Rip Torn

Rip Torn

American actor (1931–2019)

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. He played the lead roles in films Coming Apart (1969), Payday (1973), and Heartland (1979).

Filmography in the catalog

Credited on 22 films (1957–1988) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field. Also mentioned in 3 other records (descriptions, transcriptions, copyright notes).

Year ▲ Title CreatorLengthFormatColorSound
1957 Time Limit Karl Malden 96 min Color & B&W
1959 Pork Chop Hill. Melville Productions Inc. 97 min. 35mm B&W sound
1959 Time Limit. CBS Films Inc. 96 min. 35mm Color sound
1961 KING OF KINGS Eastman Kodak Stores, Inc 112 min 16mm Color Sound
1961 King Of Kings. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. & Samuel Bronston Productions Inc. 164 min Color sound
1961 Sweet Bird Of Youth. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. & Roxbury Productions Inc. 120 min 35mm Color sound
1962 Hero's Island. Daystar Productions & Portland Productions Inc. 94 min 35mm Color sound
1963 Critic's Choice. Warner Bros. Pictures Inc.: 13Apr63 (in notice: 1962) 96 min 35mm Color sound
1965 The Cincinnati Kid. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. 102 min 35mm Color sound
1967 Beach Red. Theodora Productions Inc. 103 min 35mm Color sound
1970 Maidstone Norman Mailer
1970 Tropic Of Cancer Tropic Film Corp 88 min Color sound
1972 Payday Daryl Duke 103 min Color
1972 Slaughter Slaughter 1 Limited Partnership 92 min Color sound
1974 Crazy Joe Bright-Persky Associates 100 min Color sound
1976 Birch Interval Radnitz/Mattel Productions, Inc 3. 103 min Color sound
1976 The Man Who Fell to Earth Nicolas Roeg 138 min Color
1978 Coma Michael Crichton
1978 The Private Files Of J. Edgar Hoover American International 112 min Color sound
1979 The Seduction Of Joe Tynan Universal Pictures Co. Inc. 105 min 16mm Color sound
1985 The Atlanta child murders. Finnegan / Pinchuk Productions 245 min 16mm sound
1988 The Telephone Rip Torn