Acting credits
174
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Rip Torn
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 134Series: 42Crew 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: 6.35
Wikidata: Q313522
Also known as
Elmore Rual Torn Jr. • Elmore Rual "Rip" Torn Jr. • Elmor Torn • ریپ تورن
Other jobs
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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.
6.5
Men in Black 3
as Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited)
2012 Movie
7.0
Norman Mailer: The American
as Self
2012 Movie
5.3
3 Weeks to Daytona
as Sal
2011 Movie
3.9
National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus
as King Looney
2011 Movie
5.0
Happy Tears
as Joe
2009 Movie
5.1
American Cowslip
as Trevor O'Hart
2009 Movie
5.5
The Golden Boys
as Capt. Jeremiah Burgess
2008 Movie
5.2
August
as David Sterling
2008 Movie
5.3
Turn the River
as Quinette
2008 Movie
Lucky Days
as Bobo
2008 Movie
6.0
Bee Movie
as Lou Lo Duca (voice)
2007 Movie
5.0
The Making of Marie Antoinette
as Self
2007 Movie
The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show'
as Arthur
2007 Movie
3.4
Three Days to Vegas
as Joe Wallace
2007 Movie
5.3
Zoom
as Larraby
2006 Movie
6.7
Marie Antoinette
as Louis XV
2006 Movie
4.1
Forty Shades of Blue
as Alan James
2005 Movie
6.2
Yours, Mine & Ours
as Commandant Sherman
2005 Movie
4.8
The Sisters
as Dr. Chebrin
2005 Movie
6.4
Eulogy
as Edmund Collins
2004 Movie
6.4
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
as Patches O'Houlihan
2004 Movie
5.1
Welcome to Mooseport
as Bert Langdon
2004 Movie
5.9
Love Object
as Novak
2004 Movie
5.4
Rolling Kansas
as Oldman
2003 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Rip Torn.
7.5
30 Rock
as Don Geiss • 8 eps
2006 Series
9.3
The Lyon's Den
3 eps
2003 Series
7.6
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Jules Copeland • 1 eps
2001 Series
7.0
Soul Food
as Peter Redmond • 1 eps
2000 Series
Seasons of Love
as Spence • 2 eps
1999 Series
6.8
Will & Grace
as Lionel Banks • 4 eps
1998 Series
6.9
Ghost Stories
as The Narrator • 44 eps
1997 Series
7.2
Chicago Hope
as Warren Shutt • 1 eps
1994 Series
7.2
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
1993 Series
6.7
The John Larroquette Show
as Bernard Galvin • 1 eps
1993 Series
7.7
The Larry Sanders Show
as Arthur • 90 eps
1992 Series
7.4
North and South
as Adolphus • 3 eps
1985 Series
5.6
The Atlanta Child Murders
as Lewis Slaton • 2 eps
1985 Series
6.7
The Blue and the Gray
as Ulysses S. Grant • 3 eps
1982 Series
5.5
Blind Ambition
as Richard M. Nixon • 4 eps
1979 Series
5.0
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
1 eps
1978 Series
7.1
Ghost Story
as Jonathon • 1 eps
1972 Series
8.1
Columbo
as Leon Lamarr • 1 eps
1971 Series
6.7
Mannix
as Victor Roarke • 1 eps
1967 Series
7.1
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Alexander • 2 eps
1964 Series
7.2
12 O'Clock High
as Col. Mark Royce • 1 eps
1964 Series
The Great Adventure
as Lieutenant John C. Freemont • 1 eps
1963 Series
7.0
Channing
as Donald Burrows • 1 eps
1963 Series
7.2
Breaking Point
1 eps
1963 Series