Rip Torn
Elmore Rual "Rip" Torn Jr. was an American actor whose career spanned roughly 60 years. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing Marsh Turner in Cross Creek (1983). Torn's portrayal of Artie the producer on The Larry Sanders Show (1992–1998) received six Emmy Award nominations, winning in 1996. Torn was also known for his roles as Judas Iscariot in King of Kings (1961), Thomas J. Finley, Jr. in Sweet Bird of Youth (1962), Dr. Nathan Bryce in The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), Bob Diamond in Defending Your Life (1991), Zeus in Hercules (1997), Zed in the Men in Black franchise, Jim Brody in Freddy Got Fingered (2001), Patches O'Houlihan in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004), and Louis XV in Marie Antoinette (2006).
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National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus
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2011
Happy Tears
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2009
American Cowslip
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2009
The Golden Boys
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2008
August
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2008
Turn the River
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2008
Bee Movie
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2007
Three Days to Vegas
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2007
Zoom
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2006
Marie Antoinette
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2006
Yours, Mine & Ours
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2005
The Sisters
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2005
Eulogy
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2004
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
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2004
Welcome to Mooseport
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2004
Love Object
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2004
Rolling Kansas
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2003
Men in Black II
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2002
Freddy Got Fingered
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2001
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
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2000
Wonder Boys
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2000
The Insider
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1999
The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery
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1999
Balloon Farm
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1999
Passing Glory
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1999
Senseless
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1998
Men in Black
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1997
Hercules
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1997
Trial and Error
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1997
Down Periscope
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1996
How to Make an American Quilt
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1995
Canadian Bacon
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1995
She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal
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1995
Heart of a Child
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1994
Where the Rivers Flow North
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1993
Beyond the Law
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1993
RoboCop 3
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1993
Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
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1992
Dolly Dearest
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1991
Defending Your Life
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1991
By Dawn's Early Light
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1990
Sweet Bird of Youth
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1989
Silence Like Glass
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1989
Cold Feet
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1989
Hit List
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1989
The Telephone
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1988
Laguna Heat
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1987
Nadine
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1987
Extreme Prejudice
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1987
Beer
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1985
Summer Rental
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1985
City Heat
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1984
Songwriter
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1984
Scarab
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1984
Flashpoint
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1984
When She Says No
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1984
Misunderstood
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1983
Cross Creek
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1983
Airplane II: The Sequel
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1982
Jinxed!
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1982
The Beastmaster
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1982
A Stranger Is Watching
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1982
Heartland
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1981
One Trick Pony
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1980
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
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1979
Steel Cowboy
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1978
Coma
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1978
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
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1977
The Man Who Fell to Earth
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1976
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
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1975
Crazy Joe
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1974
The President's Plane Is Missing
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1973
Slaughter
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1972
Beyond the Law
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1968
Beach Red
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1967
You're a Big Boy Now
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1966
One Spy Too Many
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1966
The Cincinnati Kid
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1965
Hero's Island
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1962
Sweet Bird of Youth
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1962
King of Kings
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1961
Pork Chop Hill
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1959
Time Limit
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1957
A Face in the Crowd
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1957
Baby Doll
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1956
