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.

Filmography

• 2012Bridge of Names — Tom
• 2012Men in Black 3 — Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited)
• 20113 Weeks to Daytona — Sal
• 2011National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus — King Looney
• 2009American Cowslip — Trevor O'Hart
• 2009Happy Tears — Joe
• 2009The Afterlight — Carl
• 2008August — David Sterling
• 2008Lucky Days — Bobo, Executive Producer
• 2008The Golden Boys — Capt. Jeremiah Burgess
• 2008Turn the River — Quinette
• 2007Bee Movie — Lou Lo Duca (voice)
• 2007The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show' — Arthur
• 2007Three Days to Vegas — Joe Wallace
• 30 Rock — Don Geiss
• 2006Marie Antoinette — Louis XV
• 2006Zoom — Larraby
• 2005Forty Shades of Blue — Alan James
• 2005The Sisters — Dr. Chebrin
• 2005Yours, Mine & Ours — Commandant Sherman
• 2004DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story — Patches O'Houlihan
• 2004Eulogy — Edmund Collins
• Extreme Dodgeball
• 2004Love Object — Novak
• 2004Welcome to Mooseport — Bert Langdon
• 2003Maniac Magee — George McNab
• 2003Rolling Kansas — Oldman
• The Lyon's Den
• 2002Men in Black II — Zed
• 2001Freddy Got Fingered — Jim Brody
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Jules Copeland
• 2000A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle — Detective Manny Garett
• Soul Food — Peter Redmond
• 2000Wonder Boys — Q
• 1999Balloon Farm — Harvey Potter
• 1999Passing Glory — Father Robert Grant
• Seasons of Love — Spence
• 1999The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery — Royce
• 1999The Insider — John Scanlon
• 1998Senseless — Randall Tyson
• Will & Grace — Lionel Banks
• Ghost Stories — The Narrator
• 1997Hercules — Zeus (voice)
• 1997Men in Black — Zed
• 1997The Mouse — Trucker 'God'
• 1997Trial and Error — Benny Gibbs
• 1996Down Periscope — Admiral Winslow
• 1996The Hindenburg — Narrator
• 1995Canadian Bacon — General Dick Panzer
• 1995For Better or Worse — Capt. Cole
• 1995How to Make an American Quilt — Arthur
• 1995Letter to My Killer
• 1995She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal — Adm. Snyder
• Chicago Hope — Warren Shutt
• 1994Heart of a Child — Dr. Leonard Bailey
• 1993Beyond the Law — Deputy Prescott
• 1993RoboCop 3 — The CEO
• The John Larroquette Show — Bernard Galvin
• 1993Where the Rivers Flow North — Noel Lord
• 1992A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story — Bill Morgan
• 1992Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster — Admiral Paul Yost
• 1992Fires of Kuwait — Narrator (voice)
• 1992T Bone N Weasel — Happy Sam
• The Larry Sanders Show — Arthur
• 1991Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind — Captain Jack Parsons
• 1991Death Falls — Dub Farley
• 1991Defending Your Life — Bob Diamond
• 1991Dolly Dearest — Karl Resnick
• 1991My Son Johnny — Brian Stansbury
• 1990Beautiful Dreamers — Walt Whitman
• 1990By Dawn's Early Light — Colonel Fargo
• 1990Kojak: None So Blind — Gideon Hogarth
• 1990Pair of Aces — Capt. Jack Parsons
• 1989Cold Feet — Sheriff
• 1989Hit List — Vic Luca
• 1989Silence Like Glass — Dr. Markowitz
• 1989Sweet Bird of Youth — Boss Finley
• 1988April Morning — Solomon Chandler
• 1988The Telephone — Director
• 1987Destination: America — Corbet St. James IV
• 1987Extreme Prejudice — Sheriff Hank Pearson
• 1987J. Edgar Hoover — Lyndon Baines Johnson
• 1987Laguna Heat — Joe Datilla
• 1987Nadine — Buford Pope
• 1987The King of Love — Jack Kraft
• 1986Manhunt for Claude Dallas — Tim Nettleton
• 1985Beer — Buzz Beckerman
• North and South — Adolphus
• 1985Summer Rental — Scully
• The Atlanta Child Murders — Lewis Slaton
• 1985The Execution — Wilheim Gehbert
• 1984Cat on a Hot Tin Roof — Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
• 1984City Heat — Primo Pitt
• 1984Flashpoint — Sheriff Wells
• 1984Scarab — Khepera
• 1984Songwriter — Dino McLeish
• 1984When She Says No — Stuart Blankfort
• 1983Cross Creek — Marsh Turner
• 1983Misunderstood — Will
• 1982A Stranger Is Watching — Artie Taggart
• 1982Airplane II: The Sequel — Bud Kruger / President Reagan
• American Playhouse — Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
• 1982Jinxed! — Harold Benson
• 1982The Beastmaster — Maax
• The Blue and the Gray — Ulysses S. Grant
• 1981Heartland — Clyde Stewart
• 1980First Family — General G. E. Dumpston
• 1980One Trick Pony — Walter Fox
• 1980Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case — Charles Burt
• 1980Sophia Loren: Her Own Story — Carlo Ponti
• 1979A Shining Season — Jack Baker
• Blind Ambition — Richard M. Nixon
• 1979The Seduction of Joe Tynan — Senator Kittner
• 1978Betrayal — Dr. Hartogs
• 1978Coma — Dr. George
• 1978Steel Cowboy — K.W. Hicks
• The Eddie Capra Mysteries
• 1977Nasty Habits — Father Maximilian
• 1977The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover — Dwight Webb
• 1976Birch Interval — Thomas
• 1976Harlan County U.S.A. — Thanks
• 1976The Man Who Fell to Earth — Nathan Bryce
• Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan — Glen Tuttle
• 1974Crazy Joe — Richie
• 1973Cotter — Roy
• 1973Payday — Maury Dann
• 1973The President's Plane Is Missing — George Oldenburg
• Ghost Story — Jonathon
• 1972Slaughter — Dominic Hoffo
• Columbo — Leon Lamarr
• 1971Maidstone — Raoul Rey O'Houlihan
• 1971Montserrat — Izquierdo
• 1970Tropic of Cancer — Henry Miller
• 1969Coming Apart — Joe
• 1969Lions Love — The Beard Director (uncredited)
• 1968Beyond the Law — Popcorn
• 1968Sol Madrid — Dano Villanova
• 1967Beach Red — Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell
• Mannix — Victor Roarke
• 1966One Spy Too Many — Alexander
• 1966You're a Big Boy Now — I.H. Chanticleer
• 1965The Cincinnati Kid — William Jefferson Slade
• 12 O'Clock High — Col. Mark Royce
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. — Alexander
• Breaking Point
• Channing — Donald Burrows
• 1963Critic's Choice — Dion Kapakos
• The Great Adventure — Lieutenant John C. Freemont
• The Lieutenant — Sgt. Karl Kasten
• Combat! — Avery
• 1962Hero's Island — Nicholas Gates
• 1962Sweet Bird of Youth — Tom Finley Jr.
• 196124 Hours in a Woman's Life — Paul
• Ben Casey
• Dr. Kildare — Dr. Nicholas Keefe
• 1961King of Kings — Judas
• The Dick Powell Show — Joel Coles
• Route 66 — Alvah Clayhorne
• Thriller — Duncan Corey
• Bonanza — Will Hewitt
• 1959Pork Chop Hill — Lt. Walter Russell
• Rawhide — Jacob Yellow-Sun
• The Untouchables — Harry Strauss, Johnny Mizo
• 1958Bomber's Moon — Lieutenant Harrison
• 1958Johnny Belinda — Locky McCormick
• Naked City — Ansel Boake
• 1957A Face in the Crowd — Barry Mills (uncredited)
• The Restless Gun — Jody Gilman
• 1957Time Limit — Lt. George Miller
• 1956Baby Doll — The Dentist (uncredited)
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Steve Morgan #22, Ernie Walters
• Omnibus
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Locky McCormick, Solomon Chandler
• Kraft Television Theatre — Somers
• Heartland

Appearances as themselves (11)

• 2012Norman Mailer: The American — Self
• 2007The Making of Marie Antoinette — Self
• 2006Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time — Self
• 2000Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows — Self
• 1995James Dean: A Portrait — Self (Narrator)
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• 19711 P.M. — Self
• 1967Lionpower from MGM — Self - Dano Villanova (archive footage) (uncredited)
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Presenter
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Presenter