Rip Torn

from Temple, Texas, USA

Artwork for Men in Black 3Image of Rip Torn

Biography

Elmore Rual "Rip" Torn Jr. (February 6, 1931 – July 9, 2019) was an American actor.

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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Timeline

2026Aged 95

  • Poster for Making Marie Antoinette

    Self

2012Aged 81

2011Aged 80

  • Poster for National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus

    King Looney

  • Poster for 3 Weeks to Daytona

    Sal

2009Aged 78

  • Poster for American Cowslip

    Trevor O'Hart

  • Poster for The Afterlight

    Carl

  • Poster for Happy Tears

    Joe

2008Aged 77

  • Poster for Lucky Days

    Bobo

  • Poster for Turn the River

    Quinette

  • Poster for August

    David Sterling

  • Poster for The Golden Boys

    Capt. Jeremiah Burgess

2007Aged 76

  • Poster for Three Days to Vegas

    Joe Wallace

  • Poster for The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show'

    Arthur

  • Poster for The Making of Marie Antoinette

    Self

  • Poster for Bee Movie

    Lou Lo Duca (voice)

2006Aged 75

2005Aged 74

  • Poster for The Sisters

    Dr. Chebrin

  • Poster for Yours, Mine & Ours

    Commandant Sherman

  • Poster for Forty Shades of Blue

    Alan James

2004Aged 73

  • Poster for Love Object

    Novak

  • Poster for Welcome to Mooseport

    Bert Langdon

  • Poster for DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story

    Patches O'Houlihan

  • Poster for Eulogy

    Edmund Collins

2003Aged 72

  • Poster for Rolling Kansas

    Oldman

  • Poster for Maniac Magee

    George McNab

2002Aged 71

  • Poster for Men in Black II

    Zed

2001Aged 70

  • Poster for Freddy Got Fingered

    Jim Brody

2000Aged 69

  • Poster for A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle

    Detective Manny Garett

  • Poster for Wonder Boys

    Q

  • Poster for Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

    Self

1999Aged 68

  • Poster for Passing Glory

    Father Robert Grant

  • Poster for Balloon Farm

    Harvey Potter

  • Poster for The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery

    Royce

  • Poster for The Insider

    John Scanlon

1998Aged 67

  • Poster for Senseless

    Randall Tyson

1997Aged 66

  • Poster for Trial and Error

    Benny Gibbs

  • Poster for Hercules

    Zeus (voice)

  • Poster for Men in Black

    Zed

  • The Mouse

    Trucker 'God'

1996Aged 65

  • Poster for Down Periscope

    Admiral Winslow

  • Poster for The Hindenburg

    Narrator

1995Aged 64

  • Poster for For Better or Worse

    Capt. Cole

  • Poster for She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal

    Adm. Snyder

  • Poster for Canadian Bacon

    General Dick Panzer

  • Poster for Letter to My Killer

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for James Dean: A Portrait

    Self (Narrator)

  • Poster for How to Make an American Quilt

    Arthur

1994Aged 63

  • Poster for Heart of a Child

    Dr. Leonard Bailey

1993Aged 62

  • Poster for RoboCop 3

    The CEO

  • Poster for Beyond the Law

    Deputy Prescott

  • Poster for Where the Rivers Flow North

    Noel Lord

1992Aged 61

  • Poster for Fires of Kuwait

    Narrator (voice)

  • Poster for Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster

    Admiral Paul Yost

  • Poster for T Bone N Weasel

    Happy Sam

  • Poster for A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story

    Bill Morgan

1991Aged 60

  • Poster for Death Falls

    Dub Farley

  • Poster for Defending Your Life

    Bob Diamond

  • Poster for Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind

    Captain Jack Parsons

  • Poster for Dolly Dearest

    Karl Resnick

  • Poster for My Son Johnny

    Brian Stansbury

1990Aged 59

  • Poster for Pair of Aces

    Capt. Jack Parsons

  • Poster for Kojak: None So Blind

    Gideon Hogarth

  • Poster for By Dawn's Early Light

    Colonel Fargo

  • Poster for Beautiful Dreamers

    Walt Whitman

1989Aged 58

  • Poster for Hit List

    Vic Luca

  • Poster for Cold Feet

    Sheriff

  • Poster for Silence Like Glass

    Dr. Markowitz

  • Poster for Sweet Bird of Youth

    Boss Finley

1988Aged 57

  • Poster for April Morning

    Solomon Chandler

  • Poster for The Telephone

    Director

1987Aged 56

  • Poster for J. Edgar Hoover

    Lyndon Baines Johnson

  • Poster for Destination: America

    Corbet St. James IV

  • Poster for Extreme Prejudice

    Sheriff Hank Pearson

  • Poster for Nadine

    Buford Pope

  • Poster for Laguna Heat

    Joe Datilla

  • The King of Love

    Jack Kraft

1986Aged 55

  • Poster for Manhunt for Claude Dallas

    Tim Nettleton

1985Aged 54

  • Poster for The Execution

    Wilheim Gehbert

  • Poster for Summer Rental

    Scully

  • Poster for Beer

    Buzz Beckerman

1984Aged 53

  • Poster for When She Says No

    Stuart Blankfort

  • Poster for Flashpoint

    Sheriff Wells

  • Poster for Scarab

    Khepera

  • Poster for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt

  • Poster for Songwriter

    Dino McLeish

  • Poster for City Heat

    Primo Pitt

1983Aged 52

  • Poster for Cross Creek

    Marsh Turner

  • Poster for Misunderstood

    Will

1982Aged 51

  • Poster for A Stranger Is Watching

    Artie Taggart

  • Poster for The Beastmaster

    Maax

  • Poster for Jinxed!

    Harold Benson

  • Poster for Airplane II: The Sequel

    Bud Kruger / President Reagan

1981Aged 50

  • Poster for Heartland

    Clyde Stewart

1980Aged 49

  • Poster for One Trick Pony

    Walter Fox

  • Poster for Sophia Loren: Her Own Story

    Carlo Ponti

  • Poster for Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case

    Charles Burt

  • Poster for First Family

    General G. E. Dumpston

1979Aged 48

  • Poster for The Seduction of Joe Tynan

    Senator Kittner

  • Poster for A Shining Season

    Jack Baker

1978Aged 47

  • Poster for Coma

    Dr. George

  • Poster for Betrayal

    Dr. Hartogs

  • Poster for Steel Cowboy

    K.W. Hicks

1977Aged 46

  • Poster for Nasty Habits

    Father Maximilian

  • Poster for The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

    Dwight Webb

1976Aged 45

  • Poster for The Man Who Fell to Earth

    Nathan Bryce

  • Poster for Birch Interval

    Thomas

  • Poster for Harlan County U.S.A.

    Thanks

1974Aged 43

  • Poster for Crazy Joe

    Richie

1973Aged 42

  • Poster for Cotter

    Roy

  • Poster for Payday

    Maury Dann

  • Poster for The President's Plane Is Missing

    George Oldenburg

1972Aged 41

  • Poster for Slaughter

    Dominic Hoffo

1971Aged 40

  • Poster for Montserrat

    Izquierdo

  • Poster for Maidstone

    Raoul Rey O'Houlihan

  • Poster for 1 P.M.

    Self

1970Aged 39

  • Poster for Tropic of Cancer

    Henry Miller

1969Aged 38

  • Poster for Lions Love

    The Beard Director (uncredited)

  • Poster for Coming Apart

    Joe

1968Aged 37

  • Poster for Sol Madrid

    Dano Villanova

  • Poster for Beyond the Law

    Popcorn

1967Aged 36

  • Poster for Lionpower from MGM

    Self - Dano Villanova (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • Poster for Beach Red

    Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell

1966Aged 35

  • Poster for One Spy Too Many

    Alexander

  • Poster for You're a Big Boy Now

    I.H. Chanticleer

1965Aged 34

  • Poster for The Cincinnati Kid

    William Jefferson Slade

1963Aged 32

  • Poster for Critic's Choice

    Dion Kapakos

1962Aged 31

  • Poster for Sweet Bird of Youth

    Tom Finley Jr.

  • Poster for Hero's Island

    Nicholas Gates

1961Aged 30

  • Poster for 24 Hours in a Woman's Life

    Paul

  • Poster for King of Kings

    Judas

1959Aged 28

  • Poster for Pork Chop Hill

    Lt. Walter Russell

1958Aged 27

1957Aged 26

  • Poster for A Face in the Crowd

    Barry Mills (uncredited)

  • Poster for Time Limit

    Lt. George Miller

1956Aged 25

  • Poster for Baby Doll

    The Dentist (uncredited)

Year unknown

  • Poster for Heartland

    (Unknown)