Rip Torn

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 in 1997 as well.

Known For

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

Personal Info

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.