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.
Filmography Men in Black 3
2012
Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited)
Details Norman Mailer: The American
2012
Self
Details National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus
2011
King Looney
Details American Cowslip
2009
Trevor O'Hart
Details The Golden Boys
2008
Capt. Jeremiah Burgess
Details Bee Movie
2007
Lou Lo Duca (voice)
Details The Making of Marie Antoinette
2007
Self
Details The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show'
2007
Arthur
Details Three Days to Vegas
2007
Joe Wallace
Details Marie Antoinette
2006
Louis XV
Details Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time
2006
Self
Details Forty Shades of Blue
2005
Alan James
Details Yours, Mine & Ours
2005
Commandant Sherman
Details DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
2004
Patches O'Houlihan
Details Welcome to Mooseport
2004
Bert Langdon
Details Maniac Magee
2003
George McNab
Details Freddy Got Fingered
2001
Jim Brody
Details Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000
Self
Details A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle
2000
Detective Manny Garett
Details The Insider
1999
John Scanlon
Details The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery
1999
Royce
Details Balloon Farm
1999
Harvey Potter
Details Passing Glory
1999
Father Robert Grant
Details Trial and Error
1997
Benny Gibbs
Details Down Periscope
1996
Admiral Winslow
Details How to Make an American Quilt
1995
Arthur
Details Letter to My Killer
1995
Character TBA
Details Canadian Bacon
1995
General Dick Panzer
Details She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal
1995
Adm. Snyder
Details For Better or Worse
1995
Capt. Cole
Details Heart of a Child
1994
Dr. Leonard Bailey
Details Where the Rivers Flow North
1993
Noel Lord
Details Beyond the Law
1993
Deputy Prescott
Details A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story
1992
Bill Morgan
Details T Bone N Weasel
1992
Happy Sam
Details Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
1992
Admiral Paul Yost - Presidential Delegation
Details Fires of Kuwait
1992
Narrator (voice)
Details My Son Johnny
1991
Brian Stansbury
Details Dolly Dearest
1991
Karl Resnick
Details Defending Your Life
1991
Bob Diamond
Details Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind
1991
Captain Jack Parsons
Details Beautiful Dreamers
1990
Walt Whitman
Details By Dawn's Early Light
1990
Colonel Fargo
Details Kojak: None So Blind
1990
Gideon Hogarth
Details Pair of Aces
1990
Capt. Jack Parsons
Details Sweet Bird of Youth
1989
Boss Finley
Details Silence Like Glass
1989
Dr. Markowitz
Details April Morning
1988
Solomon Chandler
Details The King of Love
1987
Jack Kraft
Details Extreme Prejudice
1987
Sheriff Hank Pearson
Details Destination: America
1987
Corbet St. James IV
Details J. Edgar Hoover
1987
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Details Manhunt for Claude Dallas
1986
Tim Nettleton
Details The Execution
1985
Wilheim Gehbert
Details Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1984
Big Daddy
Details Flashpoint
1984
Sheriff Wells
Details When She Says No
1984
Stuart Blankfort
Details Cross Creek
1983
Marsh Turner
Details Airplane II: The Sequel
1982
Bud Kruger / President Reagan
Details A Stranger Is Watching
1982
Artie Taggart
Details First Family
1980
General G. E. Dumpston
Details Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
1980
Charles Burt
Details Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
1980
Carlo Ponti
Details One Trick Pony
1980
Walter Fox
Details A Shining Season
1979
Jack Baker
Details The Seduction of Joe Tynan
1979
Senator Kittner
Details The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
1977
Dwight Webb
Details Nasty Habits
1977
Father Maximilian
Details The Man Who Fell to Earth
1976
Nathan Bryce
Details Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975
Glen Tuttle
Details The President's Plane Is Missing
1973
George Oldenburg
Details Maidstone
1971
Raoul Rey O'Houlihan
Details Tropic of Cancer
1970
Henry Miller
Details Lions Love
1969
The Beard Director (uncredited)
Details Sol Madrid
1968
Dano Villanova
Details Beach Red
1967
Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell
Details You're a Big Boy Now
1966
I.H. Chanticleer
Details One Spy Too Many
1966
Alexander
Details The Cincinnati Kid
1965
William Jefferson Slade
Details Critic's Choice
1963
Dion Kapakos
Details Hero's Island
1962
Nicholas Gates
Details Sweet Bird of Youth
1962
Thomas 'Tom' J. Finley, Jr.
Details 24 Hours in a Woman's Life
1961
Paul
Details Pork Chop Hill
1959
Lt. Walter Russell
Details Johnny Belinda
1958
Locky McCormick
Details Bomber's Moon
1958
Lieutenant Harrison
Details Time Limit
1957
Lt. George Miller
Details A Face in the Crowd
1957
Barry Mills (uncredited)
Details Baby Doll
1956
The Dentist (uncredited)
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