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
February 1931
Men in Black
7.192
Men in Black II
6.364
The Cincinnati Kid
6.994
The Man Who Fell to Earth
6.412
Canadian Bacon
5.743
Marie Antoinette
6.692
Airplane II: The Sequel
6.085
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
5.5
Extreme Prejudice
6.157
Wonder Boys
6.82
By Dawn's Early Light
6.471
Forty Shades of Blue
4.1
A Stranger Is Watching
4.7
RoboCop 3
4.806
Bee Movie
6.024
Coma
6.718
How to Make an American Quilt
6.41
Hercules
7.504
Defending Your Life
7
The Insider
7.459
Down Periscope
6.296
Senseless
6.17
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
6.356
Sweet Bird of Youth
6.8
Rolling Kansas
5.8
Freddy Got Fingered
4.646
Balloon Farm
5.8
Dolly Dearest
5.3
Turn the River
5.4
Zoom
5.3
King of Kings
7.132
One Trick Pony
5.4
You're a Big Boy Now
6.3
Pork Chop Hill
6.4
Nadine
5.4
American Cowslip
5.4
Eulogy
6.5
The Beastmaster
6.311
Welcome to Mooseport
5.1
The Sisters
5.3
City Heat
5.5
Love Object
5.8
Happy Tears
5.1
Time Limit
7
Beach Red
6.3
Trial and Error
5.333
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
6.095
Scarab
5.5
Songwriter
5.2
National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus
3.852
Payday
6
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
Cold Feet
3.8
April Morning
5.7
Hit List
6.1
Norman Mailer: The American
7
Tropic of Cancer
4.4
Crazy Joe
6
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
5
First Family
3
1 P.M. (One Parallel Movie)
5.9
Cross Creek
6.6
Nasty Habits
5.5
The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery
5.1
Maidstone
4.2
Beyond the Law
4.8
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
6.154
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
6.833
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
4
Sweet Bird of Youth
5.8
When She Says No
0
My Son Johnny
5.2
Beautiful Dreamers
5.2
Laguna Heat
4
Lions Love
6
Letter to My Killer
6
Kojak: None So Blind
6
Baby Doll
7.1
The Hindenburg
6
T Bone N Weasel
3
Lucky Days
0
Cotter
0
Twenty-Four 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
7.6
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
7.612
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
6.517