Acting

Rip Torn

Born 1931-02-06 · Temple, Texas, USA

Died 2019-07-09

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.

Credits

Newest first

Making Marie Antoinette
as Self
2026
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
Lucky Days
Executive Producer
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
30 Rock
as Don Geiss
2006
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
Extreme Dodgeball
2004
Welcome to Mooseport
as Bert Langdon
2004
Love Object
as Novak
2004
The Lyon's Den
2003
Maniac Magee
as George McNab
2003
Rolling Kansas
as Oldman
2003
Men in Black II
as Zed
2002
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Jules Copeland
2001
Freddy Got Fingered
as Jim Brody
2001
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
as Self
2000
Soul Food
as Peter Redmond
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
Seasons of Love
as Spence
1999
Balloon Farm
as Harvey Potter
1999
Passing Glory
as Father Robert Grant
1999
Will & Grace
as Lionel Banks
1998
Senseless
as Randall Tyson
1998
The Mouse
as Trucker 'God'
1997
Ghost Stories
as The Narrator
1997
Men in Black
as Zed
1997
Hercules
as Zeus (voice)
1997
Trial and Error
as Benny Gibbs
1997
The Hindenburg
as Narrator
1996
Down Periscope
as Admiral Winslow
1996
How to Make an American Quilt
as Arthur
1995
James Dean: A Portrait
as Self (Narrator)
1995
Letter to My Killer
1995
Canadian Bacon
as General Dick Panzer
1995
She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal
as Adm. Snyder
1995
For Better or Worse
as Capt. Cole
1995
Chicago Hope
as Warren Shutt
1994
Heart of a Child
as Dr. Leonard Bailey
1994
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
The John Larroquette Show
as Bernard Galvin
1993
Where the Rivers Flow North
as Noel Lord
1993
Beyond the Law
as Deputy Prescott
1993
RoboCop 3
as The CEO
1993
A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story
as Bill Morgan
1992
T Bone N Weasel
as Happy Sam
1992
Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
as Admiral Paul Yost
1992
The Larry Sanders Show
as Arthur
1992
Fires of Kuwait
as Narrator (voice)
1992
My Son Johnny
as Brian Stansbury
1991
Dolly Dearest
as Karl Resnick
1991
Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind
as Captain Jack Parsons
1991
Defending Your Life
as Bob Diamond
1991
Death Falls
as Dub Farley
1991
Beautiful Dreamers
as Walt Whitman
1990
By Dawn's Early Light
as Colonel Fargo
1990
Kojak: None So Blind
as Gideon Hogarth
1990