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Rip Torn

Highest Rated:: 100% Baby Doll (1956)
Lowest Rated:: 4% Robocop 3 (1992)

Birthday:: Feb 6, 1931
Birthplace:: Temple, Texas, USA
Bio:: Rip Torn may qualify as a "character actor" in the broadest sense of the term -- he typically fleshes out variations on the same role again and again, typecast as genially earthy, volatile, and loudmouthed good old boys. But, love him or hate him, Torn's roles over the course of more than half a…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 4% - 100%

Number of Movies: 118

Box Office Since 2001: $528.6M

Year	Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office
2010		Cat Tale	Actor	--
2010		The Legend of Awesomest Maximus	Actor	--
2009	63%	The Afterlight	Carl	--
2009		Coma (Koma)	Actor	--
2009		American Cowslip	Trevor O'Hart	--
2009	28%	Happy Tears	Joe	--
2008	35%	August	David Sterling	--
2008	28%	Chatham (The Golden Boys)	Captain Jerry	--
2007		Not Just the Best of the Larry Sanders Show	Actor	--
2007		Lucky Days	Actor	--
2007	57%	Turn the River	Quinn	--
2007		Three Days to Vegas (Retirement)	Actor	--
2007	51%	Bee Movie	Lou Lo Duca	$126.6M
2006	55%	Marie Antoinette	Louis XV	$16.0M
2006		Zoom	General Larraby	--
2005	30%	The Sisters	Dr. Chebrin	--
2005	6%	Yours, Mine & Ours	Commandant Sherman	$53.4M
2004	61%	Forty Shades of Blue	Alan James	--
2004	70%	Dodgeball - A True Underdog Story	Patches O'Houlihan	$114.2M
2004	13%	Welcome To Mooseport	Langdon Bert	$14.2M
2004	32%	Eulogy	Edmund "Grandpa" Collins	$41.8k
2003	42%	Love Object	Mr. Novak	--
2002		Rolling Kansas	Oldman	--
2002	39%	Men in Black II	Zed	$190.4M
2001		Big Brother and the Holding Company: Nine Hundred Nights	Narrator	--
2001	96%	Defending Your Life	Bob Diamond	--
2001	11%	Freddy Got Fingered	Jim Brody	$13.7M
2000		Cold Feet	Sheriff	--
2000		Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows	Actor	--
2000	81%	Wonder Boys	Q	--
1999		Passing Glory	Father Robert Grant	--
1999	96%	The Insider	John Scanlon	--
1999		The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery	Actor	--
1999		Balloon Farm	Actor	--
1999		Love on the Land	Spence	--
1998	6%	Senseless	Randall Tyson	--
1997	84%	Hercules	Zeus	--
1997	43%	Trial and Error	Benny Gibbs	--
1997	91%	Men in Black	Zed	--
1996	13%	Down Periscope	Adm. Dean Winslow	--
1995	55%	How to Make an American Quilt	Arthur Cleary	--
1995		Letter to My Killer	Actor	--
1994	14%	Canadian Bacon	Gen. Dick Panzer	--
1994	100%	Where the Rivers Flow North	Noel Lourdes	--
1992		Dolly Dearest	Dr. Karl Resnick	--
1992		Beyond the Law	Prescott	--
1992		Fires Of Kuwait	Narrator	--
1992		Dead Ahead	Yost	--
1992		Hard Promises	Actor	--
1992	4%	Robocop 3	Merritt W. Morton-CEO	--
1992		T Bone N Weasel	Actor	--
1991		Beautiful Dreamers	Walt Whitman	--
1991		Death Falls	Actor	--
1991		Columbo: Death Hits the Jackpot	Actor	--
1990		Silence Like Glass	Dr. Markowitz	--
1990		Another Pair of Aces	Capt. Jack Parsons	--
1989		By Dawn's Early Light	Colonel Fargo	--
1989		Sweet Bird of Youth	Actor	--
1989		Death Falls	Actor	--
1988		Hit List	Vic Luca	--
1988		April Morning	Actor	--
1987		J. Edgar Hoover	Lyndon Baines Johnson	--
1987		Laguna Heat	Joe Datilla	--
1987		The Telephone	Director	--
1987	40%	Nadine	Buford Pope	--
1987	71%	Extreme Prejudice	Sheriff Hank Pearson	--
1986		Manhunt for Claude Dallas	Tim Nettleton	--
1985		Beer	Buzz Beckerman	--
1985		Atlanta Child Murders	Lewis Slaton	--
1985		The Execution	Actor	--
1985	15%	Summer Rental	Scully	--
1984	100%	Songwriter	Dino McLeish	--
1984		Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Big Daddy Pollitt	--
1984		Misunderstood	Will	--
1984		Flashpoint	Sheriff	--
1984	23%	City Heat	Primo Pitt	--
1983	64%	Cross Creek	Marsh Turner	--
1982		Jinxed	Harold	--
1982	39%	Airplane 2 - The Sequel	Kruger	--
1982	42%	The Beastmaster	Maax	--
1982		A Stranger Is Watching	Artie Taggart	--
1981		Blue and the Gray	Actor	--
1980		One Trick Pony	Walter Fox	--
1980		Heartland	Clyde Stewart	--
1980		Rape And Marriage: The Rideout Case	Charles Burt	--
1980		One-Trick Pony	Actor	--
1980		First Family	Gen. Dumpston	--
1980		Sophia Loren - Her Own Story	Carlo Ponti (4)	--
1979		The Seduction of Joe Tynan	Sen. Kittner	--
1978	79%	Coma	Dr. George	--
1978		Betrayal	Doctor Hartogs	--
1978		Steel Cowboy	Actor	--
1977		The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover	Dwight Webb	--
1977		The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington	Actor	--
1976		Nasty Habits	Maximilian	--
1976		Birch Interval	Thomas	--
1976	86%	The Man Who Fell to Earth	Nathan Bryce	$83.5k
1974		Crazy Joe	Richie	--
1972		Cotter	Actor	--
1972		Payday	Maury Dann	--
1972		President's Plane is Missing	George Oldenburg	--
1972		Slaughter	Dominick	--
1970		Maidstone	Raoul Rey O'Houlihan	--
1970	71%	Tropic of Cancer	Henry Miller	--
1969		Coming Apart	Joe Glazer	--
1967		Beach Red	Sgt. Honeywell	--
1966		One Spy Too Many	Alexander	--
1966	78%	You're a Big Boy Now	I.H. Chanticleer	--
1965	84%	The Cincinnati Kid	Slade	--
1962	75%	Sweet Bird of Youth	Thomas J. Finley Jr.	--
1962		Hero's Island	Nicholas Gates	--
1962		Critic's Choice	Dion Kapakos	--
1961		24 Hours in a Woman's Life	Actor	--
1961	85%	King of Kings	Judas	--
1959		Pork Chop Hill	Lt. Russell	--
1957		Time Limit	Lt. George Miller	--
1957	91%	A Face in the Crowd	Actor	--
1956	100%	Baby Doll	Brick	--

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1. Lancey Howard: I recollect a young man putting the same question to Eddie the Dude. 'Son, Eddie told him, all you paid was the looking price. Lessons are extra.'
From The Cincinnati Kid. Submitted by Stan D (6 months ago)

1. Zed: Frank?
2. Frank the Pug: Yeah?
3. Zed: I'm going to need them together on this one.
4. Frank the Pug: Ouch!
5. Zed: I'm looking for a new assisstant, it's not field work but you'll get better dental.
6. Frank the Pug: Dental?
From Men in Black II. Submitted by Matthew D (7 months ago)