Emmy winner Rip Torn, whose tempestuous nature made him a compelling character a...
- Emmy winner Rip Torn, whose tempestuous nature made him a compelling character actor on the screen and stage but sometimes caused him trouble on the set and in private life, died on Tuesday at the age of 88, media reports said.
He often made headlines because of his volatility. He blamed his dismissal from a production of “Macbeth” on “friends” of the administration of President Richard Nixon, who Torn would later portray in the television mini-series “Blind Ambition.” Torn was a good fit for Tennessee Williams’ plays, such as portraying the menacing Tom Jr. in “Sweet Bird of Youth,” which earned him a Tony nomination. He reprised the role in a movie in 1962 and also played Big Daddy in a 1984 TV production of Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.”
Torn also played Zed, the alien-busting boss in two “Men in Black” movies, and was Patches O’Houlihan, the snarling wheelchair-bound burn-out case whose idea of training his charges in the 2004 comedy “Dodgeball” was to throw tools at them .Torn gained notoriety for a role he did not get in the classic hippie-era movie “Easy Rider.” Novelist-screenwriter Terry Southern wanted Torn to play a disenchanted lawyer in the film .
Mailer played a presidential candidate who feared assassination and Torn his half brother in the highly improvised film, which was to conclude with the killing of the candidate. For the final scene, Torn went up to Mailer unannounced and struck him on the head with a hammer, drawing blood.
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