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Rip Torn
Known for: ActingElmore 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 94
The Larry Sanders Show
as Arthur 
Men in Black
as Zed 
Men in Black II
as Zed 
North and South
as Adolphus 
Bee Movie
as Lou Lo Duca (voice) 
Hercules
as Zeus (voice) 
RoboCop 3
as The CEO 
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
as Patches O'Houlihan 
Marie Antoinette
as Louis XV 
The Insider
as John Scanlon 
Airplane II: The Sequel
as Bud Kruger / President Reagan 
Down Periscope
as Admiral Winslow 
Yours, Mine & Ours
as Commandant Sherman 
Zoom
as Larraby 
The Man Who Fell to Earth
as Nathan Bryce 
The Blue and the Gray
as Ulysses S. Grant 
Wonder Boys
as Q 
King of Kings
as Judas 
Defending Your Life
as Bob Diamond 
The Beastmaster
as Maax 
Senseless
as Randall Tyson 
Beyond the Law
as Deputy Prescott 
Slaughter
as Dominic Hoffo 
Freddy Got Fingered
as Jim Brody 
Welcome to Mooseport
as Bert Langdon 
How to Make an American Quilt
as Arthur 
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
as Senator Kittner 
Summer Rental
as Scully 
Canadian Bacon
as General Dick Panzer 
A Face in the Crowd
as Barry Mills (uncredited) 
Coma
as Dr. George 
Ghost Stories
as The Narrator 
The Cincinnati Kid
as William Jefferson Slade 
City Heat
as Primo Pitt 
Dolly Dearest
as Karl Resnick 
Extreme Prejudice
as Sheriff Hank Pearson 
By Dawn's Early Light
as Colonel Fargo 
Baby Doll
as The Dentist (uncredited) 
Pork Chop Hill
as Lt. Walter Russell 
Jinxed!
as Harold Benson 
Sweet Bird of Youth
as Tom Finley Jr. 
You're a Big Boy Now
as I.H. Chanticleer 
Cotter
as Roy 
National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus
as King Looney 
Cross Creek
as Marsh Turner 
Eulogy
as Edmund Collins 
Beach Red
as Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell 
Love Object
as Novak 
Sweet Bird of Youth
as Boss Finley 
Where the Rivers Flow North
as Noel Lord 
A Stranger Is Watching
as Artie Taggart 
Trial and Error
as Benny Gibbs 
Kojak: None So Blind
as Gideon Hogarth 
Happy Tears
as Joe 
Time Limit
as Lt. George Miller 
The Telephone
Director 
August
as David Sterling 
One Spy Too Many
as Alexander 
Crazy Joe
as Richie 
Nadine
as Buford Pope 
The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery
as Royce 
April Morning
as Solomon Chandler 
Beer
as Buzz Beckerman 
Balloon Farm
as Harvey Potter 
Cold Feet
as Sheriff 
Flashpoint
as Sheriff Wells 
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
as Carlo Ponti 
Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind
as Captain Jack Parsons 
Turn the River
as Quinette 
The Golden Boys
as Capt. Jeremiah Burgess 
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
as Dwight Webb 
A Shining Season
as Jack Baker 
One Trick Pony
as Walter Fox 
3 Weeks to Daytona
as Sal 
Rolling Kansas
as Oldman 
Passing Glory
as Father Robert Grant 
Tropic of Cancer
as Henry Miller 
Sol Madrid
as Dano Villanova 
Steel Cowboy
as K.W. Hicks 
American Cowslip
as Trevor O'Hart 
Heartland
as Clyde Stewart 
Nasty Habits
as Father Maximilian 
Critic's Choice
as Dion Kapakos 
The Execution
as Wilheim Gehbert 
Hero's Island
as Nicholas Gates 
First Family
as General G. E. Dumpston 
Pair of Aces
as Capt. Jack Parsons 
Songwriter
as Dino McLeish 
Coming Apart
as Joe 
Hit List
as Vic Luca 
Norman Mailer: The American
as Self 
Maidstone
as Raoul Rey O'Houlihan