Acting credits
177
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Rip Torn
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.2
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Movies: 134Series: 45Crew credits: 3
TMDB ID: 9626
IMDb ID: nm0001800
Known for: Acting
Born: February 6, 1931
Died: July 9, 2019
Age: 88
Place of birth: Temple, Texas, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1944 - 2012
Years active: 69
Average TMDB rating: 6.37
Wikidata: Q313522
Also known as
Elmore Rual Torn Jr. • Elmore Rual "Rip" Torn Jr. • Elmor Torn • ریپ تورن
Other jobs
Director (1)Executive Producer (1)Thanks (1)
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
Movies
Movie credits linked with Rip Torn.
as Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited)
Men in Black 3
2012 • Movie
as Self
Norman Mailer: The American
2012 • Movie
as Sal
3 Weeks to Daytona
2011 • Movie
as King Looney
National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus
2011 • Movie
as Joe
Happy Tears
2009 • Movie
as Trevor O'Hart
American Cowslip
2009 • Movie
as Capt. Jeremiah Burgess
The Golden Boys
2008 • Movie
as David Sterling
August
2008 • Movie
as Quinette
Turn the River
2008 • Movie
as Bobo
Lucky Days
2008 • Movie
as Lou Lo Duca (voice)
Bee Movie
2007 • Movie
as Self
The Making of Marie Antoinette
2007 • Movie
as Arthur
The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show'
2007 • Movie
as Joe Wallace
Three Days to Vegas
2007 • Movie
as Larraby
Zoom
2006 • Movie
as Louis XV
Marie Antoinette
2006 • Movie
as Alan James
Forty Shades of Blue
2005 • Movie
as Commandant Sherman
Yours, Mine & Ours
2005 • Movie
as Dr. Chebrin
The Sisters
2005 • Movie
as Edmund Collins
Eulogy
2004 • Movie
as Patches O'Houlihan
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
2004 • Movie
as Bert Langdon
Welcome to Mooseport
2004 • Movie
as Novak
Love Object
2004 • Movie
as Oldman
Rolling Kansas
2003 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Rip Torn.
as Don Geiss • 8 eps
30 Rock
2006 • Series
3 eps
The Lyon's Den
2003 • Series
as Jules Copeland • 1 eps
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001 • Series
as Peter Redmond • 1 eps
Soul Food
2000 • Series
as Spence • 2 eps
Seasons of Love
1999 • Series
as Lionel Banks • 4 eps
Will & Grace
1998 • Series
as The Narrator • 44 eps
Ghost Stories
1997 • Series
as Warren Shutt • 1 eps
Chicago Hope
1994 • Series
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 • Series
as Bernard Galvin • 1 eps
The John Larroquette Show
1993 • Series
as Arthur • 90 eps
The Larry Sanders Show
1992 • Series
as Adolphus • 3 eps
North and South
1985 • Series
as Lewis Slaton • 2 eps
The Atlanta Child Murders
1985 • Series
as Ulysses S. Grant • 3 eps
The Blue and the Gray
1982 • Series
as Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt • 1 eps
American Playhouse
1982 • Series
as Richard M. Nixon • 4 eps
Blind Ambition
1979 • Series
1 eps
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
1978 • Series
as Glen Tuttle • 2 eps
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975 • Series
as Jonathon • 1 eps
Ghost Story
1972 • Series
as Leon Lamarr • 1 eps
Columbo
1971 • Series
as Victor Roarke • 1 eps
Mannix
1967 • Series
as Alexander • 2 eps
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964 • Series
as Col. Mark Royce • 1 eps
12 O'Clock High
1964 • Series
as Lieutenant John C. Freemont • 1 eps
The Great Adventure
1963 • Series