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
Men in Black
7.2
Men in Black II
6.4
The Cincinnati Kid
7
The Man Who Fell to Earth
6.4
Canadian Bacon
5.7
Marie Antoinette
6.7
Airplane II: The Sequel
6.1
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
5.5
Extreme Prejudice
6.1
Wonder Boys
6.8
By Dawn's Early Light
6.5
Forty Shades of Blue
4.1
A Stranger Is Watching
4.7
RoboCop 3
4.8
Bee Movie
6
Coma
6.7
How to Make an American Quilt
6.4
Hercules
7.5
Defending Your Life
7
The Insider
7.5
Down Periscope
6.3
Senseless
6.2
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
6.4
Sweet Bird of Youth
6.8
Rolling Kansas
5.8
Freddy Got Fingered
4.6
Balloon Farm
5.8
Dolly Dearest
5.3
Turn the River
5.4
Zoom
5.3
King of Kings
7.1
One Trick Pony
5.4
You're a Big Boy Now
6.3
Pork Chop Hill
6.4
Nadine
5.4
American Cowslip
5.4
Eulogy
6.5
The Beastmaster
6.3
Welcome to Mooseport
5.1
The Sisters
5.3
Happy Tears
5.1
City Heat
5.5
Love Object
5.8
Time Limit
7
Beach Red
6.3
Trial and Error
5.3
Flashpoint
6.2
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
5.9
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
Payday
6
National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus
3.8
Coming Apart
6.3
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
Hit List
6.1
Norman Mailer: The American
7
Tropic of Cancer
4.4
Crazy Joe
6
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
5
First Family
3
1 P.M. (One Parallel Movie)
5.9
Cross Creek
6.6
Nasty Habits
5.5
The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery
5.1
Maidstone
4.2
Beyond the Law
4.8
Sol Madrid
6.3
Three Days to Vegas
3.8
Silence Like Glass
7.5
Hero's Island
4.8
Passing Glory
5.8
Steel Cowboy
0
A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle
0
Yours, Mine & Ours
6.2
The Afterlight
0
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
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
6.8
Manhunt for Claude Dallas
5.5
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
4
Sweet Bird of Youth
5.8
When She Says No
0
My Son Johnny
5.2
Beautiful Dreamers
5.2
Laguna Heat
4
Lions Love
6
Letter to My Killer
6
Kojak: None So Blind
6
Baby Doll
7.1
The Hindenburg
6
T Bone N Weasel
3
Lucky Days
0
Cotter
0
Twenty-Four 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
7.6
Maniac Magee
0
A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story
4
Betrayal
0
The Golden Boys
5.6
Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind
2.5
Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
5.5
A Face in the Crowd
7.6
Johnny Belinda
0
The Making of Marie Antoinette
5
J. Edgar Hoover
0
Seasons of Love
0
Destination: America
0
Pair of Aces
5
Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time
0
Bomber's Moon
0
Men in Black 3
6.5