Rip Torn
Acting
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.
As actor 185
Columbo
1971
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Bonanza
1959
30 Rock
2006
Will & Grace
1998
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Mannix
1967
Chicago Hope
1994
Tony Awards
1956
American Playhouse
1982
Naked City
1958
Dr. Kildare
1961
The Untouchables
1959
Combat!
1962
Rawhide
1959
Route 66
1960
Ben Casey
1961
The Larry Sanders Show
1992
Kraft Television Theatre
1947
Thriller
1960
Omnibus
1952
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
12 O'Clock High
1964
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
The John Larroquette Show
1993
North and South
1985
Men in Black
1997
Hercules
1997
Men in Black II
2002
Men in Black 3
2012
The Great Adventure
1963
The Restless Gun
1957
Bee Movie
2007
Ghost Story
1972
Marie Antoinette
2006
The Dick Powell Show
1961
The Lieutenant
1963
Channing
1963
Soul Food
2000
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
2004
The Lyon's Den
2003
Airplane II: The Sequel
1982
The Insider
1999
Breaking Point
1963
RoboCop 3
1993
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Down Periscope
1996
The Man Who Fell to Earth
1976
Making Marie Antoinette
2026
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
1978
Extreme Dodgeball
2004
The Blue and the Gray
1982
Zoom
2006
How to Make an American Quilt
1995
Yours, Mine & Ours
2005
Wonder Boys
2000
The Atlanta Child Murders
1985
Ghost Stories
1997
King of Kings
1961
The Beastmaster
1982
Coma
1978
Blind Ambition
1979
Senseless
1998
Beyond the Law
1993
The Cincinnati Kid
1965
Freddy Got Fingered
2001
Extreme Prejudice
1987
National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus
2011
A Face in the Crowd
1957
Summer Rental
1985
Defending Your Life
1991
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975
Seasons of Love
1999
Time Limit
1957
City Heat
1984
Baby Doll
1956
Welcome to Mooseport
2004
Tropic of Cancer
1970
Canadian Bacon
1995
Pork Chop Hill
1959
Sweet Bird of Youth
1962
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
1979
By Dawn's Early Light
1990
Dolly Dearest
1991
Nadine
1987
Lions Love
1969
Flashpoint
1984
Happy Tears
2009
August
2008
Sweet Bird of Youth
1989
Eulogy
2004
You're a Big Boy Now
1966
Heart of a Child
1994
One Trick Pony
1980
Love Object
2004
Slaughter
1972
Jinxed!
1982
The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery
1999
Beach Red
1967
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
1977
Silence Like Glass
1989
Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind
1991
April Morning
1988
When She Says No
1984
A Stranger Is Watching
1982
American Cowslip
2009
Forty Shades of Blue
2005
Critic's Choice
1963
Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
1992
The President's Plane Is Missing
1973
One Spy Too Many
1966
A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle
2000
Hit List
1989
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
1980
The Making of Marie Antoinette
2007
Crazy Joe
1974
For Better or Worse
1995
Turn the River
2008
Balloon Farm
1999
Trial and Error
1997
The Mouse
1997
Three Days to Vegas
2007
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1984
Songwriter
1984
Norman Mailer: The American
2012
Cross Creek
1983
Nasty Habits
1977
Hero's Island
1962
A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story
1992
3 Weeks to Daytona
2011
The Execution
1985
Manhunt for Claude Dallas
1986
Where the Rivers Flow North
1993
Kojak: None So Blind
1990
Sol Madrid
1968
First Family
1980
Heartland
1981
Rolling Kansas
2003
Beer
1985
Beautiful Dreamers
1990
The Sisters
2005
Misunderstood
1983
Letter to My Killer
1995
T Bone N Weasel
1992
Cold Feet
1989
My Son Johnny
1991
A Shining Season
1979
1 P.M.
1971
Coming Apart
1969
Cotter
1973
James Dean: A Portrait
1995
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000
Payday
1973
Lucky Days
2008
Steel Cowboy
1978
Maidstone
1971
The Golden Boys
2008
The King of Love
1987
Fires of Kuwait
1992
Betrayal
1978
Bomber's Moon
1958
Passing Glory
1999
Pair of Aces
1990
Beyond the Law
1968
Death Falls
1991
Laguna Heat
1987
24 Hours in a Woman's Life
1961
Maniac Magee
2003
The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show'
2007
J. Edgar Hoover
1987
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
1980
Destination: America
1987
Montserrat
1971
Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time
2006
Scarab
1984
Bridge of Names
2012
Birch Interval
1976
Johnny Belinda
1958
She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal
1995
The Hindenburg
1996
Lionpower from MGM
1967
The Afterlight
2009
Heartland
