Rip Torn
Acting
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.
Born: February 6, 1931
Place of Birth: Temple, Texas, USA
Known For
The Lyon's Den
John "Jack" Turner is a maverick scion from an American political dynasty, a "true believer," who must reconcile his passion for the purity of law in the morally ambiguous world he inhabits, in which no one is who they appear to be. Content with working in a small pro-bono law clinic in Washington, D.C. – at the urging of his more practical longtime friend and colleague, George Riley – Turner reluctantly accepts the position of managing partner in the sponsoring law firm of Lyon, LaCrosse, and Levine in order to save the clinic.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.
Columbo
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
The Untouchables
Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.
The Untouchables
Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
Fires of Kuwait
After Saddam Hussein had the Kuwait Oil wells lit up, teams from all over the world fought those fires for months. They had to save the oil resources, as well as reduce air pollution. The different teams developed different techniques of extinguishing the fires. Man's emergency creativity can be seen at it's best.
The Larry Sanders Show
Comic Garry Shandling draws upon his own talk show experiences to create the character of Larry Sanders, a paranoid, insecure host of a late night talk show. Larry, along with his obsequious TV sidekick Hank Kingsley and his fiercely protective producer Artie, allows Garry Shandling and his talented writers to look behind the scenes and to show us a convincing slice of behind the camera life.
Filmography
as Officer Officer / The Founding Father (archive audio; uncredited)
as Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited)
as Self
as Sal
as King Looney
as Joe
as Trevor O'Hart
as Capt. Jeremiah Burgess
as David Sterling
as Quinette
as Bobo
as Lou Lo Duca (voice)
as Joe Wallace
as Don Geiss
as Larraby
as Louis XV
as Alan James
as Commandant Sherman
as Dr. Chebrin
as Edmund Collins
as Patches O'Houlihan
as Bert Langdon
as Novak
as Oldman
as Zed
as Jules Copeland
as Jim Brody
as Peter Redmond
as Q
as Detective Manny Garett
as John Scanlon
as Royce
as Spence
as Harvey Potter
as Father Robert Grant
as Lionel Banks
as Randall Tyson
as The Narrator
as Zed
as Zeus (voice)
as Benny Gibbs
as Narrator
as Admiral Winslow
as Arthur
as Self (Narrator)
as General Dick Panzer
as Adm. Snyder
as Capt. Cole
as Warren Shutt
as Dr. Leonard Bailey
as Self - Guest
as Bernard Galvin
as Noel Lord
as Deputy Prescott
as The CEO
as Bill Morgan
as Happy Sam
as Admiral Paul Yost - Presidential Delegation
as Arthur
as Narrator (voice)
as Brian Stansbury
as Karl Resnick
as Captain Jack Parsons
as Bob Diamond
as Dub Farley
as Walt Whitman
as Colonel Fargo
as Gideon Hogarth
as Capt. Jack Parsons
as Boss Finley
as Dr. Markowitz
as Sheriff
as Vic Luca
as Solomon Chandler
as Joe Datilla
as Buford Pope
as Sheriff Hank Pearson
as Corbet St. James IV
as Lyndon Baines Johnson
as Tim Nettleton
as Adolphus
as Buzz Beckerman
as Scully
as Lewis Slaton
as Wilheim Gehbert
as Primo Pitt
as Dino McLeish
as Big Daddy
as Khepera
as Sheriff Wells
as Stuart Blankfort
as Will
as Marsh Turner
as Bud Kruger / President Reagan
as Ulysses S. Grant
as Artie Taggart
as Harold Benson
as Maax
as General G. E. Dumpston
as Charles Burt
as Carlo Ponti
as Walter Fox
as Jack Baker
as Clyde Stewart
as Senator Kittner
as Richard M. Nixon
as K.W. Hicks
as Dr. Hartogs
as Dr. George
as Dwight Webb
as Father Maximilian
as Thomas
as Nathan Bryce
as Glen Tuttle
as Richie
as George Oldenburg
as Maury Dann
as Roy
as Jonathon
as Dominic Hoffo
as Leon Lamarr
as Self
as Raoul Rey O'Houlihan
as Izquierdo
as Henry Miller
as Joe
as The Beard Director (uncredited)
as Popcorn
as Dano Villanova
as Victor Roarke
as Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell
as Self - Dano Villanova (archive footage) (uncredited)
as I.H. Chanticleer
as Alexander
as William Jefferson Slade
as Alexander
as Col. Mark Royce
as Lieutenant John C. Freemont
as Donald Burrows
as Sgt. Karl Kasten
as Dion Kapakos
as Avery
as Nicholas Gates
as Thomas 'Tom' J. Finley, Jr.
as Self
as Judas
as Dr. Nicholas Keefe
as Joel Coles
as Paul
as Alvah Clayhorne
as Duncan Corey
as Harry Strauss
as Johnny Mizo
as Will Hewitt
as Lt. Walter Russell
as Jacob Yellow-Sun
as Ansel Boake
as Lieutenant Harrison
as Lt. George Miller
as Jody Gilman
as Barry Mills (uncredited)
as The Dentist (uncredited)
as Self - Presenter
as Steve Morgan #22
as Ernie Walters
as Locky McCormick
as Solomon Chandler
as Somers
as Self - Presenter