Rip Torn

<html> <head> <title>Rip Torn</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style></head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr><map name=fool><area coords="102,0,240,14" href="/people/549/000022483/bibliography/" alt="bibliography"></map><tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 0px 15px 15px 15px;"><img src="/red-profile-2.gif" align="right" height=15 width=240 border=0 usemap=#fool> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0>Rip Torn<img src="rip-torn.jpg" height=301 width=245 align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 alt="Rip Torn">AKA Elmore Rual Torn, Jr.Born: <a href="/lists/554/000106236/" class=proflink>6-Feb</a>-<a href="/lists/930/000105615/" class=proflink>1931</a> Birthplace: <a href="/geo/640/000081397/" class=proflink>Temple, TX</a> Died: <a href="/lists/077/000106756/" class=proflink>9-Jul</a>-<a href="/lists/729/000403517/" class=proflink>2019</a> Location of death: Lakeville, CT Cause of death: unspecified Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: ActorNationality: United States Executive summary: Arthur on The Larry Sanders ShowMilitary service: US ArmyRip Torn is an craggy-faced character actor. He is best known as Artie, the suck-up producer on The Larry Sanders Show, but Torn has been a familiar presence in American movies for almost 50 years. He is a cousin of actress <a href="/people/758/000023689/">Sissy Spacek</a>. He was born Elmore Rual Torn, but for obvious reasons friends nicknamed him Rip. He studied animal husbandry at Texas A&M and the University of Texas, and went into acting hoping to save enough money to buy a small ranch. Torn hitchhiked to Hollywood, where he was soon doing odd jobs to pay the rent, but he started landing small roles on TV dramas like The Alcoa Hour and Kraft Television Theater. He studied acting under <a href="/people/304/000057133/">Lee Strasberg</a> at the Actor's Studio, and had bit parts in a couple of well-regarded late-1950s flicks, Baby Doll and A Face in the Crowd. With a key role in the war crime trial drama Time Limit (the only film directed by <a href="/people/553/000022487/">Karl Malden</a>), Torn became a respected character actor. He played Judas in King of Kings, <a href="/people/182/000057011/">Henry Miller</a> in Tropic of Cancer, a shady anesthesiologist in Coma, a perfectly sleazy <a href="/people/110/000024038/">Richard M. Nixon</a> in Blind Ambition, a boffo <a href="/people/359/000022293/">Ronald Reagan</a> in Airplane 2, <a href="/people/753/000022687/">Albert Brooks</a>'s attorney in Defending Your Life, MIB Chief Zed in Men in Black, and a wrench-tossing coach in Dodgeball. In 1994, Torn sued <a href="/people/600/000023531/">Dennis Hopper</a> after Hopper went on The Tonight Show and told <a href="/people/394/000022328/">Jay Leno</a> an anecdote from almost 30 years earlier. As Hopper told it, Torn had auditioned for the role of a pot-smoking lawyer in Easy Rider in 1969, and almost had the part, but when Torn and Hopper went to dinner, they argued and Torn pulled a knife on Hopper. In his lawsuit, Torn agreed on most of the details, but said that it was Hopper who'd pulled a knife on Torn. A judge heard from both sides, and from witnesses who's been at the restaurant, and decided that Hopper's testimony -- or memory -- was wrong. Torn got $475,000 from Hopper, and when Hopper appealed, another judge doubled the award. He was arrested for drunk driving in 2004, 2006, and 2008, and charged in January 2010 with breaking into a Connecticut bank while carrying a loaded but unregistered handgun. His defense was that he was so drunk, he mistook the bank for his own home.Wife: <a href="/people/383/000049236/">Ann Wedgeworth</a> (actress, m. 1956, div. 1961, one daughter) Daughter: Danae Torn (actress) Wife: <a href="/people/780/000043651/">Geraldine Page</a> (actress, m. 1961, d. 1987) Daughter: Angelica Torn (actress) Son: Tony Torn (artistic director) Son: John Torn Girlfriend: Amy Wright Daughter: Claire     High School: Tayler High School, Taylor, TX (1949)     University: <a href="/edu/829/000068625/">Texas A&M University</a>     <a href="/org/461/000041338/">Sigma Chi Fraternity</a>     <a href="/org/426/000041303/">Freemasonry</a> raised 2005     <a href="/crime/293/000043164/">Driving While Intoxicated</a> Greenwich Village, NY (13-Jan-2004)     <a href="/crime/293/000043164/">Driving While Intoxicated</a> North Salem, NY (4-Dec-2006)     <a href="/crime/293/000043164/">Driving While Intoxicated</a> Salisbury, CT (12-Dec-2008)     <a href="/crime/495/000059318/">Breaking and Entering</a> Salisbury, CT (29-Jan-2010) pled guilty     <a href="/crime/314/000047173/">Burglary</a> Salisbury, CT (29-Jan-2010) charge dropped     <a href="/crime/210/000052054/">Criminal Mischief</a> Salisbury, CT (29-Jan-2010) pled guilty     <a href="/crime/431/000050281/">Unlawful Possession of a Firearm</a> Salisbury, CT (29-Jan-2010) pled guilty     <a href="/crime/951/000048807/">Trespassing</a> Salisbury, CT (29-Jan-2010) pled guilty     <a href="/lists/380/000064188/">People with Funny Names</a>     Risk Factors: <a href="/lists/778/000064586/">Smoking</a>, <a href="/lists/780/000064588/">Alcoholism</a>     TELEVISION     <a href="/tv/796/000049649/">The Larry Sanders Show</a> Arthur (1992-98)     FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR     <a href="/films/255/000062069/">The Telephone (22-Jan-1988)</a>     FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR     <a href="/films/890/000349840/">The Legend of Awesomest Maximus (5-Aug-2011)</a>     <a href="/films/381/000215733/">American Cowslip (24-Jul-2009)</a> · Trevor     <a href="/films/059/000215411/">Happy Tears (11-Feb-2009)</a> · Joe     <a href="/films/594/000173075/">August (22-Jan-2008)</a>     <a href="/films/890/000216242/">The Golden Boys (3-Nov-2007)</a> · Capt. 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