American actor best known for playing Artie, the foul-mouthed producer in The Larry Sanders Show, and Zed in Men in Black
'Raw, sad, hilarious': how Rip Torn lit up TV with The Larry Sanders Show
The Larry Sanders Show was the grand stage Rip Torn always deserved – and he held it together like a master
Rip Torn, cult actor and Artie in the Larry Sanders Show dies aged 88
Rip Torn: a wild man of stage and screen and a titan of US TV comedy
Peter Bradshaw
Rip Torn: a life in pictures
September 2016
The Man Who Fell to Earth review – a freaky concept album of a film
Nicolas Roeg’s 1976 sci-fi story about an intergalactic visitor, played by David Bowie, is more preposterous – and moving – than the first time around
March 2015
Sissy Spacek: ‘I was fearless’
She made Carrie and Badlands, but Sissy Spacek has never been afraid to swap Hollywood for her farm in Virginia. As she returns in new TV noir Bloodline, she talks about the family tragedy that fuelled her career
June 2012
The Man Who Fell to Earth – review
David Bowie is perfect in the lead role of Nic Roeg's prescient stranded-alien tale, says Phil Hoad
March 2011
Richard Leacock obituary
Fine film-maker whose subjects ranged from Kennedy to Hendrix
August 2010
Richard Adams's blog
Rip Torn denied probation over armed drunken bank escapade
Richard Adams: Rip Torn, the veteran Hollywood actor, may face jail term for breaking into a bank he mistook for his own house
March 2010
Rip Torn in court for breaking into bank 'he thought was his home'
Film and TV actor found asleep and intoxicated in bank branch and asked police what they were doing in his house
June 2008
Film blog
The view: Rip Torn's maligned mugshot
This week film blogs are buzzing with news of Rip Torn's surprise new TV role, M Night Shyamalan outdoing himself again, and some rather macabre occurences ...
January 1999
Rip Torn: fighting talk
He sparred with Dennis Hopper, hit Norman Mailer with a hammer, and got himself on the Hollywood blacklist... welcome to the world of hell-raising actor Rip Torn
