Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

181

Gender

Male

Birthday

1931-02-06

Deathday

2019-07-09 (88 years old)

Place of Birth

Temple, Texas, USA

Also Known As

Elmore Rual Torn Jr.
Elmore Rual "Rip" Torn Jr.
Elmor Torn
ریپ تورن

Rip Torn

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.

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Acting

2012		Men in Black 3 as Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited)
2012		Norman Mailer: The American as Self

2011

National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus as King Looney

2009		Happy Tears as Joe
2009		The Afterlight as Carl
2009		American Cowslip as Trevor O'Hart

2008		The Golden Boys as Capt. Jeremiah Burgess
2008		August as David Sterling
2008		Turn the River as Quinette
2008		Lucky Days as Bobo

2007		Bee Movie as Lou Lo Duca (voice)
2007		The Making of Marie Antoinette as Self
2007		The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show' as Arthur
2007		Three Days to Vegas as Joe Wallace

2006		30 Rock as Don Geiss
2006		Zoom as Larraby
2006		Marie Antoinette as Louis XV
2006		Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time as Self

2005		Forty Shades of Blue as Alan James
2005		Yours, Mine & Ours as Commandant Sherman
2005		The Sisters as Dr. Chebrin

2004		Eulogy as Edmund Collins
2004		DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story as Patches O'Houlihan
2004		Extreme Dodgeball
2004		Welcome to Mooseport as Bert Langdon
2004		Love Object as Novak

2003		The Lyon's Den
2003		Maniac Magee as George McNab
2003		Rolling Kansas as Oldman

2002

Men in Black II as Zed

2001		Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Jules Copeland
2001		Freddy Got Fingered as Jim Brody

2000		Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows as Self
2000		Soul Food as Peter Redmond
2000		Wonder Boys as Q
2000		A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle as Detective Manny Garett

1999		The Insider as John Scanlon
1999		The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery as Royce
1999		Seasons of Love as Spence
1999		Balloon Farm as Harvey Potter
1999		Passing Glory as Father Robert Grant

1998		Will & Grace as Lionel Banks
1998		Senseless as Randall Tyson

1997		Ghost Stories as The Narrator
1997		Men in Black as Zed
1997		Hercules as Zeus (voice)
1997		Trial and Error as Benny Gibbs

1996		The Hindenburg as Narrator
1996		Down Periscope as Admiral Winslow

1995		How to Make an American Quilt as Arthur
1995		Letter to My Killer
1995		Canadian Bacon as General Dick Panzer
1995		She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal as Adm. Snyder
1995		For Better or Worse as Capt. Cole

1994		Chicago Hope
1994		Heart of a Child as Dr. Leonard Bailey

1993		Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
1993		The John Larroquette Show as Bernard Galvin
1993		Where the Rivers Flow North as Noel Lord
1993		Beyond the Law as Deputy Prescott
1993		RoboCop 3 as The CEO

1992		A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story as Bill Morgan
1992		T Bone N Weasel as Happy Sam
1992		Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster as Admiral Paul Yost - Presidential Delegation
1992		The Larry Sanders Show as Arthur
1992		Fires of Kuwait as Narrator (voice)

1991		My Son Johnny as Brian Stansbury
1991		Dolly Dearest as Karl Resnick
1991		Defending Your Life as Bob Diamond
1991		Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind as Captain Jack Parsons
1991		Death Falls as Dub Farley

1990		Beautiful Dreamers as Walt Whitman
1990		By Dawn's Early Light as Colonel Fargo
1990		Kojak: None So Blind as Gideon Hogarth
1990		Pair of Aces as Capt. Jack Parsons

1989		Sweet Bird of Youth as Boss Finley
1989		Silence Like Glass as Dr. Markowitz
1989		Cold Feet as Sheriff
1989		Hit List as Vic Luca

1988

April Morning as Solomon Chandler

1987		The King of Love as Jack Kraft
1987		Laguna Heat as Joe Datilla
1987		Nadine as Buford Pope
1987		Extreme Prejudice as Sheriff Hank Pearson
1987		Destination: America as Corbet St. James IV
1987		J. Edgar Hoover as Lyndon Baines Johnson

1986

Manhunt for Claude Dallas as Tim Nettleton

1985		North and South as Adolphus
1985		Beer as Buzz Beckerman
1985		Summer Rental as Scully
1985		The Atlanta Child Murders as Lewis Slaton
1985		The Execution as Wilheim Gehbert

1984		City Heat as Primo Pitt
1984		Songwriter as Dino McLeish
1984		Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Big Daddy
1984		Scarab as Khepera
1984		Flashpoint as Sheriff Wells
1984		When She Says No as Stuart Blankfort

1983		Misunderstood as Will
1983		Cross Creek as Marsh Turner

1982		Airplane II: The Sequel as Bud Kruger / President Reagan
1982		The Blue and the Gray as Ulysses S. Grant
1982		A Stranger Is Watching as Artie Taggart
1982		Jinxed! as Harold Benson
1982		The Beastmaster as Maax

1980		First Family as General G. E. Dumpston
1980		Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case as Charles Burt
1980		Sophia Loren: Her Own Story as Carlo Ponti
1980		One Trick Pony as Walter Fox

1979		A Shining Season as Jack Baker
1979		Heartland as Clyde Stewart
1979		The Seduction of Joe Tynan as Senator Kittner
1979		Blind Ambition as Richard M. Nixon

1978		Steel Cowboy as K.W. Hicks
1978		Betrayal as Dr. Hartogs
1978		The Eddie Capra Mysteries
1978		Coma as Dr. George

1977		The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover as Dwight Webb
1977		Nasty Habits as Father Maximilian

1976		Birch Interval as Thomas
1976		The Man Who Fell to Earth as Nathan Bryce

1975

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan as Glen Tuttle

1974

Crazy Joe as Richie

1973		The President's Plane Is Missing as George Oldenburg
1973		Payday as Maury Dann
1973		Cotter as Roy

1972		Ghost Story as Jonathon
1972		Slaughter as Dominic Hoffo

1971		Columbo as Leon Lamarr
1971		1 P.M. as Self
1971		Maidstone as Raoul Rey O'Houlihan
1971		Montserrat as Izquierdo

1970

Tropic of Cancer as Henry Miller

1969		Coming Apart as Joe
1969		Lions Love as The Beard Director (uncredited)

1968		Beyond the Law as Popcorn
1968		Sol Madrid as Dano Villanova

1967		Mannix as Victor Roarke
1967		Beach Red as Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell

1966		You're a Big Boy Now as I.H. Chanticleer
1966		One Spy Too Many as Alexander

1965

The Cincinnati Kid as William Jefferson Slade

1964		The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Alexander
1964		12 O'Clock High as Col. Mark Royce

1963		The Great Adventure as Lieutenant John C. Freemont
1963		Channing as Donald Burrows
1963		Breaking Point
1963		The Lieutenant as Sgt. Karl Kasten
1963		Critic's Choice as Dion Kapakos

1962		Combat! as Avery
1962		Hero's Island as Nicholas Gates
1962		Sweet Bird of Youth as Thomas 'Tom' J. Finley, Jr.

1961		The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1961		King of Kings as Judas
1961		Ben Casey
1961		Dr. Kildare as Dr. Nicholas Keefe
1961		The Dick Powell Show as Joel Coles
1961		24 Hours in a Woman's Life as Paul

1960		Route 66 as Alvah Clayhorne
1960		Thriller as Duncan Corey

1959		The Untouchables as Harry Strauss
1959		The Untouchables as Johnny Mizo
1959		Bonanza as Will Hewitt
1959		Pork Chop Hill as Lt. Walter Russell
1959		Rawhide as Jacob Yellow-Sun

1958		Johnny Belinda as Locky McCormick
1958		Naked City as Ansel Boake
1958		Bomber's Moon as Lieutenant Harrison

1957		Time Limit as Lt. George Miller
1957		The Restless Gun as Jody Gilman
1957		A Face in the Crowd as Barry Mills (uncredited)

1956		Baby Doll as The Dentist (uncredited)
1956		Tony Awards as Self - Presenter

1955		Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Steve Morgan #22
1955		Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Ernie Walters

1952

Omnibus

1951		Hallmark Hall of Fame as Locky McCormick
1951		Hallmark Hall of Fame as Solomon Chandler

1947		Kraft Television Theatre as Somers
1947		Kraft Television Theatre

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter

Crew

1977

Harlan County U.S.A. as Thanks

Directing

1988

The Telephone as Director

Production

2008

Lucky Days as Executive Producer