Rip Torn was born Elmore Rual Torn, Jr. on February 6, 1931 in Temple, Texas. "Rip" is a family name, taken by generations of Torn men and bestowed on Elmore by his father, who was also called "Rip". Torn attended Texas A & M and the University of Texas, where he majored in animal husbandry. Extremely naive when he was young, Torn hitchhiked to ...
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 7 wins & 19 nominations.
| Movie | Get All That, Ant? | Unknown | 2015 |
| Series | TripTank | Unknown | 2014-04-02 |
| Movie | Men in Black 3 | Unknown | 2012-05-25 |
| Movie | Bridge of Names | Unknown | 2012 |
| Movie | The Legend of Awesomest Maximus | Unknown | 2011 |
| Movie | 3 Weeks to Daytona | Unknown | 2011 |
| Movie | God of War III | Unknown | 2010 |
| Movie | Norman Mailer: The American | Unknown | 2010 |
| Movie | The Afterlight | Unknown | 2009 |
| Series | World's Dumbest | Unknown | 2009 |
| Movie | August | David Sterling | 2009-10-08 |
| Movie | American Cowslip | Unknown | 2009 |
| Movie | Happy Tears | Unknown | 2009 |
| Movie | The Golden Boys | Unknown | 2008 |
| Movie | Lucky Days | Unknown | 2008 |
| Movie | Turn the River | Quinette | 2007-10-17 |
| Movie | The Making of 'Marie Antoinette' | Unknown | 2007 |
| Movie | The World's Greatest Comedy Characters | Unknown | 2007 |
| Movie | Bee Movie | Unknown | 2007 |
| Movie | The Making of 'The Larry Sanders Show' | Unknown | 2007 |
| Movie | Three Days to Vegas | Unknown | 2007 |
| Movie | Marie Antoinette | Unknown | 2006-10-20 |
| Series | 30 Rock | Unknown | 2006-10-11 |
| Movie | Zoom | Unknown | 2006-08-11 |
| Movie | The Convention | Unknown | 2006 |
| Movie | Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time | Unknown | 2006 |
| Movie | Yours, Mine & Ours | Unknown | 2005 |
| Movie | The Sisters | Unknown | 2005 |
| Movie | Forty Shades of Blue | Unknown | 2005 |
| Movie | Eulogy | Edmund Collins | 2005-02-24 |
| Movie | Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story | Patches O'Houlihan | 2004-06-18 |
| Movie | Welcome to Mooseport | Bert Langdon | 2004-02-20 |
| Series | Extreme Dodgeball | Unknown | 2004 |
| Series | The Lyon's Den | Unknown | 2003-09-28 |
| Movie | Rolling Kansas | Unknown | 2003 |
| Movie | Love Object | Unknown | 2003 |
| Movie | Maniac Magee | Unknown | 2003 |
| Movie | Men in Black II | Zed | 2002-07-03 |
| Movie | Freddy Got Fingered | Unknown | 2001-04-20 |
| Movie | Nine Hundred Nights | Unknown | 2001 |
| Series | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Unknown | 2001-10-07 |
| Movie | A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle | Unknown | 2000 |
| Series | Soul Food | Unknown | 2000-06-28 |
| Movie | Wonder Boys | Quentin 'Q' Morewood | 2000-02-25 |
| Movie | Men in Black Alien Attack | Unknown | 2000 |
| Movie | Seasons of Love | Unknown | 1999 |
| Movie | The Insider | Unknown | 1999-11-05 |
| Movie | Balloon Farm | Harvey H. Potter | 1999-03-28 |
| Movie | Passing Glory | Father Robert Grant | 1999-02-21 |
| Series | The 50th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | Unknown | 1998 |
| Movie | Senseless | Unknown | 1998 |
| Series | Will & Grace | Unknown | 1998-09-21 |
| Movie | Disney's Hades Challenge | Unknown | 1998-03-07 |
| Movie | Hercules | Unknown | 1997-06-27 |
| Movie | Men in Black | Unknown | 1997-07-02 |
| Series | Ghost Stories | Narrator | 1997-09-27 |
| Series | The 49th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | Unknown | 1997 |
| Movie | Hercules | Zeus | 1997 |
| Movie | Trial and Error | Unknown | 1997 |
| Movie | The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery | Unknown | 1997 |
| Series | Fox After Breakfast | Unknown | 1997 |
| Movie | The 51st Annual Tony Awards | Unknown | 1997 |
| Series | The Rosie O'Donnell Show | Unknown | 1996-06-10 |
| Movie | Down Periscope | Admiral Winslow | 1996-03-01 |
| Series | The 48th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | Unknown | 1996-09-08 |
| Movie | The 18th Annual CableACE Awards | Unknown | 1996-11-16 |
| Movie | 2nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards | Unknown | 1996 |
| Movie | The Mouse | Unknown | 1996 |
| Movie | The Hindenburg | Unknown | 1996 |
| Series | Lauren Hutton and... | Unknown | 1996 |
| Movie | James Dean: A Portrait | Unknown | 1996 |
| Movie | The 47th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | Unknown | 1995-09-10 |
| Movie | The 17th Annual CableACE Awards | Unknown | 1995-12-06 |
| Movie | How to Make an American Quilt | Arthur | 1995-10-06 |
| Movie | The 52nd Annual Golden Globe Awards | Unknown | 1995 |
| Movie | She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal | Unknown | 1995 |
| Movie | Canadian Bacon | Unknown | 1995 |
| Movie | Letter to My Killer | Unknown | 1995 |
| Movie | For Better or Worse | Unknown | 1995 |
| Series | Heaven & Hell: North & South, Book III | Adolphus | 1994-02-27 |
| Movie | Heart of a Child | Unknown | 1994 |
| Movie | The 16th Annual CableACE Awards | Unknown | 1994-01-16 |
| Series | Chicago Hope | Unknown | 1994-09-18 |
| Series | The 46th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | Unknown | 1994-09-11 |
| Series | American Masters | Unknown | 1994 |
| Series | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Unknown | 1993-09-13 |
| Series | The John Larroquette Show | Unknown | 1993-09-02 |
| Movie | RoboCop 3 | The CEO | 1993-11-05 |
| Movie | The 45th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | Unknown | 1993 |
| Movie | Where the Rivers Flow North | Unknown | 1993 |
| Movie | Beyond the Law | Unknown | 1993 |
| Series | The Larry Sanders Show | Arthur | 1992-08-15 |
| Series | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Unknown | 1992-05-25 |
| Movie | Fires of Kuwait | Unknown | 1992 |
| Series | The Howard Stern Interview | Unknown | 1992-11-27 |
| Movie | Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster | Unknown | 1992 |
| Movie | A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story | Bill Morgan | 1992-11-29 |
| Movie | T Bone N Weasel | Unknown | 1992 |
| Movie | Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind | Unknown | 1991 |
| Movie | Death Falls | Unknown | 1991 |
| Movie | Dolly Dearest | Unknown | 1991 |
| Movie | Defending Your Life | Unknown | 1991 |
| Movie | My Son Johnny | Brian Stansbury | 1991-11-10 |
| Movie | Kojak: None So Blind | Unknown | 1990 |
| Movie | By Dawn's Early Light | Unknown | 1990 |
| Movie | Beautiful Dreamers | Unknown | 1990 |
| Movie | Pair of Aces | Unknown | 1990 |
| Movie | Cold Feet | Unknown | 1989 |
| Movie | Sweet Bird of Youth | Unknown | 1989 |
| Movie | Silence Like Glass | Unknown | 1989 |
| Movie | Ghost Towns of the Old West | Unknown | 1989 |
| Movie | Hit List | Unknown | 1989 |
| Movie | Blind Curve | Unknown | 1988 |
| Movie | The Telephone | Unknown | 1988-01-22 |
| Movie | April Morning | Unknown | 1988 |
| Movie | Destination America | Unknown | 1987 |
| Movie | J. Edgar Hoover | Unknown | 1987 |
| Movie | Extreme Prejudice | Unknown | 1987 |
| Movie | Laguna Heat | Unknown | 1987 |
| Movie | The King of Love | Unknown | 1987-11-19 |
| Movie | Nadine | Unknown | 1987 |
| Movie | The 58th Annual Academy Awards | Unknown | 1986 |
| Series | Dream West | Unknown | 1986 |
| Movie | Manhunt for Claude Dallas | Unknown | 1986 |
| Movie | The Execution | Unknown | 1985 |
| Series | The Atlanta Child Murders | Unknown | 1985 |
| Movie | Summer Rental | Unknown | 1985 |
| Movie | Beer | Unknown | 1985 |
| Movie | Songwriter | Unknown | 1984 |
| Movie | The 56th Annual Academy Awards | Unknown | 1984-04-09 |
| Movie | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Unknown | 1984 |
| Movie | When She Says No | Unknown | 1984 |
| Movie | Misunderstood | Unknown | 1984 |
| Movie | City Heat | Unknown | 1984 |
| Movie | Flashpoint | Unknown | 1984 |
| Movie | Scarab | Unknown | 1983 |
| Movie | Cross Creek | Unknown | 1983-10-27 |
| Movie | The 9th Annual People's Choice Awards | Unknown | 1983 |
| Movie | A Stranger Is Watching | Unknown | 1982 |
| Movie | The Beastmaster | Unknown | 1982 |
| Movie | Airplane II: The Sequel | Kruger | 1982-12-10 |
| Movie | Jinxed! | Unknown | 1982 |
| Series | The Blue and the Gray | Unknown | 1982 |
| Movie | Sophia Loren: Her Own Story | Unknown | 1980 |
| Movie | Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case | Unknown | 1980 |
| Series | Clapper Board | Unknown | 1980 |
| Movie | One-Trick Pony | Unknown | 1980 |
| Movie | First Family | Unknown | 1980-12-25 |
| Series | Tomorrow Coast to Coast | Unknown | 1979 |
| Movie | Heartland | Unknown | 1979 |
| Series | Blind Ambition | Unknown | 1979 |
| Movie | The Seduction of Joe Tynan | Unknown | 1979 |
| Movie | A Shining Season | Unknown | 1979 |
| Series | The Eddie Capra Mysteries | Unknown | 1978 |
| Movie | Coma | Dr. George | 1978-01-06 |
| Movie | Betrayal | Doctor Hartogs | 1978-11-13 |
| Movie | Steel Cowboy | Unknown | 1978 |
| Movie | Nasty Habits | Father Maximilian | 1977-10-10 |
| Movie | The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover | Unknown | 1977 |
| Series | Most Wanted | Unknown | 1977 |
| Movie | On the Line | Unknown | 1977 |
| Movie | Harlan County U.S.A. | Unknown | 1976 |
| Movie | Birch Interval | Unknown | 1976 |
| Movie | The Man Who Fell to Earth | Nathan Bryce | 1976-05-26 |
| Movie | Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan | Unknown | 1975 |
| Series | The American Parade | Unknown | 1974 |
| Movie | Crazy Joe | Unknown | 1974 |
| Movie | Cotter | Unknown | 1973 |
| Movie | The President's Plane Is Missing | Unknown | 1973 |
| Movie | Payday | Unknown | 1973 |
| Movie | Hollywood Television Theater: Two by Chekhov | Unknown | 1972 |
| Series | Circle of Fear | Unknown | 1972 |
| Movie | Slaughter | Unknown | 1972 |
| Series | The Galloping Gourmet | Unknown | 1972 |
| Series | Columbo | Unknown | 1971-03-01 |
| Movie | 1 P.M. | Unknown | 1971 |
| Movie | Montserrat | Unknown | 1971 |
| Movie | Maidstone | Unknown | 1970 |
| Movie | Tropic of Cancer | Unknown | 1970 |
| Movie | Coming Apart | Unknown | 1969 |
| Movie | Lions Love (... and Lies) | Unknown | 1969 |
| Movie | Sol Madrid | Unknown | 1968 |
| Movie | Listen, America! | Unknown | 1968 |
| Movie | Beyond the Law | Unknown | 1968 |
| Series | Mannix | Unknown | 1968 |
| Movie | Beach Red | Unknown | 1967 |
| Movie | Lionpower from MGM | Unknown | 1967 |
| Movie | One Spy Too Many | Unknown | 1966 |
| Movie | The Long Hunt of April Savage | Unknown | 1966 |
| Movie | You're a Big Boy Now | Unknown | 1966 |
| Movie | The Cincinnati Kid | Unknown | 1965 |
| Movie | The 18th Annual Tony Awards | Unknown | 1964 |
| Series | Channing | Unknown | 1964 |
| Series | The Reporter | Unknown | 1964-09-25 |
| Series | 12 O'Clock High | Unknown | 1964-09-18 |
| Series | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | Unknown | 1964 |
| Series | Breaking Point | Unknown | 1964 |
| Series | The Eleventh Hour | Unknown | 1963 |
| Series | The Lieutenant | Unknown | 1963-09-14 |
| Movie | Critic's Choice | Unknown | 1963 |
| Series | The Dick Powell Theatre | Unknown | 1963 |
| Series | The Great Adventure | Unknown | 1963 |
| Series | Frontier Circus | Unknown | 1962 |
| Movie | Hero's Island | Nicholas Gates | 1962-09-16 |
| Series | Combat! | Unknown | 1962-10-02 |
| Movie | Sweet Bird of Youth | Unknown | 1962 |
| Series | Ben Casey | Unknown | 1961-10-02 |
| Series | Dr. Kildare | Unknown | 1961-09-28 |
| Series | Bonanza | Unknown | 1961 |
| Movie | King of Kings | Unknown | 1961 |
| Movie | Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life | Unknown | 1961 |
| Series | Rawhide | Unknown | 1961 |
| Series | Festival | Unknown | 1960-10-10 |
| Series | Route 66 | Unknown | 1960-10-07 |
| Series | Thriller | Unknown | 1960 |
| Series | About Faces | Unknown | 1960 |
| Series | Sunday Showcase | Unknown | 1960 |
| Series | The Untouchables | Unknown | 1959-10-15 |
| Movie | The 13th Annual Tony Awards | Unknown | 1959 |
| Movie | Pork Chop Hill | Unknown | 1959 |
| Series | Naked City | Unknown | 1959 |
| Series | Pursuit | Unknown | 1958 |
| Movie | Johnny Belinda | Unknown | 1958 |
| Series | The Restless Gun | Unknown | 1957-09-23 |
| Movie | A Face in the Crowd | Unknown | 1957 |
| Series | The Seven Lively Arts | Unknown | 1957 |
| Movie | Time Limit | Unknown | 1957 |
| Series | Matinee Theatre | Unknown | 1956 |
| Movie | Baby Doll | Unknown | 1956 |
| Series | The Alcoa Hour | Unknown | 1956 |
| Series | Playhouse 90 | Unknown | 1956-10-04 |
| Series | The Kaiser Aluminum Hour | Unknown | 1956 |
| Series | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Unknown | 1955-10-02 |
| Series | The United States Steel Hour | Unknown | 1953-10-27 |
| Series | Today | Unknown | 1952-01-14 |
| Series | Kraft Theatre | Unknown | 1948 |