Rip Torn, who played Artie on 'The Larry Sanders Show,' dies at 88
by Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times
Jul 10, 2019
4 minutes
LOS ANGELES_Rip Torn, the maverick actor who received a late-in-life career boost - and won an Emmy Award - playing the caustic talk-show producer on Garry Shandling's 1990s hit HBO comedy series "The Larry Sanders Show," has died, according to the Associated Press. He was 88.
Torn's off-screen drinking and latter-day alcohol-related arrests began to overshadow his accomplishments as an actor.
Texas-born and Actors Studio-trained, Torn was a "slender, dark, intense young actor" - as the Los Angeles Times' former TV columnist, Cecil Smith, described him - when he surfaced in the late 1950s on TV dramatic showcases such as "Playhouse 90," in films and on Broadway.
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