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Rip Torn

Rip Torn

Birthday: 1931-02-06 | Place of Birth: Temple, Texas, USA

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rip Torn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2009
Happy Tears

as    Joe

2008
The Golden Boys

as    Capt. Jeremiah Burgess

2008
August

as    David Sterling

2008
Turn the River

as    Quinette

2006
Zoom

as    Larraby

2006
Marie Antoinette

as    Louis XV

2005
Forty Shades of Blue

as    Alan James

2005
The Sisters

as    Dr. Chebrin

2004
Welcome to Mooseport

as    Bert Langdon

2004
Eulogy

as    Edmund Collins

2004
Love Object

as    Novak

2004
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story

as    Patches O'Houlihan

2002
Men in Black II

as    Zed

2001
Freddy Got Fingered

as    Jim Brody

2000
A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle

as    Detective Manny Garett

2000
Wonder Boys

as    Q

1999
1997
Trial and Error

as    Benny Gibbs

1997
Men in Black

as    Zed

1997
Hercules

as    Zeus (voice)

1996
Down Periscope

as    Admiral Winslow

1995
Canadian Bacon

as    General Dick Panzer

1994
Beyond the Law

as    Deputy Prescott

1993
RoboCop 3

as    The CEO

1992
The Larry Sanders Show

as    Arthur

1992
Fires of Kuwait

as    Narrator (voice)