I am proud to have worked with him and to have known him. In 1968, after Torn became frustrated over the creative direction of the project and as the cameras were rolling, he attacked Mailer with a hammer on the set of the film “Maidstone,” which Mailer was directing and in which the pair were starring.The signal such moment in Torn’s life, however, had occurred a year earlier, when the actor had gathered with Terry Southern, Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper to discuss a possible starring role for Torn — the one that ultimately went to Jack Nicholson — in “Easy Rider.” At this dinner, tempers flared; in 1994 Hopper claimed on “The Tonight Show” that Torn had attacked him with a knife.
Actor Rip Torn had suffered from dementia for years. Off Broadway he appeared in Sam Shepard’s “Seduced” in 1979.The actor was also working very steadily in television, picking up an Emmy nomination in 1985 for his work in CBS telepic “The Atlanta Child Murders” and in 1994 for a guest role on “Chicago Hope.” But his six-year stint on HBO’s highly successful “The Larry Sanders Show” — he played Larry’s producer Artie — nevertheless marked a significant career resurgence for Torn, one hurt, at least for a time, by Hopper’s 1994 utterance on “The Tonight Show.” Torn was Emmy nominated six times for “Larry Sanders,” winning in 1996.On Broadway, he returned to O’Neill in 1993, starring with Liam Neeson and Natasha Richardson in “Anna Christie,” and starred in Horton Foote’s “The Young Man From Atlanta” in 1997.On the bigscreen Torn had broad roles in the comedies “Canadian Bacon” and “Down Periscope” — and a supporting role in the hugely successful “Men in Black” sci-fi comedy film franchise starting with the first entry in 1997 — but was still starring occasionally in very small-budget indie films with low profiles, such as “Where the River Flows North” in 1993. In New York he studied performance with modern-dance doyenne Martha Graham and at the Actors Studio with Lee Strasberg. Actor Rip Torn's cause of death has been revealed as Alzheimer's disease, a death certificate confirmed.
Though it was panned when it was released in 2001, he’s remembered fondly for his role as Tom Green’s father in surreal comedy “Freddy Got Fingered.”In 2004 Torn shined in the Gene Hackman-Ray Romano presidential comedy “Welcome to Mooseport.” Roger Ebert said: “Rip Torn plays the Karl Rove role. His nickname caused endless ridicule during his early acting days but he refused to change his name at the behest of his former drama classmates.Torn was a political activist who joined James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte and other cultural and civil rights leaders for a 1963 meeting with then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy about the nation's treatment of blacks.Other film credits included: “Critics Choice” and “The Cincinnati Kid.” In Albert Brooks’ “Defending Your Life,” he was featured as a gregarious attorney in the afterlife.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Rip was a class act.
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©2020 FOX News Network, LLC. Torn's fans took to social media to memorialize The Larry Sanders Show actor, with many sharing their favorite roles of his throughout the years.. R.I.P Rip Torn.
I'll miss you Rip, you were a true original. Torn was equally at home in the comedy of the “Men in Black” film series or TV’s “The Larry Sanders Show” (for which he won his Emmy) and in the drama of “Sweet Bird of Youth” or “Anna Christie,” to name two of the numerous classic works of theater in which he appeared.The actor was nominated for a supporting-actor Oscar in 1984 for his work as a father who confronts tragedy in Martin Ritt’s “Cross Creek,” one of many rural dramas in which he appeared during his career.He drew a Tony nomination in 1960 for his first performance on Broadway, as the sadistic son of the town boss in Elia Kazan’s original production of Tennessee Williams’ “Sweet Bird of Youth.” Torn later replaced Paul Newman in the starring role of Chance Wayne.
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