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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

1 P.M.

1972
as Himself

3 Weeks to Daytona

2011
as Sal

A Shining Season

as Jack Baker

A Stranger Is Watching

1982
as Artie Taggart

A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle

2000
as Detective Manny Garett

Airplane II: The Sequel

1982
as Bud Kruger / President Reagan

American Cowslip

2009
as Trevor O'Hart

Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind

1991
as Captain Jack Parsons

April Morning

1988
as Solomon Chandler

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

1975
as Glen Tuttle

August

2008
as David Sterling

Balloon Farm

1999
as Harvey Potter

Beach Red

1967
as Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell

Beautiful Dreamers

1990
as Walt Whitman

Bee Movie

2007
as Lou Lo Duca (voice)

Beer

1985
as Buzz Beckerman

Beyond The Law

1992
as Deputy Prescott

Birch Interval

1976
as Thomas

By Dawn's Early Light

1990
as E-4 Col. Fargo

Canadian Bacon

1995
as General Dick Panzer

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

1984
as Big Daddy

City Heat

1984
as Primo Pitt

Cold Feet

1989
as Sheriff

Coma

1978
as Dr. George

Coming Apart

1969
as Joe

Cotter

1973
as Roy

Crazy Joe

1974
as Richie

Critic's Choice

1963
as Dion Kapakos

Cross Creek

1983
as Norton Baskin

Death Falls

1991
as Dub Farley

Defending Your Life

1991
as Bob Diamond

DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story

2004
as Patches O'Houlihan

Dolly Dearest

1991
as Karl Resnick

Down Periscope

1996
as Admiral Winslow

Eulogy

2004
as Edmund Collins

Extreme Prejudice

1987
as Sheriff Hank Pearson

First Family

1980
as JCS Chairman G. E. Dumpston

Flashpoint

1984
as Sheriff Wells

Forty Shades of Blue

2005
as Alan James

Freddy Got Fingered

2001
as Jim Brody

Ghost Stories (1997)

1997

Happy Tears

2009
as Joe

Heart of a Child

1994
as Dr. Leonard Bailey

Heartland

1979
as Clyde Stewart

Hercules

1997
as Zeus (voice)

Hero's Island

1962
as Nicholas Gates

Hit List

1989
as Vic Luca

How to Make an American Quilt

1995
as Arthur

Jinxed!

1982
as Harold Benson

King of Kings

1961
as Judas

Laguna Heat

1987
as Joe Datilla

Letter to My Killer

1995
as Russel Vanik

Listen, America!

1968
as Rip Torn

Love Object

2003
as Novak

Lucky Days

2008
as Bobo

Maidstone

1970
as Raoul Rey O'Houlihan

Manhunt for Claude Dallas

1986
as Tim Nettleton

Marie Antoinette

2006
as Louis XV

Men in Black

1997
as Chief Zed

Men in Black II

2002
as Zed

Misunderstood

1984
as Will

My Son Johnny

1991
as Brian Stansbury

Nadine

1987
as Buford Pope

Nasty Habits

1977
as Father Maximilian

National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus

2011
as King Looney

Norman Mailer: The American

2012

One Spy Too Many

1966
as Alexander

One Trick Pony

1980
as Walter Fox

Pair of Aces

1990
as Capt. Jack Parsons

Passing Glory

1999
as Father Robert Grant

Payday

1973
as Maury Dann

Pork Chop Hill

1959
as Lt. Walter Russel

Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case

1980
as Charles Burt

RoboCop 3

1993
as The CEO

Rolling Kansas

2003
as Oldman

Scarab

1983
as Khepera

Senseless

1998
as Randall Tyson

Silence Like Glass

1989
as Dr. Markowitz

Slaughter

1972
as Dominic Hoffo

Sol Madrid

1968
as Dano Villanova

Songwriter

1984
as Dino McLeish

Sophia Loren: Her Own Story

1980
as Carlo Ponti

Steel Cowboy

1978
as K.W. Hicks

Summer Rental

1985
as Scully

Sweet Bird of Youth

1989
as Boss Finley

Sweet Bird of Youth

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

T Bone N Weasel

1992
as Happy Sam

The Afterlight

2009
as Carl

The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery

1997
as Royce

The Atlanta Child Murders

1985
as Lewis Slaton

The Beastmaster

1982
as Maax

The Blue and the Gray

1982

The Blue and the Gray

1982
as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant

The Cincinnati Kid

1965
as William Jefferson Slade

The Execution

1985
as Wilheim Gehbert

The Insider

1999
as John Scanlon

The King of Love

1987
as Jack Kraft

The Larry Sanders Show

1992
as Arthur

The Man Who Fell to Earth

1976
as Nathan Bryce

The Mouse

1997
as Trucker 'God'

The President's Plane Is Missing

1973
as George Oldenburg

The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

1977
as Dwight Webb

The Seduction of Joe Tynan

1979
as Senator Kittner

The Sisters

2005
as Dr. Chebrin

Three Days To Vegas

2007
as Joe Wallace

Time Limit

1957
as Lt. George Miller

Trial and Error

1997
as Benny

Tropic of Cancer

1970
as Henry Miller

Turn the River

2008
as Quinette

Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life

1961
as Paul

Welcome to Mooseport

2004
as Bert Langdon

When She Says No

1984
as Stuart Blankfort

Where the Rivers Flow North

1993
as Noel Lord

Wonder Boys

2000
as Quentin 'Q' Morewood

You're a Big Boy Now

1966
as I.H. Chanticleer

Yours, Mine & Ours

2005
as Commandant Sherman

Zoom

2006
as Larraby

Director

Movie The Telephone 1988

Producer

Movie Lucky Days 2008

Guest Star

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