Rip Torn
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.
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Movies (42)
Bridge of Names
as Tom
2012
Men in Black 3
as Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited)
2012
Norman Mailer: The American
as Self
2012
3 Weeks to Daytona
as Sal
2011
National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus
as King Looney
2011
Happy Tears
as Joe
2009
The Afterlight
as Carl
2009
American Cowslip
as Trevor O'Hart
2009
The Golden Boys
as Capt. Jeremiah Burgess
2008
August
as David Sterling
2008
Turn the River
as Quinette
2008
Lucky Days
as Bobo
2008
Bee Movie
as Lou Lo Duca (voice)
2007
The Making of Marie Antoinette
as Self
2007
The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show'
as Arthur
2007
Three Days to Vegas
as Joe Wallace
2007
Zoom
as Larraby
2006
Marie Antoinette
as Louis XV
2006
Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time
as Self
2006
Forty Shades of Blue
as Alan James
2005
Yours, Mine & Ours
as Commandant Sherman
2005
The Sisters
as Dr. Chebrin
2005
Eulogy
as Edmund Collins
2004
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
as Patches O'Houlihan
2004
Welcome to Mooseport
as Bert Langdon
2004
Love Object
as Novak
2004
Maniac Magee
as George McNab
2003
Rolling Kansas
as Oldman
2003
Men in Black II
as Zed
2002
Freddy Got Fingered
as Jim Brody
2001
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
as Self
2000
Wonder Boys
as Q
2000
A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle
as Detective Manny Garett
2000
The Insider
as John Scanlon
1999
The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery
as Royce
1999
Balloon Farm
as Harvey Potter
1999
Passing Glory
as Father Robert Grant
1999
Senseless
as Randall Tyson
1998
Men in Black
as Zed
1997
Hercules
as Zeus (voice)
1997
Trial and Error
as Benny Gibbs
1997
The Hindenburg
as Narrator
1996
