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.
William Jefferson Slade
The Cincinnati Kid
Nathan Bryce
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Zed
Men in Black
Zed
Men in Black II
General Dick Panzer
Canadian Bacon
Louis XV
Marie Antoinette
Bud Kruger / President Reagan
Airplane II: The Sequel
Self
Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time
Big Daddy
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Sheriff Hank Pearson
Extreme Prejudice
Q
Wonder Boys
Artie Taggart
A Stranger Is Watching
The CEO
RoboCop 3
Lou Lo Duca (voice)
Bee Movie
Colonel Fargo
By Dawn's Early Light
Dr. George
Coma
Alan James
Forty Shades of Blue
Arthur
How to Make an American Quilt
Zeus (voice)
Hercules
Bob Diamond
Defending Your Life
John Scanlon
The Insider
Randall Tyson
Senseless
Patches O'Houlihan
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
Admiral Winslow
Down Periscope
Thomas 'Tom' J. Finley, Jr.
Sweet Bird of Youth
Oldman
Rolling Kansas
Jim Brody
Freddy Got Fingered
Harvey Potter
Balloon Farm
Karl Resnick
Dolly Dearest
Larraby
Zoom
Quinette
Turn the River
Walter Fox
One Trick Pony
Judas
King of Kings
I.H. Chanticleer
You're a Big Boy Now
Lt. Walter Russell
Pork Chop Hill
Buford Pope
Nadine
Trevor O'Hart
American Cowslip
Captain Jack Parsons
Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind
Edmund Collins
Eulogy
Maax
The Beastmaster
Bert Langdon
Welcome to Mooseport
Dr. Chebrin
The Sisters
Joe
Happy Tears
Admiral Paul Yost - Presidential Delegation
Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell
Beach Red
Primo Pitt
City Heat
Novak
Love Object
Lt. George Miller
Time Limit
Senator Kittner
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
Benny Gibbs
Trial and Error
Sheriff Wells
Flashpoint
Deputy Prescott
Beyond the Law
Clyde Stewart
Heartland
Noel Lord
Where the Rivers Flow North
Scully
Summer Rental
Khepera
Scarab
Dino McLeish
Songwriter
Joe
Coming Apart
Maury Dann
Payday
King Looney
National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus
Will
Misunderstood
Dominic Hoffo
Slaughter
Buzz Beckerman
Beer
Dion Kapakos
Critic's Choice
Harold Benson
Jinxed!
Alexander
One Spy Too Many
Sheriff
Cold Feet
Solomon Chandler
April Morning
Henry Miller
Tropic of Cancer
Vic Luca
Hit List
Self
Norman Mailer: The American
Dwight Webb
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
Richie
Crazy Joe
General G. E. Dumpston
First Family
Self
1 P.M.
Father Maximilian
Nasty Habits
Barry Mills (uncredited)
A Face in the Crowd
Locky McCormick
Johnny Belinda
Marsh Turner
Cross Creek
Royce
The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery
Raoul Rey O'Houlihan
Maidstone
Popcorn
Beyond the Law
Dano Villanova
Sol Madrid
Nicholas Gates
Hero's Island
Self
The Making of Marie Antoinette
Lieutenant Harrison
Bomber's Moon
Joe Wallace
Three Days to Vegas
Dr. Markowitz
Zwei Frauen
Lyndon Baines Johnson
J. Edgar Hoover
Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited)
Men in Black 3
Corbet St. James IV
Destination: America
Father Robert Grant
Passing Glory
K.W. Hicks
Steel Cowboy
Detective Manny Garett
A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle
Commandant Sherman
Yours, Mine & Ours
Carl
The Afterlight
Capt. Jack Parsons
Pair of Aces
Jack Kraft
The King of Love
Wilheim Gehbert
The Execution
Self
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Dr. Leonard Bailey
Heart of a Child
Dub Farley
Death Falls
Izquierdo
Montserrat
David Sterling
August
Thomas
Birch Interval
Tim Nettleton
Manhunt for Claude Dallas
Charles Burt
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
Glen Tuttle
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Carlo Ponti
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
George Oldenburg
The President's Plane Is Missing
Jack Baker
A Shining Season
Boss Finley
Sweet Bird of Youth
Stuart Blankfort
When She Says No
Brian Stansbury
My Son Johnny
Walt Whitman
Beautiful Dreamers
Joe Datilla
Laguna Heat
Letter to My Killer
The Beard Director (uncredited)
Lions Love
Gideon Hogarth
Kojak: None So Blind
The Dentist (uncredited)
Baby Doll
Narrator
The Hindenburg
Happy Sam
T Bone N Weasel
Bobo
Lucky Days
Roy
Cotter
Paul
24 Hours in a Woman's Life
Adm. Snyder
She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal
Arthur
The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show'
Narrator (voice)
Fires of Kuwait
George McNab
Maniac Magee
Bill Morgan
A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story
Dr. Hartogs
Betrayal
Capt. Jeremiah Burgess
The Golden Boys
Capt. Cole
For Better or Worse
Self (Narrator)
James Dean: A Portrait
Lionpower from MGM
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
135
Gender
Male
Birthday
1931-02-06
Place of Birth
Temple, Texas, USA
Also Known As
Elmore Rual Torn Jr.