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