Breaking: Rip Torn, the maverick actor who received a late-in-life career boost — and won an Emmy Award — playing the caustic talk-show producer on Garry Shandling's 1990s hit HBO comedy series “The Larry Sanders Show,” has died.'He was 88.
Rip Torn, the maverick actor who received a late-in-life career boost — and won an Emmy Award — playing the caustic talk-show producer on Garry Shandling's 1990s hit HBO comedy series “The Larry Sanders Show,” has died, according to the Associated Press.Torn’s off-screen drinking and latter-day alcohol-related arrests began to overshadow his accomplishments as an actor.
Torn's role as Marsh Turner, a 1920s backwoods Florida family man, in the 1983 film “Cross Creek” earned him an Academy Award nomination for best actor in a supporting role. “The saving grace is [Arthur] loves talent, particularly his star,” Torn told the Chicago Tribune in 1997. “Garry once said, ‘How do you see this role?' I said, ‘As Larry's pit bull.' He said, ‘Ahhh, I don't think I like that at all.' I said, ‘OK, I'll be your wolverine!' He didn't know what that meant. That's even worse than a pit bull!”
Torn's peripheral connection to “Easy Rider” surfaced three decades later when Hopper, during a 1994 appearance on “The Tonight Show,” said that Torn was turned down for the role of Hanson because he had pulled a knife on Hopper during an argument.
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