#Elmore Rual Torn Jr.

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Rip Torn (1931–2019)

Physique: Husky Build Height: 5'10" (1.78 m)

Elmore Rual "Rip" Torn Jr. was an American actor, voice artist, and comedian. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing Marsh Turner in Cross Creek. Torn's portrayal of Artie the producer on The Larry Sanders Show received six Emmy Award nominations, winning in 1996. He also won an American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Male in a Series, and two CableACE Awards for his work on the show, and for his roles as Zed in the Men in Black franchise and Patches O'Houlihan in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story. Torn died on July 9, 2019, at the age of 88.

The barrel-chested, slab-faced, and thunder-happy American thespian may qualify as a 'bear' in the broadest sense of the term. With his black cowboy boots, black Wrangler work pants held up by suspenders, a blue striped shirt, sherbet orange vest and a dusty black fedora, Torn is typecast as genially earthy, volatile, and loudmouthed good old boys. He first caught my attention as Artie on The Larry Sanders Show, but it was his scene in the god awful Freddy got Fingered where he’s shaking his ass and saying ‘fuck your daddy fuck your daddy’ that I remember him the most. He's probably remembered for his numerous DUI charges and breaking into a bank. Sure, the drunken, violent old man look could be a turn off, but if you could bottle that up. It could be damn hot.

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Thinking that Siobhan “Shiv” Roy is an incredibly stupid and TV Character name and then remembering Elmore Rual “Rip” Torn Jr., son of Elmore Rual “Tiger” Torn Sr.

I don't know who two thirds of those people are, but yeah.

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In Memory of Elmore Rual Torn Jr. R.I.P 1931 – July 9, 2019

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Rip Torn: A Retrospective

Rip Torn died on July 9th at age 88. That he lived that long is nothing short of miraculous.

In the summer of 1969, Rip Torn was drunkenly screaming through New York’s West Village on his motorcycle when he slammed it into a police cruiser. Torn broke his leg in the accident, but didn’t notice. The next morning he got up, got on a plane, and flew to Paris where he was set to star in Joseph Strick’s film version of Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer. He shot the entire film all hopped up on painkillers on an untreated busted leg,. And you know what? He still gives a remarkable performance. It wasn’t the only time he worked with broken bones, either.

For over 60 years, Torn carried on in the proud tradition of John Barrymore, Errol Flynn, Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, and Lawrence Tierney as the last of the great Hollywood hellions. In between insane drunken escapades, he was nominated for Emmys and Tonys and Oscars, he established himself as one of America’s most respected character actors, a man with a knack for making even a small role a pivotal one, and he was in Every Movie and TV Show Ever Made. Next time you watch something take a close look at the credits and you’ll see.

Torn’s given name was Elmore Rual Torn, Jr., but was nicknamed Rip as a boy, as was tradition among all the Torn men. He was born and raised and educated in Texas, studying  animal husbandry in college before turning to acting.

The motivation behind the decision was different than most. He hitchhiked to California to break into the movies not because he wanted to be a big star, but because he thought it would be an easy way to raise enough money to buy himself a ranch. Things didn’t work out quite so zip bang as he’d planned, though he did earn small roles on TV and made his feature debut in an uncredited role as a dentist in Elia Kazan’s great and scandalous 1956 film Baby Doll. Kazan hired him again the following year to play another uncredited but extremely important role in the equally great Face in the Crowd.

Although he wasn’t making the kind of money he needed to buy that ranch, he was getting enough acting jobs along the way to start taking the whole enterprise a bit more seriously. He moved to New York to study at the Actor’s studio, worked in theater both on and off Broadway, and from the mid-’50s to the mid-60s established himself on TV in everything from Playhouse 90 to Thriller to Route 66 to The Untouchables. After that things took off. There was just something sinister about Torn, those wicked eyes of his, that crooked-toothed leer, the whole rat-like demeanor, that suited him for villainous roles of all kinds. Plus he was a chameleon who could shift his whole look and stature with the simplest change of accent. He would go on to play Judas in King of Kings, countless presidents, doctors, senators, military officers and judges. He played rednecks and gangsters, cowboys and spies and executives. He played Walt Whitman twice, was in a whole bunch of Tennessee William’s plays (on Broadway, TV and film). Yeah, like I said, between the mid-’50s and the present, he was in every damn thing ever made. Trying to summarize his career is pretty much impossible, but there was a stretch there from the mid-60s to the late 70s when he was top billed when he was turning small supporting roles into leads, when he was moving easily between TV, experimental films, and big budget Hollywood jobs, and when he was starting to earn himself a reputation as a wild man.

Looking back on it now, it’s hard to imagine the kind of talent, both in front of and behind the camera, that came together on the 1965 period gambling picture The Cincinnati Kid. It was originally a Sam Peckinpah film with a script by Ring Lardner. Then Peckinpah was fired (surprise!) and Norman Jewison was brought in to direct. He thought the script was too self important and talky, so he brought in Terry Southern. He also gave Hal Ashby his first big break, bringing him in as editor and assistant director. Steve McQueen stars as a hotshot young poker player in ‘30s-era New Orleans. Karl Malden is a former hotshot on the skids. Jack weston is the loud whiny guy. Ann-Margaret is the bad girl, Tuesday Weld is the good girl, and Edward G. Robinson is the old man, the undisputed champ, the stud poker king feared by everyone.

Ah, then there’s Rip Torn. His name’s deep in the credits but the whole film turns around him. He plays the slick and sleazy Southern Gentleman who will stop at nothing to see the Robinson character toppled. See, Robinson beat him at poker once, and for a Southern Gentleman of his stature there’s nothing in the world worse than losing. There’s one scene in particular, Torn’s showpiece here, in which he tries to blackmail the dealer (Malden) into cheating, and though it doesn’t sound like much nobody can muster up the cool menace like Torn. Oooohhh, he’s such a rotten son of a bitch.

Four years later he starred in Moses Ginsberg’s first film, Coming Apart, an experimental number that’s been called “More a Happening than an actual movie,.” Filmed with a single static camera to recreate the feel of a documentary, Torn stars as an unbalanced psychiatrist who torments and confuses his female patients, eventually going completely batty himself. It all takes place in one small room shot by that one unmoving camera. It’s at turns compelling and unbelievably tedious, and if it weren’t for Torn (thank god for that Actor’s Studio improv training) it would be unwatchable.

Around this same time Dennis Hopper cast Torn to be in Easy Rider. Then at what was either a production meeting or a cocktail party in New York (depending on who’s telling the story), Hopper and Torn got into a bit of a ruckus over whether or not all Texans were  rednecks out to kill hippies. A knife was pulled (though Peter Fonda would later claim it was a butter knife, or maybe a fork, or maybe both). Next thing you know, Torn was thrown off the picture, and Hopper cast Jack Nicholson in his place.

About a year later Torn joined the cast of Norman Mailer’s improvisational experiment, Maidstone. Essentially it was a raucous, drunken three-day party out at Grove Press founder Barney Rossett’s Long Island estate around which Mailer tried to film himself as a director trying to shoot a movie. As the story goes, before shooting started each actor was given a card briefly describing his or her character, and that was as close as anyone got to a script. One character, however, was given a card at random informing the holder that his character was in fact a CIA assassin whose job it was to kill Mailer. The card’s recipient was supposed to be kept a secret from everyone in the cast, including Mailer.

Well, according to Rossett there was a little confusion there. Maybe it was the booze, or maybe the card simply wasn’t worded clearly. In any case Torn (naturally) got the card, but instead of thinking his character was supposed to kill Mailer, he somehow got the idea that HE was supposed to kill Mailer. Lucky for Mailer, too, as the confusion resulted in the only scene in the film anyone remembers.

After the shoot was over and most everyone had gone home, Mailer and his family are walking back toward the house when they’re stopped by a grinning and quite mad Torn, who is also clutching a small hatchet. The cameras are rolling and you can tell this was something Mailer was not prepared for. Nor was he prepared when Torn goes after his skull with the hatchet. The two wrestle each other to the ground, Mailer bites Torn’s ear, Torn leaves a deep gash in Mailer’s scalp, and Mailer’s wife and children scream in horror until a couple crew members pull Torn off him.

And that, my friends, is entertainment!

(The next morning Rossett found a drunken midget floating in his swimming pool, but that’s another story.)

Then came the motorcycle accident and shooting Tropic of Cancer on a broken leg. As it happens there were two films based on Henry Miller novels filming simultaneously two blocks apart in Paris. Jens Jorgen  Thorsen’s Quiet Days in Clichy starred Paul Valjean, an American dancer who looked an awful lot like Miller, but neither sounded nor acted like him. Torn, meanwhile, looked absolutely nothing like Miller, but somehow by adopting just the slightest hint of a Brooklyn accent (and on all those painkillers) was somehow able to embody him completely. It’s a gritty, funny, poetic film and Torn is great, though to be fair it should be noted that Clichy was dirtier.

Also in 1970, Torn spoke out against the war in Vietnam on a TV show, and a few nights later someone fired a bullet through his window. It was a hell of a year for him.

In ‘73s Darryl Duke film, Payday, Torn gives what he himself would later refer to as his best performance. Or maybe his favorite. In any case he’s really something as Maury Dann, a  womanizing, hard-drinking, bastard son of a bitch of a second-rate country singer. Dann and his band are on tour  through the South as Dann screws and screws over everyone around him, from band members to family, to pretty much every woman he meets. He never quite hit the top, but insists on acting and being treated like he has. Toward the end he even talks his chauffer into taking a murder rap for him, since he has to get to a show. It’s an extremely dark, cynical, and painfully accurate portrait of the country music business of the early ‘70s, and Torn does all his own singing. It makes for a nice counterpoint to Robert Duvall’s quiet, soft-spoken, and sensitive country singer in Tender Mercies from a decade later.

Although again his name is buried deep in the credits of Larry Cohen’s 1977 biopic The Secret Files of J. Edgar Hoover the entire film revolves around him. He narrates, after all, and gives another memorable performance as a young man who decides to join the Bureau after his father (another agent) is gunned down by a two-bit hood on the street. After seeing what’s going on in the FBI, though, and after being punished himself for a minor indiscretion, he tries to bring Hoover down a notch or two. In what could have been a hamfisted cartoon, both Cohen and Torn (and star Broderick Crawford near the end of his career) manage a shockingly human portrait.

As a flipside to Torn’s tendency to turn minor supporting roles into leads, there was 1978’s Coma, the medical conspiracy thriller directed by Michael Chrichton based on the Robin Cook novel. Torn was fourth-billed behind Genevieve Bujold, MIchael Douglas, and Richard Widmark. And sure, Torn’s character, Dr. George, is the film’s central villain, the man behind a Boston hospital’s fiendish conspiracy to harvest human organs and sell them on the black market, but he only appears in one scene, and speaks roughly four lines. It’s unclear whether this was the plan from the start, an attempt to turn his character into another Harry Lime or Mabuse,  or if maybe all his other scenes were cut after Torn went after Crichton with a hatchet (we can only hope). In any case he was missed. He might have livened up what was otherwise a pretty godawful picture.

As Torn grew older and a little larger and his hair started getting thinner, two things happened. He began playing more authority figures, which only makes sense I guess. He had that look and sound about him. He also started doing more comedies and genre films. Sometimes he even combined the two, playing Ronald Reagan in ‘82s Airplane II: The Sequel.

In ‘91 he was Bob Diamond, the charming, sleazy, and utterly  ineffective lawyer trying to give Albert Brooks a boost out of Purgatory in Defending Your Life. He was the sinister CEO in the otherwise dreadful Robocop 3. He even began lending his voice to animated features and video games (usually playing a god of some kind).

Then in 1999 Dennis Hopper was a guest on Leno and told a few old Easy Rider stories, including the one about how Torn had pulled a knife on him at a party. Well, Torn, remembering things a bit differently, sued him for defamation.

It’s pretty hilarious if you think about it; these two guys who were both completely out of their heads in the late ‘60s going to court to determine which one of them was behaving badly. I mean, they both had reputations to maintain.

Well, most of the witnesses agreed with Torn that it was Hopper who pulled the knife (except for Peter Fonda, who remembered all kinds of different utensils), and the court ordered Hopper to pay Torn nearly half a million in damages.  It was all kind of silly. I mean, it’s not like the story cost him any work. Hell, trying to literally kill Norman Mailer on camera didn’t even cost him any work. But I guess pride’s a funny thing.

After that he continued to work regularly, as Agent Zed in the Men in Black films, in sit-coms, in made-for-TV films, christ, anything that came along. Every director I’ve ever heard talk about Torn can’t praise him highly enough for his talent and professionalism (except maybe Mailer), though given his admitted temper, it’s also possible they’re just scared of him.  He was nominated for six Emmys for his role on the Larry Sanders Show, and came to be recognized by a whole new generation as the executive Alec Baldwin worships but wants to replace on 30 Rock.

Along the way he set himself the task of repairing any damage his reputation as a hellraiser might have suffered as a result of that Hopper lawsuit. The DUIs started adding up. Or at least getting noticed, in part thanks to the actor’s tendency to swing on the arresting officers. Along with being the president of the Extreme Dodgeball League (who knew it even existed?) it seems he was also an extreme regular at a bar near his Connecticut home.  Every once in awhile the bartender himself would tip off the cops after Torn headed for his car. I’m not sure if that bartender’s still there, but even after being fingered like that Torn remained a regular, though he didn’t always drive. And that in itself might have caused some problems.

After returning home from the bar one night in 2010, Torn found his keys didn’t work in the lock. Seeing no alternative, the 79-year-old was forced to break into his own house. He was probably surprised a few minutes later, just as he got his shoes off and was making himself comfortable,  when the cops arrived and informed him that he wasn’t in his house at all, but had broken into a nearby bank. And the cops were probably surprised to find Torn was carrying a loaded handgun. Yeah, he’s not the only one who’s been there, as I think many of us can attest.

Once it was clarified that it was not Torn’s intention to rob the bank, he was given a two and a half year suspended sentence and three years probation.

The arrest prompted the tightassed, no fun creators of Thirty Rock to kill off his character, but he remained as busy as ever, including an uncredited role as an alien in Men in Black Three.

He once proudly noted that he’s never missed a performance. He’s worked with broken legs, broken arms and ankles, and once while doing a play he passed a kidney stone on opening night. He was a rare, tough old bird, a vanishing breed, and one of my heroes. We won’t see his like again.

by Jim Knipfel

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Elmore Rual "Rip" Torn Jr. (February 6, 1931 – July 9, 2019) Stage, screen and television actor, voice artist, and comedian.  His work includes the role of Artie the producer on The Larry Sanders Show, for which he was nominated for six Emmy Awards, winning in 1996. He also won an American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Male in a Series, and two CableACE Awards for his work on the show.

In 1957, Torn portrayed Jody in an early episode of The Restless Gun. In 1957, he 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 Presents episode "The Kiss-Off.

Torn appeared as a graduate student with multiple degrees in 1963's television series Channing, and as Roy Kendall in the Breaking Point episode "Millions of Faces." In 1964, Torn appeared as Eddie Sanderson in the episode "The Secret in the Stone" in The Eleventh Hour and in the premiere of The Reporter.

  In 1965 heportrayed Colonel Royce in the episode "The Lorelei" of Twelve O'Clock High.

Following The Larry Sanders Show, Torn appeared in many comedic roles in films (see below filmography). He was also known for his voice work and did voice-overs for many animated films.

In 2007 and 2008, he made five guest appearances on 30 Rock as the fictional Chief Executive Officer of General Electric, Don Geiss.  (Wikipedia)

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Rip Torn, el Agente Z de MIB fallece a los 88 años.

Rip Torn, el Agente Z de MIB fallece a los 88 años.

Rip Torn, actor conocido por interpretar a Artie en la serie de HBO “The Larry Sanders Show” y Z en “Men in Black” murió esta tarde de jueves en su casa en Lakeville, Conneticut de acuerdo con un comunicado emitido por su representante, a la edad de 88 años.

Tuvo una carrera que abarcó más de seis décadas, Torn se estableció a si mismo como un actor versátil, apareciendo en 10 obras de Broadway y…

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Remembering Rip Torn – The Chief of Men in Black

Remembering Rip Torn – The Chief of Men in Black

Born Elmore Rual Torn Jr on February 6th 1931 to parents Elmore Rual Torn Sr. and Thelma Mary Torn (nee Spacek) in Temple, Texas USA.  His Mother was Aunt to the actress Sissy Spacek.  The nickname “Rip” is a family tradition among men in the Torn family, a family of German, Austrian and Czech/Moravian ancestry.

After graduating…

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Rip Torn dies aged 88 after embellished acting career, including roles in Guy In Black and Dodgeball - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

Rip Torn dies aged 88 after decorated acting profession, including roles in Men In Black and Dodgeball

Updated July 10, 2019 18:35:16

American star Rip Torn, understood for his roles in Guy In Black, Dodgeball and 30 Rock, has passed away aged 88.

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The Oscar and Tony award candidate and Emmy winner died at his home surrounded by his partner and 2 daughters, his publicist confirmed to the Associated Press.Torn, born Elmore Rual Torn Jr, was chosen for an Oscar for his role in 1984 drama Cross Creek, where he portrayed alcoholic daddy Marsh opposite Mary Steenburgen.He found recognition

in the HBO series The Larry Sanders Show, where he got an Emmy nomination in every one of its seasons, winning in 1996. Torn began his acting career in the 1950s as a phase star following a stint in the US army, ending up being a prolific star on Broadway prior to his 1956 movie launching in Infant Doll.A cousin of Sissy Spacek, Torn had actually established a fiery

track record within the market, most notably when he rowed with Dennis Hoper during the pre-production of 1969 film Easy Rider.Hopper declared in 1994 that Torn pulled a knife on him, with Torn suing as a result, claiming instead that Hopper had actually pulled the knife on him.The court ruled in favour of Torn, but it came a number of decades after Torn had actually been changed in his

role by Jack Nicholson.Torn's credibility followed him outside the acting world, and he was included in a variety of altercations with the law, mainly surrounding drink-driving. In 2010 he was arrested after getting into a bank branch in Connecticut and was charged with carrying an unlicensed firearm, break-in, trespass

and bring a gun while intoxicated.Police stated Torn had actually broken into the bank thinking it was his home.After pleading guilty to a variety of charges surrounding his possession of a loaded weapon while drunk, he was provided

a two-and-a-half-year suspended prison sentence in 2010.

Torn also infamously fought director Norman Mailer during the filming of counterculture movie Maidstone.In an improvised on-camera scene, Torn-- playing Mailer's sibling-- attacked Mailer with a hammer and

tried to strangle him. Mailer bit Torn's ear in response.The scene made it into Maidstone's final cut and was obviously planned, but the blood shed by both actors was extremely real.Torn was supposedly outraged by Mailer's direction.

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In Memoriam: Rip Torn (1931-2019)

In Memoriam: Rip Torn (1931-2019)

A sad bit of news to report from the House today. Earlier this week film and television fans lost one of the great character actors of all time as actor Rip Torn passed away Tuesday at his home in Lakeville, Connecticut at the age of eighty-eight.

Born Elmore Rual “Rip” Torn Jr. on February 6, 1931 in Temple, Texas, Torn was the son of Elmore Rual “Tiger” Torn Sr. an agriculturist and Mary Torn.…

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2019: Rip Torn, all’anagrafe Elmore Rual Torn Jr., è stato un attore statunitense, attivo in campo televisivo e cinematografico, candidato all’Oscar nel 1984 per la sua interpretazione ne La foresta silenziosa. Cugino dell’attrice Sissy Spacek. (n. 1931) 2017: Paquita Rico, Francisca Rico Martinez, attrice e cantante spagnola. (n. 1929) 2012: Dino Cassio, attore e cantante italiano. Inizia…

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Elmore Rual "Rip" Torn Jr. (February 6, 1931 – July 9, 2019)

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REST IN PEACE! Rip Torn Once Tried To Stab Dennis Hopper Actor's wild temper led him to threaten other stars.

REST IN PEACE! Rip Torn Once Tried To Stab Dennis Hopper Actor’s wild temper led him to threaten other stars.

Radar Online-Rip Torn — who died at 88 on July 9 — was a beloved movie funnyman in modern comedies like Men in Black and Dodgeball.

But the laughter hid a shocking, self-destructive secret life!

Born Elmore Rual Torn Jr., the Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated actor was a rising rocket in Hollywood until his wild dark side emerged.

He was slated for the role that made Jack Nicholson famous in the…

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Rip Torn, MIB's Zed, Dead at 88

Rip Torn, MIB’s Zed, Dead at 88

Emmy-winning actor/director Rip Torn, who played Zed in the Men in Black movies and voiced Zeus in Disney’s Hercules, died July 9, 2019, at his home in Lakeland, Connecticut.  A cause of death has not been released yet, but he died at home, surrounded by family.

Rip Torn as High Priest Maax in Beastmaster {image via MGM}, 1982.

Elmore Rual Torn, Jr. was born on February 6, 1931 in Temple,…