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Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 6, 1931
Died
July 9, 2019
Place of Birth
Temple, Texas, USA
Also Known As
- Elmore Rual Torn Jr.
- Elmore Rual "Rip" Torn Jr.
- Elmor Torn
- ریپ تورن
Rip Torn
1.3 Popularity
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.
Known For
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Tom
Bridge of Names
2012
6.5
Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited)
Men in Black 3
2012
7.0
Self
Norman Mailer: The American
2012
5.5
Sal
3 Weeks to Daytona
2011
3.9
King Looney
National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus
2011
5.0
Joe
Happy Tears
2009
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Carl
The Afterlight
2009
5.1
Trevor O'Hart
American Cowslip
2009
5.5
Capt. Jeremiah Burgess
The Golden Boys
2008
5.2
David Sterling
August
2008
Credits
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Bridge of Names
as Tom
2012
0.0
Men in Black 3
as Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited)
2012
6.5
Norman Mailer: The American
as Self
2012
7.0
3 Weeks to Daytona
as Sal
2011
5.5
National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus
as King Looney
2011
3.9
Happy Tears
as Joe
2009
5.0
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The Afterlight
as Carl
2009
0.0
American Cowslip
as Trevor O'Hart
2009
5.1
The Golden Boys
as Capt. Jeremiah Burgess
2008
5.5
August
as David Sterling
2008
5.2
Turn the River
as Quinette
2008
5.3
Lucky Days
as Bobo
2008
0.0
Bee Movie
as Lou Lo Duca (voice)
2007
6.0
The Making of Marie Antoinette
as Self
2007
5.0
The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show'
as Arthur
2007
0.0
Three Days to Vegas
as Joe Wallace
2007
3.4
30 Rock
as Don Geiss
2006
7.5
Zoom
as Larraby
2006
5.3
Marie Antoinette
as Louis XV
2006
6.7
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Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time
as Self
2006
0.0
Forty Shades of Blue
as Alan James
2005
4.1
Yours, Mine & Ours
as Commandant Sherman
2005
6.2
The Sisters
as Dr. Chebrin
2005
4.8
Eulogy
as Edmund Collins
2004
6.4
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
as Patches O'Houlihan
2004
6.4
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Extreme Dodgeball
2004
0.0
Welcome to Mooseport
as Bert Langdon
2004
5.1
Love Object
as Novak
2004
5.9
The Lyon's Den
2003
9.3
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Maniac Magee
as George McNab
2003
0.0
Rolling Kansas
as Oldman
2003
5.4
Men in Black II
as Zed
2002
6.4
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Jules Copeland
2001
7.6
Freddy Got Fingered
as Jim Brody
2001
4.7
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
as Self
2000
7.1
Soul Food
as Peter Redmond
2000
7.0
Wonder Boys
as Q
2000
6.8
A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle
as Detective Manny Garett
2000
0.0
The Insider
as John Scanlon
1999
7.5
The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery
as Royce
1999
5.1
Seasons of Love
as Spence
1999
0.0
Balloon Farm
as Harvey Potter
1999
5.8
Passing Glory
as Father Robert Grant
1999
5.8
Will & Grace
as Lionel Banks
1998
6.8
Senseless
as Randall Tyson
1998
6.2
Ghost Stories
as The Narrator
1997
6.9
Men in Black
as Zed
1997
7.2
Hercules
as Zeus (voice)
1997
7.5
Trial and Error
as Benny Gibbs
1997
5.4
The Hindenburg
as Narrator
1996
6.0
Down Periscope
as Admiral Winslow
1996
6.4
How to Make an American Quilt
as Arthur
1995
6.4
James Dean: A Portrait
as Self (Narrator)
1995
0.0
Letter to My Killer
1995
6.0
Canadian Bacon
as General Dick Panzer
1995
5.7
She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal
as Adm. Snyder
1995
4.3
For Better or Worse
as Capt. Cole
1995
4.0
Chicago Hope
as Warren Shutt
1994
7.2
Heart of a Child
as Dr. Leonard Bailey
1994
4.6
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
7.2
The John Larroquette Show
as Bernard Galvin
1993
6.7
Where the Rivers Flow North
as Noel Lord
1993
6.2
Beyond the Law
as Deputy Prescott
1993
6.2
RoboCop 3
as The CEO
1993
4.9
A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story
as Bill Morgan
1992
7.0
T Bone N Weasel
as Happy Sam
1992
3.0
Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
as Admiral Paul Yost - Presidential Delegation
1992
5.2
The Larry Sanders Show
as Arthur
1992
7.7
Fires of Kuwait
as Narrator (voice)
1992
7.7
My Son Johnny
as Brian Stansbury
1991
6.0
Dolly Dearest
as Karl Resnick
1991
5.5
Defending Your Life
as Bob Diamond
1991
6.9
Death Falls
as Dub Farley
1991
3.0
Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind
as Captain Jack Parsons
1991
3.7
Beautiful Dreamers
as Walt Whitman
1990
5.2
By Dawn's Early Light
as Colonel Fargo
1990
6.5
Kojak: None So Blind
as Gideon Hogarth
1990
6.0
Pair of Aces
as Capt. Jack Parsons
1990
5.0
Sweet Bird of Youth
as Boss Finley
1989
5.4
Silence Like Glass
as Dr. Markowitz
1989
6.6
Cold Feet
as Sheriff
1989
3.8
Hit List
as Vic Luca
1989
6.0
April Morning
as Solomon Chandler
1988
5.7
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The King of Love
as Jack Kraft
1987
0.0
Laguna Heat
as Joe Datilla
1987
3.8
Nadine
as Buford Pope
1987
5.4
Extreme Prejudice
as Sheriff Hank Pearson
1987
6.2
Destination: America
as Corbet St. James IV
1987
0.0
J. Edgar Hoover
as Lyndon Baines Johnson
1987
0.0
Manhunt for Claude Dallas
as Tim Nettleton
1986
4.0
North and South
as Adolphus
1985
7.4
Beer
as Buzz Beckerman
1985
4.0
Summer Rental
as Scully
1985
6.1
The Atlanta Child Murders
as Lewis Slaton
1985
5.6
The Execution
as Wilheim Gehbert
1985
7.3
City Heat
as Primo Pitt
1984
5.5
Songwriter
as Dino McLeish
1984
5.1
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
as Big Daddy
1984
5.6
Scarab
as Khepera
1984
5.5
Flashpoint
as Sheriff Wells
1984
6.2
When She Says No
as Stuart Blankfort
1984
0.0
Misunderstood
as Will
1983
6.7
Cross Creek
as Marsh Turner
1983
6.6
Airplane II: The Sequel
as Bud Kruger / President Reagan
1982
6.1
The Blue and the Gray
as Ulysses S. Grant
1982
6.6
A Stranger Is Watching
as Artie Taggart
1982
4.5
Jinxed!
as Harold Benson
1982
4.5
The Beastmaster
as Maax
1982
6.3
First Family
as General G. E. Dumpston
1980
3.0
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
as Charles Burt
1980
5.5
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
as Carlo Ponti
1980
5.2
One Trick Pony
as Walter Fox
1980
5.1
A Shining Season
as Jack Baker
1979
3.0
Heartland
as Clyde Stewart
1979
6.5
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
as Senator Kittner
1979
5.7
Blind Ambition
as Richard M. Nixon
1979
5.0
Steel Cowboy
as K.W. Hicks
1978
0.0
Betrayal
as Dr. Hartogs
1978
0.0
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
1978
5.0
Coma
as Dr. George
1978
6.8
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
as Dwight Webb
1977
4.9
Nasty Habits
as Father Maximilian
1977
4.6
Birch Interval
as Thomas
1976
4.0
The Man Who Fell to Earth
as Nathan Bryce
1976
6.4
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
as Glen Tuttle
1975
5.0
Crazy Joe
as Richie
1974
6.3
The President's Plane Is Missing
as George Oldenburg
1973
6.2
Payday
as Maury Dann
1973
5.9
Cotter
as Roy
1973
1.0
Ghost Story
as Jonathon
1972
7.1
Slaughter
as Dominic Hoffo
1972
5.5
Columbo
as Leon Lamarr
1971
8.1
1 P.M.
as Self
1971
5.8
Maidstone
as Raoul Rey O'Houlihan
1971
3.9
Montserrat
as Izquierdo
1971
0.0
Tropic of Cancer
as Henry Miller
1970
4.5
Coming Apart
as Joe
1969
6.0
Lions Love
as The Beard Director (uncredited)
1969
5.8
Beyond the Law
as Popcorn
1968
4.8
Sol Madrid
as Dano Villanova
1968
6.4
Mannix
as Victor Roarke
1967
6.7
Beach Red
as Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell
1967
6.5
Lionpower from MGM
1967
4.5
You're a Big Boy Now
as I.H. Chanticleer
1966
6.1
One Spy Too Many
as Alexander
1966
4.9
The Cincinnati Kid
as William Jefferson Slade
1965
7.0
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Alexander
1964
7.1
12 O'Clock High
as Col. Mark Royce
1964
7.2
The Great Adventure
as Lieutenant John C. Freemont
1963
0.0
Channing
as Donald Burrows
1963
7.0
Breaking Point
1963
7.2
The Lieutenant
as Sgt. Karl Kasten
1963
6.0
Critic's Choice
as Dion Kapakos
1963
5.6
Combat!
as Avery
1962
7.7
Hero's Island
as Nicholas Gates
1962
4.8
Sweet Bird of Youth
as Thomas 'Tom' J. Finley, Jr.
1962
6.8
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
King of Kings
as Judas
1961
7.2
Ben Casey
1961
5.6
Dr. Kildare
as Dr. Nicholas Keefe
1961
5.5
The Dick Powell Show
as Joel Coles
1961
5.5
24 Hours in a Woman's Life
as Paul
1961
5.0
Route 66
as Alvah Clayhorne
1960
6.3
Thriller
as Duncan Corey
1960
6.6
The Untouchables
as Harry Strauss
1959
7.8
The Untouchables
as Johnny Mizo
1959
7.8
Bonanza
as Will Hewitt
1959
7.5
Pork Chop Hill
as Lt. Walter Russell
1959
6.6
Rawhide
as Jacob Yellow-Sun
1959
7.2
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Johnny Belinda
as Locky McCormick
1958
0.0
Naked City
as Ansel Boake
1958
5.5
Bomber's Moon
as Lieutenant Harrison
1958
0.0
Time Limit
as Lt. George Miller
1957
7.1
The Restless Gun
as Jody Gilman
1957
3.0
A Face in the Crowd
as Barry Mills (uncredited)
1957
7.6
Baby Doll
as The Dentist (uncredited)
1956
7.0
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
5.9
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Steve Morgan #22
1955
7.8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Ernie Walters
1955
7.8
Omnibus
1952
6.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Locky McCormick
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Solomon Chandler
1951
8.6
Kraft Television Theatre
as Somers
1947
7.5
Kraft Television Theatre
1947
7.5
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
1944
7.2
Heartland
N/A
0.0