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Rip Torn is a Actor, Director and Thanks American born on 6 february 1931 at Temple (USA)
Among those, 11 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Action, Comic science fiction
Themes Time travel films, Films about the Apollo program, Comedy science fiction films, Superhero films, Buddy films, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Jemaine Clement, Michael Stuhlbarg, Bill Hader
Roles Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited)
Rating67%
In 2012, an alien criminal, Boris the Animal, a Boglodite, escapes from a maximum-security prison on the moon and arrives on Earth, bent on taking revenge on Agent K, who shot off his left arm and captured him in 1969. He confronts K, who is with his partner Agent J, telling him he is "already dead". J then discovers that K was responsible not only for capturing Boris, but for deploying the "ArcNet", a shield that prevented the Boglodites from conquering Earth and caused their extinction.
Directed by Tim Allen, Barry Sonnenfeld
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Superhero films, Buddy films, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D'Onofrio, David Schwimmer, Rip Torn
Roles Chief Zed
Rating72%
Agent K and his partner Agent D intercept a truck smuggling illegal immigrants into the United States. Inside they discover an alien disguised as a human. When he runs, they shoot him and use neuralyzers to wipe the memories of the border patrol witnesses. D decides to retire and asks K to wipe his memory too. In upstate New York, an alien crash-lands and kills an abusive farmer named Edgar to use his skin as a disguise.
Directed by Ron Clements, John Musker
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Animation
Themes Films based on mythology, Musical films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Dans la Grèce mythologique, Children's films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Tate Donovan, Danny DeVito, Josh Keaton, James Woods, Roger Bart, Susan Egan
Roles Zeus (voice)
Rating73%
After imprisoning the Titans beneath the ocean, the Greek gods gather to Mount Olympus for Zeus, and his wife Hera have a son named Hercules. While the other gods are joyful, Zeus' jealous brother Hades plots to overthrow Zeus and rule Mount Olympus. Turning to the Fates for help, Hades learns that in eighteen years, a planetary alignment will allow Hades to locate and free the Titans to conquer Olympus, but only if Hercules does not interfere. Hades sends his minions Pain and Panic to dispose of Hercules. The two succeed at kidnapping and feeding him a formula that turns him mortal, but fail to remove his superhuman strength before Hercules is found and adopted by the farmers Amphitryon and Alcmene.
, 1h32
Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Sports films, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Children's films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor, Rip Torn, Justin Long, Stephen Root
Roles Patches O'Houlihan
Rating66%
Peter LaFleur (Vince Vaughn) is the owner of Average Joe's, a small and financially unsuccessful gym with a handful of loyal oddball members. When he defaults on the gym's mortgage, it is purchased by his rival White Goodman (Ben Stiller), a fitness guru and owner of the successful Globo-Gym across the street. Unless Peter can raise $50,000 in thirty days to cover his mortgage, White will foreclose on Average Joe's and demolish it to build a parking garage for his gym members. Attorney Kate Veatch (Christine Taylor) is working on the transaction for White. White repeatedly and unsuccessfully attempts to charm her, and she instead develops a friendship with Peter while reviewing his financial records.
Directed by Sofia Coppola
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy-drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Politique, Marie-Antoinette, Political films, Histoire de France, French Revolution films, Films about royalty
Actors Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis, Rip Torn, Rose Byrne, Asia Argento
Roles Louis XV
Rating65%
Fourteen-year-old Maria Antonia Josephina Johanna Habsburg (Kirsten Dunst) is the beautiful, charming, and naive archduchess of Austria, youngest of Empress Maria Theresa's (Marianne Faithfull) daughters. In 1770, the only one left unmarried among her sisters, she is sent by her mother to marry the Dauphin of France, the future Louis XVI of France (Jason Schwartzman), to seal an alliance between the two rival countries. Marie Antoinette travels to France, relinquishing all connections with her home country, including her pet Pug "Mops", and meets the King Louis XV of France (Rip Torn) and her future husband, Louis Auguste. The two arrive at the Palace of Versailles, which was built by the King's great-grandfather. They are married at once, and are encouraged to produce an heir to the throne as soon as possible; but the next day it is reported to the king that "nothing happened" on the wedding night.
Directed by Michael Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Historical, Politic
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Medical-themed films, Politique, Films about drugs, Films about television, Political films
Actors Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora, Renee Olstead, Roger Bart
Roles John Scanlon
Rating77%
During a prologue that is not directly related to the main plot, CBS producer Lowell Bergman (Pacino) convinces the founder of Hezbollah, Sheikh Fadlallah, to grant an interview to Mike Wallace (Plummer) for 60 Minutes. While preparing for the interview, both Wallace and Bergman firmly stand their ground against the Sheikh's armed and hostile bodyguards' attempted intimidation and disruption.
Directed by Ken Finkleman
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Adventure, Comic science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Transport films, Sur la Lune, Aviation films, Comedy science fiction films, Films set in the future, Dans un avion, Space opera
Actors Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Chad Everett, Peter Graves, Rip Torn
Roles Bud Kruger / President Reagan
Rating60%
In the near future, the Moon has been colonized and supports a station on its surface. A lunar shuttle known as Mayflower One is being rushed to launch from Houston. The head of the ground crew, The Sarge (Chuck Connors), does not like what is occurring, but he defers to the airline's management.
Directed by Elia Kazan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Films based on plays, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre de Tennessee Williams, Films about virginity
Actors Karl Malden, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach, Mildred Dunnock, Rip Torn, R.G. Armstrong
Roles The Dentist (uncredited)
Rating72%
In the Mississippi Delta, failing, bigoted, middle-aged cotton gin owner Archie Lee Meighan (Karl Malden) has been married to pretty, empty-headed 19-year-old virgin Baby Doll Meighan (Carroll Baker) for two years. Archie impatiently waits for Baby Doll's 20th birthday just a few days away when, by prior agreement with Baby Doll's dying father, the marriage can finally be consummated. In the meantime, Baby Doll still sleeps in a crib, wearing childish shorty-nightgowns and sucking her thumb, while Archie, an alcoholic, spies on her through a hole in a wall of their decrepit antebellum mansion, Fox Tail. Baby Doll's senile Aunt Rose Comfort (Mildred Dunnock) lives in the house as well.
Directed by Alan Rudolph
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Melinda Dillon, Lesley Ann Warren, Rip Torn, Richard C. Sarafian
Roles Dino McLeish
Rating61%
Directed by Richard Brooks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre de Tennessee Williams
Actors Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Ed Begley, Rip Torn, Shirley Knight, Mildred Dunnock
Roles Thomas 'Tom' J. Finley, Jr.
Rating71%
Handsome, young Chance Wayne returns to his hometown of St. Cloud, Florida, accompanied by a considerably older movie star, Alexandra Del Lago. She is needy and depressed, particularly about a film she has just finished making, and speaks of retiring from the acting world forever.
Directed by Martin Ritt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Films about writers
Actors Mary Steenburgen, Rip Torn, Peter Coyote, Alfre Woodard, Dana Hill, Joanna Miles
Roles Marsh Turner
Rating68%
In 1928 in New York State, aspiring author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Steenburgen) advises her husband that her last book was rejected by a publisher, and she has bought an orange grove in Florida and is leaving him to go there. She drives to the nearest town alone, and arrives in time for her car to die. Local resident Norton Baskin (Peter Coyote) takes her the rest of the distance to a dilapidated and overgrown cabin attached to an even more overgrown orange grove. Despite Baskin's (and her own) doubts, she stays and begins to fix up the property.
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Among those, 11 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
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Add to a movie listMen in Black 3 (2012)
, 1h45Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Action, Comic science fiction
Themes Time travel films, Films about the Apollo program, Comedy science fiction films, Superhero films, Buddy films, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Jemaine Clement, Michael Stuhlbarg, Bill Hader
Roles Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited)
Rating67%
In 2012, an alien criminal, Boris the Animal, a Boglodite, escapes from a maximum-security prison on the moon and arrives on Earth, bent on taking revenge on Agent K, who shot off his left arm and captured him in 1969. He confronts K, who is with his partner Agent J, telling him he is "already dead". J then discovers that K was responsible not only for capturing Boris, but for deploying the "ArcNet", a shield that prevented the Boglodites from conquering Earth and caused their extinction.
Men in Black (1997)
, 1h38Directed by Tim Allen, Barry Sonnenfeld
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Superhero films, Buddy films, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D'Onofrio, David Schwimmer, Rip Torn
Roles Chief Zed
Rating72%
Agent K and his partner Agent D intercept a truck smuggling illegal immigrants into the United States. Inside they discover an alien disguised as a human. When he runs, they shoot him and use neuralyzers to wipe the memories of the border patrol witnesses. D decides to retire and asks K to wipe his memory too. In upstate New York, an alien crash-lands and kills an abusive farmer named Edgar to use his skin as a disguise.
Hercules (1997)
, 1h29Directed by Ron Clements, John Musker
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Animation
Themes Films based on mythology, Musical films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Dans la Grèce mythologique, Children's films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Tate Donovan, Danny DeVito, Josh Keaton, James Woods, Roger Bart, Susan Egan
Roles Zeus (voice)
Rating73%
After imprisoning the Titans beneath the ocean, the Greek gods gather to Mount Olympus for Zeus, and his wife Hera have a son named Hercules. While the other gods are joyful, Zeus' jealous brother Hades plots to overthrow Zeus and rule Mount Olympus. Turning to the Fates for help, Hades learns that in eighteen years, a planetary alignment will allow Hades to locate and free the Titans to conquer Olympus, but only if Hercules does not interfere. Hades sends his minions Pain and Panic to dispose of Hercules. The two succeed at kidnapping and feeding him a formula that turns him mortal, but fail to remove his superhuman strength before Hercules is found and adopted by the farmers Amphitryon and Alcmene.
, 1h32Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Sports films, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Children's films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor, Rip Torn, Justin Long, Stephen Root
Roles Patches O'Houlihan
Rating66%
Peter LaFleur (Vince Vaughn) is the owner of Average Joe's, a small and financially unsuccessful gym with a handful of loyal oddball members. When he defaults on the gym's mortgage, it is purchased by his rival White Goodman (Ben Stiller), a fitness guru and owner of the successful Globo-Gym across the street. Unless Peter can raise $50,000 in thirty days to cover his mortgage, White will foreclose on Average Joe's and demolish it to build a parking garage for his gym members. Attorney Kate Veatch (Christine Taylor) is working on the transaction for White. White repeatedly and unsuccessfully attempts to charm her, and she instead develops a friendship with Peter while reviewing his financial records.
Marie Antoinette (2006)
, 2h3Directed by Sofia Coppola
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy-drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Politique, Marie-Antoinette, Political films, Histoire de France, French Revolution films, Films about royalty
Actors Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis, Rip Torn, Rose Byrne, Asia Argento
Roles Louis XV
Rating65%
Fourteen-year-old Maria Antonia Josephina Johanna Habsburg (Kirsten Dunst) is the beautiful, charming, and naive archduchess of Austria, youngest of Empress Maria Theresa's (Marianne Faithfull) daughters. In 1770, the only one left unmarried among her sisters, she is sent by her mother to marry the Dauphin of France, the future Louis XVI of France (Jason Schwartzman), to seal an alliance between the two rival countries. Marie Antoinette travels to France, relinquishing all connections with her home country, including her pet Pug "Mops", and meets the King Louis XV of France (Rip Torn) and her future husband, Louis Auguste. The two arrive at the Palace of Versailles, which was built by the King's great-grandfather. They are married at once, and are encouraged to produce an heir to the throne as soon as possible; but the next day it is reported to the king that "nothing happened" on the wedding night.
The Insider (1999)
, 2h37Directed by Michael Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Historical, Politic
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Medical-themed films, Politique, Films about drugs, Films about television, Political films
Actors Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora, Renee Olstead, Roger Bart
Roles John Scanlon
Rating77%
During a prologue that is not directly related to the main plot, CBS producer Lowell Bergman (Pacino) convinces the founder of Hezbollah, Sheikh Fadlallah, to grant an interview to Mike Wallace (Plummer) for 60 Minutes. While preparing for the interview, both Wallace and Bergman firmly stand their ground against the Sheikh's armed and hostile bodyguards' attempted intimidation and disruption.
Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
, 1h25Directed by Ken Finkleman
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Adventure, Comic science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Transport films, Sur la Lune, Aviation films, Comedy science fiction films, Films set in the future, Dans un avion, Space opera
Actors Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Chad Everett, Peter Graves, Rip Torn
Roles Bud Kruger / President Reagan
Rating60%
In the near future, the Moon has been colonized and supports a station on its surface. A lunar shuttle known as Mayflower One is being rushed to launch from Houston. The head of the ground crew, The Sarge (Chuck Connors), does not like what is occurring, but he defers to the airline's management.
Baby Doll (1956)
, 1h56Directed by Elia Kazan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Films based on plays, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre de Tennessee Williams, Films about virginity
Actors Karl Malden, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach, Mildred Dunnock, Rip Torn, R.G. Armstrong
Roles The Dentist (uncredited)
Rating72%
In the Mississippi Delta, failing, bigoted, middle-aged cotton gin owner Archie Lee Meighan (Karl Malden) has been married to pretty, empty-headed 19-year-old virgin Baby Doll Meighan (Carroll Baker) for two years. Archie impatiently waits for Baby Doll's 20th birthday just a few days away when, by prior agreement with Baby Doll's dying father, the marriage can finally be consummated. In the meantime, Baby Doll still sleeps in a crib, wearing childish shorty-nightgowns and sucking her thumb, while Archie, an alcoholic, spies on her through a hole in a wall of their decrepit antebellum mansion, Fox Tail. Baby Doll's senile Aunt Rose Comfort (Mildred Dunnock) lives in the house as well.
Songwriter (1984)
, 1h34Directed by Alan Rudolph
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Melinda Dillon, Lesley Ann Warren, Rip Torn, Richard C. Sarafian
Roles Dino McLeish
Rating61%
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
, 2hDirected by Richard Brooks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre de Tennessee Williams
Actors Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Ed Begley, Rip Torn, Shirley Knight, Mildred Dunnock
Roles Thomas 'Tom' J. Finley, Jr.
Rating71%
Handsome, young Chance Wayne returns to his hometown of St. Cloud, Florida, accompanied by a considerably older movie star, Alexandra Del Lago. She is needy and depressed, particularly about a film she has just finished making, and speaks of retiring from the acting world forever.
Cross Creek (1983)
, 2h7Directed by Martin Ritt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Films about writers
Actors Mary Steenburgen, Rip Torn, Peter Coyote, Alfre Woodard, Dana Hill, Joanna Miles
Roles Marsh Turner
Rating68%
In 1928 in New York State, aspiring author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Steenburgen) advises her husband that her last book was rejected by a publisher, and she has bought an orange grove in Florida and is leaving him to go there. She drives to the nearest town alone, and arrives in time for her car to die. Local resident Norton Baskin (Peter Coyote) takes her the rest of the distance to a dilapidated and overgrown cabin attached to an even more overgrown orange grove. Despite Baskin's (and her own) doubts, she stays and begins to fix up the property.