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
7.7
Route 66
6.3
Omnibus
6
Naked City
5.5
Soul Food
7
Mannix
6.7
Combat!
7.6
30 Rock
7.448
Will & Grace
6.855
Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
The Lyon's Den
9.3
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
7.2
Chicago Hope
7.243
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
7.731
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
7.417
Seasons of Love
0
Blind Ambition
5
The Atlanta Child Murders
6
Bonanza
7.5
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
7.731
Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
Columbo
8.088
The Dick Powell Show
5.5
Ghost Stories
6.909
The John Larroquette Show
6.7
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
7.565
The Mike Douglas Show
5.375
The Restless Gun
3.7
Golden Globe Awards
7
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
7.2
12 O'Clock High
7.263
Tony Awards
5.1
Rawhide
7.2
The Untouchables
7.9
The Untouchables
7.9
Kraft Television Theatre
7.5
Kraft Television Theatre
7.5
Movies
The Cincinnati Kid
7
The Man Who Fell to Earth
6.473
Men in Black
7.209
Men in Black II
6.377
Canadian Bacon
5.774
Marie Antoinette
6.7
Airplane II: The Sequel
6.097
Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time
0
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
5.5
Wonder Boys
6.846
Extreme Prejudice
6.18
A Stranger Is Watching
4.6
RoboCop 3
4.892
Bee Movie
6.028
By Dawn's Early Light
6.6
Coma
6.7
Forty Shades of Blue
4.182
How to Make an American Quilt
6.4
Hercules
7.5
Defending Your Life
6.9
The Insider
7.456
Senseless
6.2
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
6.355
Down Periscope
6.344
Sweet Bird of Youth
6.8
Rolling Kansas
5.55
Freddy Got Fingered
4.7
Balloon Farm
5.8
Dolly Dearest
5.5
Zoom
5.29
Turn the River
5.309
One Trick Pony
5.4
King of Kings
7.114
You're a Big Boy Now
6.105
Pork Chop Hill
6.5
Nadine
5.415
American Cowslip
5.4
Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind
3.7
Eulogy
6.449
The Beastmaster
6.31
Welcome to Mooseport
5.097
The Sisters
5.029
Happy Tears
5.103
Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
6.333
Beach Red
6.3
City Heat
5.5
Love Object
5.8
Time Limit
7
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
5.9
Trial and Error
5.42
Flashpoint
6.22
Beyond the Law
6.2
Heartland
6.5
Where the Rivers Flow North
6.4
Summer Rental
6.105
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
7.606
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
6.531
Destination: America
0
Passing Glory
5.8
Steel Cowboy
0
A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle
0
Yours, Mine & Ours
6.2
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
5.2
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
3.5
Lucky Days
0
Cotter
1
24 Hours in a Woman's Life
0
She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal
1.5
The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show'
0
Fires of Kuwait
7.5
Maniac Magee
0
A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story
4
Betrayal
0
The Golden Boys
5.542
For Better or Worse
4