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
2/6/1931
The Cincinnati Kid
7
The Man Who Fell to Earth
6.5
Men in Black
7.2
Men in Black II
6.4
Canadian Bacon
5.8
Marie Antoinette
6.7
Airplane II: The Sequel
6.1
Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time
0
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
5.5
Extreme Prejudice
6.2
Wonder Boys
6.8
A Stranger Is Watching
4.8
RoboCop 3
4.8
Bee Movie
6
By Dawn's Early Light
6.5
Coma
6.7
Forty Shades of Blue
4
How to Make an American Quilt
6.4
Hercules
7.5
Defending Your Life
6.9
The Insider
7.5
Senseless
6.2
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
6.4
Down Periscope
6.3
Sweet Bird of Youth
6.8
Rolling Kansas
5.8
Freddy Got Fingered
4.7
Balloon Farm
5.8
Dolly Dearest
5.6
Zoom
5.3
Turn the River
5.4
One Trick Pony
5.3
King of Kings
7.1
You're a Big Boy Now
6.3
Pork Chop Hill
6.5
Nadine
5.4
American Cowslip
5.4
Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind
2.5
Eulogy
6.5
The Beastmaster
6.3
Welcome to Mooseport
5.1
The Sisters
5.3
Happy Tears
5.1
Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
5.5
Beach Red
6.3
City Heat
5.5
Love Object
5.8
Time Limit
7
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
5.9
Trial and Error
5.4
Flashpoint
6.2
Beyond the Law
6.2
Heartland
6.4
Where the Rivers Flow North
6.8
Summer Rental
6.1
Scarab
5.5
Songwriter
5.2
Coming Apart
6.3
Payday
6.1
National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus
3.9
Misunderstood
6.7
Slaughter
5.7
Beer
4.4
Critic's Choice
5.5
Jinxed!
4.6
One Spy Too Many
5.1
Cold Feet
3.8
April Morning
5.7
Tropic of Cancer
4.6
Hit List
6
Norman Mailer: The American
7
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
5
Crazy Joe
6
First Family
3
1 P.M.
5.8
Nasty Habits
5.5
A Face in the Crowd
7.6
Johnny Belinda
0
Cross Creek
6.5
The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery
5.1
Maidstone
4.4
Beyond the Law
4.8
Sol Madrid
6.3
Hero's Island
4.8
The Making of Marie Antoinette
5
Bomber's Moon
0
Three Days to Vegas
3.8
Silence Like Glass
7.5
J. Edgar Hoover
0
Men in Black 3
6.5
Destination: America
0
Passing Glory
5.8
Steel Cowboy
0
A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle
0
Yours, Mine & Ours
6.2
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
5.5
Death Falls
3
Montserrat
0
August
5.2
Birch Interval
5.5
Manhunt for Claude Dallas
5.5
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
6.8
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
5
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
5.7
The President's Plane Is Missing
6.2
A Shining Season
3
Sweet Bird of Youth
5.8
When She Says No
0
My Son Johnny
5.2
Beautiful Dreamers
5.2
Laguna Heat
4.5
Letter to My Killer
6
Lions Love
5.9
Kojak: None So Blind
6
Baby Doll
7.1
The Hindenburg
6
T Bone N Weasel
3
Lucky Days
0
Cotter
0
24 Hours in a Woman's Life
0
She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal
2
The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show'
0
Fires of Kuwait
7.5
Maniac Magee
0
A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story
4
Betrayal
0
The Golden Boys
5.6