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
The Cincinnati Kid
6.984
The Man Who Fell to Earth
6.5
Men in Black
7.231
Men in Black II
6.393
Canadian Bacon
5.7
Marie Antoinette
6.69
Airplane II: The Sequel
6.1
Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time
0
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
5.7
Wonder Boys
6.829
Extreme Prejudice
6.3
A Stranger Is Watching
4.6
RoboCop 3
4.906
Bee Movie
6.053
By Dawn's Early Light
6.5
Coma
6.749
Forty Shades of Blue
4.5
How to Make an American Quilt
6.4
Hercules
7.499
Defending Your Life
6.9
The Insider
7.47
Senseless
6.222
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
6.367
Down Periscope
6.4
Sweet Bird of Youth
6.727
Rolling Kansas
5.6
Freddy Got Fingered
4.778
Balloon Farm
5.9
Dolly Dearest
5.7
Zoom
5.267
Turn the River
5.269
One Trick Pony
5.5
King of Kings
7.152
You're a Big Boy Now
6.1
Pork Chop Hill
6.7
Nadine
5.418
American Cowslip
5.1
Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind
3.7
Eulogy
6.4
The Beastmaster
6.3
Welcome to Mooseport
5.1
The Sisters
5.1
Happy Tears
5
Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
5.2
Beach Red
6.5
City Heat
5.5
Love Object
5.943
Time Limit
7.2
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
5.9
Trial and Error
5.4
Flashpoint
6.197
Beyond the Law
6.277
Heartland
6.4
Where the Rivers Flow North
6.4
Summer Rental
6.1
Scarab
7
Songwriter
5.5
Coming Apart
6.2
Payday
6.159
National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus
3.9
Misunderstood
6.5
Slaughter
5.6
Beer
4.273
Critic's Choice
5.6
Jinxed!
4.5
One Spy Too Many
5.1
Cold Feet
4.1
April Morning
5.7
Tropic of Cancer
5
Hit List
6.2
Norman Mailer: The American
7
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
5.1
Crazy Joe
6.7
First Family
3.4
1 P.M.
6.2
Nasty Habits
5
A Face in the Crowd
7.628
Johnny Belinda
0
Cross Creek
6.6
The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery
5.6
Maidstone
4.2
Beyond the Law
5.6
Sol Madrid
6.9
Hero's Island
5.6
The Making of Marie Antoinette
5
Bomber's Moon
0
Three Days to Vegas
3.9
Silence Like Glass
7
J. Edgar Hoover
0
Men in Black 3
6.55
Destination: America
0
Passing Glory
6
Steel Cowboy
9
A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle
10
Yours, Mine & Ours
6.2
The Afterlight
0
Pair of Aces
6.7
The King of Love
0
The Execution
7.3
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
7.2
Heart of a Child
5.2
Death Falls
5
Montserrat
10
August
5.2
Birch Interval
5
Manhunt for Claude Dallas
5.5
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
5.9
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
5.5
The President's Plane Is Missing
6.3
A Shining Season
4.7
Sweet Bird of Youth
5.5
When She Says No
8
My Son Johnny
6.1
Beautiful Dreamers
5
Laguna Heat
4.3
Letter to My Killer
6.5
Lions Love
5.9
Kojak: None So Blind
6.3
Baby Doll
7.033
The Hindenburg
7.5
T Bone N Weasel
3.8
Lucky Days
0
Cotter
4.5
24 Hours in a Woman's Life
5
She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal
4.2
The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show'
0
Fires of Kuwait
7.9
Maniac Magee
8
A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story
7.7
Betrayal
7
The Golden Boys
5.7
For Better or Worse
4.7
James Dean: A Portrait
7
Lionpower from MGM
6.3
3 Weeks to Daytona
5.3
Bridge of Names
0
The Mouse
9
Making Marie Antoinette
0