Rip Torn
Acting
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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Men in Black 3
Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited)
Norman Mailer: The American
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3 Weeks to Daytona
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National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus
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Happy Tears
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The Afterlight
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American Cowslip
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Bee Movie
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The Making of Marie Antoinette
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The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show'
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Three Days to Vegas
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Zoom
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Marie Antoinette
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Forty Shades of Blue
Alan James
Yours, Mine & Ours
Commandant Sherman
The Sisters
Dr. Chebrin
Eulogy
Edmund Collins
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
Patches O'Houlihan
Welcome to Mooseport
Bert Langdon
Love Object
Novak
Maniac Magee
George McNab
Rolling Kansas
Oldman
Men in Black II
Zed
Freddy Got Fingered
Jim Brody
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
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Wonder Boys
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A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle
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The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery
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James Dean: A Portrait
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She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal
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Heart of a Child
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Fires of Kuwait
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My Son Johnny
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Dolly Dearest
Karl Resnick
Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind
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Defending Your Life
Bob Diamond
Death Falls
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Beautiful Dreamers
Walt Whitman
By Dawn's Early Light
Colonel Fargo
Kojak: None So Blind
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Pair of Aces
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The Man Who Fell to Earth
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Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
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The President's Plane Is Missing
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Payday
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Cotter
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Slaughter
Dominic Hoffo
1 P.M.
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Maidstone
Raoul Rey O'Houlihan
Montserrat
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Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
Coming Apart
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Lions Love
The Beard Director (uncredited)
Beyond the Law
Popcorn
Sol Madrid
Dano Villanova
Beach Red
Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell
Lionpower from MGM
Self - Dano Villanova (archive footage) (uncredited)
You're a Big Boy Now
I.H. Chanticleer
One Spy Too Many
Alexander
The Cincinnati Kid
William Jefferson Slade
Critic's Choice
Dion Kapakos
Hero's Island
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Sweet Bird of Youth
Tom Finley Jr.
King of Kings
Judas
24 Hours in a Woman's Life
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Pork Chop Hill
Lt. Walter Russell
Johnny Belinda
Locky McCormick
Bomber's Moon
Lieutenant Harrison
Time Limit
Lt. George Miller
A Face in the Crowd
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Baby Doll
The Dentist (uncredited)