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Acting

Rip Torn

Career: Active from 1957 to 2011, busiest in 1984 with 6 main titles.

Leading roles: 59
top three billing

Average score: 55/100

Highest rated: Heartland
86/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 112 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Rip Torn Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Coming of Age
2.1, average 3.0
Fantasy
0.9, average 1.7
Scare
1.9, average 2.6
Uncanny
1.9, average 2.5

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Social Commentary 9
Character Study 8
Character-Driven 7
Melancholy 5
Gritty Realism 4
Psychological Tension 4
Psychological Thriller 4
Biographical Drama 3
Moral Dilemma 3
Vigilante Justice 3
Suspenseful 3
Absurdist Humor 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

173

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2010s

4 titles · average score 49

Men in Black 3

64

as Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited)

Bridge of Names

as Tom

National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus

33

as King Looney

3 Weeks to Daytona

as Sal

2000s

30 titles · average score 53

Turn the River

55

as Quinette

The Golden Boys

38

as Capt. Jeremiah Burgess

Three Days to Vegas

37

as Joe Wallace

Marie Antoinette

63

as Louis XV

Yours, Mine & Ours

39

as Commandant Sherman

Forty Shades of Blue

53

as Alan James

DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story

65

as Patches O'Houlihan

Extreme Dodgeball

TV show

Welcome to Mooseport

33

as Bert Langdon

Men in Black II

51

as Zed

Freddy Got Fingered

32

as Jim Brody

Wonder Boys

73

as Q

1990s

38 titles · average score 59

Balloon Farm

49

as Harvey Potter

Seasons of Love

TV show · as Spence

Senseless

40

as Randall Tyson

Men in Black

78

as Zed

as Trucker 'God'

Down Periscope

44

as Admiral Winslow

Canadian Bacon

37

as General Dick Panzer

RoboCop 3

33

as The CEO

Where the Rivers Flow North

83

as Noel Lord

The Larry Sanders Show

86

TV show · as Arthur

Defending Your Life

75

as Bob Diamond

Dolly Dearest

46

as Karl Resnick

1980s

37 titles · average score 55

Nadine

50

as Buford Pope

Summer Rental

44

as Scully

The Atlanta Child Murders

62

TV show · as Lewis Slaton

Flashpoint

45

as Sheriff Wells

Cross Creek

65

as Marsh Turner

The Beastmaster

48

as Maax

The Blue and the Gray

71

TV show · as Ulysses S. Grant

Airplane II: The Sequel

52

as Bud Kruger / President Reagan

A Stranger Is Watching

39

as Artie Taggart

Jinxed!

40

as Harold Benson

Heartland

86

as Clyde Stewart

One Trick Pony

57

as Walter Fox

1970s

23 titles · average score 61

The Seduction of Joe Tynan

52

as Senator Kittner

Coma

68

as Dr. George

Betrayal

as Dr. Hartogs

Steel Cowboy

as K.W. Hicks

The Man Who Fell to Earth

73

as Nathan Bryce

Birch Interval

as Thomas

Cotter

as Roy

Payday

66

as Maury Dann

Slaughter

33

as Dominic Hoffo

Columbo

83

TV show · as Leon Lamarr

Maidstone

38

as Raoul Rey O'Houlihan

Tropic of Cancer

59

as Henry Miller

1960s

26 titles · average score 63

Coming Apart

57

as Joe

Beyond the Law

49

as Popcorn

Sol Madrid

55

as Dano Villanova

Beach Red

54

as Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell

Mannix

71

TV show · as Victor Roarke

One Spy Too Many

49

as Alexander

You're a Big Boy Now

56

as I.H. Chanticleer

The Cincinnati Kid

75

as William Jefferson Slade

Critic's Choice

49

as Dion Kapakos

Sweet Bird of Youth

57

as Tom Finley Jr.

Combat!

82

TV show · as Avery

24 Hours in a Woman's Life

as Paul

1950s

14 titles · average score 69

Pork Chop Hill

78

as Lt. Walter Russell

Bonanza

73

TV show · as Will Hewitt

Rawhide

50

TV show · as Jacob Yellow-Sun

The Untouchables

53

TV show · as Harry Strauss / Johnny Mizo

Naked City

69

TV show · as Ansel Boake

as Locky McCormick

Time Limit

64

as Lt. George Miller

The Restless Gun

39

TV show · as Jody Gilman

A Face in the Crowd

82

as Barry Mills (uncredited)

Baby Doll

77

as The Dentist (uncredited)

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

86

TV show · as Ernie Walters / Steve Morgan #22

Omnibus

75

TV show

1940s

1 title · average score 78

Kraft Television Theatre

78

TV show · as Somers