Rip Torn: movies and TV shows
Rip Torn has 192 credits in the archive: 142 films and 50 TV series, from 1944 to 2012. Highest rated: The Lyon's Den (8.8/10).
Career timeline
1944 – 2012 · busiest year: 1961 (6 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Men in Black 3 | Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited) | Film | 6.5 | 81 |
| 2012 | Norman Mailer: The American | Self | Film | 7.0 | 81 |
| 2012 | Bridge of Names | Tom | Film | — | 81 |
| 2011 | National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus | King Looney | Film | 3.9 | 80 |
| 2011 | 3 Weeks to Daytona | Sal | Film | 5.3 | 80 |
| 2009 | Happy Tears | Joe | Film | 5.0 | 78 |
| 2009 | American Cowslip | Trevor O'Hart | Film | 5.1 | 78 |
| 2009 | The Afterlight | Carl | Film | — | 78 |
| 2008 | August | David Sterling | Film | 5.2 | 77 |
| 2008 | Turn the River | Quinette | Film | 5.3 | 77 |
| 2008 | The Golden Boys | Capt. Jeremiah Burgess | Film | 5.5 | 77 |
| 2008 | Lucky Days | Bobo | Film | — | 77 |
| 2008 | Lucky Days | Film | — | 77 | |
| 2007 | Bee Movie | Lou Lo Duca (voice) | Film | 6.0 | 76 |
| 2007 | The Making of Marie Antoinette | Self | Film | 5.0 | 76 |
| 2007 | The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show' | Arthur | Film | — | 76 |
| 2007 | Three Days to Vegas | Joe Wallace | Film | 3.9 | 76 |
| 2006 | 30 Rock | Don Geiss | TV | 7.5 | 75 |
| 2006 | Marie Antoinette | Louis XV | Film | 6.7 | 75 |
| 2006 | Zoom | Larraby | Film | 5.3 | 75 |
| 2006 | Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time | Self | Film | — | 75 |
| 2005 | Yours, Mine & Ours | Commandant Sherman | Film | 6.2 | 74 |
| 2005 | Forty Shades of Blue | Alan James | Film | 4.5 | 74 |
| 2005 | The Sisters | Dr. Chebrin | Film | 5.1 | 74 |
| 2004 | DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story | Patches O'Houlihan | Film | 6.4 | 73 |
| 2004 | Extreme Dodgeball | TV | — | 73 | |
| 2004 | Welcome to Mooseport | Bert Langdon | Film | 5.1 | 73 |
| 2004 | Love Object | Novak | Film | 5.9 | 73 |
| 2004 | Eulogy | Edmund Collins | Film | 6.4 | 73 |
| 2003 | The Lyon's Den | TV | 8.8 | 72 | |
| 2003 | Maniac Magee | George McNab | Film | 8.0 | 72 |
| 2003 | Rolling Kansas | Oldman | Film | 5.6 | 72 |
| 2002 | Men in Black II | Zed | Film | 6.4 | 71 |
| 2001 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Jules Copeland | TV | 7.6 | 70 |
| 2001 | Freddy Got Fingered | Jim Brody | Film | 4.7 | 70 |
| 2000 | Soul Food | Peter Redmond | TV | 7.2 | 69 |
| 2000 | Wonder Boys | Q | Film | 6.8 | 69 |
| 2000 | A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle | Detective Manny Garett | Film | 10.0 | 69 |
| 2000 | Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows | Self | Film | 7.3 | 69 |
| 1999 | The Insider | John Scanlon | Film | 7.5 | 68 |
| 1999 | The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery | Royce | Film | 5.6 | 68 |
| 1999 | Passing Glory | Father Robert Grant | Film | 6.0 | 68 |
| 1999 | Balloon Farm | Harvey Potter | Film | 5.9 | 68 |
| 1999 | Seasons of Love | Spence | TV | 8.0 | 68 |
| 1998 | Will & Grace | Lionel Banks | TV | 6.9 | 67 |
| 1998 | Senseless | Randall Tyson | Film | 6.2 | 67 |
| 1997 | Men in Black | Zed | Film | 7.2 | 66 |
| 1997 | Hercules | Zeus (voice) | Film | 7.5 | 66 |
| 1997 | The Mouse | Trucker 'God' | Film | 9.0 | 66 |
| 1997 | Ghost Stories | The Narrator | TV | 7.5 | 66 |
| 1997 | Trial and Error | Benny Gibbs | Film | 5.5 | 66 |
| 1996 | Down Periscope | Admiral Winslow | Film | 6.4 | 65 |
| 1996 | The Hindenburg | Narrator | Film | 7.5 | 65 |
| 1995 | For Better or Worse | Capt. Cole | Film | 4.7 | 64 |
| 1995 | How to Make an American Quilt | Arthur | Film | 6.4 | 64 |
| 1995 | Canadian Bacon | General Dick Panzer | Film | 5.8 | 64 |
| 1995 | James Dean: A Portrait | Self (Narrator) | Film | 7.0 | 64 |
| 1995 | Letter to My Killer | Film | 6.5 | 64 | |
| 1995 | She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal | Adm. Snyder | Film | 5.0 | 64 |
| 1994 | Chicago Hope | Warren Shutt | TV | 7.2 | 63 |
| 1994 | Heart of a Child | Dr. Leonard Bailey | Film | 5.2 | 63 |
| 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest | TV | 7.3 | 62 |
| 1993 | The John Larroquette Show | Bernard Galvin | TV | 6.8 | 62 |
| 1993 | RoboCop 3 | The CEO | Film | 4.9 | 62 |
| 1993 | Beyond the Law | Deputy Prescott | Film | 6.3 | 62 |
| 1993 | Where the Rivers Flow North | Noel Lord | Film | 6.4 | 62 |
| 1992 | The Larry Sanders Show | Arthur | TV | 7.7 | 61 |
| 1992 | T Bone N Weasel | Happy Sam | Film | 3.8 | 61 |
| 1992 | Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster | Admiral Paul Yost | Film | 5.2 | 61 |
| 1992 | A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story | Bill Morgan | Film | 7.7 | 61 |
| 1992 | Fires of Kuwait | Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.9 | 61 |
| 1991 | Defending Your Life | Bob Diamond | Film | 6.9 | 60 |
| 1991 | Death Falls | Dub Farley | Film | 5.0 | 60 |
| 1991 | My Son Johnny | Brian Stansbury | Film | 6.1 | 60 |
| 1991 | Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind | Captain Jack Parsons | Film | 4.0 | 60 |
| 1991 | Dolly Dearest | Karl Resnick | Film | 5.6 | 60 |
| 1990 | Kojak: None So Blind | Gideon Hogarth | Film | 6.3 | 59 |
| 1990 | Pair of Aces | Capt. Jack Parsons | Film | 6.7 | 59 |
| 1990 | By Dawn's Early Light | Colonel Fargo | Film | 6.5 | 59 |
| 1990 | Beautiful Dreamers | Walt Whitman | Film | 5.0 | 59 |
| 1989 | Silence Like Glass | Dr. Markowitz | Film | 7.0 | 58 |
| 1989 | Hit List | Vic Luca | Film | 6.2 | 58 |
| 1989 | Sweet Bird of Youth | Boss Finley | Film | 5.5 | 58 |
| 1989 | Cold Feet | Sheriff | Film | 4.1 | 58 |
| 1988 | April Morning | Solomon Chandler | Film | 5.7 | 57 |
| 1988 | The Telephone | Film | 4.4 | 57 | |
| 1987 | Extreme Prejudice | Sheriff Hank Pearson | Film | 6.3 | 56 |
| 1987 | J. Edgar Hoover | Lyndon Baines Johnson | Film | — | 56 |
| 1987 | Nadine | Buford Pope | Film | 5.4 | 56 |
| 1987 | Destination: America | Corbet St. James IV | Film | — | 56 |
| 1987 | The King of Love | Jack Kraft | Film | — | 56 |
| 1987 | Laguna Heat | Joe Datilla | Film | 4.3 | 56 |
| 1986 | Manhunt for Claude Dallas | Tim Nettleton | Film | 5.5 | 55 |
| 1985 | North and South | Adolphus | TV | 7.5 | 54 |
| 1985 | The Atlanta Child Murders | Lewis Slaton | TV | 5.8 | 54 |
| 1985 | Summer Rental | Scully | Film | 6.1 | 54 |
| 1985 | Beer | Buzz Beckerman | Film | 4.4 | 54 |
| 1985 | The Execution | Wilheim Gehbert | Film | 7.3 | 54 |
| 1984 | Songwriter | Dino McLeish | Film | 5.5 | 53 |
| 1984 | City Heat | Primo Pitt | Film | 5.5 | 53 |
| 1984 | Scarab | Khepera | Film | 7.0 | 53 |
| 1984 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Big Daddy | Film | 5.7 | 53 |
| 1984 | Flashpoint | Sheriff Wells | Film | 6.2 | 53 |
| 1984 | When She Says No | Stuart Blankfort | Film | 8.0 | 53 |
| 1983 | Cross Creek | Marsh Turner | Film | 6.6 | 52 |
| 1983 | Misunderstood | Will | Film | 6.5 | 52 |
| 1982 | American Playhouse | Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt | TV | 6.6 | 51 |
| 1982 | Airplane II: The Sequel | Bud Kruger / President Reagan | Film | 6.1 | 51 |
| 1982 | The Beastmaster | Maax | Film | 6.3 | 51 |
| 1982 | The Blue and the Gray | Ulysses S. Grant | TV | 6.7 | 51 |
| 1982 | A Stranger Is Watching | Artie Taggart | Film | 4.6 | 51 |
| 1982 | Jinxed! | Harold Benson | Film | 4.6 | 51 |
| 1981 | Heartland | Clyde Stewart | Film | 6.5 | 50 |
| 1980 | First Family | General G. E. Dumpston | Film | 3.7 | 49 |
| 1980 | One Trick Pony | Walter Fox | Film | 5.5 | 49 |
| 1980 | Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case | Charles Burt | Film | 5.9 | 49 |
| 1980 | Sophia Loren: Her Own Story | Carlo Ponti | Film | 5.5 | 49 |
| 1979 | A Shining Season | Jack Baker | Film | 4.7 | 48 |
| 1979 | Blind Ambition | Richard M. Nixon | TV | 6.3 | 48 |
| 1979 | The Seduction of Joe Tynan | Senator Kittner | Film | 5.9 | 48 |
| 1978 | The Eddie Capra Mysteries | TV | 6.5 | 47 | |
| 1978 | Betrayal | Dr. Hartogs | Film | 7.0 | 47 |
| 1978 | Coma | Dr. George | Film | 6.8 | 47 |
| 1978 | Steel Cowboy | K.W. Hicks | Film | 9.0 | 47 |
| 1977 | Nasty Habits | Father Maximilian | Film | 5.0 | 46 |
| 1977 | Harlan County U.S.A. | Film | 7.5 | 46 | |
| 1977 | The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover | Dwight Webb | Film | 5.1 | 46 |
| 1976 | The Man Who Fell to Earth | Nathan Bryce | Film | 6.5 | 45 |
| 1976 | Birch Interval | Thomas | Film | 5.0 | 45 |
| 1975 | Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan | Glen Tuttle | Film | 7.5 | 44 |
| 1975 | Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan | Glen Tuttle | TV | — | 44 |
| 1974 | Crazy Joe | Richie | Film | 6.6 | 43 |
| 1973 | Cotter | Roy | Film | 4.5 | 42 |
| 1973 | Payday | Maury Dann | Film | 6.1 | 42 |
| 1973 | The President's Plane Is Missing | George Oldenburg | Film | 6.3 | 42 |
| 1972 | Ghost Story | Jonathon | TV | 7.4 | 41 |
| 1972 | Slaughter | Dominic Hoffo | Film | 5.6 | 41 |
| 1971 | Columbo | Leon Lamarr | TV | 8.1 | 40 |
| 1971 | Maidstone | Raoul Rey O'Houlihan | Film | 4.2 | 40 |
| 1971 | Montserrat | Izquierdo | Film | 10.0 | 40 |
| 1971 | 1 P.M. | Self | Film | 6.2 | 40 |
| 1970 | Tropic of Cancer | Henry Miller | Film | 4.8 | 39 |
| 1969 | Lions Love | The Beard Director (uncredited) | Film | 5.8 | 38 |
| 1969 | Coming Apart | Joe | Film | 6.2 | 38 |
| 1968 | Sol Madrid | Dano Villanova | Film | 6.9 | 37 |
| 1968 | Beyond the Law | Popcorn | Film | 5.6 | 37 |
| 1967 | Mannix | Victor Roarke | TV | 6.8 | 36 |
| 1967 | Lionpower from MGM | Self - Dano Villanova (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 6.3 | 36 |
| 1967 | Beach Red | Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell | Film | 6.5 | 36 |
| 1966 | One Spy Too Many | Alexander | Film | 5.1 | 35 |
| 1966 | You're a Big Boy Now | I.H. Chanticleer | Film | 6.1 | 35 |
| 1965 | The Cincinnati Kid | William Jefferson Slade | Film | 7.0 | 34 |
| 1964 | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | Alexander | TV | 7.1 | 33 |
| 1964 | 12 O'Clock High | Col. Mark Royce | TV | 7.2 | 33 |
| 1963 | The Lieutenant | Sgt. Karl Kasten | TV | 7.0 | 32 |
| 1963 | The Great Adventure | Lieutenant John C. Freemont | TV | 10.0 | 32 |
| 1963 | Breaking Point | TV | 7.4 | 32 | |
| 1963 | Channing | Donald Burrows | TV | 7.5 | 32 |
| 1963 | Critic's Choice | Dion Kapakos | Film | 5.6 | 32 |
| 1962 | Combat! | Avery | TV | 7.8 | 31 |
| 1962 | Sweet Bird of Youth | Tom Finley Jr. | Film | 6.8 | 31 |
| 1962 | Hero's Island | Nicholas Gates | Film | 5.6 | 31 |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show | Self | TV | 5.8 | 30 |
| 1961 | Dr. Kildare | Dr. Nicholas Keefe | TV | 5.7 | 30 |
| 1961 | Ben Casey | TV | 5.9 | 30 | |
| 1961 | The Dick Powell Show | Joel Coles | TV | 5.7 | 30 |
| 1961 | King of Kings | Judas | Film | 7.1 | 30 |
| 1961 | 24 Hours in a Woman's Life | Paul | Film | 5.0 | 30 |
| 1960 | Thriller | Duncan Corey | TV | 6.7 | 29 |
| 1960 | Route 66 | Alvah Clayhorne | TV | 6.7 | 29 |
| 1959 | Bonanza | Will Hewitt | TV | 7.5 | 28 |
| 1959 | Rawhide | Jacob Yellow-Sun | TV | 7.2 | 28 |
| 1959 | The Untouchables | Harry Strauss | TV | 8.0 | 28 |
| 1959 | The Untouchables | Johnny Mizo | TV | 8.0 | 28 |
| 1959 | Pork Chop Hill | Lt. Walter Russell | Film | 6.7 | 28 |
| 1958 | Naked City | Ansel Boake | TV | 5.7 | 27 |
| 1958 | Bomber's Moon | Lieutenant Harrison | Film | — | 27 |
| 1958 | Johnny Belinda | Locky McCormick | Film | — | 27 |
| 1957 | The Restless Gun | Jody Gilman | TV | 4.4 | 26 |
| 1957 | A Face in the Crowd | Barry Mills (uncredited) | Film | 7.6 | 26 |
| 1957 | Time Limit | Lt. George Miller | Film | 7.2 | 26 |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Presenter | TV | — | 25 |
| 1956 | Baby Doll | The Dentist (uncredited) | Film | 7.1 | 25 |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Steve Morgan #22 | TV | 7.8 | 24 |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Ernie Walters | TV | 7.8 | 24 |
| 1952 | Omnibus | TV | 6.3 | 21 | |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Locky McCormick | TV | 8.8 | 20 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Solomon Chandler | TV | 8.8 | 20 |
| 1947 | Kraft Television Theatre | Somers | TV | 7.8 | 16 |
| 1947 | Kraft Television Theatre | TV | 7.8 | 16 | |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Presenter | TV | 7.1 | 13 |
| Heartland | Film | — | — |