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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Men in Black 3
2012
as Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited)
Agents J and K are back...in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes ...

Norman Mailer: The American
2012
as Self
A provocateur, a rebel, a performer, and a true American, Norman Mailer never stopped giving people something to talk about. This documentary goes be...

National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus
2011
as King Looney
A clueless Trojan general must meet an unbeatable Greek warrior on the battlefield.

Happy Tears
2009
as Joe
Two sisters return home to care for their aging father.
The Afterlight
2009
as Carl
After Andrew and Claire, a young couple attempting to restart their live, moves to an isolated school house in farm country, their neighbors and natu...

American Cowslip
2009
as Trevor O'Hart
In Blythe, California, a small town in the remote California desert, Ethan Inglebrink is an eccentric, agoraphobic heroin addict who is obsessed with ...

The Golden Boys
2008
as Capt. Jeremiah Burgess
Three retired sea captains living together in genteel squalor. They scheme to improve their fortunes by having one of them solicit a bride through an ...

August
2008
as David Sterling
Two brothers, ambitious dot-com entrepreneurs, attempt to keep their company afloat as the stock market begins to collapse in August 2001, one month p...

Turn the River
2008
as Quinette
A pool shark takes the ultimate gamble when she kidnaps her own son and flees her ex-husband.

Lucky Days
2008
as Bobo
Virginia embarks on a quest for freedom during the last explosive weekend of Coney Island's renowned amusement park. After the reappearance of her chi...

Lucky Days
2008
Executive Producer
Virginia embarks on a quest for freedom during the last explosive weekend of Coney Island's renowned amusement park. After the reappearance of her chi...

Bee Movie
2007
as Lou Lo Duca (voice)
Barry B. Benson, a recent college graduate who wants more out of his life than making honey, decides to sue the human race after learning about the ex...

The Making of Marie Antoinette
2007
as Self
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006).

The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show'
2007
as Arthur
A feature-length "making of" documentary about the 'The Larry Sanders Show' with cast and star interviews, deleted scenes, commentaries, and footage o...

Three Days to Vegas
2007
as Joe Wallace
Four grumpy old men go on a road trip from their retired life in Florida to the excitement of Las Vegas in order to stop one of their daughters from m...

Zoom
2006
as Larraby
Jack Shepard is an out-of-shape auto shop owner, far removed from the man who once protected the world's freedom. Reluctantly called back into action ...

Marie Antoinette
2006
as Louis XV
The retelling of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19...
Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time
2006
as Self
The making of the film with Drew Casper.

Forty Shades of Blue
2005
as Alan James
A Russian woman living in Memphis with a much older rock-n-roll legend experiences a personal awakening when her husband's estranged son comes to visi...

Yours, Mine & Ours
2005
as Commandant Sherman
Admiral Frank Beardsley returns to New London to run the Coast Guard Academy, his last stop before a probable promotion to head the Guard. A widower w...

The Sisters
2005
as Dr. Chebrin
Based on Anton Chekov's "The Three Sisters" about siblings living in a college town who struggle with the death of their father and try to reconcile r...

Eulogy
2004
as Edmund Collins
A black comedy that follows three generations of a family, who come together for the funeral of the patriarch - unveiling a litany of family secrets a...

DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
2004
as Patches O'Houlihan
When megalomaniacal White Goodman, the owner of a trendy, high-end fitness center, makes a move to take over the struggling local gym run by happy-go-...

Welcome to Mooseport
2004
as Bert Langdon
A US president who has retired after two terms in office returns to his hometown of Mooseport, Maine and decides to run for Mayor against another loca...

Love Object
2004
as Novak
The twisted tale of Kenneth, socially insecure technical writer who forms an obsessive relationship with "Nikki", an anatomically accurate silicone se...
Maniac Magee
2003
as George McNab
An orphaned runaway with many extraordinary and athletic talents arrives in a town divided with racial conflict.

Rolling Kansas
2003
as Oldman
A group of friends go on a journey to a secret marijuana forest in Kansas.

Men in Black II
2002
as Zed
Kay and Jay reunite to provide our best, last and only line of defense against a sinister seductress who levels the toughest challenge yet to the MIB'...

Freddy Got Fingered
2001
as Jim Brody
Unemployed cartoonist Gord Brody moves back in with his parents Jim and Julie and younger brother Freddy. When his parents demand he leave, he retalia...

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000
as Self
Hollywood careers are full of make-or-break moments. For Clint Eastwood, one such moment came when studio powers agreed to let him make his directing ...

Wonder Boys
2000
as Q
Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his award winning 'Great American Novel' 7 years ago....

A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle
2000
as Detective Manny Garett
When Donielle is just eight years old and attending her best friend's funeral she has a vision that her friend was murdered by his father. No one beli...

The Insider
1999
as John Scanlon
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.

The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery
1999
as Royce
A cop and his expensive fiancée, a bank teller, plan the perfect bank robbery. All goes well until the FBI suspects, almost immediately, an inside job

Balloon Farm
1999
as Harvey Potter
As soon as Harvey S. Potter descends upon a drought-stricken farmland, he begins to grow a mysterious but beautiful crop of balloons. Mystified by the...

Passing Glory
1999
as Father Robert Grant
A true story of a priest (Andre Braugher) in New Orleans who formed a group of black players and challenged an all-white prep school basketball team i...

Senseless
1998
as Randall Tyson
A student gets his senses enhanced by an experimental drug. But abuse is not an option.

Men in Black
1997
as Zed
After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and ...

Hercules
1997
as Zeus (voice)
Bestowed with superhuman strength, a young mortal named Hercules sets out to prove himself a hero in the eyes of his father, the great god Zeus. Along...

Trial and Error
1997
as Benny Gibbs
An actor poses as a lawyer to help his sick friend, and problems develop.

The Hindenburg
1996
as Narrator
The history of lighter than air transportation culminating in the Hindenburg explosion which gets thoroughly covered and analyzed.

Down Periscope
1996
as Admiral Winslow
Maverick Navy Lieutenant Commander Tom Dodge will never be a textbook officer, but he's a brilliant seaman who's always wanted to command a nuclear su...

How to Make an American Quilt
1995
as Arthur
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits ...

James Dean: A Portrait
1995
as Self (Narrator)
A look at the legacy of icon actor James Dean on the 40th anniversary of his tragic death. The special follows his life and career, with obvious atten...

Letter to My Killer
1995
A letter is found by a demolition worker that reveals a cover up and a murder that is over 30 years old. The victim is the author of the letter that a...

Canadian Bacon
1995
as General Dick Panzer
The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war with Canada.

She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal
1995
as Adm. Snyder
A dramatized account of a female US Naval officer's ordeal of being sexually harassed at a Naval convention and her legal retaliation.

For Better or Worse
1995
as Capt. Cole
A comic love triangle wherein a loser falls in love with his recently-married brother's wife.

Heart of a Child
1994
as Dr. Leonard Bailey
For Fred and Karen Schouten, the news that she is pregnant is most welcome, having been trying for a while with no success. Gordon and Alice Holc are ...

Where the Rivers Flow North
1993
as Noel Lord
Sleeper with a top notch cast in the story of a lone wolf logger who fights developers, bankers and the modern world to maintain his way of life.

Beyond the Law
1993
as Deputy Prescott
Dan Saxon is an undercover cop who infiltrates a biker gang to nail the scum behind a drug-smuggling operation. In order to maintain the trust of the ...

RoboCop 3
1993
as The CEO
The mega corporation Omni Consumer Products is still bent on creating their pet project, Delta City, to replace the rotting city of Detroit. Unfortuna...

A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story
1992
as Bill Morgan
Based on the custody case involving Elizabeth Morgan and the subsequent Elizabeth Morgan Act.

T Bone N Weasel
1992
as Happy Sam
An ex-con and a crazy man are an unlikely duo on the road looking for a better life. All they have is an old gun and a stolen car to aid them in findi...

Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
1992
as Admiral Paul Yost - Presidential Delegation
The real-life struggle to contain the environmental and financial damage caused to Alaska by the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez is dramatized.

Fires of Kuwait
1992
as Narrator (voice)
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,...

My Son Johnny
1991
as Brian Stansbury
Anthony Cortino lives with his mother in a quiet suburb. His father is dead, and his violent criminal brother is a long way off, in the city, and if A...

Dolly Dearest
1991
as Karl Resnick
An American family moves to Mexico to fabricate dolls, but their toy factory happens to be next to a Sanzian grave and the toys come into possession o...

Defending Your Life
1991
as Bob Diamond
Is there love after death? After he dies suddenly, the hapless advertising executive Daniel Miller finds himself in Judgment City, a gleaming way stat...

Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind
1991
as Captain Jack Parsons
A gambler, a Texas ranger and an FBI agent are investigating a series of vigilante murders.

Death Falls
1991
as Dub Farley
A terminally ill man gets his buddy to bust him out of the hospital. But, in the process, the duo antagonizes a city policeman, who trails them to the...

Beautiful Dreamers
1990
as Walt Whitman
When the superintendent of the Canadian insane asylum, Dr. Maurice Bucke, meets poet Walt Whitman, his life and that of his wife and patients is radic...

By Dawn's Early Light
1990
as Colonel Fargo
A nuclear warhead launched by Soviet insurgents protesting the waning Cold War destroys the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. The destruction sets off a race...

Kojak: None So Blind
1990
as Gideon Hogarth
After a flighty young woman accidentally witnesses a Mob hit in an Italian restaurant, New York Police Inspector Theo Kojak must both protect her from...

Pair of Aces
1990
as Capt. Jack Parsons
A Texas Ranger has to protect his two daughters as he investigates a serial killer who is attacking cheerleaders. Meanwhile he finds himself working w...

Sweet Bird of Youth
1989
as Boss Finley
Tennessee William’s masterful melodrama about an aging movie star who, appalled by her own image on the screen, flees from her movie premiere and goes...

Silence Like Glass
1989
as Dr. Markowitz
True story of two diametrically opposed young women dealing with terminal illness.

Cold Feet
1989
as Sheriff
Three criminals run into complications when they attempt to smuggle emeralds across the Mexican border.

Hit List
1989
as Vic Luca
A family man and a mob witness hunt for a hit-man who has mistakenly kidnapped the family man's son.

April Morning
1988
as Solomon Chandler
A teenager grows up during the onset of the American revolution.

The Telephone
1988
Director
Crazy out of work actress Vashti Blue spends all her time in her small apartment with her pet owl and her telephone, which she uses to try and solve a...
The King of Love
1987
as Jack Kraft
A publishing empire founder discovers that his rise to power was costly.

Laguna Heat
1987
as Joe Datilla
Tom Shepard returns to his home town of Laguna Beach to escape his turbulent past. But the tranquility is shattered when he gets involved in the inves...

Nadine
1987
as Buford Pope
Hairdresser Nadine Hightower wants to retrieve the risqué photos she once posed for, but when she visits the photographer at his office, he's murdered...

Extreme Prejudice
1987
as Sheriff Hank Pearson
A Texas Ranger and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries...

Destination: America
1987
as Corbet St. James IV
A patrician family's estranged, black-sheep son forsakes his blue-collar life to return home and soon finds himself wrongly accused of his father's mu...

J. Edgar Hoover
1987
as Lyndon Baines Johnson
He battled the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, encouraged McCarthy and single-handedly changed the course of history. Hired by F.D.R. to be the direc...

Manhunt for Claude Dallas
1986
as Tim Nettleton
This is the story is based on an actual incident. Claude Dallas is a man who loves to be free, so he lives in the mountains where he hunts for his foo...

Beer
1985
as Buzz Beckerman
An advertising firm, desperate to keep an account from a financially-ailing brewery, concocts a macho ad campaign centering on three losers who inadve...

Summer Rental
1985
as Scully
Jack Chester, an overworked air traffic controller, takes his family on vacation to the beach. Things immediately start to go wrong for the Chesters, ...

The Execution
1985
as Wilheim Gehbert
The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local...

City Heat
1984
as Primo Pitt
Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer. Reynolds plays a former cop turned private eye na...

Songwriter
1984
as Dino McLeish
Doc Jenkins may be one of country music's most beloved stars, but his private life is a wreck. He's split up with his longtime partner, Blackie Buck, ...

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1984
as Big Daddy
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy w...

Scarab
1984
as Khepera
Dr. Wilfred Manz performs a magical experiment on a beetle-shaped amulet. His patience exhausted, he smashes his fist into some bottles and a few drop...

Flashpoint
1984
as Sheriff Wells
Two Texas border guards find a jeep buried in the desert, with a skeleton, a scoped rifle, and a box with $800,000 in cash. Before they decide whether...

When She Says No
1984
as Stuart Blankfort
After divorced college professor Rose Michaels invites three of her male colleagues to her room during a teacher's convention, she later accuses them ...

Misunderstood
1983
as Will
A workaholic father becomes sole parent to his two young sons, and finds it hard to relate to them, consumed as he is with his own grief.

Cross Creek
1983
as Marsh Turner
In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editors and confused n...

Airplane II: The Sequel
1982
as Bud Kruger / President Reagan
A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and man-with-a-past Ted Striker must save the day and get the shuttle...

A Stranger Is Watching
1982
as Artie Taggart
A twisted man holds a TV newswoman and a girl hostage in the bowels of Grand Central Station.

Jinxed!
1982
as Harold Benson
Harold, a professional gambler, and his girlfriend Bonita, a lounge singer, follow Willie, a young blackjack dealer, around the western U.S. Harold ha...

The Beastmaster
1982
as Maax
Dar, is the son of a king, who's hunted by a priest after his birth and grows up in another family. When he becomes a grown man, his new father is mur...

First Family
1980
as General G. E. Dumpston
When the First Daughter is kidnapped by an African tribe, the President must do what he can to keep them from sacrificing her.

Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
1980
as Charles Burt
Based on the well-publicized Oregon criminal case of the late 1970s, this film dramatizes the unique dispute in which Greta Rideout instigated the pro...
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
1980
as Carlo Ponti
This biopic about actress Sophia Loren covers her life from childhood through international stardom, her marriage to Carlo Ponti following a romantic ...

One Trick Pony
1980
as Walter Fox
An aging rock star trying to put together a new album in the face of an indifferent record label and a talentless producer. At the same time, he's str...

A Shining Season
1979
as Jack Baker
The true story of University of New Mexico track star John Baker who, dying of cancer, spent his remaining time coaching a losing girls' track team to...

Heartland
1979
as Clyde Stewart
Widowed Elinor Randall and her young daughter Jerrine arrive in a barren stretch of Wyoming in 1910 after Elinor's application for work as a housekeep...

The Seduction of Joe Tynan
1979
as Senator Kittner
Respected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointment. It means losing an old friend and fudging princ...

Steel Cowboy
1978
as K.W. Hicks
An independent trucker, trying to keep his marriage alive and his rig out of the hands of bill collectors, agrees to haul a cargo of stolen cattle wit...

Betrayal
1978
as Dr. Hartogs
Dramatization of the 1971 case involving a young woman who sued her psychiatrist for luring her into a sexual relationship with him under the guise of...

Coma
1978
as Dr. George
A young female doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple oper...

The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
1977
as Dwight Webb
The story of the late J. Edgar Hoover, who was head of the FBI from 1924-1972. The film follows Hoover from his racket-busting days through his reign ...

Nasty Habits
1977
as Father Maximilian
In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way ...

Harlan County U.S.A.
1977
Thanks
This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastov...

Birch Interval
1976
as Thomas
A young girl is sent to live with Amish relatives in post-war Pennsylvania, where her life dramatically changes.

The Man Who Fell to Earth
1976
as Nathan Bryce
Thomas Jerome Newton is an alien who has come to Earth in search of water to save his home planet. Aided by lawyer Oliver Farnsworth, Thomas uses his ...

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975
as Glen Tuttle
After three civil-rights workers are murdered in Mississippi in 1964, a team of FBI agents is sent there to find the killers.

Crazy Joe
1974
as Richie
The rise and fall of a Mafia gangster, based on the life of murdered New York gangster "Crazy" Joey Gallo.

The President's Plane Is Missing
1973
as George Oldenburg
When the President's plane mysteriously disappears with him on board, it is left to the seemingly weak Vice President to try to avert a nuclear exchan...

Payday
1973
as Maury Dann
Country singer Maury Dann lives life in the fast lane, counting on his rakish charm and raw talent to excuse his reckless behavior. Touring on the roa...

Cotter
1973
as Roy
A rodeo rider is killed because Cotter is too drunk to distract the raging bull.

Slaughter
1972
as Dominic Hoffo
Slaughter, a former Green Beret, avenges the killing of loved ones by the Mob, and after being blackmailed by the feds, is forced to head to South Ame...

1 P.M.
1971
as Self
Lighter and livelier than the films Jean-Luc Godard had made in France, his U.S. collaboration with Direct Cinema documentarian D. A. Pennebaker was m...

Maidstone
1971
as Raoul Rey O'Houlihan
Over a booze-fueled, increasingly hectic five-day shoot in East Hampton, Norman Mailer and his cast and crew spontaneously unloaded onto film the luri...

Montserrat
1971
as Izquierdo
The story is set during the South American Wars of Independence. Simón Bolivar, the liberator, has escaped from Spanish custody with the aid of an ide...

Tropic of Cancer
1970
as Henry Miller
Expat American writer Henry Miller hustles his way through Paris in a series of amorous encounters while trying to find his literary voice.

Coming Apart
1969
as Joe
A psychiatrist secretly films his female patients as an experiment; he pushes both him and his customers in ways that induce his own mental breakdown.

Lions Love
1969
as The Beard Director (uncredited)
Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.

Beyond the Law
1968
as Popcorn
Takes place over the course of one feverish night in a Manhattan police precinct and neighboring bar.

Sol Madrid
1968
as Dano Villanova
Government agent Sol Madrid travels to Mexico with hooker Stacey to bring mobster Villanova and drug kingpin Dietrich to justice.

Beach Red
1967
as Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell
American troops storm ashore on a Japanese-held island and push inland while their enemies plan a counterattack in this look at warfare. Soldiers on b...

Lionpower from MGM
1967
"Lionpower from MGM" (1967) is an exciting 60's promotional short subject, which showcases MGM's releases for the 1967-68 film season under a "five se...

You're a Big Boy Now
1966
as I.H. Chanticleer
Post-teen virgin moves to New York City, falls for a cold-hearted beauty, then finds true love with a loyal lass.

One Spy Too Many
1966
as Alexander
The men from U.N.C.L.E." are back! This time Robert Vaughn and David McCallum must stop the megalomaniac Alexander from committing the world's greates...

The Cincinnati Kid
1965
as William Jefferson Slade
An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.

Critic's Choice
1963
as Dion Kapakos
Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Parker must either get out of reviewin...

Hero's Island
1962
as Nicholas Gates
A family shipwrecked on an island must deal with escaped convicts and pirates.

Sweet Bird of Youth
1962
as Thomas 'Tom' J. Finley, Jr.
Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him b...

King of Kings
1961
as Judas
Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed, and finally crucified. Yet th...

24 Hours in a Woman's Life
1961
as Paul
Helen Lester is in love with a man she has known just 24 hours, a playboy who spent time in jail for passing bad checks. Though the man has promised t...

Pork Chop Hill
1959
as Lt. Walter Russell
Korean War, April 1953. Lieutenant Clemons, leader of the King company of the United States Infantry, is ordered to recapture Pork Chop Hill, occupied...
Johnny Belinda
1958
as Locky McCormick
In post-war Cape Breton, a doctor's efforts to tutor a deaf and mute woman are undermined when she is raped, and the resulting pregnancy causes scanda...

Bomber's Moon
1958
as Lieutenant Harrison
A hard-hearted Colonel loses many men in his group's bombing missions over World War Two Germany, but keeps on going and won't tolerate lightly a youn...

Time Limit
1957
as Lt. George Miller
Military investigator Colonel Edwards is assigned a case involving Major Cargill, a Korean War POW who is accused of treason. Although Cargill admits ...

A Face in the Crowd
1957
as Barry Mills (uncredited)
The rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king...

Baby Doll
1956
as The Dentist (uncredited)
Archie Lee Meighan is a failing cotton gin owner who is married to Baby Doll, a 19-year old childlike beauty whose father arranged the marriage for fi...