Torn plays an attorney who defends Albert Brooks in the afterlife as he stands trial to determine whether he can move on to the next phase of existence (Brooks, who also wrote and directed the 1991 film, called Torn “a true original” on Twitter). Shandling said it was this film that led him to cast Torn in “The Larry Sanders Show.”

Marsh Turner, ‘Cross Creek’

Torn was nominated for an Oscar for his performance as a hard-drinking backwoodsman in the 1983 drama about the author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.