Rip Torn

Acting

February 6, 1931 – July 9, 2019 (died at 88)

Temple, Texas, USA

Male

142 Movies

49 TV Shows

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.

Men in Black II

2002 6.4

as Zed

Age 71 (now 88)

Men in Black

1997 7.2

as Zed

Age 66 (now 88)

DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story

2004 6.4

as Patches O'Houlihan

Age 73 (now 88)

The Man Who Fell to Earth

1976 6.5

as Nathan Bryce

Age 45 (now 88)

Marie Antoinette

2006 6.7

as Louis XV

Age 75 (now 88)

RoboCop 3

1993 4.9

as The CEO

Age 61 (now 88)

Airplane II: The Sequel

1982 6.1

as Bud Kruger / President Reagan

Age 51 (now 88)

Hercules

1997 7.5

as Zeus (voice)

Age 66 (now 88)

The Beastmaster

1982 6.3

as Maax

Age 51 (now 88)

Freddy Got Fingered

2001 4.7

as Jim Brody

Age 70 (now 88)

Defending Your Life

1991 6.9

as Bob Diamond

Age 60 (now 88)

The Larry Sanders Show

1992 7.7

as Arthur

Age 61 (now 88) 90 eps

90 eps

Coma

1978 6.8

as Dr. George

Age 46 (now 88)

Senseless

1998 6.2

as Randall Tyson

Age 67 (now 88)

Summer Rental

1985 6.1

as Scully

Age 54 (now 88)

Wonder Boys

2000 6.8

as Q

Age 69 (now 88)

Bridge of Names

2012

as Tom

Age 81 (now 88)

Men in Black 3

2012 6.5

as Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited)

Age 81 (now 88)

Norman Mailer: The American

2012 7.0

as Self

Age 81 (now 88)

3 Weeks to Daytona

2011 5.3

as Sal

Age 80 (now 88)

National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus

2011 3.9

as King Looney

Age 80 (now 88)

Happy Tears

2009 5.0

as Joe

Age 78 (now 88)

The Afterlight

2009

as Carl

Age 78 (now 88)

American Cowslip

2009 5.1

as Trevor O'Hart

Age 78 (now 88)

The Golden Boys

2008 5.5

as Capt. Jeremiah Burgess

Age 77 (now 88)

August

2008 5.2

as David Sterling

Age 77 (now 88)

Turn the River

2008 5.3

as Quinette

Age 77 (now 88)

Lucky Days

2008

as Bobo

Age 77 (now 88)

Lucky Days

2008

Executive Producer

Age 77 (now 88)

Bee Movie

2007 6.0

as Lou Lo Duca (voice)

Age 76 (now 88)

The Making of Marie Antoinette

2007 5.0

as Self

Age 76 (now 88)

The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show'

2007

as Arthur

Age 76 (now 88)

Three Days to Vegas

2007 3.9

as Joe Wallace

Age 75 (now 88)

Zoom

2006 5.3

as Larraby

Age 75 (now 88)

Marie Antoinette

2006 6.7

as Louis XV

Age 75 (now 88)

Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time

2006

as Self

Age 75 (now 88)

Forty Shades of Blue

2005 4.5

as Alan James

Age 74 (now 88)

Yours, Mine & Ours

2005 6.2

as Commandant Sherman

Age 74 (now 88)

The Sisters

2005 5.1

as Dr. Chebrin

Age 74 (now 88)

Eulogy

2004 6.4

as Edmund Collins

Age 73 (now 88)

DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story

2004 6.4

as Patches O'Houlihan

Age 73 (now 88)

Welcome to Mooseport

2004 5.1

as Bert Langdon

Age 73 (now 88)

Love Object

2004 5.9

as Novak

Age 73 (now 88)

Maniac Magee

2003 8.0

as George McNab

Age 72 (now 88)

Rolling Kansas

2003 5.6

as Oldman

Age 71 (now 88)

Men in Black II

2002 6.4

as Zed

Age 71 (now 88)

Freddy Got Fingered

2001 4.7

as Jim Brody

Age 70 (now 88)

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

2000 7.3

as Self

Age 69 (now 88)

Wonder Boys

2000 6.8

as Q

Age 69 (now 88)

A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle

2000 10.0

as Detective Manny Garett

Age 69 (now 88)

The Insider

1999 7.5

as John Scanlon

Age 68 (now 88)

The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery

1999 5.6

as Royce

Age 68 (now 88)

Balloon Farm

1999 5.9

as Harvey Potter

Age 68 (now 88)

Passing Glory

1999 6.0

as Father Robert Grant

Age 68 (now 88)

Senseless

1998 6.2

as Randall Tyson

Age 67 (now 88)

The Mouse

1997 9.0

as Trucker 'God'

Age 66 (now 88)

Men in Black

1997 7.2

as Zed

Age 66 (now 88)

Hercules

1997 7.5

as Zeus (voice)

Age 66 (now 88)

Trial and Error

1997 5.5

as Benny Gibbs

Age 66 (now 88)

The Hindenburg

1996 7.5

as Narrator

Age 65 (now 88)

Down Periscope

1996 6.4

as Admiral Winslow

Age 65 (now 88)

How to Make an American Quilt

1995 6.4

as Arthur

Age 64 (now 88)

James Dean: A Portrait

1995 7.0

as Self (Narrator)

Age 64 (now 88)

Letter to My Killer

1995 6.5

Age 64 (now 88)

Canadian Bacon

1995 5.8

as General Dick Panzer

Age 64 (now 88)

She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal

1995 5.0

as Adm. Snyder

Age 64 (now 88)

For Better or Worse

1995 4.7

as Capt. Cole

Age 64 (now 88)

Heart of a Child

1994 5.2

as Dr. Leonard Bailey

Age 63 (now 88)

Where the Rivers Flow North

1993 6.4

as Noel Lord

Age 62 (now 88)

Beyond the Law

1993 6.3

as Deputy Prescott

Age 62 (now 88)

RoboCop 3

1993 4.9

as The CEO

Age 61 (now 88)

A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story

1992 7.7

as Bill Morgan

Age 61 (now 88)

T Bone N Weasel

1992 4.3

as Happy Sam

Age 61 (now 88)

Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster

1992 5.8

as Admiral Paul Yost

Age 61 (now 88)

Fires of Kuwait

1992 7.9

as Narrator (voice)

Age 61 (now 88)

My Son Johnny

1991 6.1

as Brian Stansbury

Age 60 (now 88)

Dolly Dearest

1991 5.5

as Karl Resnick

Age 60 (now 88)

Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind

1991 4.0

as Captain Jack Parsons

Age 60 (now 88)

Defending Your Life

1991 6.9

as Bob Diamond

Age 60 (now 88)

Death Falls

1991 5.0

as Dub Farley

Age 59 (now 88)

Beautiful Dreamers

1990 5.0

as Walt Whitman

Age 59 (now 88)

By Dawn's Early Light

1990 6.5

as Colonel Fargo

Age 59 (now 88)

Kojak: None So Blind

1990 6.3

as Gideon Hogarth

Age 59 (now 88)

Pair of Aces

1990 6.7

as Capt. Jack Parsons

Age 58 (now 88)

Sweet Bird of Youth

1989 5.5

as Boss Finley

Age 58 (now 88)

Silence Like Glass

1989 7.0

as Dr. Markowitz

Age 58 (now 88)

Cold Feet

1989 4.1

as Sheriff

Age 58 (now 88)

Hit List

1989 6.2

as Vic Luca

Age 58 (now 88)

April Morning

1988 5.7

as Solomon Chandler

Age 57 (now 88)

The Telephone

1988 4.4

Director

Age 56 (now 88)

The King of Love

1987

as Jack Kraft

Age 56 (now 88)

Laguna Heat

1987 4.3

as Joe Datilla

Age 56 (now 88)

Nadine

1987 5.5

as Buford Pope

Age 56 (now 88)

Extreme Prejudice

1987 6.2

as Sheriff Hank Pearson

Age 56 (now 88)

Destination: America

1987

as Corbet St. James IV

Age 56 (now 88)

J. Edgar Hoover

1987

as Lyndon Baines Johnson

Age 55 (now 88)

Manhunt for Claude Dallas

1986 5.5

as Tim Nettleton

Age 55 (now 88)

Beer

1985 4.4

as Buzz Beckerman

Age 54 (now 88)

Summer Rental

1985 6.1

as Scully

Age 54 (now 88)

The Execution

1985 7.3

as Wilheim Gehbert

Age 53 (now 88)

City Heat

1984 5.5

as Primo Pitt

Age 53 (now 88)

Songwriter

1984 5.4

as Dino McLeish

Age 53 (now 88)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

1984 5.7

as Big Daddy

Age 53 (now 88)

Scarab

1984 7.0

as Khepera

Age 53 (now 88)

Flashpoint

1984 6.2

as Sheriff Wells

Age 53 (now 88)

When She Says No

1984 8.0

as Stuart Blankfort

Age 52 (now 88)

Misunderstood

1983 6.5

as Will

Age 52 (now 88)

Cross Creek

1983 6.6

as Marsh Turner

Age 52 (now 88)

Airplane II: The Sequel

1982 6.1

as Bud Kruger / President Reagan

Age 51 (now 88)

Jinxed!

1982 4.6

as Harold Benson

Age 51 (now 88)

The Beastmaster

1982 6.3

as Maax

Age 51 (now 88)

A Stranger Is Watching

1982 4.6

as Artie Taggart

Age 50 (now 88)

Heartland

1981 6.5

as Clyde Stewart

Age 50 (now 88)

First Family

1980 3.7

as General G. E. Dumpston

Age 49 (now 88)

Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case

1980 5.9

as Charles Burt

Age 49 (now 88)

Sophia Loren: Her Own Story

1980 5.5

as Carlo Ponti

Age 49 (now 88)

One Trick Pony

1980 5.5

as Walter Fox

Age 49 (now 88)

A Shining Season

1979 4.7

as Jack Baker

Age 48 (now 88)

The Seduction of Joe Tynan

1979 5.9

as Senator Kittner

Age 48 (now 88)

Steel Cowboy

1978 9.0

as K.W. Hicks

Age 47 (now 88)

Betrayal

1978 7.0

as Dr. Hartogs

Age 47 (now 88)

Coma

1978 6.8

as Dr. George

Age 46 (now 88)

The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

1977 5.1

as Dwight Webb

Age 46 (now 88)

Nasty Habits

1977 5.0

as Father Maximilian

Age 45 (now 88)

Harlan County U.S.A.

1977 7.5

Thanks

Age 45 (now 88)

Birch Interval

1976 5.0

as Thomas

Age 45 (now 88)

The Man Who Fell to Earth

1976 6.5

as Nathan Bryce

Age 45 (now 88)

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

1975 7.5

as Glen Tuttle

Age 44 (now 88)

Crazy Joe

1974 6.6

as Richie

Age 43 (now 88)

The President's Plane Is Missing

1973 6.3

as George Oldenburg

Age 42 (now 88)

Payday

1973 6.1

as Maury Dann

Age 42 (now 88)

Cotter

1973 4.5

as Roy

Age 41 (now 88)

Slaughter

1972 5.6

as Dominic Hoffo

Age 41 (now 88)

1 P.M.

1971 6.2

as Self

Age 40 (now 88)

Maidstone

1971 4.2

as Raoul Rey O'Houlihan

Age 40 (now 88)

Montserrat

1971 10.0

as Izquierdo

Age 40 (now 88)

Tropic of Cancer

1970 4.8

as Henry Miller

Age 39 (now 88)

Coming Apart

1969 6.2

as Joe

Age 38 (now 88)

Lions Love

1969 5.8

as The Beard Director (uncredited)

Age 38 (now 88)

Beyond the Law

1968 5.6

as Popcorn

Age 37 (now 88)

Sol Madrid

1968 6.9

as Dano Villanova

Age 37 (now 88)

Beach Red

1967 6.5

as Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell

Age 36 (now 88)

Lionpower from MGM

1967 6.3

as Self - Dano Villanova (archive footage) (uncredited)

Age 35 (now 88)

You're a Big Boy Now

1966 6.1

as I.H. Chanticleer

Age 35 (now 88)

One Spy Too Many

1966 5.1

as Alexander

Age 35 (now 88)

The Cincinnati Kid

1965 7.0

as William Jefferson Slade

Age 34 (now 88)

Critic's Choice

1963 5.7

as Dion Kapakos

Age 32 (now 88)

Hero's Island

1962 5.6

as Nicholas Gates

Age 31 (now 88)

Sweet Bird of Youth

1962 6.8

as Tom Finley Jr.

Age 31 (now 88)

King of Kings

1961 7.1

as Judas

Age 30 (now 88)

24 Hours in a Woman's Life

1961 5.0

as Paul

Age 30 (now 88)

Pork Chop Hill

1959 6.7

as Lt. Walter Russell

Age 28 (now 88)

Johnny Belinda

1958

as Locky McCormick

Age 27 (now 88)

Bomber's Moon

1958

as Lieutenant Harrison

Age 27 (now 88)

Time Limit

1957 7.2

as Lt. George Miller

Age 26 (now 88)

A Face in the Crowd

1957 7.6

as Barry Mills (uncredited)

Age 26 (now 88)

Baby Doll

1956 7.0

as The Dentist (uncredited)

Age 25 (now 88)