FrameThrower · Actors · Rip Torn
Rip Torn
6 films · 430 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1956–2006
Born 6 February 1931 · Temple, Texas, USA · died 9 July 2019
Elmore Rual "Rip" Torn Jr. was an American actor whose career spanned more than 60 years. He was best known for his roles as Zed in the Men in Black franchise (1997-2002) and Patches O'Houlihan in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004).
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.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 430 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1956–2006
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series1996
- Theatre World Award1959
How their films are shot
Measured across 430 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Rip takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 6 films we hold, 40% of their frames are day, 43% natural — the look of the work Rip takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 430 frames from Rip Torn's 6 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.