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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…
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entertainment · American actor (1931–2019) · actor · film director · television actor · stage actor · film actor · voice actor · film producer · also Rip Torn, Torn
Born 6 February 1931 · Died 9 July 2019 · Q313522
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2019· 2 entries
At his home in Lakeville, Connecticut, at the age of 88 due to complications from Alzheimer's disease
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2015· 1 entry
Torn reprised his role as Zed in a Men in Black-inspired safety video for Air New Zealand with rugby player Israel Dagg and singer Stan Walker
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2010· 3 entries
Torn pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment, criminal trespass, criminal mischief, and possession of a firearm, and was given a two-and-a-half-year suspended jail sentence, and three years' probation
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Torn was denied special probation, which would have allowed his name to be cleared of charges
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Torn was arrested after breaking into a Litchfield Bancorp branch office in Lakeville, Connecticut
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2007· 1 entry
And 2008, he made five guest appearances on 30 Rock as the fictional chief executive officer of General Electric, Don Geiss
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2004· 1 entry
Played the wrench-tossing coach Patches O'Houlihan in DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
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2001· 1 entry
Torn portrayed James "Jim" Brody in the comedy film Freddy Got Fingered
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1998· 1 entry
A California appellate court upheld the ruling for compensatory damages, and reversed the ruling for the punitive damages, requiring Hopper to pay another $475,000
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1997· 2 entries
Torn portrayed Will Kidder in The Young Man from Atlanta
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Torn appeared in the Disney film Hercules, in which he voiced the god Zeus
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for The Larry Sanders Show (1996).
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1994· 1 entry
Torn filed a defamation lawsuit against Dennis Hopper over a story Hopper told on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
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1993· 2 entries
Torn portrayed the OCP CEO in RoboCop 3 and starred opposite Tantoo Cardinal in Where the Rivers Flow North
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To portray Chris Christopherson in Anna Christie
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1991· 1 entry
Portrayed Albert Brooks' character's celestial defense attorney in Defending Your Life
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1990· 1 entry
Portrayed Colonel Fargo in By Dawn's Early Light, a film from HBO about a fictional world war
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1988· 1 entry
Ventured into directing with The Telephone
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1982· 1 entry
Torn played a role as a black magic cult leader in the sword-and-sorcery movie The Beastmaster
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1975· 1 entry
Portrayed the Son in the Broadway revival of The Glass Menagerie and 5 years later, portrayed Don in Mixed Couples
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1972· 1 entry
Torn won rave reviews for his portrayal of a country and western singer in the cult film Payday
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1971· 1 entry
Portrayed Edgar in Dance of Death, and directed his first Broadway play in 1973: Look Away
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1965· 1 entry
In the film The Cincinnati Kid, he played Slade, a corrupt New Orleans millionaire, who pressures Steve McQueen during a high-stakes poker game
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1964· 2 entries
Played Lyle Britten in Blues for Mister Charlie, and four years later, he was Roberto in The Cuban Thing for its only performance on September 24, 1968
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Torn appeared as Eddie Sanderson in the episode "The Secret in the Stone" in The Eleventh Hour and in the premiere of The Reporter
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1963· 2 entries
Television series Channing, and as Roy Kendall in the Breaking Point episode "Millions of Faces"
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Torn married Geraldine Page, and they remained married until her death in 1987
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1962· 1 entry
In the play Daughter of Silence as Carlo, following that with a role in the 1963 production of Strange Interlude
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1961· 1 entry
Epic film King of Kings, Torn appeared in the February 7, 1962, episode of the acclaimed TV series The Naked City, "A Case Study of Two Savages", adapted from the real-life case of backwood killers Charles Starkweather (
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1959· 2 entries
Awarded Theatre World Award (1959).
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Made his feature Broadway debut when he played Tom Junior in Sweet Bird of Youth, for which he won a Theatre World Award and also received a Tony Award nomination
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1957· 2 entries
Torn portrayed Jody in an early episode of The Restless Gun
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Starred as incarcerated Steve Morgan in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "Number Twenty-Two", and on the same series in 1961, he played a recently released prisoner, Ernie Walters, in the Alfred Hitchcock Present
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1931· 2 entries
In Temple, Texas, the son of Elmore Rual "Tiger" Torn Sr
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Born 1931-02-06.
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