Rip Torn
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1931-02-06
Deathday 2019-07-09 (88 years old)
Place of Birth Temple, Texas, USA
Also Known As Elmore Rual Torn Jr., Elmore Rual "Rip" Torn Jr.
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
Actor
as Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited)
as Self
as King Looney
as Joe
as Carl
as Trevor O'Hart
as Capt. Jeremiah Burgess
as David Sterling
as Quinette
as Bobo
as Lou Lo Duca (voice)
as Self
as Arthur
as Joe Wallace
as Larraby
as Louis XV
as Don Geiss
as Alan James
as Commandant Sherman
as Dr. Chebrin
as Edmund Collins
as Patches O'Houlihan
as Bert Langdon
as Novak
as George McNab
as Oldman
as Zed
as Jim Brody
as Jules Copeland
as Q
as Detective Manny Garett
as Peter Redmond
as John Scanlon
as Royce
as Harvey Potter
as Spence Vitt
as Father Robert Grant
as Spence
as Randall Tyson
as Lionel Banks
as Zed
as Zeus (voice)
as Benny Gibbs
as The Narrator
as Narrator
as Admiral Winslow
as Arthur
as General Dick Panzer
as Adm. Snyder
as Dr. Leonard Bailey
as Noel Lord
as Deputy Prescott
as The CEO
as Self - Guest
as Bernard Galvin
as Bill Morgan
as Happy Sam
as Admiral Paul Yost - Presidential Delegation
as Narrator (voice)
as Arthur
as Brian Stansbury
as Karl Resnick
as Bob Diamond
as Captain Jack Parsons
as Dub Farley
as Walt Whitman
as Colonel Fargo
as Gideon Hogarth
as Capt. Jack Parsons
as Boss Finley
as Dr. Markowitz
as Sheriff
as Vic Luca
as Solomon Chandler
as Jack Kraft
as Joe Datilla
as Buford Pope
as Sheriff Hank Pearson
as Corbet St. James IV
as Lyndon Baines Johnson
as Tim Nettleton
as Buzz Beckerman
as Scully
as Wilheim Gehbert
as Adolphus
as Lewis Slaton
as Primo Pitt
as Dino McLeish
as Big Daddy
as Khepera
as Sheriff Wells
as Will
as Stuart Blankfort
as Marsh Turner
as Bud Kruger / President Reagan
as Artie Taggart
as Harold Benson
as Maax
as Ulysses S. Grant
as General G. E. Dumpston
as Charles Burt
as Carlo Ponti
as Walter Fox
as Jack Baker
as Clyde Stewart
as Senator Kittner
as Richard M. Nixon
as K.W. Hicks
as Dr. Hartogs
as Dr. George
as Dwight Webb
as Father Maximilian
as Thomas
as Nathan Bryce
as Glen Tuttle
as Richie
as George Oldenburg
as Maury Dann
as Roy
as Dominic Hoffo
as Jonathon
as Self
as Raoul Rey O'Houlihan
as Izquierdo
as Leon Lamarr
as Henry Miller
as Joe
as The Beard Director (uncredited)
as Popcorn
as Dano Villanova
as Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell
as Victor Roarke
as I.H. Chanticleer
as Alexander
as William Jefferson Slade
as Dion Kapakos
as Lieutenant John C. Freemont
as Donald Burrows
as Nicholas Gates
as Thomas 'Tom' J. Finley, Jr.
as Avery
as Judas
as Paul
as Self
as Dr. Nicholas Keefe
as Joel Coles
as Duncan Corey
as Lt. Walter Russell
as Will Hewitt
as Locky McCormick
as Lieutenant Harrison
as Ansel Boake
as Lt. George Miller
as Barry Mills (uncredited)
as The Dentist (uncredited)
as Steve Morgan #22
as Ernie Walters
as Locky McCormick
as Solomon Chandler
Producer
as Executive Producer
Director
as Director
Crew
as Thanks