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Rip Torn

Elmore Rual "Rip" Torn Jr. was an American actor whose career spanned more than 60 years.

Aliases
  • Elmore Rual Torn Jr.
English
Filmography

Hercules

1997
as Zeus (voice)

Marie Antoinette

2006
as Louis XV

Bee Movie

2007
as Lou Lo Duca (voice)

Men in Black

1997
as Chief Zed

Men in Black II

2002
as Zed

DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story

2004
as Patches O'Houlihan

Yours, Mine & Ours

2005
as Commandant Sherman

Zoom

2006
as Larraby

RoboCop 3

1993
as The CEO

Wonder Boys

2000
as Quentin 'Q' Morewood

Airplane II: The Sequel

1982
as Bud Kruger / President Reagan

Cross Creek

1983
as Norton Baskin

One Spy Too Many

1966
as Alexander

Pair of Aces

1990
as Capt. Jack Parsons

Letter to My Killer

1995
as Russel Vanik

The King of Love

1987
as Jack Kraft

Steel Cowboy

1978
as K.W. Hicks

Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind

1991
as Captain Jack Parsons

Coming Apart

1969
as Joe

Payday

1973
as Maury Dann

Welcome to Mooseport

2004
as Bert Langdon

King of Kings

1961
as Judas

Defending Your Life

1991
as Bob Diamond

Norman Mailer: The American

2012

Trial and Error

1997
as Benny

Cold Feet

1989
as Sheriff

The Seduction of Joe Tynan

1979
as Senator Kittner

Eulogy

2004
as Edmund Collins

Sweet Bird of Youth

1989
as Boss Finley

The Mouse

1997
as Trucker 'God'

Lucky Days

2008
as Bobo

By Dawn's Early Light

1990
as E-4 Col. Fargo

Down Periscope

1996
as Admiral Winslow

T Bone N Weasel

1992
as Happy Sam

Listen, America!

1968
as Rip Torn

The Man Who Fell to Earth

1976
as Nathan Bryce

You're a Big Boy Now

1966
as I.H. Chanticleer

Slaughter

1972
as Dominic Hoffo

Manhunt for Claude Dallas

1986
as Tim Nettleton

Passing Glory

1999
as Father Robert Grant

Sweet Bird of Youth

1962
as Thomas 'Tom' J. Finley, Jr.

Extreme Prejudice

1987
as Sheriff Hank Pearson

The Afterlight

2009
as Carl

Sophia Loren: Her Own Story

1980
as Carlo Ponti

Silence Like Glass

1989
as Dr. Markowitz

August

2008
as David Sterling

The Cincinnati Kid

1965
as William Jefferson Slade

Heart of a Child

1994
as Dr. Leonard Bailey

When She Says No

1984
as Stuart Blankfort

Laguna Heat

1987
as Joe Datilla

A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle

2000
as Detective Manny Garett

The Blue and the Gray

1982
as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant

The Beastmaster

1982
as Maax

National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus

2011
as King Looney

A Shining Season

as Jack Baker

The Sisters

2005
as Dr. Chebrin

Crazy Joe

1974
as Richie

Heartland

1979
as Clyde Stewart

Canadian Bacon

1995
as General Dick Panzer

Scarab

1983
as Khepera

The Larry Sanders Show

1992
as Arthur

Songwriter

1984
as Dino McLeish

Love Object

2003
as Novak

Cotter

1973
as Roy

The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

1977
as Dwight Webb

Coma

1978
as Dr. George

Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life

1961
as Paul

One Trick Pony

1980
as Walter Fox

Beach Red

1967
as Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell

Senseless

1998
as Randall Tyson

Misunderstood

1984
as Will

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan

1975
as Glen Tuttle

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

1984
as Big Daddy

Jinxed!

1982
as Harold Benson

Critic's Choice

1963
as Dion Kapakos

A Stranger Is Watching

1982
as Artie Taggart

The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery

1997
as Royce

Flashpoint

1984
as Sheriff Wells

American Cowslip

2009
as Trevor O'Hart

Dolly Dearest

1991
as Karl Resnick

Hit List

1989
as Vic Luca

Death Falls

1991
as Dub Farley

Rolling Kansas

2003
as Oldman

Summer Rental

1985
as Scully

My Son Johnny

1991
as Brian Stansbury

Nadine

1987
as Buford Pope

The Atlanta Child Murders

1985
as Lewis Slaton

Tropic of Cancer

1970
as Henry Miller

Pork Chop Hill

1959
as Lt. Walter Russel

First Family

1980
as JCS Chairman G. E. Dumpston

Hero's Island

1962
as Nicholas Gates

Ghost Stories (1997)

1997

Time Limit

1957
as Lt. George Miller

April Morning

1988
as Solomon Chandler

Nasty Habits

1977
as Father Maximilian

Maidstone

1970
as Raoul Rey O'Houlihan

Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case

1980
as Charles Burt

Beautiful Dreamers

1990
as Walt Whitman

Freddy Got Fingered

2001
as Jim Brody

3 Weeks to Daytona

2011
as Sal

The President's Plane Is Missing

1973
as George Oldenburg

Sol Madrid

1968
as Dano Villanova

Turn the River

2008
as Quinette

Balloon Farm

1999
as Harvey Potter

The Insider

1999
as John Scanlon

Happy Tears

2009
as Joe

Forty Shades of Blue

2005
as Alan James

Beyond The Law

1992
as Deputy Prescott

How to Make an American Quilt

1995
as Arthur

Where the Rivers Flow North

1993
as Noel Lord

Three Days To Vegas

2007
as Joe Wallace

Beer

1985
as Buzz Beckerman

Birch Interval

1976
as Thomas

The Execution

1985
as Wilheim Gehbert

City Heat

1984
as Primo Pitt

1 P.M.

1972
as Himself

The Blue and the Gray

1982

Director

Movie The Telephone 1988

Producer

Movie Lucky Days 2008

Guest Star

Episode Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Rip Torn, Steve Buscemi, Dick Dale 		1993
Episode Chicago Hope
Hello Goodbye 		1995
Episode The Untouchables
The Masterpiece 		1961
Episode Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Number Twenty-Two 		1957
Episode Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Kiss-Off 		1961
Episode Thriller
The Purple Room 		1960
Episode 30 Rock
Reunion 		2008
Episode 30 Rock
Corporate Crush 		2007
Episode The John Larroquette Show
You Bet Your Life 		1995
Episode Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Bedfellows 		2006
Episode Columbo
Columbo: Death Hits the Jackpot 		1991
Episode History Channel Documentaries
The Hindenburg 		1996
Episode Naked City
A Case Study of Two Savages 		1962
Episode 30 Rock
Jack Gets in the Game 		2007
Episode IMAX Ultimate Collection
Fires Of Kuwait 		1992
Episode The Eleventh Hour
The Secret in the Stone 		1964
Episode Combat!
A Gift of Hope 		1964
Episode Dr. Kildare
The Chemistry Of Anger 		1962
Episode 30 Rock
Succession 		2008
Episode Rawhide
Escort to Doom 		1965
Episode Beastmaster
The Beastmaster 		1982
Episode 30 Rock
Sandwich Day 		2008
Episode The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Alexander the Greater Affair (1) 		1965
Episode Dr. Kildare
An Exchange Of Gifts 		1964
Episode The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Alexander the Greater Affair (2) 		1965
Episode Will & Grace
A.I.: Artificial Insemination (1) 		2002
Episode The Lieutenant
The Proud and the Angry 		1963
Episode 30 Rock
Larry King 		2009
Episode Will & Grace
A.I.: Artificial Insemination (2) 		2002
Episode Mannix
The Open Web 		1972
Episode Playhouse 90
Bomber's Moon 		1958
Episode Will & Grace
...And the Horse He Rode in On 		2002
Episode The Untouchables
The Spoiler 		1963
Episode The Restless Gun
Jody 		1957
Episode Will & Grace
Bacon and Eggs 		2002
Episode Most Wanted
The Dutchman 		1978
Episode Route 66
Who Will Cheer My Bonnie Bride? 		1963