Rip Torn
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Elmore Rual Torn, Jr. (born February 6, 1931), better known as Rip Torn, is an American actor of stage, screen and television.
Torn received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his role in the 1983 film Cross Creek. 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. Torn also won an American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Male in a Series, and two CableACE Awards for his work on the show, and was nominated for a Satellite Award in 1997 as well.
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Norman Mailer: The American (2012)
A provocateur, a rebel, a performer, and a true American, Norman Mailer never stopped giving people something to talk about. This documentary goes beyond the Mailer of the bookshelves and NY Times best seller list to Mailer the social critic, family man, filmmaker, and lover. Here's a look into the life of a complex, intellectual, working class hero. With never before seen footage of Adele Morales ...
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Joe Mantegna
Stars: Dick Cavett | Rip Torn | Muhammad Ali | Allen Ginsberg | Norman Mailer
The Legend of Awesomest Maximus (2011)
As: King Looney
Spoof of sword-and-sandal flicks such as “Gladiator,” “300″ and “Troy.” Following in the long tradition of National Lampoon, this ballsy comedy takes aim at “sword and sandal” movies of every era, with s special nod of the feathered helmet to historical epics such as 300, Gladiator, Troy, and Braveheart.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Jeff Kanew
Stars: Rip Torn | Kristanna Loken | Ian Ziering | Gary Lundy | Tiffany Claus
American Cowslip (2010)
As: Trevor O'Hart
In Blythe, California, a small town in the remote California desert, Ethan Inglebrink is an eccentric, agoraphobic heroin addict who is obsessed with his garden. This dark comedy follows the last days of Ethan's life as he struggles to find purpose at a time when it might be too late to even matter.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Mark David
Stars: Val Kilmer | Cloris Leachman | Ronnie Gene Blevins | Rip Torn | Peter Falk
Happy Tears (2009)
As: Joe
Two sisters return home to care for their aging father.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Mitchell Lichtenstein
Stars: Ellen Barkin | Rip Torn | Demi Moore | Parker Posey | Christian Camargo
The Afterlight (2009)
As: Carl
After Andrew and Claire, a young couple attempting to restart their live, moves to an isolated school house in farm country, their neighbors and nature itself, trigger a surprising chain of events
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Alexei Kaleina | Craig Macneill
Stars: Ana Asensio | Rip Torn | Michael Kelly | Jicky Schnee | Morgan Taddeo
August (2008)
As: David Sterling
August is a 2008 drama film directed by Austin Chick and produced by 57th & Irving. The screenplay by Howard A. Rodman focuses on two brothers, ambitious dot-com entrepreneurs attempting to keep their company afloat as the stock market begins to collapse in August 2001, one month prior to the 9/11 attacks.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Austin Chick
Stars: Adam Scott | Naomie Harris | Andre Royo | Josh Hartnett | Robin Tunney
Turn The River (2008)
As: Quinette
A pool shark takes the ultimate gamble when she kidnaps her own son and flees her ex-husband.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Chris Eigeman
Stars: Lois Smith | Famke Janssen | Rip Torn | Matt Ross | Terry Kinney
Lucky Days (2008)
As: Bobo
Virginia embarks on a quest for freedom during the last explosive weekend of Coney Island's renowned amusement park. After the reappearance of her childhood sweetheart, Virginia discovers hidden truths about her boyfriend and her neighborhood that will force her to abandon everything she's ever known to the wolf pack of developers buying up and tearing down the boardwalk, or to sacrifice herself to the ...
Directed by: Angelica Page | Tony Torn
Stars: Will Patton | Rip Torn | Angelica Page | Federico Castelluccio | Luke Zarzecki
Three Days To Vegas (2008)
As: Joe Wallace
Four grumpy old men go on a road trip from their retired life in Florida to the excitement of Las Vegas in order to stop one of their daughters from marrying the wrong guy.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Charlie Picerni
Stars: George Segal | Billy Burke | Bill Cobbs | Rip Torn | Peter Falk
Bee Movie (2007)
As: Lou Lo Duca (voice)
Barry B. Benson, a bee who has just graduated from college, is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hive, Barry's life is saved by Vanessa, a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms, he discovers humans actually eat honey, and subsequently decides to sue us.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Steve Hickner | Simon J. Smith
Stars: Renée Zellweger | Patrick Warburton | Jim Cummings | Matthew Broderick | Jerry Seinfeld
Zoom (2006)
As: Larraby
Jack Shepard is an out-of-shape auto shop owner, far removed from the man who once protected the world's freedom. Reluctantly called back into action by the government, Jack is tasked with turning a ragtag group of kids with special powers into a new generation of superheroes to save the world from certain destruction.
Runtime: 83 min.
Directed by: Peter Hewitt
Stars: Spencer Breslin | Tim Allen | Chevy Chase | Courteney Cox | Kevin Zegers
Marie Antoinette (2006)
As: Louis XV of France
The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and ultimately the fall of Versailles.
Runtime: 123 min.
Directed by: Sofia Coppola
Stars: Steve Coogan | Jason Schwartzman | Rip Torn | Kirsten Dunst | Judy Davis
Forty Shades of Blue (2005)
As: Alan James
A Russian woman living in Memphis with a much older rock-n-roll legend experiences a personal awakening when her husband's estranged son comes to visit.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Ira Sachs
Stars: Rip Torn | Dina Korzun | Darren E. Burrows | Elizabeth Morton | Andrew Henderson
Yours, Mine and Ours (2005)
As: Commandant Sherman
Admiral Frank Beardsley returns to New London to run the Coast Guard Academy, his last stop before a probable promotion to head the Guard. A widower with eight children, he runs a loving but tight ship, with charts and salutes. The kids long for a permanent home. Helen North is a free spirit, a designer whose ten children live in loving chaos, with occasional group hugs. Helen and Frank, high ...
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Raja Gosnell
Stars: Sean Faris | Rene Russo | Dennis Quaid | Katija Pevec | Dean Collins
The Sisters (2005)
As: Dr. Chebrin
Based on Anton Chekov's "The Three Sisters" about siblings living in a college town who struggle with the death of their father and try to reconcile relationships in their own lives.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Arthur Allan Seidelman
Stars: Maria Bello | Elizabeth Banks | Erika Christensen | Eric McCormack | Chris O'Donnell
Eulogy (2004)
As: Edmund Collins
A black comedy that follows three generations of a family, who come together for the funeral of the patriarch - unveiling a litany of family secrets and covert relationships.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Michael Clancy
Stars: Hank Azaria | Jesse Bradford | Famke Janssen | Zooey Deschanel | Glenne Headly
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story (2004)
As: Patches O'Houlihan
When megalomaniacal White Goodman, the owner of a trendy, high-end fitness center, makes a move to take over the struggling local gym run by happy-go-lucky Pete La Fleur, there's only one way for La Fleur to fight back: dodgeball. Aided by a dodgeball guru and Goodman's attorney, La Fleur and his rag-tag team of underdogs launch a knock-down, drag-out battle in which the winner takes all.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Rawson Thurber
Stars: Ben Stiller | Justin Long | Rip Torn | Vince Vaughn | Christine Taylor
Welcome to Mooseport (2004)
As: Bert Langdon
A US president (Gene Hackman) who has retired after two terms in office returns to his hometown of Mooseport, Maine and decides to run for Mayor against another local candidate (Ray Romano).
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Donald Petrie
Stars: Marcia Gay Harden | Gene Hackman | Maura Tierney | Ray Romano | June Squibb
Love Object (2003)
As: Novak
The twisted tale of Kenneth, socially insecure technical writer who forms an obsessive relationship with "Nikki", an anatomically accurate silicone sex doll he orders over the Internet.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Robert Parigi
Stars: John Cassini | Rip Torn | Udo Kier | Desmond Harrington | Melissa Sagemiller
Maniac Magee (2003)
As: George McNab
Maniac Magee is a television film made for the Nickelodeon network, based on the novel of the same name by Jerry Spinelli. The story follows twelve-year-old Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee, an orphaned runaway with many extraordinary and athletic talents, who arrives in a town divided with racial conflict. The film was broadcast on Nickelodeon on February 23, 2003.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Bob Clark
Stars: Jada Pinkett Smith | Garrett Morris | Michael Angarano | Melissa Bickerton | Orlando Brown
Rolling Kansas (2003)
As: Oldman
A group of friends go on a journey to a secret marijuana forest in Kansas.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Thomas Haden Church
Stars: Sam Huntington | James Roday | Jay Paulson | Charlie Finn | Ryan McDow
Men in Black II (2002)
As: Zed
Kay and Jay reunite to provide our best, last and only line of defense against a sinister seductress who levels the toughest challenge yet to the MIB's untarnished mission statement – protecting Earth from the scum of the universe. It's been four years since the alien-seeking agents averted an intergalactic disaster of epic proportions. Now it's a race against the clock as Jay must convince Kay – who ...
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Barry Sonnenfeld
Stars: Tommy Lee Jones | Rip Torn | Lara Flynn Boyle | Will Smith | Johnny Knoxville
Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
As: Jim Brody
An unemployed cartoonist moves back in with his parents and younger brother Freddy. When his parents demand he leave, he begins to spread rumors that his father is sexually abusing Freddy.
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Tom Green
Stars: Eddie Kaye Thomas | Rip Torn | Harland Williams | Marisa Coughlan | Tom Green
Wonder Boys (2000)
As: Quentin 'Q' Morewood
Grady (Michael Douglas) is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years -- not since he wrote his award winning "Great American Novel" 7 years ago. This weekend proves even worse than he could imagine as he finds himself reeling from one misadventure to another in the company of a new wonder boy author.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Curtis Hanson
Stars: Katie Holmes | Michael Douglas | Rip Torn | Tobey Maguire | Frances McDormand
A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle (2000)
As: Detective Manny Garett
When Donielle is just eight years old and attending her best friend's funeral she has a vision that her friend was murdered by his father. No one believes her and she is disowned by her mother. Years later and now a mother herself she drifts from town to town and they finally settle in a town that is in the grips of a serial killer.Only Donielle can "see" who the killer is and after ...
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Donald Wrye
Stars: Kim Hawthorne | Thomas Ian Griffith | Melissa Gilbert | Shauna Kain | María Conchita Alonso
The Insider (1999)
As: John Scanlon
Tells the true story of a 60 Minutes television series exposé of the tobacco industry, as seen through the eyes of a real tobacco executive, Jeffrey Wigand
Runtime: 157 min.
Directed by: Michael Mann
Stars: Russell Crowe | Philip Baker Hall | Christopher Plummer | Al Pacino | Diane Venora
The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery (1999)
As: Royce
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: David Burton Morris
Stars: Dylan Walsh | Brooke Shields | Rip Torn | Alessandro Nivola | Sherie Rene Scott
Balloon Farm (1999)
As: Harvey Potter
As soon as Harvey S. Potter descends upon a drought-stricken farmland, he begins to grow a mysterious but beautiful crop of balloons. Mystified by the new resident's abilities, the people of the town are mesmerized by Potter, who immediately becomes the best thing to happen to the dejected area in a long time. The happiness doesn't last long, however, when talk begins to surface about Potter's true ...
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: William Dear
Stars: Richard Riehle | Rip Torn | Mara Wilson | Fredric Lehne | Roberts Blossom
Passing Glory (1999)
As: Father Robert Grant
A true story of a priest (Andre Braugher) in New Orleans who formed a group of black players and challenged an all-white prep school basketball team in the 1960's. Eventually events like these signaled the pivotal turn in the games' history leading to the integration in today's sport. Directed by Steve James (Hoop Dreams), these basketball players didn't just make shots, they made history.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Steve James
Stars: Andre Braugher | Rip Torn | Bill Nunn | Ruby Dee
Senseless (1998)
As: Randall Tyson
A student gets his senses enhanced by an experimental drug. But abuse is not an option.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Penelope Spheeris
Stars: Marlon Wayans | Matthew Lillard | Rip Torn | David Spade | Tamara Taylor
Men in Black (1997)
As: Chief Zed
After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent Kay and new recruit Agent Jay find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Barry Sonnenfeld
Stars: Tommy Lee Jones | Rip Torn | Vincent D'Onofrio | Linda Fiorentino | Will Smith
Hercules (1997)
As: Zeus (voice)
Bestowed with superhuman strength, a young mortal named Hercules sets out to prove himself a hero in the eyes of his father, the great god Zeus. Along with his friends Pegasus, a flying horse, and Phil, a personal trainer, Hercules is tricked by the hilarious, hotheaded villain Hades, who's plotting to take over Mount Olympus!
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: John Musker | Ron Clements
Stars: Danny DeVito | James Woods | Tate Donovan | Roger Bart | Josh Keaton
Trial and Error (1997)
As: Benny
An actor poses as a lawyer to help his sick friend, and problems develop.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Jonathan Lynn
Stars: Austin Pendleton | Charlize Theron | Jeff Daniels | Michael Richards | Jessica Steen
The Hindenburg (1996)
As: Narrator
The history of lighter than air transportation culminating in the Hindenburg explosion which gets thoroughly covered and analyzed.
Runtime: 95 min.
Stars: Rip Torn
Down Periscope (1996)
As: Admiral Winslow
Bumbling Navy lieutenant Tom Dodge has been given one last chance to clean up his record. But Admiral Graham, his nemesis, assigns Dodge to the Stingray, a submarine that can barely keep afloat. To add insult to injury, the Stingray is to be the enemy flagship in the upcoming war games … and to make matters even worse, Dodge's crew is a band of idiots even more incompetent that he is!
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: David S. Ward
Stars: Harry Dean Stanton | Rob Schneider | Lauren Holly | Bruce Dern | Kelsey Grammer
How To Make An American Quilt (1995)
As: Arthur
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits her grandmother, Hy, and great aunt, Glady Joe Cleary, in Grasse, Calif. There, Finn learns that Hy and Glady Joe are members of a group of passionate quilters, and over the course of her visit she is regaled with tales of love and life by women who have ...
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: Jocelyn Moorhouse
Stars: Ellen Burstyn | Winona Ryder | Kate Nelligan | Anne Bancroft | Jean Simmons
Letter to My Killer (1995)
A letter is found by a demolition worker that reveals a cover up and a murder that is over 30 years old. The victim is the author of the letter that also contains evidence that leads to the killers. The demolition worker and his wife complicate things when they decide to blackmail the killers, who are wealthy and upstanding citizens of the community, of course.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Janet Meyers
Stars: Eddie Jones | Nick Chinlund | Josef Sommer | Rip Torn | Mare Winningham
Canadian Bacon (1995)
As: General Dick Panzer
Canadian Bacon is the only fictitious film from Director Michael Moore. This comedy is about an American president who decides to go to war to bring the public’s opinion of him up during election time. Canadian Bacon is actor John Candy’s last film.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Michael Moore
Stars: Kevin Pollak | Rip Torn | John Candy | Alan Alda | Rhea Perlman
Heart of a Child (1994)
As: Dr. Leonard Bailey
A drama directed by Sandor Stern.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Sandor Stern
Stars: Bruce Greenwood | Terry O'Quinn | Michele Greene | Malcolm Stewart | Ann Jillian
RoboCop 3 (1993)
As: The CEO
The mega corporation Omni Consumer Products is still bent on creating their pet project, Delta City, to replace the rotting city of Detroit. Unfortunately, the inhabitants of the area have no intention of abandoning their homes simply for desires of the company. To this end, OCP have decided to force them to leave by employing a ruthless mercenary army to attack and harass them. An underground resistance ...
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Fred Dekker
Stars: Robert John Burke | Nancy Allen | Jodi Long | Mario Machado | John Posey
Where the Rivers Flow North (1993)
As: Noel Lord
Sleeper with a top notch cast in the story of a lone wolf logger who fights developers, bankers and the modern world to maintain his way of life.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Jay Craven
Stars: Treat Williams | Rip Torn | Michael J. Fox | Tantoo Cardinal | ill Raymond
Beyond The Law (1993)
As: Deputy Prescott
Dan Saxon is an undercover cop who infiltrates a biker gang to nail the scum behind a drug-smuggling operation. In order to maintain the trust of the gang's leader, he must commit ever more dangerous and heinous crimes. Just how far 'beyond the law' will Saxon go?
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Larry Ferguson
Stars: Leon Rippy | Michael Madsen | Charlie Sheen | Courtney B. Vance | Linda Fiorentino
T Bone N Weasel (1992)
As: Happy Sam
A couple of con men look for paradise in a stolen car.
Directed by: Lewis Teague
Stars: Christopher Lloyd | Ned Beatty | Larry Hankin | Gregory Hines | Graham Jarvis
Fires of Kuwait (1992)
As: Narrator (voice)
After Saddam Hussein had the Kuwait Oil wells lit up, teams from all over the world fought those fires for months. They had to save the oil resources, as well as reduce air pollution. The different teams developed different techniques of extinguishing the fires. Man's emergency creativity can be seen at it's best.
Runtime: 36 min.
Directed by: David Douglas
Stars: Rip Torn
Dolly Dearest (1991)
As: Karl Resnick
An American family moves to Mexico to fabricate dolls, but their toy factory happens to be next to a Sanzian grave and the toys come into possession of an old, malicious spirit.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Maria Lease
Stars: Rip Torn | Chris Demetral | Denise Crosby | Sam Bottoms | Candace Hutson
My Son Johnny (1991)
As: Brian Stansbury
Anthony Cortino lives with his mother in a quiet suburb. His father is dead, and his violent criminal brother is a long way off, in the city, and if Anthony has his way, that's where he will stay. However, Johnny runs into trouble with the police in the city, and when he asks to come home, his mother agrees, despite Anthony's objections. A reign of terror begins for Anthony then, for as long as Johnny is ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Peter Levin
Stars: Corin Nemec | Stephen Dimopoulos | Ricky Schroder | Michele Lee | Mariangela Pino
Defending Your Life (1991)
As: Bob Diamond
In an afterlife resembling the present-day US, people must prove their worth by showing in court how they have demonstrated courage.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Albert Brooks
Stars: Rip Torn | Albert Brooks | Meryl Streep | Lee Grant | Michael Durrell
Death Falls (1991)
As: Dub Farley
A terminally ill man gets his buddy to bust him out of the hospital. But, in the process, the duo antagonizes a city policeman, who trails them to the boonies surrounding their hometown. The local sheriff and their lady friend (who think more kindly of the pair) strive to find the fugitives before the less-compassionate posse, which includes a deranged, rifle-toting foe of the two. Written by Kim Williams, ...
Runtime: 83 min.
Directed by: June Samson
Stars: Jeffrey Combs | Rip Torn | Beverly Garland | Roberts Blossom | Kaz Garas
Beautiful Dreamers (1990)
As: Walt Whitman
When the superintendent of the Canadian insane asylum, Dr. Maurice Bucke, meets poet Walt Whitman, his life and that of his wife and patients is radically changed. Like Dr. Bucke, Whitman has avant-garde ideas on the subject of mental illness. "Dreamers" is based on true events. Dr. Bucke became an important biographer of Walt Whitman.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: John Kent Harrison
Stars: Wendel Meldrum | Rip Torn | Colin Fox | Colm Feore | Sheila McCarthy
By Dawn's Early Light (1990)
As: E-4 Col. Fargo
When a nuclear missile is launched by presumably Soviet forces toward Turkey, the beginning of the ultimate war to end all wars WW 3 is started. Powers Boothe, his girlfriend and copilot Rebecca DeMornay and their flight crew take off in a B 52 on what they believe is just another drill only to find out that this is the real deal.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Jack Sholder
Stars: Powers Boothe | Rebecca De Mornay | James Earl Jones | Martin Landau | Darren McGavin
Pair of Aces (1990)
As: Capt. Jack Parsons
A Texas Ranger has to protect his two daughters as he investigates a serial killer who is attacking cheerleaders. Meanwhile he finds himself working with a safe cracker who claims to be innocent of the charges filed against him.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Aaron Lipstadt
Stars: Rip Torn | Helen Shaver | Lash La Rue | Weasel Forshaw | Doris Hargrave
Sweet Bird of Youth (1989)
As: Boss Finley
The melodrama of a failing, aging movie star who takes up with an ambitious masseur who takes her home only to show off in front of his former girl friend and her powerful father.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Nicolas Roeg
Stars: Seymour Cassel | Rip Torn | Mark Harmon | Elizabeth Taylor | Valerie Perrine
Zwei Frauen (1989)
As: Dr. Markowitz
True story of two diametrically opposed young women dealing with terminal illness.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Carl Schenkel
Stars: Bruce Payne | Martha Plimpton | Rip Torn | George Peppard | Jami Gertz
Cold Feet (1989)
As: Sheriff
The leader of a group of misfits, his girlfriend and an assassin have devised a bizarre plan to smuggle stolen jewelry over the US/Mexican border. They implant the jewelry in a racing horse.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Robert Dornhelm
Stars: Bill Pullman | Keith Carradine | Tom Waits | Sally Kirkland | Rip Torn
Hit List (1989)
As: Vic Luca
A family man (Jan-Michael Vincent) and a mob witness (Leo Rossi) hunt a mob hit man (Lance Henriksen) who has mistakenly kidnapped the family man's son.
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: William Lustig
Stars: Leo Rossi | Lance Henriksen | Rip Torn | Charles Napier | Jan-Michael Vincent
April Morning (1988)
As: Solomon Chandler
A teenager grows up during the onset of the American revolution.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Delbert Mann
Stars: Tommy Lee Jones | Susan Blakely | Meredith Salenger | Robert Urich | Chad Lowe
The King of Love (1987)
As: Jack Kraft
A publishing empire founder discovers that his rise to power was costly.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Anthony Wilkinson
Stars: Michael Lerner | Rip Torn | Nick Mancuso | Sela Ward | Alan Rosenberg
Laguna Heat (1987)
As: Joe Datilla
Tom Shepard returns to his home town of Laguna Beach to escape his turbulent past. But the tranquility is shattered when he gets involved in the investigation of a series of grisly and bizarre murders.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Simon Langton
Stars: Catherine Hicks | Rip Torn | Jason Robards | Harry Hamlin | Anne Francis
Nadine (1987)
As: Buford Pope
Hairdresser Nadine Hightower wants to retrieve the risqué photos she once posed for, but when she visits the photographer at his office, he's murdered by an intruder. Nadine talks her estranged husband, Vernon, into going along when she returns to the office, where they stumble across plans for a less than legal construction project. But when Vernon tries to turn the documents into a cash windfall, he and ...
Runtime: 83 min.
Directed by: Robert Benton
Stars: Jeff Bridges | Rip Torn | Glenne Headly | Kim Basinger | Gwen Verdon
Extreme Prejudice (1987)
As: Sheriff Hank Pearson
A Texas Ranger and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Walter Hill
Stars: Powers Boothe | Nick Nolte | Michael Ironside | Rip Torn | María Conchita Alonso
Manhunt for Claude Dallas (1986)
As: Tim Nettleton
This is the story is based on an actual incident. Claude Dallas is a man who loves to be free, so he lives in the mountains where he hunts for his food. However, Bill Pogue is a driven game warden, who abhors anyone who hunts out of season. When he catches Claude Dallas doing that; he's about to arrest him when Claude kills him and the other warden with him. When the man who was with Dallas tells the ...
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Jerry London
Stars: Matt Salinger | Beau Starr | Lois Nettleton | Frederick Coffin | Claude Akins
Beer (1985)
As: Buzz Beckerman
An advertising firm, desperate to keep an account from a financially-ailing brewery, concocts a macho ad campaign centering on three losers who inadvertently prevent a robbery at a bar.
Runtime: 82 min.
Directed by: Patrick Kelly
Stars: David Alan Grier | William Russ | Rip Torn | Kenneth Mars | Loretta Swit
Summer Rental (1985)
As: Richard Scully
Jack Chester, an overworked air traffic controller, takes his family on vacation to the beach. Things immediately start to go wrong for the Chesters, and steadily get worse. Jack ends up in a feud with a local yachtsman, and has to race him to regain his pride and family's respect.
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Carl Reiner
Stars: Karen Austin | John Candy | Kerri Green | Aubrey Jene | Joey Lawrence
The Execution (1985)
As: Wilheim Gehbert
The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a doctor from the camp who performed experiments on them as young girls. To their horror they learn that he has already been tried as a war criminal and has served but a few years for his crimes. They decide that they will ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Paul Wendkos
Stars: Barbara Barrie | Rip Torn | Jessica Walter | Loretta Swit | Sandy Dennis
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1985)
As: Big Daddy
Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Runtime: 144 min.
Directed by: Jack Hofsiss
Stars: Tommy Lee Jones | Rip Torn | Jessica Lange | Penny Fuller | Kim Stanley
City Heat (1984)
As: Primo Pitt
Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer. Reynolds plays a former cop turned private eye named Mike Murphy. Both Speer and Murphy served on the force together and were once good friends, but are now bitter enemies. When Murphy's partner is slain they team up again to fight the mob.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Richard Benjamin
Stars: Rip Torn | Madeline Kahn | Clint Eastwood | Burt Reynolds | Jane Alexander
Songwriter (1984)
As: Dino McLeish
Doc Jenkins is a singer/songwriter who tries to leave his singer/songwriter roots to be a music "mogul", and gets tangled up in a bad publishing deal. He enlists a team of cronies, including a young singer and his former singing partner, Blackie Buck, and together they execute his plan to get out of the deal. He gets help from a stereotypical small-time concert promoter. Honey Carder is the ...
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Alan Rudolph
Stars: Lesley Ann Warren | Kris Kristofferson | Rip Torn | Willie Nelson | Melinda Dillon
Scarab (1984)
As: Khepera
Satanic Nazis gather to perform ancient rites for evil Egyptian gods in hopes of bringing one back from the dead. Actually, the revivified body belongs to a slain Nazi. Unfortunately, the soul is that of the vengeful diety. Terror ensues.
Directed by: Steven-Charles Jaffe
Stars: Rip Torn | Robert Ginty | Mayrata O'Wisiedo | Isabel García Lorca | Cristina Sánchez Pascual
Misunderstood (1984)
As: Will
A workaholic father becomes sole parent to his 2 young sons, and finds it hard to relate to them, consumed as he is with his own grief.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Jerry Schatzberg
Stars: Rip Torn | Henry Thomas | Gene Hackman | Maureen Kerwin | Huckleberry Fox
Flashpoint (1984)
As: Sheriff Wells
Two Texas border guards find a jeep buried for 20 years in the desert, with a skeleton, a scoped rifle, and a box with $800,000 in cash. They decide to keep the money, but quietly check up on the info they find. Soon the Feds are running all over the place, and it looks like jeep maybe linked to the JFK assassination. But the Feds are trying to cover it up, and eliminate anyone involved with the jeep.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: William Tannen
Stars: Treat Williams | Kris Kristofferson | Rip Torn | Kurtwood Smith | Kevin Conway
When She Says No (1984)
Although this women's empowerment TV-movie was written by a woman, it examines how a flirtatious night between one woman and three men goes awry quite powerfully, and both sides are equally represented (however, the filmmakers clearly do want the viewer on the girl's side). A college professor says three of her colleagues raped her in a hotel room while away at a seminar, but the men in her ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Paul Aaron
Stars: Jeffrey DeMunn | George Dzundza | Kathleen Quinlan | Kenneth McMillan | David Huffman
Cross Creek (1983)
As: Norton Baskin
The portrait of a woman who, at the edge of survival, found a world of meaning.
Runtime: 127 min.
Directed by: Martin Ritt
Stars: Rip Torn | Mary Steenburgen | Alfre Woodard | Peter Coyote | Dana Hill
Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
As: Bud Kruger / President Reagan
A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and man-with-a-past, Ted Striker must save the day and get the shuttle back on track – again – all the while trying to patch up his relationship with Elaine.
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Ken Finkleman
Stars: Julie Hagerty | Lloyd Bridges | Robert Hays | Peter Graves | Chad Everett
A Stranger Is Watching (1982)
As: Artie Taggart
Three years after Steve Peterson's wife, Nina, was murdered in front of their 11 year old daughter Julie, she and his new girlfriend Sharon Martin are kidnapped by the same killer, the psychotic Artie Taggart. Imprisoning them in a bunker below Grand Central Station, he throws the police into a race against time to save the girls and catch the killer.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Sean S. Cunningham
Stars: Kate Mulgrew | Rip Torn | James Naughton | Barbara Baxley | Shawn von Schreiber
Jinxed! (1982)
As: Harold Benson
Harold, a professional gambler, and his girlfriend Bonita, a lounge singer, follow Willie, a young blackjack dealer, around the western U.S. Harold has a jinx on Willie and can't lose with him. Bonita and Willie meet and fall for each other and plot to do away with Harold and collect on his life insurance.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Don Siegel
Stars: Rip Torn | Ken Wahl | Bette Midler | Val Avery | Jack Elam
The Beastmaster (1982)
As: Maax
Dar, is the son of a king, who is hunted by a priest after his birth and grows up in another family. When he becomes a grown man his new father is murdered by savages and he discovers that he has the ability to communicate with the animals, which leads him on his quest for revenge against his father's killers.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Don Coscarelli
Stars: John Amos | Rip Torn | Tanya Roberts | Marc Singer | Joshua Milrad
First Family (1980)
As: JCS Chairman G. E. Dumpston
The president (Bob Newhart) and his boozing wife (Madeline Kahn) go to Africa to bargain for their abducted daughter's (Gilda Radner) return.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Buck Henry
Stars: Bob Dishy | Richard Benjamin | Madeline Kahn | Gilda Radner | Bob Newhart
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case (1980)
As: Charles Burt
Based on the real-life Oregon criminal case which dramatizes the unique dispute in which Greta Rideout instigated the prosecution of her husband, John, charging him with raping her.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Peter Levin
Stars: Mickey Rourke | Linda Hamilton | Rip Torn | Eugene Roche | Conchata Ferrell
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980)
As: Carlo Ponti
Dramatization of the life of Italian actress Sophia Loren who plays herself during adulthood and also that of her mother Romilda Villani.
Runtime: 150 min.
Directed by: Mel Stuart
Stars: Armand Assante | Rip Torn | Sophia Loren | John Gavin | Theresa Saldana
One Trick Pony (1980)
As: Walter Fox
Jonah (Paul Simon) is an aging rock star trying to put together a new album in the face of an indifferent record label and a talentless producer. At the same time, he's struggling to save his failing marriage.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Robert M. Young
Stars: Rip Torn | Allen Garfield | Joan Hackett | Blair Brown | Paul Simon
A Shining Season (1979)
As: Jack Baker
The true story of University of New Mexico track star John Baker who, dying of cancer, spent his remaining time coaching a losing girls" track team to a winning season.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Stuart Margolin
Stars: Timothy Bottoms | Ed Begley Jr. | Rip Torn | Allyn Ann McLerie | Constance Forslund
Heartland (1979)
As: Clyde Stewart
Disarmingly realistic in its depiction of the realities of frontier life, Heartland is a strong antidote to the cliches of traditional Westerns. This semi-documentary slice of life is based on the diaries of Elmore Randall Stewart about her days on the Wyoming frontier in the early 20th century. It's a strongly feminist statement about a woman raising her small daughter alone and scrapping for a living ...
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Richard Pearce
Stars: Rip Torn | Conchata Ferrell | Barry Primus | Lilia Skala | Megan Folsom
The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979)
As: Senator Kittner
Respected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointment. It means losing an old friend and fudging principles to make the necessary deals, as well as further straining his already part-time family life. But it could be a big boost to his career, so he takes it on. Helping him prepare the case is pretty southern researcher Karen Traynor, and their developing ...
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Jerry Schatzberg
Stars: Rip Torn | Meryl Streep | Alan Alda | Barbara Harris | Melvyn Douglas
Coma (1978)
As: Dr. George
A young woman doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas. The patients are then shipped off to an institute that looks after them. The young doctor suspects there is more to this than meets the eye.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Michael Crichton
Stars: Michael Douglas | Rip Torn | Geneviève Bujold | Elizabeth Ashley | Richard Widmark
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977)
As: Dwight Webb
The files that escaped the shredder have become an incredible motion picture. From the Kennedys to Martin Luther King. From cab drivers to Congressmen. From housewives to hostesses. He had something on 58 million people. It was all in his files. Now you can see how he used it.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Larry Cohen
Stars: Michael Parks | José Ferrer | Broderick Crawford | Celeste Holm | James Wainwright
Nasty Habits (1977)
As: Father Maximilian
In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way of getting what she wants.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Stars: Geraldine Page | Glenda Jackson | Anne Jackson | Sandy Dennis | Melina Mercouri
Steel Cowboy (1976)
Trucker Clay Pfanner is on the verge of financial ruin. His truck is about to be repossesed and he sees no way out. So when his buddy K.W. comes up with a plan to haul some rustled cattle, Clay decides to take a chance.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Harvey S. Laidman
Stars: Rip Torn | James Brolin | Melanie Griffith | Jennifer Warren | Julie Cobb
Birch Interval (1976)
A young girl is sent to live with Amish relatives in post-war Pennsylvania, where her life dramatically changes.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Delbert Mann
Stars: Rip Torn | Ann Wedgeworth | William Lucking | Eddie Albert | Anne Revere
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
As: Nathan Bryce
Thomas Jerome Newton is an alien who comes to Earth to get water for his dying planet. He starts a high technology company to get the billions of dollars he needs to build a return spacecraft. A British science-fiction film from director Nicolas Roeg and starring David Bowie.
Runtime: 139 min.
Directed by: Nicolas Roeg
Stars: Rip Torn | David Bowie | Candy Clark | Buck Henry | Tony Mascia
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan (1975)
As: Glen Tuttle
After three civil-rights workers are murdered in Mississippi in 1964, a team of FBI agents is sent there to find the killers.
Runtime: 215 min.
Directed by: Marvin J. Chomsky
Stars: Ned Beatty | Dabney Coleman | Billy Green Bush | John Beck | Andrew Duggan
Crazy Joe (1974)
As: Richie
The rise and fall of a Mafia gangster, based on the life of murdered New York gangster "Crazy" Joey Gallo.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Carlo Lizzani
Stars: Fred Williamson | Rip Torn | Peter Boyle | Paula Prentiss | Charles Cioffi
The President's Plane Is Missing (1973)
As: George Oldenburg
When the President's plane mysteriously disappears with him on board, it is left to the seemingly weak Vice President to try and advert a nuclear exchange with the Chinese.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Daryl Duke
Stars: Peter Graves | Arthur Kennedy | Mercedes McCambridge | Raymond Massey | Buddy Ebsen
Payday (1973)
As: Maury Dann
A cynical look at the life of a not so nice country-western singer, Maury Dann - played by Rip Torn in one of his most memorable performances. He ruthlessly manipulates every one around him to suit his selfish needs...he even gets his limo driver to take the blame for the death of a fan which he stabbed.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Daryl Duke
Stars: Rip Torn | Michael C. Gwynne | Ahna Capri | Elayne Heilveil | Jeff Morris
Cotter (1973)
As: Roy
A rodeo rider is killed because Cotter is too drunk to distract the raging bull.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Paul Stanley
Stars: Rip Torn | Carol Lynley | Sherry Jackson | Don Murray
Slaughter (1972)
As: Dominic Hoffo
Slaughter, a former Green Beret, avenges the killing of loved ones by the Mob, and in so doing is coerced by the Feds into traveling to Mexico to finish off surviving mobsters.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Jack Starrett
Stars: Rip Torn | Stella Stevens | Jim Brown | Cameron Mitchell | Don Gordon
1 P.M. (1972)
As: Self
Lighter and livelier than the films Jean-Luc Godard had made in France, his U.S. collaboration with Direct Cinema documentarian D. A. Pennebaker was meant to be One A.M., as in “one American movie”; but Godard quit the project and the U.S., where to his dismay he discovered that revolution wasn’t imminent, and Pennebaker edited Godard’s material, to which he and Richard Leacock even added a bit ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard | D.A. Pennebaker | Richard Leacock
Stars: Rip Torn | Amiri Baraka | Tom Luddy | Eldridge Cleaver | Tom Hayden
Montserrat (1971)
As: Izquierdo
The story is set during the South American Wars of Independence. Simón Bolivar, the liberator, has escaped from Spanish custody with the aid of an idealistic Spanish officer, Captain Montserrat. The Spanish commander, Colonel Izquierdo ('left' in Spanish), threatens Montserrat with torture to find out where Bolivar can be recaptured.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: David Friedkin
Stars: Rip Torn | Geraldine Page | Keir Dullea | Jack Albertson | Earl Holliman
Tropic Of Cancer (1970)
As: Henry Miller
In contemporary Paris, expat American writer Henry Miller works his way through a series of amorous encounters while trying to find his literary voice.
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Joseph Strick
Stars: Ellen Burstyn | Rip Torn | Sheila Steafel | James T. Callahan | David Baur
Maidstone (1970)
As: Raoul Rey O'Houlihan
Over a booze-fueled, increasingly hectic five-day shoot in East Hampton, Norman Mailer and his cast and crew spontaneously unloaded onto film the lurid and loony chronicle of U.S. presidential candidate and filmmaker Norman T. Kingsley debating and attacking his hangers-on and enemies. This gonzo narrative, “an inkblot test of Mailer’s own subconscious” (Time), becomes something like a documentary on ...
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Norman Mailer
Stars: Rip Torn | Ultra Violet | Norman Mailer
Coming Apart (1969)
As: Joe
A psychiatrist secretly films his female patients as an experiment; he pushes both him and his customers in ways that induce his own mental breakdown.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Milton Moses Ginsberg
Stars: Sally Kirkland | Rip Torn | Phoebe Dorin | Julie Garfield | Lois Markle
Lions Love (1969)
As: THE BEARD Director (uncredited)
Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Agnès Varda
Stars: Viva | Gerome Ragni | Shirley Clarke | James Rado | Carlos Clarens
Sol Madrid (1968)
As: Dano Villanova
Government agent Sol Madrid travels to Mexico with hooker Stacey to bring mobster Villanova and drug kingpin Dietrich to justice.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Brian G. Hutton
Stars: Rip Torn | Stella Stevens | David McCallum | Telly Savalas | Ricardo Montalban
Beyond the Law (1968)
As: Popcorn
Takes place over the course of one feverish night in a Manhattan police precinct and neighboring bar.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Norman Mailer
Stars: Rip Torn | Mickey Knox | George Plimpton | Norman Mailer | Buzz Farber
Beach Red (1967)
As: Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell
American troops storm ashore on a Japanese-held island and push inland while their enemies plan a counterattack in this look at warfare. Soldiers on both sides are haunted by memories of home and the horrifying, sickening images they find in combat.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Cornel Wilde
Stars: Rip Torn | Cornel Wilde | Jean Wallace | Burr DeBenning | Patrick Wolfe
One Spy Too Many (1966)
As: Alexander
The men from U.N.C.L.E." are back! This time Robert Vaughn and David McCallum must stop the meglomanic Alexander (Rip Torn) from committing the world's greatest crimes.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Joseph Sargent
Stars: Rip Torn | James Hong | Robert Vaughn | Dorothy Provine | Cal Bolder
You're a Big Boy Now (1966)
As: I.H. Chanticleer
Bernard Chanticleer's father gives him two simple words of advice: "Grow up." Bernard knows that his first step is to find a girl who's "willing," but he passes up a sure thing, Amy Partlett, for a more elusive goal. Her name is Barbara Darling, an inscrutable go-go dancer. More than a few obstacles keep Bernard from his dream world. There's his doting mother, who mails him locks of her hair and weeps at ...
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: Rip Torn | Geraldine Page | Michael Dunn | Elizabeth Hartman | Peter Kastner
The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
As: William Jefferson Slade
An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Norman Jewison
Stars: Ann-Margret | Tuesday Weld | Steve McQueen | Edward G. Robinson | Karl Malden
Critic's Choice (1963)
As: Dion Kapakos
Bob Hope is a New York theater critic and his wife (Lucille Ball in their final motion picture pairing) writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Hope must either get out of reviewing the play or cause the breakup of his marriage. Based on the Broadway play by Ira Levin.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Don Weis
Stars: Bob Hope | Rip Torn | Lucille Ball | Marilyn Maxwell | Jessie Royce Landis
Hero's Island (1962)
As: Nicholas Gates
A family shipwrecked on an island must deal with escaped convicts and pirates.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Leslie Stevens
Stars: Rip Torn | Neville Brand | Warren Oates | James Mason | Kate Manx
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
As: Thomas 'Tom' J. Finley, Jr.
Gigolo and drifter, Chance Wayne, returns to his home town as the accompaniment of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter of the local politician Tom 'Boss' Finley, who more or less forced him to leave his daughter and the town many years ago.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Richard Brooks
Stars: Rip Torn | Shirley Knight | Paul Newman | Geraldine Page | Ed Begley
King of Kings (1961)
As: Judas
Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed, and finally crucified. Yet that terrible fate would not be the end of the story.
Runtime: 168 min.
Directed by: Nicholas Ray
Stars: Viveca Lindfors | Jeffrey Hunter | Hurd Hatfield | Ron Randell | Siobhán McKenna
Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life (1961)
Helen Lester is in love with a man she has known just 24 hours, a playboy who spent time in jail for passing bad checks. Though the man has promised to change, most of her strait-laced relatives are up in arms. But Clare Lester, Helen's grandmother, says the girl is free to join the man she loves. On one condition, that she listen to the story of a day in Clare's own life and of a man she tried to change.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Silvio Narizzano
Stars: Rip Torn | Ingrid Bergman | Jerry Orbach | Darvas Lili | Helena de Crespo
Pork Chop Hill (1959)
As: Lt. Walter Russell
American GI's must retake a barren hill in Korea that has been overrun by Red Chinese troops. The ensuing battle becomes a meat grinder for American and Chinese alike.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Lewis Milestone
Stars: Rip Torn | Harry Guardino | Gregory Peck | George Peppard | Carl Benton Reid
Time Limit (1957)
As: Lt. George Miller
Military investigator Colonel Edwards is assigned a case involving Major Cargill, a Korean War POW who is accused of treason. Although Cargill admits his guilt and Edwards' superiors are impatiently pushing Edwards to move this case to court martial, Edwards becomes convinced of Cargill's innocence.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Karl Malden
Stars: June Lockhart | Martin Balsam | Richard Widmark | Richard Basehart | Dolores Michaels
Baby Doll (1956)
As: The Dentist (uncredited)
Based on a play by Tennessee Williams, "Baby Doll" centers on Archie Lee Meighan (Karl Malden), a failing cotton gin owner who is married to Baby Doll (Carroll Baker), a 19-year old childlike beauty whose father arranged the marriage for financial reasons. As Archie awaits the arrival of Baby Doll's 20th birthday, the day that they are supposed to consummate their marriage, he faces interference from ...
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Stars: Eli Wallach | Mildred Dunnock | Lonny Chapman | Carroll Baker | Karl Malden