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.
as Self (archive footage)
as Tom
as Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited)
as Self
as Sal
as King Looney
as Joe
as Carl
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(8 eps)
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 George McNab
as Oldman
as Zed
as Jules Copeland(1 ep)
as Jim Brody
as Peter Redmond(1 ep)
as Q
as Detective Manny Garett
as John Scanlon
as Royce
as Spence(2 eps)
as Harvey Potter
as Father Robert Grant
as Lionel Banks(4 eps)
as Randall Tyson
as Trucker 'God'
as The Narrator(44 eps)
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(1 ep)
as Dr. Leonard Bailey
as Self - Guest(1 ep)
as Bernard Galvin(1 ep)
as Noel Lord
as Deputy Prescott
as The CEO
as Bill Morgan
as Happy Sam
as Admiral Paul Yost
as Arthur(90 eps)
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 Jack Kraft
as Joe Datilla
as Buford Pope
as Sheriff Hank Pearson
as Corbet St. James IV
as Lyndon Baines Johnson
as Tim Nettleton
as Adolphus(3 eps)
as Buzz Beckerman
as Scully
as Lewis Slaton(2 eps)
as Wilheim Gehbert
as Primo Pitt
as Dino McLeish
as Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
as Khepera
as Sheriff Wells
as Stuart Blankfort
as Will
as Marsh Turner
as Bud Kruger / President Reagan
as Ulysses S. Grant(3 eps)
as Harold Benson
as Maax
as Artie Taggart
as Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt(1 ep)
as Clyde Stewart
as General G. E. Dumpston
as Charles Burt
as Carlo Ponti
as Walter Fox
as Jack Baker
as Senator Kittner
as Richard M. Nixon(4 eps)
as K.W. Hicks
as Dr. Hartogs
as Dr. George
as Dwight Webb
as Father Maximilian
as Thomas
as Nathan Bryce
as Glen Tuttle(2 eps)
as Richie
as George Oldenburg
as Maury Dann
as Roy
as Jonathon(1 ep)
as Dominic Hoffo
as Leon Lamarr(1 ep)
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(1 ep)
as Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell
as Self - Dano Villanova (archive footage) (uncredited)
as I.H. Chanticleer
as Alexander
as William Jefferson Slade
as Alexander(2 eps)
as Col. Mark Royce(1 ep)
as Lieutenant John C. Freemont(1 ep)
as Donald Burrows(1 ep)
as Sgt. Karl Kasten(1 ep)
as Dion Kapakos
as Avery(1 ep)
as Nicholas Gates
as Tom Finley Jr.
as Self(1 ep)
as Judas
as Dr. Nicholas Keefe(2 eps)
as Joel Coles(1 ep)
as Paul
as Alvah Clayhorne(1 ep)
as Duncan Corey(1 ep)
as Harry Strauss(1 ep)
as Johnny Mizo(1 ep)
as Will Hewitt(1 ep)
as Lt. Walter Russell
as Jacob Yellow-Sun(1 ep)
as Locky McCormick
as Ansel Boake(1 ep)
as Lieutenant Harrison
as Lt. George Miller
as Jody Gilman(1 ep)
as Barry Mills (uncredited)
as The Dentist (uncredited)
as Self - Presenter(1 ep)
as Steve Morgan #22(1 ep)
as Ernie Walters(1 ep)
as Locky McCormick(1 ep)
as Solomon Chandler(1 ep)
as Somers(1 ep)
as Self - Presenter(1 ep)