Rip Torn
ActingElmore 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
Hercules
Zeus (voice)
Men in Black
Zed
Bee Movie
Lou Lo Duca (voice)
Men in Black II
Zed
Men in Black 3
Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited)
RoboCop 3
The CEO
King of Kings
Judas
Marie Antoinette
Louis XV
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
Patches O'Houlihan
Airplane II: The Sequel
Bud Kruger / President Reagan
Filmography — Acting
Hercules
Zeus (voice)
Men in Black
Zed
Bee Movie
Lou Lo Duca (voice)
Men in Black II
Zed
Men in Black 3
Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited)
RoboCop 3
The CEO
King of Kings
Judas
Marie Antoinette
Louis XV
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
Patches O'Houlihan
Airplane II: The Sequel
Bud Kruger / President Reagan
Down Periscope
Admiral Winslow
Yours, Mine & Ours
Commandant Sherman
Zoom
Larraby
The Insider
John Scanlon
Senseless
Randall Tyson
The Beastmaster
Maax
Wonder Boys
Q
Coma
Dr. George
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Nathan Bryce
Defending Your Life
Bob Diamond
How to Make an American Quilt
Arthur
Freddy Got Fingered
Jim Brody
Flashpoint
Sheriff Wells
Canadian Bacon
General Dick Panzer
American Cowslip
Trevor O'Hart
A Face in the Crowd
Barry Mills (uncredited)
You're a Big Boy Now
I.H. Chanticleer
Summer Rental
Scully
Extreme Prejudice
Sheriff Hank Pearson
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Glen Tuttle
Dolly Dearest
Karl Resnick
Beyond the Law
Deputy Prescott
Eulogy
Edmund Collins
Baby Doll
The Dentist (uncredited)
Beach Red
Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell
Pork Chop Hill
Lt. Walter Russell
Nadine
Buford Pope
Welcome to Mooseport
Bert Langdon
City Heat
Primo Pitt
The Cincinnati Kid
William Jefferson Slade
Sweet Bird of Youth
Tom Finley Jr.
By Dawn's Early Light
Colonel Fargo
Lions Love
The Beard Director (uncredited)
Love Object
Novak
Trial and Error
Benny Gibbs
Cross Creek
Marsh Turner
Jinxed!
Harold Benson
Happy Tears
Joe
August
David Sterling
Time Limit
Lt. George Miller
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
Senator Kittner
Heartland
Clyde Stewart
National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus
King Looney
Sweet Bird of Youth
Boss Finley
The Sisters
Dr. Chebrin
One Trick Pony
Walter Fox
One Spy Too Many
Alexander
Kojak: None So Blind
Gideon Hogarth
Laguna Heat
Joe Datilla
Slaughter
Dominic Hoffo
Crazy Joe
Richie
Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
Admiral Paul Yost
My Son Johnny
Brian Stansbury
The President's Plane Is Missing
George Oldenburg
The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery
Royce
Lionpower from MGM
Self - Dano Villanova (archive footage) (uncredited)
Cold Feet
Sheriff
Pair of Aces
Capt. Jack Parsons
Forty Shades of Blue
Alan James
Sol Madrid
Dano Villanova
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
Carlo Ponti
Critic's Choice
Dion Kapakos
Maidstone
Raoul Rey O'Houlihan
Where the Rivers Flow North
Noel Lord
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Self
Balloon Farm
Harvey Potter
Beer
Buzz Beckerman
The Golden Boys
Capt. Jeremiah Burgess
Heart of a Child
Dr. Leonard Bailey
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
Dwight Webb
Rolling Kansas
Oldman
The Execution
Wilheim Gehbert
Hit List
Vic Luca
Silence Like Glass
Dr. Markowitz
J. Edgar Hoover
Lyndon Baines Johnson
First Family
General G. E. Dumpston
Beautiful Dreamers
Walt Whitman
Songwriter
Dino McLeish
Destination: America
Corbet St. James IV
When She Says No
Stuart Blankfort
Nasty Habits
Father Maximilian
Steel Cowboy
K.W. Hicks
1 P.M.
Self
Three Days to Vegas
Joe Wallace
Turn the River
Quinette
Misunderstood
Will
Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
Montserrat
Izquierdo
April Morning
Solomon Chandler
Hero's Island
Nicholas Gates
A Stranger Is Watching
Artie Taggart
Payday
Maury Dann
T Bone N Weasel
Happy Sam
A Shining Season
Jack Baker
The Making of Marie Antoinette
Self
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Big Daddy
Lucky Days
Bobo
Bomber's Moon
Lieutenant Harrison
Letter to My Killer
The King of Love
Jack Kraft
24 Hours in a Woman's Life
Paul
For Better or Worse
Capt. Cole
Maniac Magee
George McNab
The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show'
Arthur
Manhunt for Claude Dallas
Tim Nettleton
Scarab
Khepera
Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind
Captain Jack Parsons
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
Charles Burt
Cotter
Roy
James Dean: A Portrait
Self (Narrator)
Johnny Belinda
Locky McCormick
Birch Interval
Thomas
Beyond the Law
Popcorn
Death Falls
Dub Farley
Coming Apart
Joe
Betrayal
Dr. Hartogs
Passing Glory
Father Robert Grant
She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal
Adm. Snyder
A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story
Bill Morgan
A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle
Detective Manny Garett
Fires of Kuwait
Narrator (voice)
3 Weeks to Daytona
Sal
The Afterlight
Carl
Norman Mailer: The American
Self
Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time
Self
Heartland
The Mouse
Trucker 'God'
The Hindenburg
Narrator
Bridge of Names
Tom
