Pat Hingle
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Martin Patterson Hingle (July 19, 1924 – January 3, 2009) was an American character actor who appeared in hundreds of television shows and feature films.
In 1954, On the Waterfront was his first film.
He was often depicted as a villain in a game of authority figures.
Hingle was a close friend of Clint Eastwood and appeared in the Eastwood films Hang 'em High, The Gauntlet, and Sudden Impact.
Jim Gordon appeared in the Batman film franchise from 1989 to 1997.
Early life
Hingle was born in Miami, Florida (some reports state Denver, Colorado), and Clarence Martin Hingle, a building contractor, Marvin Louise (née Patterson), a schoolteacher and guitarist). He attended Weslaco High School, where he played tuba in the band. Hingle joined the United States Navy in December 1941, falling out of the University of Texas. During World War II, he served on the destroyer USS Marshall. He returned to the University of Texas after the war and earned a degree in radio broadcasting in 1949. He was recalled to the service during the Korean War and served on the escort destroyer USS Damato as a Navy Reservist.
Personal life
On June 3, 1947, Hingle married Alyce Faye Dorsey. They had three children. The couple later divorced. Julia Wright, a 1979 Hingle teen, married Julia Wright. He and his second wife had two children.
Hingle died of myelodysplasia in North Carolina on January 3, 2009; he had been diagnosed with the disease in November 2008. He was cremated and his remains were scattered in the Atlantic Ocean.
Career
Hingle began performing in college, and after graduating, he moved to New York and studied at HB Studio and the American Theatre Wing. He became a member of the Actors Studio in 1952. End as a Man was his first Broadway performance.
Hingle appeared in the original Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955). He appeared in Archibald MacLeish's award-winning Broadway play J.B. (1958), receiving rave reviews.
Hingle was seriously injured in a car crash in February 1959 while playing J.B. on Broadway. When it stalled between the second and third floors, he was trapped in the elevator of his West End Avenue apartment building. Hingle attempted to scale the second floor but the elevator came to a four-foot height above the landing, within reach. He missed and tumbled back down the elevator shaft, plunging 30 feet to the ground. On his left side, he fractured his skull, wrist, hip, and the majority of his ribs. He broke his left leg in three places and lost the little finger on his left hand.
Hingle had been given the title role of Elmer Gantry, but he was unable to film Burt Lancaster due to his injuries. His recovery took months, and he couldn't walk without a cane at first.
Hingle appeared in Strange Interlude's 1963 Actors Studio film 'British Consultation, directed by Jose Quintero, and That Championship Season (1972). For his appearance in Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957), he was given a Tony Award nomination. He appeared Benjamin Franklin in the Roundabout Theatre revival of the musical 1776, with Brent Spiner and Gregg Edelman in 1997.
On the Waterfront (1954), Hingle's first film appearance was as bartender Jock. He was known for playing judges, police officers, and other authority figures later in his career. He appeared on the early NBC legal drama Justice, based on case histories of the Legal Aid Society of New York, which aired in the 1950s.
Warren Beatty's character in Splendor in the Grass (1961) was another notable role. Hingle was well known for portraying Norma Rae, the father of Sally Field's title character (1979). Colonel Tom Parker appeared in John Carpenter's film Elvis (1979).
Hingle had a long line of television and film credits dating back to 1948. Among them were two episodes of The Fugitive (1964), Carol for Another Christmas (1964), The Invaders (1968), Mission: Impossible (1966), The Gauntlet (1977), Road To Redemption (2001), Two Episodes (1964), One Hundred (1967), Andi Rice (1967). (1979) Brewster's Millions (1985), Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive (1990), Citizen Cohn (1991), The Land Before Time (1992), Wings (1991), and Shaft (2000). In seven episodes of Gunsmoke (1971), he appeared as Dr. Chapman (1972) and Col. Tucker in the film Gunsmoke: To the Last Man (1992). Hingle appeared in "The Amazing World of Horace Ford" in 1963 as the title character. She Wrote: He appeared in the television series Matlock, In the Heat of the Night, and Murder. He appeared in the short-lived police series Stone with Dennis Weaver in 1980.
In the 1989 film Batman and its three sequels, Hingle played Commissioner Gordon. He is one of only two actors to appear in the four Batman films from 1989 to 1997; Michael Gough is the other.
He founded the Pat Hingle Artist Endowment in November 2007 to encourage students to work with visiting professional actors at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.