Highest rated as cast or director
Biography
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.
Acted in 166
2010s
- 2012
- 2011
3 Weeks to Daytona
Sal
2000s
- 2009
Happy Tears
Joe
The Afterlight
Carl
American Cowslip
Trevor O'Hart
- 2008
The Golden Boys
Capt. Jeremiah Burgess
August
David Sterling
Turn the River
Quinette
Lucky Days
Bobo
- 2007
The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show'
Arthur
Three Days to Vegas
Joe Wallace
- 2006
- 2005
Forty Shades of Blue
Alan James
The Sisters
Dr. Chebrin
- 2004
Love Object
Novak
- 2003
Maniac Magee
George McNab
Rolling Kansas
Oldman
- 2002
- 2001
- 2000
A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle
Detective Manny Garett
1990s
- 1999
The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery
Royce
Seasons of Love
Spence · 2 episodes
Balloon Farm
Harvey Potter
Passing Glory
Father Robert Grant
- 1998
- 1997
Ghost Stories
The Narrator · 44 episodes
Trial and Error
Benny Gibbs
- 1996
- 1995
Letter to My Killer
Movie
She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal
Adm. Snyder
For Better or Worse
Capt. Cole
- 1994
Heart of a Child
Dr. Leonard Bailey
- 1993
- 1992
A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story
Bill Morgan
T Bone N Weasel
Happy Sam
Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
Admiral Paul Yost
- 1991
My Son Johnny
Brian Stansbury
Dolly Dearest
Karl Resnick
Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind
Captain Jack Parsons
Death Falls
Dub Farley
- 1990
Beautiful Dreamers
Walt Whitman
Kojak: None So Blind
Gideon Hogarth
Pair of Aces
Capt. Jack Parsons
1980s
- 1989
Cold Feet
Sheriff
Hit List
Vic Luca
- 1988
April Morning
Solomon Chandler
- 1987
Laguna Heat
Joe Datilla
Nadine
Buford Pope
Extreme Prejudice
Sheriff Hank Pearson
Destination: America
Corbet St. James IV
J. Edgar Hoover
Lyndon Baines Johnson
- 1986
Manhunt for Claude Dallas
Tim Nettleton
- 1985
The Atlanta Child Murders
Lewis Slaton · 2 episodes
- 1984
Songwriter
Dino McLeish
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
Flashpoint
Sheriff Wells
When She Says No
Stuart Blankfort
- 1983
Misunderstood
Will
- 1982
The Blue and the Gray
Ulysses S. Grant · 3 episodes
Jinxed!
Harold Benson
A Stranger Is Watching
Artie Taggart
- 1981
- 1980
First Family
General G. E. Dumpston
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
Charles Burt
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
Carlo Ponti
One Trick Pony
Walter Fox
1970s
- 1979
A Shining Season
Jack Baker
Blind Ambition
Richard M. Nixon · 4 episodes
- 1978
Betrayal
Dr. Hartogs
- 1977
Nasty Habits
Father Maximilian
- 1976
Birch Interval
Thomas
- 1975
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Glen Tuttle · 2 episodes
- 1974
Crazy Joe
Richie
- 1973
The President's Plane Is Missing
George Oldenburg
Payday
Maury Dann
- 1972
- 1971
Maidstone
Raoul Rey O'Houlihan
Montserrat
Izquierdo
- 1970
Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
1960s
- 1969
Coming Apart
Joe
Lions Love
The Beard Director (uncredited)
- 1968
Beyond the Law
Popcorn
Sol Madrid
Dano Villanova
- 1967
- 1966
One Spy Too Many
Alexander
- 1965
- 1964
- 1963
Critic's Choice
Dion Kapakos
- 1962
Hero's Island
Nicholas Gates
Sweet Bird of Youth
Tom Finley Jr.
- 1961
24 Hours in a Woman's Life
Paul
- 1960
1950s
- 1959
- 1958
Bomber's Moon
Lieutenant Harrison
- 1957
- 1956
- 1955
- 1952
- 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Locky McCormick, Solomon Chandler · 1 episode
No release date
Heartland
Movie
Produced 1
2000s
- 2008
Lucky Days
Executive Producer
Directed 1
1980s
- 1988
The Telephone
Director
Appearances13
2010s
- 2012
Norman Mailer: The American
Self
2000s
- 2007
The Making of Marie Antoinette
Self
- 2000
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Self
1990s
- 1996
The Hindenburg
Narrator
- 1995
James Dean: A Portrait
Self (Narrator)
- 1993
- 1992
Fires of Kuwait
Narrator (voice)
1970s
- 1971
1 P.M.
Self
1960s
- 1967
Lionpower from MGM
Self - Dano Villanova (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1961
Thanked in the credits1
1970s
- 1976
