Larry Sanders Show, winner of the Emmy & Broadway Veteran Award was 88 – Deadline

Rip Torn, who played the role of the layman and loyal producer of Garry Shandling on HBO The Larry Sanders show, co-starred in the original Men in black films and won a Tony over a long career on Broadway, died today surrounded by his family at his home in Lakeville, Connecticut. He was 88 years old.

The prolific Torn played the essential role of Artie on Larry Sanders, broadcast from 1992 to 1998 and followed scenes behind the scenes and on stage of a successful talk show on night networks. In addition to scoring an actor in an Emmy comedy in 1996, he was nominated for each of the six seasons of the series.

The year of his victory, Torn was also guest actor in a drama series for his tour in CBS. Chicago Hope. In 2008, he won his ninth and last name Emmy for his recurring role as Don Geiss in NBC. 30 rocks. His first was for The murders of children in Atlanta in 1985.

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The versatile actor once said, "Play drama as comedy and comedy as drama." He claimed that it was his secret weapon.

Elmore Rual Torn, Jr. on February 6, 1931 in Temple, Texas, he was also nominated for a supporting role at the Oscars for Cross Creek (1983) and best actor in a Play Tony Award in 1960 for director Elia Kazan of Tennessee Williams Sweet bird of youth. He would reprise this role as Tom Finlay Jr. in the adaptation of the 1962 feature film directed by Richard Brooks and starring Paul Newman and Geraldine Page. Torn would marry with Page in 1963.

Collecting nearly 200 film and television credits over a career spanning seven decades – and another ten on Broadway – Torn is probably better known to younger audiences than agent Zed in the 1997 eclectic film Men in black and his sequel of 2002. He also played coach Patches O'Houlihan in 2004 comedy Dodgeball: a true story of outsider, which featured Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller.

All this was just a taste of Torn's career, which began in the mid-1950s with guest roles in TV series such as Kraft Theater, Pursuit, The Restless Gun, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Playhouse 90. He continued to work on big and small screens throughout his career, appearing in dozens of popular TV shows, including The Untouchables, Route 66, Dr. Kildare, The Man of U.N.C.L.E., Rawhide and Combat! during the 60's. He appeared in Norman Jewison The kid from Cincinnati (1965), starring Steve McQueen, Ann-Margret, Karl Malden and Tuesday Weld.

Torn worked mainly in the cinema during the 1970s, notably with David Bowie in The man who fell on Earth (1976). But he played Richard Nixon in the 1979 miniseries Blind ambition, John Dean, special advocate of POTUS 37, played by Martin Sheen – whose congressional testimony at Watergate's hearings would help reverse Nixon's situation.

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