coma   as  Dr. George 1978-01-06
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover   as  Dwight Webb 1977-12-01
Nasty Habits   as  Father Maximilian 1977-01-28
Birch Interval   as  Thomas 1976-05-02
The Man Who Fell to Earth   as  Nathan Bryce 1976-03-18
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan   as  Glen Tuttle 1975-02-20
Crazy Joe   as  Richie 1974-02-08
The President's Plane Is Missing   as  George Oldenburg 1973-10-23
Payday   as  Maury Dann 1973-09-22
Cotter   as  Roy 1973-01-01
Slaughter   as  Dominic Hoffo 1972-08-16
1 P.M.   as  Self 1971-06-08
Maidstone   as  Raoul Rey O'Houlihan 1971-03-09
Montserrat   as  Izquierdo 1971-03-02
Tropic of Cancer   as  Henry Miller 1970-02-27
Coming Apart   as  Joe 1969-10-26
Lions Love   as  The Beard Director (uncredited) 1969-10-12
Beyond the Law   as  Popcorn 1968-04-02
Sol Madrid   as  Dano Villanova 1968-02-07
Beach Red   as  Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell 1967-08-03
You're a Big Boy Now   as  I.H. Chanticleer 1966-12-09
One Spy Too Many   as  Alexander 1966-08-05
The Cincinnati Kid   as  William Jefferson Slade 1965-10-15
Critic's Choice   as  Dion Kapakos 1963-02-24
Hero's Island   as  Nicholas Gates 1962-09-16
Sweet Bird of Youth   as  Thomas 'Tom' J. Finley, Jr. 1962-03-21
King of Kings   as  Judas 1961-10-11
24 Hours in a Woman's Life   as  Paul 1961-03-20
Pork Chop Hill   as  Lt. Walter Russell 1959-05-29
Johnny Belinda   as  Locky McCormick 1958-10-13
Bomber's Moon   as  Lieutenant Harrison 1958-08-07
Time Limit   as  Lt. George Miller 1957-10-23
A Face in the Crowd   as  Barry Mills (uncredited) 1957-05-29
Baby Doll   as  The Dentist (uncredited) 1956-12-29