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
6.959
The Man Who Fell to Earth
6.44
Men in Black
7.216
Men in Black II
6.383
Canadian Bacon
5.74
Marie Antoinette
6.703
Airplane II: The Sequel
6.08
Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time
0
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
5.6
Wonder Boys
6.824
Extreme Prejudice
6.2
A Stranger Is Watching
4.5
RoboCop 3
4.898
Bee Movie
6.029
By Dawn's Early Light
6.5
Coma
6.768
Forty Shades of Blue
4.096
How to Make an American Quilt
6.39
Hercules
7.491
Defending Your Life
6.913
The Insider
7.5
Senseless
6.181
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
6.363
Down Periscope
6.386
Sweet Bird of Youth
6.8
Rolling Kansas
5.4
Freddy Got Fingered
4.711
Balloon Farm
5.8
Dolly Dearest
5.508
Zoom
5.315
Turn the River
5.303
One Trick Pony
5.091
King of Kings
7.144
You're a Big Boy Now
6.1
Pork Chop Hill
6.61
Nadine
5.4
American Cowslip
5.1
Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind
3.7
Eulogy
6.4
The Beastmaster
6.279
Welcome to Mooseport
5.082
The Sisters
4.763
Happy Tears
5
Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
5.2
Beach Red
6.5
City Heat
5.481
Love Object
5.877
Time Limit
7.1
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
5.7
Trial and Error
5.4
Flashpoint
6.2
Beyond the Law
6.2
Heartland
6.5
Where the Rivers Flow North
6.2
Summer Rental
6.133
Scarab
5.5
Songwriter
5.063
Coming Apart
6
Payday
5.9
National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus
3.9
Misunderstood
6.636
Slaughter
5.5
Beer
4
Critic's Choice
5.571
Jinxed!
4.5
One Spy Too Many
4.9
Cold Feet
3.8
April Morning
5.7
Tropic of Cancer
4.526
Hit List
6
Norman Mailer: The American
7
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
4.9
Crazy Joe
6.3
First Family
3
1 P.M.
5.8
Nasty Habits
4.667
A Face in the Crowd
7.606
Johnny Belinda
0
Cross Creek
6.6
The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery
5.1
Maidstone
3.9
Beyond the Law
4.8
Sol Madrid
6.4
Hero's Island
4.8
The Making of Marie Antoinette
5
Bomber's Moon
0
Three Days to Vegas
3.429
Silence Like Glass
6.6
J. Edgar Hoover
0
Men in Black 3
6.539
Destination: America
0
Passing Glory
5.8
Steel Cowboy
0
A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle
0
Yours, Mine & Ours
6.181
The Afterlight
0
Pair of Aces
5
The King of Love
0
The Execution
7.3
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
7.1
Heart of a Child
4.6
Death Falls
3
Montserrat
0
August
5.2
Birch Interval
4
Manhunt for Claude Dallas
4
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
5.5
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
5
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
5.2
The President's Plane Is Missing
6.2
A Shining Season
3
Sweet Bird of Youth
5.375
When She Says No
6
My Son Johnny
6
Beautiful Dreamers
5.2
Laguna Heat
3.8
Letter to My Killer
6
Lions Love
5.8
Kojak: None So Blind
6
Baby Doll
7.022
The Hindenburg
6
T Bone N Weasel
3
Lucky Days
0
Cotter
1
24 Hours in a Woman's Life
5
She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal
4.3
The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show'
0
Fires of Kuwait
7.7
Maniac Magee
0
A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story
7
Betrayal
0
The Golden Boys
5.536
For Better or Worse
4
James Dean: A Portrait
0
Lionpower from MGM
4.5
3 Weeks to Daytona
5.333
Bridge of Names
0