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.
Known for
Columbo
Leon Lamarr
Bonanza
Will Hewitt
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Jules Copeland
30 Rock
Don Geiss
Will & Grace
Lionel Banks
Dr. Kildare
Dr. Nicholas Keefe
Mannix
Victor Roarke
Chicago Hope
Warren Shutt
Combat!
Avery
The Untouchables
Harry Strauss
The Untouchables
Johnny Mizo
Naked City
Ansel Boake
Rawhide
Jacob Yellow-Sun
North and South
Adolphus
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Steve Morgan #22
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Ernie Walters
Pork Chop Hill
Lt. Walter Russell
Ben Casey
The Larry Sanders Show
Arthur
12 O'Clock High
Col. Mark Royce
Hercules
Zeus (voice)
Route 66
Alvah Clayhorne
Men in Black II
Zed
Men in Black
Zed
Kraft Television Theatre
Somers
Kraft Television Theatre
Sol Madrid
Dano Villanova
Thriller
Duncan Corey
Cold Feet
Sheriff
How to Make an American Quilt
Arthur
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
Patches O'Houlihan
Crazy Joe
Richie
Men in Black 3
Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited)
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Nathan Bryce
The John Larroquette Show
Bernard Galvin
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Alexander
Rolling Kansas
Oldman
Steel Cowboy
K.W. Hicks
Defending Your Life
Bob Diamond
Marie Antoinette
Louis XV
RoboCop 3
The CEO
Heartland
Clyde Stewart
Manhunt for Claude Dallas
Tim Nettleton
Baby Doll
The Dentist (uncredited)
When She Says No
Stuart Blankfort
The Insider
John Scanlon
The Lieutenant
Sgt. Karl Kasten
The Beastmaster
Maax
Extreme Prejudice
Sheriff Hank Pearson
The Restless Gun
Jody Gilman
Bee Movie
Lou Lo Duca (voice)
Johnny Belinda
Locky McCormick
Beyond the Law
Deputy Prescott
Heart of a Child
Dr. Leonard Bailey
James Dean: A Portrait
Self (Narrator)
Sweet Bird of Youth
Tom Finley Jr.
Dolly Dearest
Karl Resnick
Ghost Story
Jonathon
The Great Adventure
Lieutenant John C. Freemont
City Heat
Primo Pitt
Beyond the Law
Popcorn
Down Periscope
Admiral Winslow
Airplane II: The Sequel
Bud Kruger / President Reagan
Breaking Point
Coma
Dr. George
The President's Plane Is Missing
George Oldenburg
Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
Admiral Paul Yost
Lionpower from MGM
Self - Dano Villanova (archive footage) (uncredited)
Destination: America
Corbet St. James IV
Yours, Mine & Ours
Commandant Sherman
A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle
Detective Manny Garett
Three Days to Vegas
Joe Wallace
3 Weeks to Daytona
Sal
Channing
Donald Burrows
24 Hours in a Woman's Life
Paul
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Self
The Cincinnati Kid
William Jefferson Slade
A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story
Bill Morgan
She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal
Adm. Snyder
A Face in the Crowd
Barry Mills (uncredited)
Birch Interval
Thomas
The Lyon's Den
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
Charles Burt
Trial and Error
Benny Gibbs
The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery
Royce
Zoom
Larraby
Soul Food
Peter Redmond
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
Wonder Boys
Q
Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind
Captain Jack Parsons
American Cowslip
Trevor O'Hart
You're a Big Boy Now
I.H. Chanticleer
The Atlanta Child Murders
Lewis Slaton
The Blue and the Gray
Ulysses S. Grant
Senseless
Randall Tyson
Turn the River
Quinette
Love Object
Novak
Blind Ambition
Richard M. Nixon
King of Kings
Judas
The Making of Marie Antoinette
Self
Canadian Bacon
General Dick Panzer
Laguna Heat
Joe Datilla
Summer Rental
Scully
Freddy Got Fingered
Jim Brody
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Glen Tuttle
Misunderstood
Will
Forty Shades of Blue
Alan James
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Locky McCormick
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Solomon Chandler
Norman Mailer: The American
Self
Eulogy
Edmund Collins
Cross Creek
Marsh Turner
Montserrat
Izquierdo
Ghost Stories
The Narrator
By Dawn's Early Light
Colonel Fargo
Sweet Bird of Youth
Boss Finley
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
Carlo Ponti
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
Dwight Webb
Welcome to Mooseport
Bert Langdon
Where the Rivers Flow North
Noel Lord
First Family
General G. E. Dumpston
Maniac Magee
George McNab
One Spy Too Many
Alexander
Extreme Dodgeball
Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time
Self
Payday
Maury Dann
Time Limit
Lt. George Miller
Lions Love
The Beard Director (uncredited)
Happy Tears
Joe
Beach Red
Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell
The Sisters
Dr. Chebrin
Flashpoint
Sheriff Wells
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Big Daddy
Fires of Kuwait
Narrator (voice)
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
Senator Kittner
National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus
King Looney
Slaughter
Dominic Hoffo
Songwriter
Dino McLeish
Hit List
Vic Luca
Jinxed!
Harold Benson
Kojak: None So Blind
Gideon Hogarth
Nadine
Buford Pope
The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show'
Arthur
One Trick Pony
Walter Fox
Pair of Aces
Capt. Jack Parsons
Balloon Farm
Harvey Potter
Nasty Habits
Father Maximilian
Critic's Choice
Dion Kapakos
For Better or Worse
Capt. Cole
Hero's Island
Nicholas Gates
Silence Like Glass
Dr. Markowitz
Bomber's Moon
Lieutenant Harrison
A Stranger Is Watching
Artie Taggart
April Morning
Solomon Chandler
Betrayal
Dr. Hartogs
The Golden Boys
Capt. Jeremiah Burgess
August
David Sterling
J. Edgar Hoover
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Cotter
Roy
Passing Glory
Father Robert Grant
Maidstone
Raoul Rey O'Houlihan
A Shining Season
Jack Baker
Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
My Son Johnny
Brian Stansbury
The Execution
Wilheim Gehbert
Seasons of Love
Spence
Scarab
Khepera
The Afterlight
Carl
Coming Apart
Joe
T Bone N Weasel
Happy Sam
Lucky Days
Bobo
Letter to My Killer
Beautiful Dreamers
Walt Whitman
The King of Love
Jack Kraft
Beer
Buzz Beckerman
Heartland
Death Falls
Dub Farley
The Hindenburg
Narrator
1 P.M.
Self
Bridge of Names
Tom
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter
Omnibus
The Dick Powell Show
Joel Coles