Rip Torn
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
Acting
Place of birth
Temple, Texas, USA
Birthday
2/6/1931
Men in Black
7.197
Men in Black II
6.368
The Cincinnati Kid
7
The Man Who Fell to Earth
6.436
Canadian Bacon
5.741
Marie Antoinette
6.694
Airplane II: The Sequel
6.085
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
5.5
Extreme Prejudice
6.152
Wonder Boys
6.815
By Dawn's Early Light
6.471
Forty Shades of Blue
4.1
Coma
6.7
A Stranger Is Watching
4.7
RoboCop 3
4.8
Bee Movie
6.028
How to Make an American Quilt
6.398
Hercules
7.505
Defending Your Life
7
The Insider
7.461
Down Periscope
6.323
Senseless
6.18
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
6.354
Sweet Bird of Youth
6.827
Rolling Kansas
5.8
Freddy Got Fingered
4.658
Balloon Farm
5.8
Dolly Dearest
5.3
Turn the River
5.4
Zoom
5.3
King of Kings
7.1
One Trick Pony
5.3
You're a Big Boy Now
6.2
Pork Chop Hill
6.447
Nadine
5.4
American Cowslip
5.4
Eulogy
6.497
The Beastmaster
6.298
Welcome to Mooseport
5.071
The Sisters
5.3
Happy Tears
5.1
Love Object
5.8
City Heat
5.5
Time Limit
7
Beach Red
6.3
Trial and Error
5.324
Flashpoint
6.2
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
5.9
Beyond the Law
6.2
Heartland
6.4
Where the Rivers Flow North
6.8
Summer Rental
6.062
Scarab
5.5
Songwriter
5.2
Payday
6.094
National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus
3.9
Coming Apart
6.3
Misunderstood
6.7
Slaughter
5.7
Beer
4.4
Critic's Choice
5.5
Jinxed!
4.6
One Spy Too Many
5.1
April Morning
5.7
Cold Feet
3.8
Hit List
6.1
Norman Mailer: The American
7
Tropic of Cancer
4.588
Crazy Joe
6
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
5
First Family
3
1 P.M. (One Parallel Movie)
5.9
Cross Creek
6.548
Nasty Habits
5.5
The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery
5.1
Beyond the Law
4.8
Maidstone
4.2
Sol Madrid
6.3
Three Days to Vegas
3.8
Silence Like Glass
7.5
Hero's Island
4.8
Passing Glory
5.8
Steel Cowboy
0
A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle
0
Yours, Mine & Ours
6.16
The Afterlight
0
The King of Love
0
The Execution
7.3
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
7.1
Heart of a Child
5.5
Death Falls
3
Montserrat
0
August
5.2
Birch Interval
5.5
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
6.8
Manhunt for Claude Dallas
5.5
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
5
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
5.7
The President's Plane Is Missing
6.2
A Shining Season
3
Sweet Bird of Youth
5.8
When She Says No
0
My Son Johnny
5.2
Beautiful Dreamers
5.2
Laguna Heat
4.5
Lions Love
6
Letter to My Killer
6
Kojak: None So Blind
6
Baby Doll
7.09
The Hindenburg
6
T Bone N Weasel
3
Lucky Days
0
Cotter
0
24 Hours in a Woman's Life
0
She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal
2
The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show'
0
Fires of Kuwait
7.538
Maniac Magee
0
A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story
4
Betrayal
0
The Golden Boys
5.6
Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind
2.5
Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
5.5
A Face in the Crowd
7.629
Johnny Belinda
0
The Making of Marie Antoinette
5
J. Edgar Hoover
0
Seasons of Love
0
Destination: America
0
Pair of Aces
5
Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time
0
Bomber's Moon
0
Men in Black 3
6.519