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Rip Torn, an American actor whose six-decade career was marked by versatility and acclaim, starred as Zed in the Men in Black films and Patches O'Houlihan in Dodgeball. His role as Artie, the producer on The Larry Sanders Show, garnered six Emmy nominations, a win in 1996, an American Comedy Award, and two CableACE Awards. Torn's performance in Cross Creek earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in 1983.
The roles that explain the career.
80 credits across 2 departments.
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Norman Mailer: The American | Self | Film |
| 2011 | National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus | King Looney | Film |
| 2011 | 3 Weeks to Daytona | Sal | Film |
| 2009 | American Cowslip | Trevor O'Hart | Film |
| 2009 | Happy Tears | Joe | Film |
| 2008 | August | David Sterling | Film |
| 2008 | Turn the River | Quinette | Film |
| 2008 | The Golden Boys | Capt. Jeremiah Burgess | Film |
| 2007 | Three Days to Vegas | Joe Wallace | Film |
| 2007 | Bee Movie | Lou Lo Duca (voice) | Film |
| 2007 | The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show' | Arthur | Film |
| 2006 | Zoom | Larraby | Film |
| 2006 | Marie Antoinette | Louis XV | Film |
| 2005 | The Sisters | Dr. Chebrin | Film |
| 2005 | Forty Shades of Blue | Alan James | Film |
| 2005 | Yours, Mine & Ours | Commandant Sherman | Film |
| 2004 | Welcome to Mooseport | Bert Langdon | Film |
| 2004 | Eulogy | Edmund Collins | Film |
| 2004 | Love Object | Novak | Film |
| 2004 | Extreme Dodgeball | TV | |
| 2004 | DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story | Patches O'Houlihan | Film |
| 2003 | Rolling Kansas | Oldman | Film |
| 2002 | Men in Black II | Zed | Film |
| 2001 | Freddy Got Fingered | Jim Brody | Film |
| 2000 | A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle | Detective Manny Garett | Film |
| 2000 | Wonder Boys | Q | Film |
| 1999 | Balloon Farm | Harvey Potter | Film |
| 1999 | The Insider | John Scanlon | Film |
| 1999 | The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery | Royce | Film |
| 1998 | Senseless | Randall Tyson | Film |
| 1997 | Trial and Error | Benny Gibbs | Film |
| 1997 | Hercules | Zeus (voice) | Film |
| 1997 | Ghost Stories | The Narrator | TV |
| 1997 | Men in Black | Zed | Film |
| 1996 | Down Periscope | Admiral Winslow | Film |
| 1995 | How to Make an American Quilt | Arthur | Film |
| 1995 | For Better or Worse | Capt. Cole | Film |
| 1995 | Canadian Bacon | General Dick Panzer | Film |
| 1993 | Beyond the Law | Deputy Prescott | Film |
| 1993 | Where the Rivers Flow North | Noel Lord | Film |
| 1993 | RoboCop 3 | The CEO | Film |
| 1992 | The Larry Sanders Show | Arthur | TV |
| 1992 | Fires of Kuwait | Narrator (voice) | Film |
| 1991 | Dolly Dearest | Karl Resnick | Film |
| 1991 | Defending Your Life | Bob Diamond | Film |
| 1990 | By Dawn's Early Light | Colonel Fargo | Film |
| 1990 | Pair of Aces | Capt. Jack Parsons | Film |
| 1989 | Cold Feet | Sheriff | Film |
| 1989 | Hit List | Vic Luca | Film |
| 1989 | Sweet Bird of Youth | Boss Finley | Film |
| 1988 | April Morning | Solomon Chandler | Film |
| 1987 | J. Edgar Hoover | Lyndon Baines Johnson | Film |
| 1987 | Nadine | Buford Pope | Film |
| 1987 | Extreme Prejudice | Sheriff Hank Pearson | Film |
| 1987 | Laguna Heat | Joe Datilla | Film |
| 1985 | Summer Rental | Scully | Film |
| 1985 | North and South | Adolphus | TV |
| 1985 | Beer | Buzz Beckerman | Film |
| 1984 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Big Daddy | Film |
| 1984 | City Heat | Primo Pitt | Film |
| 1984 | Songwriter | Dino McLeish | Film |
| 1984 | Scarab | Khepera | Film |
| 1984 | Flashpoint | Sheriff Wells | Film |
| 1983 | Cross Creek | Marsh Turner | Film |
| 1983 | Misunderstood | Will | Film |
| 1982 | Jinxed! | Harold Benson | Film |
| 1982 | A Stranger Is Watching | Artie Taggart | Film |
| 1982 | The Beastmaster | Maax | Film |
| 1982 | Airplane II: The Sequel | Bud Kruger / President Reagan | Film |
| 1981 | Heartland | Clyde Stewart | Film |
| 1980 | One Trick Pony | Walter Fox | Film |
| 1980 | First Family | General G. E. Dumpston | Film |
| 1979 | The Seduction of Joe Tynan | Senator Kittner | Film |
| 1978 | Coma | Dr. George | Film |
| 1977 | Nasty Habits | Father Maximilian | Film |
| 1977 | The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover | Dwight Webb | Film |
| 1976 | The Man Who Fell to Earth | Nathan Bryce | Film |
| 1974 | Crazy Joe | Richie | Film |
| 1973 | Payday | Maury Dann | Film |
| 1972 | Slaughter | Dominic Hoffo | Film |
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