Rip Torn
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.
184 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 184
Columbo
1971
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
Mannix
1967
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Bonanza
1959
Golden Globe Awards
1944
30 Rock
2006
Will & Grace
1998
Chicago Hope
1994
Dr. Kildare
1961
Tony Awards
1956
Naked City
1958
Combat!
1962
Ben Casey
1961
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
The Untouchables
1959
Rawhide
1959
Route 66
1960
Thriller
1960
The Larry Sanders Show
1992
North and South
1985
Omnibus
1952
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
The John Larroquette Show
1993
Kraft Television Theatre
1947
12 O'Clock High
1964
Men in Black
1997
Ghost Story
1972
Hercules
1997
The Lyon's Den
2003
Bee Movie
2007
Men in Black 3
2012
The Great Adventure
1963
The Lieutenant
1963
Men in Black II
2002
The Dick Powell Show
1961
Soul Food
2000
Breaking Point
1963
The Restless Gun
1957
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
2004
Marie Antoinette
2006
Channing
1963
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
RoboCop 3
1993
Down Periscope
1996
Airplane II: The Sequel
1982
The Beastmaster
1982
The Blue and the Gray
1982
The Atlanta Child Murders
1985
Senseless
1998
The Insider
1999
Yours, Mine & Ours
2005
Blind Ambition
1979
Zoom
2006
Coma
1978
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
1978
Freddy Got Fingered
2001
King of Kings
1961
The Man Who Fell to Earth
1976
Defending Your Life
1991
Extreme Dodgeball
2004
Wonder Boys
2000
Summer Rental
1985
Pork Chop Hill
1959
Beyond the Law
1993
How to Make an American Quilt
1995
Seasons of Love
1999
The Cincinnati Kid
1965
Baby Doll
1956
Extreme Prejudice
1987
City Heat
1984
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975
Eulogy
2004
By Dawn's Early Light
1990
National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus
2011
Canadian Bacon
1995
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975
A Face in the Crowd
1957
The Sisters
2005
Destination: America
1987
Dolly Dearest
1991
Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
1992
Sweet Bird of Youth
1962
Love Object
2004
Flashpoint
1984
April Morning
1988
Ghost Stories
1997
Nadine
1987
Heartland
1981
American Cowslip
2009
Forty Shades of Blue
2005
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
1977
Welcome to Mooseport
2004
Jinxed!
1982
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000
August
2008
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
1980
Beer
1985
Trial and Error
1997
Songwriter
1984
Where the Rivers Flow North
1993
Scarab
1984
Misunderstood
1983
Sol Madrid
1968
Slaughter
1972
Laguna Heat
1987
The Making of Marie Antoinette
2007
First Family
1980
Crazy Joe
1974
Payday
1973
Critic's Choice
1963
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
1979
Lionpower from MGM
1967
3 Weeks to Daytona
2011
Steel Cowboy
1978
A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story
1992
Sweet Bird of Youth
1989
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
1980
The President's Plane Is Missing
1973
Lions Love
1969
Turn the River
2008
Kojak: None So Blind
1990
Nasty Habits
1977
The Execution
1985
One Spy Too Many
1966
Maidstone
1971
Cross Creek
1983
Balloon Farm
1999
Heart of a Child
1994
Hit List
1989
Cold Feet
1989
The Golden Boys
2008
A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle
2000
Manhunt for Claude Dallas
1986
Rolling Kansas
2003
The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery
1999
Beach Red
1967
Death Falls
1991
Beautiful Dreamers
1990
One Trick Pony
1980
Tropic of Cancer
1970
For Better or Worse
1995
A Shining Season
1979
She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal
1995
Time Limit
1957
Johnny Belinda
1958
Betrayal
1978
When She Says No
1984
A Stranger Is Watching
1982
You're a Big Boy Now
1966
Cotter
1973
My Son Johnny
1991
Montserrat
1971
Happy Tears
2009
24 Hours in a Woman's Life
1961
Pair of Aces
1990
Birch Interval
1976
J. Edgar Hoover
1987
Passing Glory
1999
Letter to My Killer
1995
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1984
Coming Apart
1969
Maniac Magee
2003
Norman Mailer: The American
2012
The Afterlight
2009
Bomber's Moon
1958
Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind
1991
James Dean: A Portrait
1995
Beyond the Law
1968
Hero's Island
1962
T Bone N Weasel
1992
Silence Like Glass
1989
Three Days to Vegas
2007
Lucky Days
2008
1 P.M.
1971
Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time
2006
The Mouse
1997
Fires of Kuwait
1992
The King of Love
1987
The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show'
2007
Heartland
—
The Hindenburg
1996
Bridge of Names
2012
