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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TV Series
The Great Adventure
0
The Larry Sanders Show
7.651
Route 66
6.324
Omnibus
6
Naked City
5.5
Soul Food
7
Mannix
6.686
Combat!
7.649
30 Rock
7.457
Will & Grace
6.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
The Lyon's Den
9.3
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
7.191
Chicago Hope
7.243
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
7.7
Extreme Dodgeball
0
Thriller
6.417
Ben Casey
5.6
The Lieutenant
6
The Blue and the Gray
6.9
Breaking Point
7.25
Dr. Kildare
5.5
Ghost Story
7.1
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
5
Channing
7
North and South
7.456
Seasons of Love
0
Blind Ambition
5
The Atlanta Child Murders
6
Bonanza
7.512
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
7.7
Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
Columbo
8.097
The Dick Powell Show
5.5
Ghost Stories
6.909
The John Larroquette Show
6.688
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
7.6
The Mike Douglas Show
5.375
The Restless Gun
3.7
Golden Globe Awards
7.2
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
7.185
12 O'Clock High
7.15
Tony Awards
5.917
Rawhide
7.13
The Untouchables
7.839
The Untouchables
7.839
Kraft Television Theatre
7.5
Kraft Television Theatre
7.5
Movies
The Cincinnati Kid
7
The Man Who Fell to Earth
6.463
Men in Black
7.212
Men in Black II
6.379
Canadian Bacon
5.763
Marie Antoinette
6.698
Airplane II: The Sequel
6.1
Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time
0
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
5.5
Wonder Boys
6.841
Extreme Prejudice
6.193
A Stranger Is Watching
4.6
RoboCop 3
4.9
Bee Movie
6
By Dawn's Early Light
6.6
Coma
6.7
Forty Shades of Blue
4.2
How to Make an American Quilt
6.425
Hercules
7.498
Defending Your Life
6.9
The Insider
7.458
Senseless
6.22
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
6.359
Down Periscope
6.359
Sweet Bird of Youth
6.8
Rolling Kansas
5.55
Freddy Got Fingered
4.692
Balloon Farm
5.8
Dolly Dearest
5.5
Zoom
5.299
Turn the River
5.3
One Trick Pony
5.4
King of Kings
7.136
You're a Big Boy Now
6.1
Pork Chop Hill
6.5
Nadine
5.412
American Cowslip
5.4
Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind
3.7
Eulogy
6.449
The Beastmaster
6.3
Welcome to Mooseport
5.097
The Sisters
5.029
Happy Tears
5.103
Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
5.25
Beach Red
6.3
City Heat
5.497
Love Object
5.8
Time Limit
7
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
5.9
Trial and Error
5.398
Flashpoint
6.2
Beyond the Law
6.204
Heartland
6.5
Where the Rivers Flow North
6.167
Summer Rental
6.122
Scarab
5.5
Songwriter
5.3
Coming Apart
6.313
Payday
6.1
National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus
3.9
Misunderstood
6.7
Slaughter
5.6
Beer
4
Critic's Choice
5.5
Jinxed!
4.478
One Spy Too Many
5.1
Cold Feet
4
April Morning
5.708
Tropic of Cancer
4.7
Hit List
6.029
Norman Mailer: The American
7
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
5
Crazy Joe
6
First Family
3
1 P.M.
5.8
Nasty Habits
4.6
A Face in the Crowd
7.601
Johnny Belinda
0
Cross Creek
6.6
The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery
5.1
Maidstone
4.1
Beyond the Law
4.8
Sol Madrid
6.375
Hero's Island
4.8
The Making of Marie Antoinette
5
Bomber's Moon
0
Three Days to Vegas
3.8
Silence Like Glass
6.6
J. Edgar Hoover
0
Men in Black 3
6.534
Destination: America
0
Passing Glory
5.8
Steel Cowboy
0
A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle
0
Yours, Mine & Ours
6.18
The Afterlight
0
Pair of Aces
5
The King of Love
0
The Execution
7.3
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
7.1
Heart of a Child
4.6
Death Falls
3
Montserrat
0
August
5.2
Birch Interval
5.5
Manhunt for Claude Dallas
4
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
5.5
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
5
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
5.7
The President's Plane Is Missing
6.2
A Shining Season
3
Sweet Bird of Youth
5.682
When She Says No
0
My Son Johnny
6
Beautiful Dreamers
5.2
Laguna Heat
4.4
Letter to My Killer
6
Lions Love
5.9
Kojak: None So Blind
6
Baby Doll
7.079
The Hindenburg
6
T Bone N Weasel
3
Lucky Days
0
Cotter
1
24 Hours in a Woman's Life
0
She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal
4.333
The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show'
0
Fires of Kuwait
7.5
Maniac Magee
0
A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story
7
Betrayal
0
The Golden Boys
5.5
For Better or Worse
4
James Dean: A Portrait
0
Lionpower from MGM
4.5
3 Weeks to Daytona
5.5