Rip Torn

Rip Torn

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

06/02/1931

Day of Death

09/07/2019
(88) years old

Place of Birth

Temple, Texas, USA

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 Aw... Read More

Filmography

Cast

2012

Men in Black 3

as Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredite...

2009

Happy Tears

as Joe

2009

The Afterlight

as Carl

2009

American Cowslip

as Trevor O'Hart

2008

The Golden Boys

as Capt. Jeremiah Burgess

2008

August

as David Sterling

2008

Turn the River

as Quinette

2008

Lucky Days

as Bobo

2007

Bee Movie

as Lou Lo Duca (voice)

2007

Three Days to Vegas

as Joe Wallace

2006

Zoom

as Larraby

2006

Marie Antoinette

as Louis XV

2005

Forty Shades of Blue

as Alan James

2005

Yours, Mine & Ours

as Commandant Sherman

2005

The Sisters

as Dr. Chebrin

2004

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

2003

Maniac Magee

as George McNab

2003

Rolling Kansas

as Oldman

2002

Men in Black II

as Zed

2001

Freddy Got Fingered

as Jim Brody

2000

Wonder Boys

as Q

2000

A Vision of Murder: The Story of Doniell...

as Detective Manny Garett

1999

The Insider

as John Scanlon

1999

Balloon Farm

as Harvey Potter

1999

Passing Glory

as Father Robert Grant

1998

Senseless

as Randall Tyson

1997

Men in Black

as Zed

1997

Hercules

as Zeus (voice)

1997

Trial and Error

as Benny Gibbs

1996

The Hindenburg

as Narrator

1996

Down Periscope

as Admiral Winslow

1995

James Dean: A Portrait

as Self (Narrator)

1995

Canadian Bacon

as General Dick Panzer

1995

For Better or Worse

as Capt. Cole

1994

Heart of a Child

as Dr. Leonard Bailey

1993

Beyond the Law

as Deputy Prescott

1993

RoboCop 3

as The CEO

1992

T Bone N Weasel

as Happy Sam

1992

Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster

as Admiral Paul Yost - Presidential Delegat...

1992

Fires of Kuwait

as Narrator (voice)

1991

My Son Johnny

as Brian Stansbury

1991

Dolly Dearest

as Karl Resnick

1991

Defending Your Life

as Bob Diamond

1991

Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind

as Captain Jack Parsons

1991

Death Falls

as Dub Farley

1990

Beautiful Dreamers

as Walt Whitman

1990

By Dawn's Early Light

as Colonel Fargo

1990

Kojak: None So Blind

as Gideon Hogarth

1990

Pair of Aces

as Capt. Jack Parsons

1989

Sweet Bird of Youth

as Boss Finley

1989

Silence Like Glass

as Dr. Markowitz

1989

Cold Feet

as Sheriff

1989

Hit List

as Vic Luca

1988

April Morning

as Solomon Chandler

1987

The King of Love

as Jack Kraft

1987

Laguna Heat

as Joe Datilla

1987

Nadine

as Buford Pope

1987

Extreme Prejudice

as Sheriff Hank Pearson

1987

Destination: America

as Corbet St. James IV

1987

J. Edgar Hoover

as Lyndon Baines Johnson

1986

Manhunt for Claude Dallas

as Tim Nettleton

1985

Beer

as Buzz Beckerman

1985

Summer Rental

as Scully

1985

The Execution

as Wilheim Gehbert

1984

City Heat

as Primo Pitt

1984

Songwriter

as Dino McLeish

1984

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

as Big Daddy

1984

Scarab

as Khepera

1984

Flashpoint

as Sheriff Wells

1984

When She Says No

as Stuart Blankfort

1983

Misunderstood

as Will

1983

Cross Creek

as Marsh Turner

1982

Airplane II: The Sequel

as Bud Kruger / President Reagan

1982

A Stranger Is Watching

as Artie Taggart

1982

Jinxed!

as Harold Benson

1982

The Beastmaster

as Maax

1980

First Family

as General G. E. Dumpston

1980

Sophia Loren: Her Own Story

as Carlo Ponti

1980

One Trick Pony

as Walter Fox

1979

A Shining Season

as Jack Baker

1979

Heartland

as Clyde Stewart

1979

The Seduction of Joe Tynan

as Senator Kittner

1978

Steel Cowboy

as K.W. Hicks

1978

Betrayal

as Dr. Hartogs

1978

Coma

as Dr. George

1977

Nasty Habits

as Father Maximilian

1976

Birch Interval

as Thomas

1976

The Man Who Fell to Earth

as Nathan Bryce

1974

Crazy Joe

as Richie

1973

The President's Plane Is Missing

as George Oldenburg

1973

Payday

as Maury Dann

1973

Cotter

as Roy

1972

Slaughter

as Dominic Hoffo

1971

1 P.M.

as Self

1971

Maidstone

as Raoul Rey O'Houlihan

1971

Montserrat

as Izquierdo

1970

Tropic of Cancer

as Henry Miller

1969

Coming Apart

as Joe

1969

Lions Love

as The Beard Director (uncredited)

1968

Beyond the Law

as Popcorn

1968

Sol Madrid

as Dano Villanova

1967

Beach Red

as Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell

1966

You're a Big Boy Now

as I.H. Chanticleer

1966

One Spy Too Many

as Alexander

1965

The Cincinnati Kid

as William Jefferson Slade

1963

Critic's Choice

as Dion Kapakos

1962

Hero's Island

as Nicholas Gates

1962

Sweet Bird of Youth

as Thomas 'Tom' J. Finley, Jr.

1961

King of Kings

as Judas

1959

Pork Chop Hill

as Lt. Walter Russell

1958

Johnny Belinda

as Locky McCormick

1958

Bomber's Moon

as Lieutenant Harrison

1957

Time Limit

as Lt. George Miller

1957

A Face in the Crowd

as Barry Mills (uncredited)

1956

Baby Doll

as The Dentist (uncredited)

Crew

2008

Lucky Days

as Executive Producer

1988

The Telephone

as Director