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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

Born: Temple, Texas, USA, 1931-02-06

Died: 2019-07-09

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1956	Baby Doll	The Dentist (uncredited)	71
2	1957	A Face in the Crowd	Barry Mills (uncredited)	76
3	1957	Time Limit	Lt. George Miller	70
4	1958	Bomber's Moon	Lieutenant Harrison	0
5	1958	Johnny Belinda	Locky McCormick	0
6	1959	Pork Chop Hill	Lt. Walter Russell	65
7	1961	24 Hours in a Woman's Life	Paul	0
8	1961	King of Kings	Judas	71
9	1962	Sweet Bird of Youth	Thomas 'Tom' J. Finley, Jr.	68
10	1962	Hero's Island	Nicholas Gates	48
11	1963	Critic's Choice	Dion Kapakos	55
12	1965	The Cincinnati Kid	William Jefferson Slade	70
13	1966	One Spy Too Many	Alexander	51
14	1966	You're a Big Boy Now	I.H. Chanticleer	61
15	1967	Beach Red	Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell	63
16	1968	Sol Madrid	Dano Villanova	64
17	1968	Beyond the Law	Popcorn	48
18	1969	Lions Love	The Beard Director (uncredited)	59
19	1969	Coming Apart	Joe	63
20	1970	Tropic of Cancer	Henry Miller	47
21	1971	Montserrat	Izquierdo	0
22	1971	Maidstone	Raoul Rey O'Houlihan	41
23	1971	1 P.M.	Self	58
24	1972	Slaughter	Dominic Hoffo	56
25	1973	Cotter	Roy	10
26	1973	Payday	Maury Dann	61
27	1973	The President's Plane Is Missing	George Oldenburg	62
28	1974	Crazy Joe	Richie	60
29	1975	Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan	Glen Tuttle	50
30	1976	The Man Who Fell to Earth	Nathan Bryce	65
31	1976	Birch Interval	Thomas	55
32	1977	Nasty Habits	Father Maximilian	46
33	1977	The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover	Dwight Webb	50
34	1978	Coma	Dr. George	67
35	1978	Betrayal	Dr. Hartogs	0
36	1978	Steel Cowboy	K.W. Hicks	0
37	1979	The Seduction of Joe Tynan	Senator Kittner	59
38	1979	Heartland	Clyde Stewart	65
39	1979	A Shining Season	Jack Baker	30
40	1980	One Trick Pony	Walter Fox	54
41	1980	Sophia Loren: Her Own Story	Carlo Ponti	57
42	1980	Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case	Charles Burt	55
43	1980	First Family	General G. E. Dumpston	30
44	1982	The Beastmaster	Maax	63
45	1982	Jinxed!	Harold Benson	45
46	1982	A Stranger Is Watching	Artie Taggart	46
47	1982	Airplane II: The Sequel	Bud Kruger / President Reagan	61
48	1983	Cross Creek	Marsh Turner	66
49	1983	Misunderstood	Will	67
50	1984	When She Says No	Stuart Blankfort	0
51	1984	Flashpoint	Sheriff Wells	62
52	1984	Scarab	Khepera	55
53	1984	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Big Daddy	55
54	1984	Songwriter	Dino McLeish	53
55	1984	City Heat	Primo Pitt	55
56	1985	The Execution	Wilheim Gehbert	73
57	1985	Summer Rental	Scully	61
58	1985	Beer	Buzz Beckerman	40
59	1986	Manhunt for Claude Dallas	Tim Nettleton	40
60	1987	J. Edgar Hoover	Lyndon Baines Johnson	0
61	1987	Destination: America	Corbet St. James IV	0
62	1987	Extreme Prejudice	Sheriff Hank Pearson	62
63	1987	Nadine	Buford Pope	54
64	1987	Laguna Heat	Joe Datilla	44
65	1987	The King of Love	Jack Kraft	0
66	1988	April Morning	Solomon Chandler	57
67	1989	Hit List	Vic Luca	60
68	1989	Cold Feet	Sheriff	40
69	1989	Silence Like Glass	Dr. Markowitz	66
70	1989	Sweet Bird of Youth	Boss Finley	57
71	1990	Pair of Aces	Capt. Jack Parsons	50
72	1990	Kojak: None So Blind	Gideon Hogarth	60
73	1990	By Dawn's Early Light	Colonel Fargo	66
74	1990	Beautiful Dreamers	Walt Whitman	52
75	1991	Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind	Captain Jack Parsons	37
76	1991	Death Falls	Dub Farley	30
77	1991	Defending Your Life	Bob Diamond	69
78	1991	Dolly Dearest	Karl Resnick	55
79	1991	My Son Johnny	Brian Stansbury	60
80	1992	Fires of Kuwait	Narrator (voice)	75
81	1992	Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster	Admiral Paul Yost - Presidential Delegation	53
82	1992	T Bone N Weasel	Happy Sam	30
83	1992	A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story	Bill Morgan	70
84	1993	RoboCop 3	The CEO	49
85	1993	Beyond the Law	Deputy Prescott	62
86	1993	Where the Rivers Flow North	Noel Lord	64
87	1994	Heart of a Child	Dr. Leonard Bailey	46
88	1995	For Better or Worse	Capt. Cole	40
89	1995	She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal	Adm. Snyder	43
90	1995	Canadian Bacon	General Dick Panzer	58
91	1995	Letter to My Killer		60
92	1995	How to Make an American Quilt	Arthur	64
93	1996	Down Periscope	Admiral Winslow	63
94	1996	The Hindenburg	Narrator	60
95	1997	Trial and Error	Benny Gibbs	54
96	1997	Hercules	Zeus (voice)	75
97	1997	Men in Black	Zed	72
98	1998	Senseless	Randall Tyson	62
99	1999	Passing Glory	Father Robert Grant	58
100	1999	Balloon Farm	Harvey Potter	58
101	1999	The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery	Royce	51
102	1999	The Insider	John Scanlon	75
103	2000	A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle	Detective Manny Garett	0
104	2000	Wonder Boys	Q	68
105	2000	Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows	Self	71
106	2001	Freddy Got Fingered	Jim Brody	47
107	2002	Men in Black II	Zed	64
108	2003	Rolling Kansas	Oldman	56
109	2003	Maniac Magee	George McNab	0
110	2004	Love Object	Novak	58
111	2004	Welcome to Mooseport	Bert Langdon	51
112	2004	DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story	Patches O'Houlihan	64
113	2004	Eulogy	Edmund Collins	64
114	2005	The Sisters	Dr. Chebrin	50
115	2005	Yours, Mine & Ours	Commandant Sherman	62
116	2005	Forty Shades of Blue	Alan James	42
117	2006	Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time	Self	0
118	2006	Marie Antoinette	Louis XV	67
119	2006	Zoom	Larraby	53
120	2007	Three Days to Vegas	Joe Wallace	38
121	2007	The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show'	Arthur	0
122	2007	The Making of Marie Antoinette	Self	50
123	2007	Bee Movie	Lou Lo Duca (voice)	60
124	2008	Lucky Days	Bobo	0
125	2008	Turn the River	Quinette	53
126	2008	August	David Sterling	52
127	2008	The Golden Boys	Capt. Jeremiah Burgess	55
128	2009	American Cowslip	Trevor O'Hart	54
129	2009	The Afterlight	Carl	0
130	2009	Happy Tears	Joe	51
131	2011	National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus	King Looney	39
132	2012	Norman Mailer: The American	Self	70
133	2012	Men in Black 3	Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited)	65

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Presenter	72
2	1947	Kraft Television Theatre	Somers	75
3	1947	Kraft Television Theatre		75
4	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Locky McCormick	86
5	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Solomon Chandler	86
6	1952	Omnibus		60
7	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Steve Morgan #22	77
8	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Ernie Walters	77
9	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Presenter	51
10	1957	The Restless Gun	Jody Gilman	37
11	1958	Naked City	Ansel Boake	55
12	1959	Rawhide	Jacob Yellow-Sun	72
13	1959	Bonanza	Will Hewitt	75
14	1959	The Untouchables	Harry Strauss	79
15	1959	The Untouchables	Johnny Mizo	79
16	1960	Thriller	Duncan Corey	64
17	1960	Route 66	Alvah Clayhorne	63
18	1961	The Dick Powell Show	Joel Coles	55
19	1961	Dr. Kildare	Dr. Nicholas Keefe	55
20	1961	Ben Casey		56
21	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
22	1962	Combat!	Avery	77
23	1963	The Lieutenant	Sgt. Karl Kasten	60
24	1963	Breaking Point		73
25	1963	Channing	Donald Burrows	70
26	1963	The Great Adventure	Lieutenant John C. Freemont	0
27	1964	12 O'Clock High	Col. Mark Royce	73
28	1964	The Man from U.N.C.L.E.	Alexander	72
29	1967	Mannix	Victor Roarke	67
30	1971	Columbo	Leon Lamarr	81
31	1972	Ghost Story	Jonathon	71
32	1978	The Eddie Capra Mysteries		50
33	1979	Blind Ambition	Richard M. Nixon	50
34	1982	The Blue and the Gray	Ulysses S. Grant	69
35	1985	The Atlanta Child Murders	Lewis Slaton	60
36	1985	North and South	Adolphus	74
37	1992	The Larry Sanders Show	Arthur	77
38	1993	The John Larroquette Show	Bernard Galvin	67
39	1993	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Self - Guest	72
40	1994	Chicago Hope		72
41	1997	Ghost Stories	The Narrator	69
42	1998	Will & Grace	Lionel Banks	69
43	1999	Seasons of Love	Spence	0
44	2000	Soul Food	Peter Redmond	70
45	2001	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Jules Copeland	76
46	2003	The Lyon's Den		93
47	2004	Extreme Dodgeball		0
48	2006	30 Rock	Don Geiss	75