Rip Torn

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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Known For

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

1993 • as Self - Guest

The Mike Douglas Show

1961 • as Self

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

2001 • as Jules Copeland

Will & Grace

1998 • as Lionel Banks

Columbo

1971 • as Leon Lamarr

Kraft Television Theatre

1947 • as Somers

Filmography

2012

Norman Mailer: The American

as Self

Movie - Released: 5/18/2012

Men in Black 3

as Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited)

Movie - Released: 5/23/2012

2011

National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus

as King Looney

Movie - Released: 8/5/2011

2009

American Cowslip

as Trevor O'Hart

Movie - Released: 7/24/2009

Happy Tears

as Joe

Movie - Released: 10/16/2009

Movie

The Afterlight

as Carl

Movie - Released: 10/10/2009

2008

Turn the River

as Quinette

Movie - Released: 5/9/2008

August

as David Sterling

Movie - Released: 5/16/2008

Lucky Days

as Bobo

Movie - Released: 4/25/2008

The Golden Boys

as Capt. Jeremiah Burgess

Movie - Released: 12/11/2008

2007

Bee Movie

as Lou Lo Duca (voice)

Movie - Released: 10/28/2007

The Making of Marie Antoinette

as Self

Movie - Released: 7/2/2007

Three Days to Vegas

as Joe Wallace

Movie - Released: 2/2/2007

The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show'

as Arthur

Movie - Released: 4/17/2007

2006

Marie Antoinette

as Louis XV

Movie - Released: 5/24/2006

Movie

Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time

as Self

Movie - Released: 5/2/2006

Zoom

as Larraby

Movie - Released: 8/11/2006

30 Rock

as Don Geiss

TV - Released: 10/11/2006

2005

Forty Shades of Blue

as Alan James

Movie - Released: 12/7/2005

The Sisters

as Dr. Chebrin

Movie - Released: 4/23/2005

Yours, Mine & Ours

as Commandant Sherman

Movie - Released: 11/23/2005

2004

DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story

as Patches O'Houlihan

Movie - Released: 6/18/2004

Eulogy

as Edmund Collins

Movie - Released: 10/15/2004

Welcome to Mooseport

as Bert Langdon

Movie - Released: 2/24/2004

Love Object

as Novak

Movie - Released: 2/13/2004

Extreme Dodgeball

TV - Released: 6/15/2004

2003

Rolling Kansas

as Oldman

Movie - Released: 1/24/2003

Movie

Maniac Magee

as George McNab

Movie - Released: 2/23/2003

The Lyon's Den

TV - Released: 9/28/2003

2002

Men in Black II

as Zed

Movie - Released: 7/3/2002

2001

Freddy Got Fingered

as Jim Brody

Movie - Released: 4/20/2001

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

as Jules Copeland

TV - Released: 9/30/2001

2000

Wonder Boys

as Q

Movie - Released: 2/22/2000

A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle

as Detective Manny Garett

Movie - Released: 2/9/2000

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

as Self

Movie - Released: 9/27/2000

Soul Food

as Peter Redmond

TV - Released: 6/28/2000

1999

The Insider

as John Scanlon

Movie - Released: 10/28/1999

Balloon Farm

as Harvey Potter

Movie - Released: 3/28/1999

The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery

as Royce

Movie - Released: 7/21/1999

Passing Glory

as Father Robert Grant

Movie - Released: 2/21/1999

Seasons of Love

as Spence

TV - Released: 7/3/1999

1998

Senseless

as Randall Tyson

Movie - Released: 2/20/1998

Will & Grace

as Lionel Banks

TV - Released: 9/21/1998

1997

Men in Black

as Zed

Movie - Released: 7/2/1997

Hercules

as Zeus (voice)

Movie - Released: 6/13/1997

Trial and Error

as Benny Gibbs

Movie - Released: 5/30/1997

Ghost Stories

as The Narrator

TV - Released: 9/28/1997

1996

Down Periscope

as Admiral Winslow

Movie - Released: 3/1/1996

The Hindenburg

as Narrator

Movie - Released: 9/24/1996

1995

Canadian Bacon

as General Dick Panzer

Movie - Released: 6/8/1995

How to Make an American Quilt

as Arthur

Movie - Released: 10/6/1995

Letter to My Killer

Movie - Released: 8/9/1995

She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal

as Adm. Snyder

Movie - Released: 5/22/1995

For Better or Worse

as Capt. Cole

Movie - Released: 3/19/1995

1994

Heart of a Child

as Dr. Leonard Bailey

Movie - Released: 5/9/1994

Chicago Hope

TV - Released: 9/18/1994

1993

RoboCop 3

as The CEO

Movie - Released: 1/21/1993

Beyond the Law

as Deputy Prescott

Movie - Released: 4/22/1993

Where the Rivers Flow North

as Noel Lord

Movie - Released: 6/14/1993

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

as Self - Guest

TV - Released: 9/13/1993

The John Larroquette Show

as Bernard Galvin

TV - Released: 9/2/1993

1992

Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster

as Admiral Paul Yost - Presidential Delegation

Movie - Released: 9/13/1992

T Bone N Weasel

as Happy Sam

Movie - Released: 11/2/1992

Fires of Kuwait

as Narrator (voice)

Movie - Released: 6/9/1992

A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story

as Bill Morgan

Movie - Released: 11/29/1992

The Larry Sanders Show

as Arthur

TV - Released: 8/15/1992

1991

Defending Your Life

as Bob Diamond

Movie - Released: 3/22/1991

Dolly Dearest

as Karl Resnick

Movie - Released: 9/1/1991

Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind

as Captain Jack Parsons

Movie - Released: 1/1/1991

Death Falls

as Dub Farley

Movie - Released: 1/1/1991

My Son Johnny

as Brian Stansbury

Movie - Released: 11/10/1991

1990

By Dawn's Early Light

as Colonel Fargo

Movie - Released: 5/19/1990

Pair of Aces

as Capt. Jack Parsons

Movie - Released: 1/14/1990

Beautiful Dreamers

as Walt Whitman

Movie - Released: 6/5/1990

Kojak: None So Blind

as Gideon Hogarth

Movie - Released: 4/7/1990

1989

Cold Feet

as Sheriff

Movie - Released: 5/19/1989

Hit List

as Vic Luca

Movie - Released: 3/3/1989

Silence Like Glass

as Dr. Markowitz

Movie - Released: 7/6/1989

Sweet Bird of Youth

as Boss Finley

Movie - Released: 10/1/1989

1988

April Morning

as Solomon Chandler

Movie - Released: 4/24/1988

1987

Extreme Prejudice

as Sheriff Hank Pearson

Movie - Released: 4/24/1987

Nadine

as Buford Pope

Movie - Released: 8/7/1987

J. Edgar Hoover

as Lyndon Baines Johnson

Movie - Released: 1/11/1987

Destination: America

as Corbet St. James IV

Movie - Released: 4/3/1987

Movie

The King of Love

as Jack Kraft

Movie - Released: 11/19/1987

Laguna Heat

as Joe Datilla

Movie - Released: 11/15/1987

1986

Manhunt for Claude Dallas

as Tim Nettleton

Movie - Released: 10/26/1986

1985

Summer Rental

as Scully

Movie - Released: 8/9/1985

Beer

as Buzz Beckerman

Movie - Released: 8/30/1985

The Execution

as Wilheim Gehbert

Movie - Released: 1/14/1985

North and South

as Adolphus

TV - Released: 11/3/1985

The Atlanta Child Murders

as Lewis Slaton

TV - Released: 2/10/1985

1984

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

as Big Daddy

Movie - Released: 8/19/1984

City Heat

as Primo Pitt

Movie - Released: 12/7/1984

Flashpoint

as Sheriff Wells

Movie - Released: 4/19/1984

Scarab

as Khepera

Movie - Released: 6/22/1984

Songwriter

as Dino McLeish

Movie - Released: 10/14/1984

When She Says No

as Stuart Blankfort

Movie - Released: 1/30/1984

1983

Misunderstood

as Will

Movie - Released: 12/10/1983

Cross Creek

as Marsh Turner

Movie - Released: 9/21/1983

1982

Airplane II: The Sequel

as Bud Kruger / President Reagan

Movie - Released: 12/10/1982

A Stranger Is Watching

as Artie Taggart

Movie - Released: 10/28/1982

The Beastmaster

as Maax

Movie - Released: 8/16/1982

Jinxed!

as Harold Benson

Movie - Released: 10/22/1982

The Blue and the Gray

as Ulysses S. Grant

TV - Released: 11/14/1982

1980

One Trick Pony

as Walter Fox

Movie - Released: 10/3/1980

First Family

as General G. E. Dumpston

Movie - Released: 12/25/1980

Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case

as Charles Burt

Movie - Released: 10/30/1980

Movie

Sophia Loren: Her Own Story

as Carlo Ponti

Movie - Released: 10/26/1980

1979

The Seduction of Joe Tynan

as Senator Kittner

Movie - Released: 8/17/1979

Heartland

as Clyde Stewart

Movie - Released: 9/22/1979

A Shining Season

as Jack Baker

Movie - Released: 12/26/1979

Blind Ambition

as Richard M. Nixon

TV - Released: 5/20/1979

1978

Coma

as Dr. George

Movie - Released: 1/6/1978

Steel Cowboy

as K.W. Hicks

Movie - Released: 12/6/1978

Betrayal

as Dr. Hartogs

Movie - Released: 11/13/1978

The Eddie Capra Mysteries

TV - Released: 9/8/1978

1977

The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

as Dwight Webb

Movie - Released: 12/1/1977

Nasty Habits

as Father Maximilian

Movie - Released: 1/28/1977

1976

The Man Who Fell to Earth

as Nathan Bryce

Movie - Released: 3/18/1976

Birch Interval

as Thomas

Movie - Released: 5/2/1976

1975

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan

as Glen Tuttle

Movie - Released: 2/20/1975

1974

Crazy Joe

as Richie

Movie - Released: 2/8/1974

1973

Payday

as Maury Dann

Movie - Released: 9/22/1973

The President's Plane Is Missing

as George Oldenburg

Movie - Released: 10/23/1973

Cotter

as Roy

Movie - Released: 1/1/1973

1972

Slaughter

as Dominic Hoffo

Movie - Released: 8/16/1972

Ghost Story

as Jonathon

TV - Released: 9/15/1972

1971

1 P.M.

as Self

Movie - Released: 6/8/1971

Maidstone

as Raoul Rey O'Houlihan

Movie - Released: 3/9/1971

Montserrat

as Izquierdo

Movie - Released: 3/2/1971

Columbo

as Leon Lamarr

TV - Released: 9/15/1971

1970

Tropic of Cancer

as Henry Miller

Movie - Released: 2/27/1970

1969

Coming Apart

as Joe

Movie - Released: 10/26/1969

Lions Love

as The Beard Director (uncredited)

Movie - Released: 10/12/1969

1968

Beyond the Law

as Popcorn

Movie - Released: 4/2/1968

Sol Madrid

as Dano Villanova

Movie - Released: 2/7/1968

1967

Beach Red

as Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell

Movie - Released: 8/3/1967

Mannix

as Victor Roarke

TV - Released: 9/16/1967

1966

You're a Big Boy Now

as I.H. Chanticleer

Movie - Released: 12/9/1966

One Spy Too Many

as Alexander

Movie - Released: 8/5/1966

1965

The Cincinnati Kid

as William Jefferson Slade

Movie - Released: 10/15/1965

1964

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

as Alexander

TV - Released: 9/22/1964

12 O'Clock High

as Col. Mark Royce

TV - Released: 9/18/1964

1963

Critic's Choice

as Dion Kapakos

Movie - Released: 2/24/1963

The Great Adventure

as Lieutenant John C. Freemont

TV - Released: 9/27/1963

The Lieutenant

as Sgt. Karl Kasten

TV - Released: 9/14/1963

Breaking Point

TV - Released: 9/16/1963

Channing

as Donald Burrows

TV - Released: 9/18/1963

1962

Sweet Bird of Youth

as Thomas 'Tom' J. Finley, Jr.

Movie - Released: 3/21/1962

Hero's Island

as Nicholas Gates

Movie - Released: 9/16/1962

Combat!

as Avery

TV - Released: 10/2/1962

1961

King of Kings

as Judas

Movie - Released: 10/11/1961

24 Hours in a Woman's Life

as Paul

Movie - Released: 3/20/1961

Ben Casey

TV - Released: 10/2/1961

Dr. Kildare

as Dr. Nicholas Keefe

TV - Released: 9/27/1961

The Dick Powell Show

as Joel Coles

TV - Released: 9/26/1961

The Mike Douglas Show

as Self

TV - Released: 12/11/1961

1960

Route 66

as Alvah Clayhorne

TV - Released: 10/7/1960

Thriller

as Duncan Corey

TV - Released: 9/13/1960

1959

Pork Chop Hill

as Lt. Walter Russell

Movie - Released: 5/29/1959

Bonanza

as Will Hewitt

TV - Released: 9/12/1959

Rawhide

as Jacob Yellow-Sun

TV - Released: 1/9/1959

The Untouchables

as Harry Strauss

TV - Released: 10/15/1959

The Untouchables

as Johnny Mizo

TV - Released: 10/15/1959

1958

Movie

Johnny Belinda

as Locky McCormick

Movie - Released: 10/13/1958

Bomber's Moon

as Lieutenant Harrison

Movie - Released: 8/7/1958

Naked City

as Ansel Boake

TV - Released: 9/30/1958

1957

Time Limit

as Lt. George Miller

Movie - Released: 10/23/1957

A Face in the Crowd

as Barry Mills (uncredited)

Movie - Released: 5/29/1957

The Restless Gun

as Jody Gilman

TV - Released: 9/23/1957

1956

Baby Doll

as The Dentist (uncredited)

Movie - Released: 12/29/1956

Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter

TV - Released: 4/1/1956

1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Steve Morgan #22

TV - Released: 10/2/1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Ernie Walters

TV - Released: 10/2/1955

1952

Omnibus

TV - Released: 11/9/1952

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Locky McCormick

TV - Released: 12/24/1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Solomon Chandler

TV - Released: 12/24/1951

1947

Kraft Television Theatre

as Somers

TV - Released: 5/7/1947

Kraft Television Theatre

TV - Released: 5/7/1947

1944

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Presenter

TV - Released: 1/20/1944