Want to know the best Rip Torn movies? How about the worst Rip Torn movies? Curious about Rip Torn box office grosses or which Rip Torn movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Rip Torn movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Rip Torn (1931-2019) was an Oscar®-nominated American actor. Rip Torn’s talent diverted attention from his frivolous name, winning the respect of critics and audiences alike. This page will rank 63 Rip Torn movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and movies that were not released in theaters were not included in the rankings.
Rip Torn Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Rip Torn Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Rip Torn movies by his co-stars
- Sort Rip Torn movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost.
- Sort Rip Torn movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Rip Torn movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Rip Torn movie received.
- Sort Rip Torn movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
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Really? An actor dies, and you decide to commemorate his passing with a bunch of statistics? No comment on the man himself, his achievements, your personal highlights of his movie career?
Disrespectful…
When the white flame in us is gone,
And we that lost the world’s delight
Stiffen in darkness, left alone
To crumble in our separate night;
When your swift hair is quiet in death,
And through the lips corruption thrust
Has stilled the labour of my breath —
When we are dust, when we are dust!
Hey snepts…I like it.
Hey Roguemail…..our website is all about movies and stats. When a movie actor passes away we give tribute to his career through what we have at our disposal…which is the statistics of his movies. Basically we turn a light on that showcases his movie career. Following some of the other movie websites out there…we give tribute when somebody passes.
That being said….I can understand you thinking it is disrespectful. Our website readers have requested in the past for us to do these tribute pages. He is listed in the Joel Hirschhorn book…Rating The Movie Stars. One of our goals is to do an UMR page on everybody that is in his book….Mr. Torn was one of the 410 thespians listed in that book. So far we have pages on 305 of those people. So….we had his movies already researched and ready to go….we just had not published the page yet. I wish I had published the page last week…..but I did not do that before his passing.
My personal highlights of Rip Torn are found in the return comments on our Torn page. Rest in Peace Mr. Torn.
HI ROGUEMAIL. It is genuinely refreshing to see someone like you who wishes maximum respect to be shown to movie stars who have given credible service to the industry over the years. However often the level of respect shown is gauged by how quickly an initial tribute is paid to a just-deceased movie star and as has already been said, to respond in a timely manner the site organisers have to go with the information immediately to hand. Often that is substantial but at other times not.
Anyway most regular viewers will normally want to join in the tributes so the important thing is to have the basic page on which the tributes can be collectively assembled. Accordingly it is in my view reasonable for the organisers to initially provide, as they do and as appropriate, a few basic opening paragraphs and the statistical information that is available for the thespian’s box office career and the critical and artistic reception of the star’s films ; then the comments of the other site users can develop and expand the tributes with a variety of offerings as you will notice that I and others have done on this page for Rip Torn.
However even if I did feel that a different approach could be tried I would find myself unable to substantiate any argument that the site organisers have EVER in any way shown undue disrespect to thespians living or dead. For example one just has to look at the index on this site and see the droves of living and dead stars, directors etc that the site has honoured over the past number of years, each with his/her own page, and one must marvel at the massive catalogue of tributes that has been put in the public domain here. The individual pages are amplified by other more general pages that highlight the achievements and relative star status of numerous thespians.
Where possible much other detail has been given along with statistical information and the diversity of the site is amazing, covering stars etc from the silent era up to the present time, many of them relatively minor, even obscure, artists in whom some sources may well have no interest whatsoever.
To establish and maintain up to date this massive facility is an enormous undertaking that requires dedicated organisers with a love of the cinema and its stars. and here those organisers do all that on top of other demanding “day jobs”. We are lucky to have such a site at all; and certainly for me it contains ample proof that the providers have not just great respect for deceased artists like Rip Torn but for movie people of all walks PER SE.
“Rome wasn’t built in a day” and whilst skeleton tributes may of necsessity have to be initially trotted out from time to time detailed appraisals have been painstakingly built up over the years that attempt to give all the artists the full respect they deserve. Anyway great exchanging views with you Roguemail.
Hey Bob….thanks for the defense comment. I can understand a new page on someone that just passed away as coming off “disrespectful”….I remember when I started doing these tribute pages….I felt somewhat uncomfortable doing them. With the website getting more visits….I now almost feel I “have to do” a page on an actor or actress when they pass. I see the search numbers on the website….and when somebody passes….people come to UMR to see their careers. I guess that is both good and bad.
I really appreciate all the kind words about the website. It makes all the work seem worth it. I have spent 100s of hours on building this website. Sometimes the size of the website even amazes me….and it keeps growing and growing….like the Blob in the McQueen classic.
Once again…thanks for defending UMR….those efforts are greatly appreciated.
BRUCE I can understand someone being disappointed that there is not more information immediately provided about a favored or respected thespian, but to interpret as “disrespectful” ANY sympathetic acknowledgement of, and expression of regret at, a star’s passing does puzzle me. In today’s social media craze for example condolences about the passing of a public figure are often initially expressed by way of a mere TWEET and that is considered perfectly respectful
Also I think you are not being given enough credit for recognising thespians who are not major stars but nevertheless are part of the backbone of the movie industry because of their own particular talents and the wonderful supporting performances they turn in. Many of the artists whom you profile get no recognition on other sites and many sites have never heard of some of the movies that you credit to a performer. I wonder how many sites today pay tribute to the likes of Thelma Ritter and Walter Brennan?
Also it can be overlooked that your stats tables contain a lot more information that just box office figures with for example critical and artistic guidance being given and the provision of sorter buttons for ranking the importance an artist’s movies in different ways [box office, review etc].
Also one of Roguemail’s chief expressed regrets was that you didn’t mention Rip’s career highlights. But that’s not completely true as in the short time available you listed on his stats table what many movie insiders would perhaps regard as his greatest artistic achievement – his Oscar nom for Cross Creek.
When you are able to take your tine you invariably highight all of a thespian’s greatest achievements and if Roguemail is for example an admirer of Meryl Streep and turns to her Cogerson page he/she will be delighted with the seemingly endless parade of wards and nominations that you list for her.
Some of my key points here also apply to Steve and his site of course.
Good character actor. Sorry to hear of his passing.
Hey Taylor….I agree with both parts of your comment 100%. Rest in Peace to Mr. Rip Torn.
Thankyou for creating a Rip Torn page. I have seen 9 Rip Torn movies.
The HIGHEST rated movie I have seen is King of Kings.
The highest rated movie I have NOT seen is Men in Black.
The LOWEST rated movie I have seen is Time Limit which Widmark produced as well as starred in.
Favourite Rip Torn Movies:
Pork Chop Hill
Coma
The Cincinnatti Kid
Time Limit
Airplane II: The Sequel
Other Rip Torn Movies I Have Seen:
King of Kings
Sweet Bird of Youth
Baby Doll
A Face in the Crowd
Rest in Peace Mr. Torn.
Hey Flora. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Mr. Torn. Tally count…I have seen 33 of his movies while Bob has seen 11 and you have seen 9. Like with Bob’s tally….I have seen all the movies except for the Widmark movie Time Limit. A Gregory Peck movie in your personal top 5…I did not see that coming….lol. I am right there with you on The Cincy Kid.
My top 5. The Cincinnati Kid, Men In Black 1, The Insider, Defending Your Life and City Heat (love seeing Burt and Clint together). Good stuff as always. I agree….RIP….thoughts and prayers to his family.
“If you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball” – Patches O’Houlihan Rest in Peace Patches.
Hey Sherry…. a funny quote from a very funny movie…I was watching a clip from that scene this morning. Poor Justin Long….he could not dodge that wrench…lol. Good stuff. Rest in Peace.
If you use popularity as criteria for “ranking” a performer’s best work, you’re not doing him any favors, nor are you encouraging the uninformed to seek out lesser known movies that get buried under summer blockbusters and popularity polls.
Hey Ray K. Our rankings let the reader pick out how to rank his movies….as the table is sortable. For example..when sorting by box office his top movies are Men in Black 1 & 2 and then King of Kings. If you sort by reviews by critics and the public his top movies are The Insider, A Face in the Crowd and Men in Black. And if you sort by Oscar love his top movies are The Insider, Baby Doll and Cross Creek. Thanks for the feedback…rest in peace Mr. Torn.
If I sorted by Oscar, Bruce, I’d not likely to have commented on the use of popularity as a measure of quality in either actors or films.
Just letting you know the options in using the stats. Our site is a stat based website. What people do with the stats is up to them…but one line of information gives you a snapshot of the performance of the movie. Take his underrated Payday. If you sort by Oscars….it gets shut out….if you sort by box office it has the 37th spot…BUT if you sort by reviews…it hits his Top 10. So I think it helps quality movies get out of the shadow of the blockbusters you mentioned.
I’m afraid the history of movies does not bear that out. The general public gravitates toward what the popularity polls rate highly. How often have you heard, “It (or she, or he) won the Oscar” as a reply to the “best” of the year? If we review the films of nearly any given year we’ll find a depressing number of great movies that were ignored, not even nominated. Box office figures don’t mean much to me because I’m not financially invested in movies, but having that kind of data available and updated on a convenient website is certainly handy. I’m not dismissing your work, understand. But touting an entertainer by “Ultimate Rankings” doesn’t encourage the masses to make up their own minds about what they like and what they’ve just been sold on.
Hey Ray. Got it. After a decade it would be hard to change the name of the website. We now have over 7,000 UltimateMovieRanking pages.Over the years, box office has gone from being the most important factor to being the second most important factor in our ranking formula. I do appreciate the feedback.