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