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 184
Columbo
1971
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
Tony Awards
1956
Bonanza
1959
Chicago Hope
1994
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
30 Rock
2006
Omnibus
1952
Will & Grace
1998
American Playhouse
1982
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Larry Sanders Show
1992
Mannix
1967
Dr. Kildare
1961
The Untouchables
1959
Rawhide
1959
Combat!
1962
North and South
1985
Naked City
1958
Route 66
1960
The John Larroquette Show
1993
Men in Black
1997
Men in Black II
2002
Thriller
1960
Bee Movie
2007
Hercules
1997
12 O'Clock High
1964
Ben Casey
1961
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Kraft Television Theatre
1947
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
Men in Black 3
2012
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
2004
The Restless Gun
1957
The Insider
1999
Ghost Story
1972
RoboCop 3
1993
Down Periscope
1996
The Dick Powell Show
1961
Breaking Point
1963
The Great Adventure
1963
Soul Food
2000
The Lieutenant
1963
Airplane II: The Sequel
1982
Marie Antoinette
2006
King of Kings
1961
The Beastmaster
1982
The Lyon's Den
2003
Zoom
2006
Wonder Boys
2000
Channing
1963
Coma
1978
Extreme Dodgeball
2004
Yours, Mine & Ours
2005
Defending Your Life
1991
Ghost Stories
1997
The Man Who Fell to Earth
1976
Freddy Got Fingered
2001
Senseless
1998
City Heat
1984
Summer Rental
1985
The Blue and the Gray
1982
How to Make an American Quilt
1995
Extreme Prejudice
1987
Canadian Bacon
1995
The Cincinnati Kid
1965
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
1978
Dolly Dearest
1991
Welcome to Mooseport
2004
Beyond the Law
1993
Pork Chop Hill
1959
Baby Doll
1956
Eulogy
2004
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Time Limit
1957
Happy Tears
2009
Lions Love
1969
The Atlanta Child Murders
1985
Sweet Bird of Youth
1962
Betrayal
1978
Flashpoint
1984
First Family
1980
Trial and Error
1997
Silence Like Glass
1989
Cross Creek
1983
Blind Ambition
1979
National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus
2011
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975
Crazy Joe
1974
A Face in the Crowd
1957
Cotter
1973
Songwriter
1984
By Dawn's Early Light
1990
Where the Rivers Flow North
1993
The Mouse
1997
Turn the River
2008
Nadine
1987
April Morning
1988
Sol Madrid
1968
August
2008
Love Object
2004
You're a Big Boy Now
1966
Seasons of Love
1999
One Trick Pony
1980
A Stranger Is Watching
1982
Kojak: None So Blind
1990
Steel Cowboy
1978
Nasty Habits
1977
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
1979
Jinxed!
1982
Letter to My Killer
1995
Critic's Choice
1963
Laguna Heat
1987
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1984
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000
Pair of Aces
1990
Lionpower from MGM
1967
Death Falls
1991
The Sisters
2005
Three Days to Vegas
2007
Scarab
1984
Slaughter
1972
T Bone N Weasel
1992
The Hindenburg
1996
Hit List
1989
The President's Plane Is Missing
1973
Beach Red
1967
The Execution
1985
A Shining Season
1979
Balloon Farm
1999
For Better or Worse
1995
Beautiful Dreamers
1990
One Spy Too Many
1966
Misunderstood
1983
The Making of Marie Antoinette
2007
Tropic of Cancer
1970
Montserrat
1971
The King of Love
1987
The Golden Boys
2008
Sweet Bird of Youth
1989
The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery
1999
Bomber's Moon
1958
Manhunt for Claude Dallas
1986
J. Edgar Hoover
1987
Beyond the Law
1968
Johnny Belinda
1958
Heartland
1981
American Cowslip
2009
Heart of a Child
1994
Cold Feet
1989
Lucky Days
2008
Maidstone
1971
Passing Glory
1999
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
1977
She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal
1995
Rolling Kansas
2003
Beer
1985
When She Says No
1984
Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind
1991
24 Hours in a Woman's Life
1961
Maniac Magee
2003
Hero's Island
1962
Bridge of Names
2012
A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story
1992
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
1980
Coming Apart
1969
Destination: America
1987
A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle
2000
Payday
1973
Forty Shades of Blue
2005
3 Weeks to Daytona
2011
Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
1992
James Dean: A Portrait
1995
Birch Interval
1976
The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show'
2007
Norman Mailer: The American
2012
1 P.M.
1971
The Afterlight
2009
Fires of Kuwait
1992
My Son Johnny
1991
Heartland
Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time
2006
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
1980
