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.
Movie | Men in Black 3 | Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited) | 2012-05-23 |
Movie | Norman Mailer: The American | Self | 2012-05-18 |
Movie | National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus | King Looney | 2011-08-05 |
Movie | American Cowslip | Trevor O'Hart | 2009-07-24 |
Movie | Happy Tears | Joe | 2009-10-16 |
Movie | The Afterlight | Carl | 2009-10-10 |
Movie | Turn the River | Quinette | 2008-05-09 |
Movie | Lucky Days | Bobo | 2008-04-25 |
Movie | August | David Sterling | 2008-05-16 |
Movie | The Golden Boys | Capt. Jeremiah Burgess | 2008-12-11 |
Movie | The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show' | Arthur | 2007-04-17 |
Movie | Three Days to Vegas | Joe Wallace | 2007-02-02 |
Movie | The Making of Marie Antoinette | Self | 2007-07-02 |
Movie | Bee Movie | Lou Lo Duca (voice) | 2007-10-28 |
Movie | Marie Antoinette | Louis XV | 2006-05-24 |
Movie | Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time | Self | 2006-05-02 |
Movie | Zoom | Larraby | 2006-08-11 |
Series | 30 Rock | Don Geiss | 2006-10-11 |
Movie | The Sisters | Dr. Chebrin | 2005-04-23 |
Movie | Forty Shades of Blue | Alan James | 2005-12-07 |
Movie | Yours, Mine & Ours | Commandant Sherman | 2005-11-23 |
Movie | Love Object | Novak | 2004-02-13 |
Movie | Welcome to Mooseport | Bert Langdon | 2004-02-24 |
Series | Extreme Dodgeball | 2004-06-15 | |
Movie | Eulogy | Edmund Collins | 2004-10-15 |
Movie | DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story | Patches O'Houlihan | 2004-06-18 |
Movie | Maniac Magee | George McNab | 2003-02-23 |
Movie | Rolling Kansas | Oldman | 2003-01-24 |
Series | The Lyon's Den | Unknown | 2003-09-28 |
Movie | Men in Black II | Zed | 2002-07-03 |
Movie | Freddy Got Fingered | Jim Brody | 2001-04-20 |
Series | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Jules Copeland | 2001-09-30 |
Movie | A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle | Detective Manny Garett | 2000-02-09 |
Movie | Wonder Boys | Q | 2000-02-22 |
Movie | Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows | Self | 2000-09-27 |
Series | Soul Food | Peter Redmond | 2000-06-28 |
Movie | Passing Glory | Father Robert Grant | 1999-02-21 |
Movie | Balloon Farm | Harvey Potter | 1999-03-28 |
Movie | Seasons of Love | Spence Vitt | 1999-03-07 |
Movie | The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery | Royce | 1999-07-21 |
Movie | The Insider | John Scanlon | 1999-10-28 |
Series | Seasons of Love | Spence | 1999-07-03 |
Movie | Senseless | Randall Tyson | 1998-02-20 |
Series | Will & Grace | Lionel Banks | 1998-09-21 |
Movie | Trial and Error | Benny Gibbs | 1997-05-30 |
Movie | Hercules | Zeus (voice) | 1997-06-13 |
Movie | Men in Black | Zed | 1997-07-02 |
Series | Ghost Stories | The Narrator | 1997-09-28 |
Movie | Down Periscope | Admiral Winslow | 1996-03-01 |
Movie | The Hindenburg | Narrator | 1996-09-24 |
Movie | How to Make an American Quilt | Arthur | 1995-10-06 |
Movie | Canadian Bacon | General Dick Panzer | 1995-06-08 |
Movie | She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal | Adm. Snyder | 1995-05-22 |
Movie | Letter to My Killer | 1995-08-09 | |
Movie | Heart of a Child | Dr. Leonard Bailey | 1994-05-09 |
Series | Chicago Hope | Unknown | 1994-09-18 |
Movie | Beyond the Law | Deputy Prescott | 1993-04-22 |
Movie | Where the Rivers Flow North | Noel Lord | 1993-06-14 |
Movie | RoboCop 3 | The CEO | 1993-01-21 |
Series | The John Larroquette Show | Bernard Galvin | 1993-09-02 |
Series | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest | 1993-09-13 |
Movie | Fires of Kuwait | Narrator (voice) | 1992-06-09 |
Series | The Larry Sanders Show | Arthur | 1992-08-15 |
Movie | Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster | Admiral Paul Yost - Presidential Delegation | 1992-09-13 |
Movie | A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story | Bill Morgan | 1992-11-29 |
Movie | T Bone N Weasel | Happy Sam | 1992-11-02 |
Movie | Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind | Captain Jack Parsons | 1991-01-01 |
Movie | Defending Your Life | Bob Diamond | 1991-03-22 |
Movie | Death Falls | Dub Farley | 1991-01-01 |
Movie | Dolly Dearest | Karl Resnick | 1991-09-01 |
Movie | My Son Johnny | Brian Stansbury | 1991-11-10 |
Movie | Pair of Aces | Capt. Jack Parsons | 1990-01-14 |
Movie | Kojak: None So Blind | Gideon Hogarth | 1990-04-07 |
Movie | By Dawn's Early Light | Colonel Fargo | 1990-05-19 |
Movie | Beautiful Dreamers | Walt Whitman | 1990-06-05 |
Movie | Hit List | Vic Luca | 1989-03-03 |
Movie | Cold Feet | Sheriff | 1989-05-19 |
Movie | Sweet Bird of Youth | Boss Finley | 1989-10-01 |
Movie | Silence Like Glass | Dr. Markowitz | 1989-07-06 |
Movie | April Morning | Solomon Chandler | 1988-04-24 |
Movie | Extreme Prejudice | Sheriff Hank Pearson | 1987-04-24 |
Movie | J. Edgar Hoover | Lyndon Baines Johnson | 1987-01-11 |
Movie | Destination: America | Corbet St. James IV | 1987-04-03 |
Movie | Nadine | Buford Pope | 1987-08-07 |
Movie | The King of Love | Jack Kraft | 1987-11-19 |
Movie | Laguna Heat | Joe Datilla | 1987-11-15 |
Movie | Manhunt for Claude Dallas | Tim Nettleton | 1986-10-26 |
Movie | The Execution | Wilheim Gehbert | 1985-01-14 |
Series | The Atlanta Child Murders | Lewis Slaton | 1985-02-10 |
Movie | Beer | Buzz Beckerman | 1985-08-30 |
Movie | Summer Rental | Scully | 1985-08-09 |
Series | North and South | Adolphus | 1985-11-03 |
Movie | Misunderstood | Will | 1984-03-30 |
Movie | When She Says No | Stuart Blankfort | 1984-01-30 |
Movie | Flashpoint | Sheriff Wells | 1984-04-19 |
Movie | City Heat | Primo Pitt | 1984-12-07 |
Movie | Scarab | Khepera | 1984-06-22 |
Movie | Songwriter | Dino McLeish | 1984-10-14 |
Movie | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Big Daddy | 1984-08-19 |
Movie | Cross Creek | Marsh Turner | 1983-09-21 |
Movie | The Beastmaster | Maax | 1982-08-16 |
Movie | A Stranger Is Watching | Artie Taggart | 1982-10-28 |
Movie | Jinxed! | Harold Benson | 1982-10-22 |
Movie | Airplane II: The Sequel | Bud Kruger / President Reagan | 1982-12-10 |
Series | The Blue and the Gray | Ulysses S. Grant | 1982-11-14 |
Movie | Sophia Loren: Her Own Story | Carlo Ponti | 1980-10-26 |
Movie | One Trick Pony | Walter Fox | 1980-10-03 |
Movie | Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case | Charles Burt | 1980-10-30 |
Movie | First Family | General G. E. Dumpston | 1980-12-25 |
Movie | The Seduction of Joe Tynan | Senator Kittner | 1979-08-17 |
Series | Blind Ambition | Richard M. Nixon | 1979-05-20 |
Movie | Heartland | Clyde Stewart | 1979-09-22 |
Movie | A Shining Season | Jack Baker | 1979-12-26 |
Movie | Coma | Dr. George | 1978-01-06 |
Series | The Eddie Capra Mysteries | Unknown | 1978-09-08 |
Movie | Steel Cowboy | K.W. Hicks | 1978-12-06 |
Movie | Betrayal | Dr. Hartogs | 1978-11-13 |
Movie | Nasty Habits | Father Maximilian | 1977-01-28 |
Movie | The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover | Dwight Webb | 1977-12-01 |
Movie | The Man Who Fell to Earth | Nathan Bryce | 1976-03-18 |
Movie | Birch Interval | Thomas | 1976-05-02 |
Movie | Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan | Glen Tuttle | 1975-02-20 |
Movie | Crazy Joe | Richie | 1974-02-08 |
Movie | Payday | Maury Dann | 1973-09-22 |
Movie | Cotter | Roy | 1973-01-01 |
Movie | The President's Plane Is Missing | George Oldenburg | 1973-10-23 |
Movie | Slaughter | Dominic Hoffo | 1972-08-16 |
Series | Ghost Story | Jonathon | 1972-09-15 |
Movie | Montserrat | Izquierdo | 1971-03-02 |
Movie | Maidstone | Raoul Rey O'Houlihan | 1971-03-09 |
Series | Columbo | Leon Lamarr | 1971-09-15 |
Movie | 1 P.M. | Self | 1971-06-08 |
Movie | Tropic of Cancer | Henry Miller | 1970-02-27 |
Movie | Lions Love | The Beard Director (uncredited) | 1969-10-12 |
Movie | Coming Apart | Joe | 1969-10-26 |
Movie | Sol Madrid | Dano Villanova | 1968-02-07 |
Movie | Beyond the Law | Popcorn | 1968-04-02 |
Movie | Beach Red | Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell | 1967-08-03 |
Series | Mannix | Victor Roarke | 1967-09-16 |
Movie | One Spy Too Many | Alexander | 1966-08-05 |
Movie | You're a Big Boy Now | I.H. Chanticleer | 1966-12-09 |
Movie | The Cincinnati Kid | William Jefferson Slade | 1965-10-15 |
Series | The Lieutenant | Unknown | 1963-09-14 |
Series | Breaking Point | Unknown | 1963-09-16 |
Movie | Critic's Choice | Dion Kapakos | 1963-02-24 |
Series | Channing | Donald Burrows | 1963-09-18 |
Series | The Great Adventure | Lieutenant John C. Freemont | 1963-09-27 |
Movie | Sweet Bird of Youth | Thomas 'Tom' J. Finley, Jr. | 1962-03-21 |
Movie | Hero's Island | Nicholas Gates | 1962-09-16 |
Series | Combat! | Avery | 1962-10-02 |
Series | The Dick Powell Show | Joel Coles | 1961-09-26 |
Movie | 24 Hours in a Woman's Life | Paul | 1961-03-20 |
Series | Dr. Kildare | Dr. Nicholas Keefe | 1961-09-27 |
Series | The Mike Douglas Show | Self | 1961-12-11 |
Series | Ben Casey | Unknown | 1961-10-02 |
Movie | King of Kings | Judas | 1961-10-11 |
Series | Thriller | Duncan Corey | 1960-09-13 |
Series | Route 66 | Unknown | 1960-10-07 |
Series | Bonanza | Will Hewitt | 1959-09-12 |
Movie | Pork Chop Hill | Lt. Walter Russell | 1959-05-29 |
Movie | Bomber's Moon | Lieutenant Harrison | 1958-08-07 |
Movie | Johnny Belinda | Locky McCormick | 1958-10-13 |
Series | Naked City | Ansel Boake | 1958-09-30 |
Movie | A Face in the Crowd | Barry Mills (uncredited) | 1957-05-29 |
Movie | Time Limit | Lt. George Miller | 1957-10-23 |
Movie | Baby Doll | The Dentist (uncredited) | 1956-12-29 |
Series | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Ernie Walters | 1955-10-02 |
Series | Omnibus | Unknown | 1952-11-09 |
Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Solomon Chandler | 1951-12-24 |