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  • David Nunn
    RIP indeed.

    Sad news.

    I bet he was fun to be around.

    https://www.registercitizen.com/news/article/Actor-Rip-Torn-arrested-charged-with-breaking-12080851.php

    Remember when he got drunk and broke into his bank? Cops found him inside, drunk as a judge, with his loaded revolver, waiting for the bank to open.
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  • Sam06
    Yep he was a drinker for sure.

    I think that is how he got that gravely voice.

    I also read where he got in fights on and off the set of movies he was in.
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  • bambihunter
    I loved him in Down Periscope. Of course he had many, more major roles, but that is the one that sticks with me. Then again, I watch it every couple of years so it should.
    Rob Schnieder "Prepare to dive" still cracks me up.
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  • select-fire
    RIP
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  • allen griggs
    I live in the North Carolina mountains. Rip Torn's son Tony is my next door neighbor. Which means, Tony's house is the closest house to mine, and it is 1/2 mile away. By the way I built that house, a log cabin.
    Tony lives in Manhattan, but he comes down here for the summer with his wife, and sometimes comes down at Christmas.

    I have a radio that is real good at long range reception and I often listen to am 770 out of New York. Just checking up to see what Yankees are up to.
    So, one morning about 10 years ago, about 5 am I half way woke up, I turned on the radio. I thought it was on a local station but it was actually on am770.
    And the guy is saying "Now here is the arrest of Rip Torn. This rascal is down at the police station for DUI. Listen to this goofball and tell me is he drunk or what?"

    And then, they had a recording from the police station, Rip Torn was yakking about it was an unfair arrest and he wasn't drunk. Then, Rip began singing opera. The morning DJs were having a field day, making fun of the drunk actor.
    I was over at Tony's house that day, and he was laughing about the arrest. He had not heard his dad singing opera at the police station, but, he said he wasn't surprised.

    About a month later I saw where the DUI charges had been mysteriously dismissed.
    I was at a party at Tony's house that night, and I asked Tony about his dad's adventures. Tony said that, yes, his dad liked to have a drink, but, since the charges were dismissed, he was obviously not guilty. I couldn't argue with that.
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  • Brookwood
    RIP "Capt. Skully of the Barnacle" you gave me a lot of laughs over the years with that role in "Summer Rental" along side John Candy!
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  • ruger41
    If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball!
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  • allen griggs
    I just heard a story on Rip Torn on the radio. And they were talking about what a wild ass he was. They said he was making a film with Norman Mailer, in 1970. In the movie Rip Torn was the enemy of Mailer and was supposed to kill him. They said that Torn got a little too much "into character" and one day after filming, he got into a fight with Mailer and hit him with a hammer.
    So I just looked it up on youtube.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Uh7Z4mTza4
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  • 35 Whelen
    Wasn't much of an intergalactic kegger down here anyway.
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