Acting credits
178
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Rip Torn
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.4
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Movies: 135Series: 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 - 2026
Years active: 83
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
Movie credits linked with Rip Torn.
In 3 weeks
Making Marie Antoinette
as Self
2026 Movie
Men in Black 3
as Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited)
2012 Movie
Norman Mailer: The American
as Self
2012 Movie
3 Weeks to Daytona
as Sal
2011 Movie
National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus
as King Looney
2011 Movie
Happy Tears
as Joe
2009 Movie
The Afterlight
as Carl
2009 Movie
American Cowslip
as Trevor O'Hart
2009 Movie
The Golden Boys
as Capt. Jeremiah Burgess
2008 Movie
August
as David Sterling
2008 Movie
Turn the River
as Quinette
2008 Movie
Lucky Days
as Bobo
2008 Movie
The Making of Marie Antoinette
as Self
2007 Movie
Bee Movie
as Lou Lo Duca (voice)
2007 Movie
The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show'
as Arthur
2007 Movie
Three Days to Vegas
as Joe Wallace
2007 Movie
Zoom
as Larraby
2006 Movie
Marie Antoinette
as Louis XV
2006 Movie
Forty Shades of Blue
as Alan James
2005 Movie
Yours, Mine & Ours
as Commandant Sherman
2005 Movie
The Sisters
as Dr. Chebrin
2005 Movie
Eulogy
as Edmund Collins
2004 Movie
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
as Patches O'Houlihan
2004 Movie
Welcome to Mooseport
as Bert Langdon
2004 Movie
Series
Series credits linked with Rip Torn.
30 Rock
as Don Geiss • 8 eps
2006 Series
The Lyon's Den
3 eps
2003 Series
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Jules Copeland • 1 eps
2001 Series
Soul Food
as Peter Redmond • 1 eps
2000 Series
Seasons of Love
as Spence • 2 eps
1999 Series
Will & Grace
as Lionel Banks • 4 eps
1998 Series
Ghost Stories
as The Narrator • 44 eps
1997 Series
Chicago Hope
as Warren Shutt • 1 eps
1994 Series
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
1993 Series
The John Larroquette Show
as Bernard Galvin • 1 eps
1993 Series
The Larry Sanders Show
as Arthur • 90 eps
1992 Series
North and South
as Adolphus • 3 eps
1985 Series
The Atlanta Child Murders
as Lewis Slaton • 2 eps
1985 Series
The Blue and the Gray
as Ulysses S. Grant • 3 eps
1982 Series
American Playhouse
as Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt • 1 eps
1982 Series
Blind Ambition
as Richard M. Nixon • 4 eps
1979 Series
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
1 eps
1978 Series
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
as Glen Tuttle • 2 eps
1975 Series
Ghost Story
as Jonathon • 1 eps
1972 Series
Columbo
as Leon Lamarr • 1 eps
1971 Series
Mannix
as Victor Roarke • 1 eps
1967 Series
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Alexander • 2 eps
1964 Series
12 O'Clock High
as Col. Mark Royce • 1 eps
1964 Series
The Great Adventure
as Lieutenant John C. Freemont • 1 eps
1963 Series