a living! ''Tim had already done it,'' recalled the veteran, who made his stage and film debuts in the theatrical and film versions of ''On the Waterfront'', (1954). In 1997, Mr. Hingle portrayed Benjamin Franklin in the Broadway revival of the musical 1776. Above, Mr. Hingle as Franklin with Brent Spiner, right, as John Adams. Actor Pat Hingle died Saturday night after a battle with blood cancer. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Mister Hingle served in the United States Navy during both World War II and the Korean War. . It was during the run of "J.B." that Hingle took an accidental plunge down the elevator shaft of his New York apartment building, sustaining near-fatal injuries in the 54-foot fall. He loves his craft so much that he has never repeated his one excursion into directing--an Annenberg Center production of ''Toys in the Attic'' by Lillian Hellman that he undertook five years ago. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Over the years, he took on a dizzying mix of roles and seemed to do them all with ease and considerable skill. Pat Hingle holds the worn piece of paper in his left hand, but he really needs no reminder. He also lost his little finger on his left hand. The story comes through them. . But in three weeks time, I saw Walter Huston (Anjelica Hustons grandfather) and Hume Cronyn in about 10 movies and I saw that it was possible to play a wide variety of roles where there was no connections between one or the other; they werent put in a slot . In Batman and Robin, Hingle is made to fall in love with Poison Ivy (Uma Thurman), who wants to get the keys to police headquarters, and who almost kills him with her toxic kiss. He was 84. To the end, Hingle preferred being in the theater. In more recent years, Hingle has played Commissioner Gordon in the "Batman" movies.Just prior to his death, he resided in Carolina Beach, North Carolina, with his wife, Julia. Hingle had 3 children with Dorsey; Jody, Billy, and Molly. . Hingle was born Martin Patterson Hingle in Miami on July 19, 1924. With Wright, he had two children. [11] He guest-starred in the TV series Matlock, In the Heat of the Night, and Murder, She Wrote. York and began to get jobs on the stage and on TV. He found himself auditioning friends, and it was excruciating. This led to his first Broadway show, End as a Man. In 1979 Hingle married Julia Wright. He returned to the University of Texas after the war ended and earned a degree in radio broadcasting. ''. Stage: Appeard in "1776" on Broadway. On the big screen, his films include Hang Em High, Sudden Impact and The Gauntlet with Eastwood, as well as Muppets From Space. He and Michael Gough, who played Alfred Pennyworth, were the only two actors to appear in the first four Batman films. Mr. Hingle went to high school in Weslaco, Tex., where he played tuba in the band. He needed over a year to recover. He was 84. He was near death for two weeks (and lost the little finger of his left hand); his recovery took more than a year. He could be a relatively benign character, like the harness salesman in William Inges Dark at the Top of the Stairs on Broadway, or a quite sinister one, like the sadistic gangster who stubbed out his cigar on Anjelica Hustons hand in the 1990 film The Grifters. On the other side of the law he was Police Commissioner Gordon in Batman movies, beginning in 1989. Incredibly, he was back at work almost immediately, albeit with a limp, which he had for the rest of his life. . Kazan then cast Hingle in the Broadway premiere of Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955-56) as Gooper, the weak-willed jealous elder brother of Brick (Gazzara). Hingle was still recovering when Burt Lancaster won an Oscar for his performance in the role. He also realised that his looks - bull-necked and burly - were not conventional star material, but they helped him play a variety of parts. He was caught in his West End Avenue apartment building in an elevator that had stalled between the second and third floors. His break came in 1955 when Elia Kazan, one of the co-founders of the Actors Studio, cast him as the scheming son Gooper in the original Broadway production of Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.. After the war, he returned to Texas, graduating in 1949 with a degree in radio broadcasting. He said two actors were responsible for his deciding to become a professional actor. by | Oct 31, 2020 | Uncategorized | 0 comments | Oct 31, 2020 | Uncategorized | 0 comments ''Back in the early days of live TV, the credits were at the end, and the shows would always run late so they would run them very fast. He was near death for two weeks (and lost the little finger of his left hand); his recovery took more than a year. ''I think that kind of thing is helpful if a character is doing a certain kind of work. Pat Hingle, the veteran actor with more than half a century of impressive work in theater, film and television who was perhaps best known to a generation of movie fans as Commissioner James Gordon in the first four Batman films, has died. When the curtain goes up, there are those crazy actors. He played the title role in Archibald MacLeish's award-winning Broadway play J.B. (1958), receiving rave reviews. He fractured his skull, wrist, hip, and most of the ribs on his left side. The reason he stands out is that he had the humility and ease that made acting look easy.. Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive article. But there go those galloping actors., Hingles friend Morrison recalled him Sunday as a great listener., The great actors have this and he taught me this. He broke his left leg in three places and lost the little finger on his left hand. The little finger of that hand is missing. Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine. Who knows?'' It was at university that he joined the drama department - "in order to meet girls". Over the next three years, he did 35 plays and found himself more comfortable in the theater than anywhere else. Pat" Hingle died he was 84. The stage is an actors medium, he told The Times some years ago. On film, he worked with stars ranging from Clint Eastwood to the Muppets. Pat Hingle (real name: Martin Patterson Hingle) was born in Miami, [2] His parents were Marvin Louise (ne Patterson), a schoolteacher and musician, and Clarence Martin Hingle, a building contractor. Not long after the accident, Kazan provided Hingle with his finest film role in Splendor in the Grass (1961), as the extrovert self-made millionaire Ace Stamper who has aspirations for his son. [2] He attended Weslaco High School, where he played tuba in the band. An admirable instance is his portrayal of Charles Boyce in ''The Falcon and the Snowman,'' based on Robert Lindsey`s 1979 nonfiction best-seller of the same name. [1], Hingle began acting in college, and after graduating, he moved to New York and studied at HB Studio[5] and the American Theatre Wing. The director can pull his hair in the back of the house and the producer and the playwright can cry on each others shoulders. The fans know the name that goes with the face, but that wasn`t always the case. It was the most important meeting of Hingle's career. One of the more interesting developments during the making of ''The Falcon and the Snowman'' was the insistence by Hutton and costar Sean Penn on getting to know the two young men they play. He missed and fell back down the elevator shaft, plunging 30 feet to the bottom. Hed watch his old movies on television with fascination, he said, because he could never remember whether Im a good guy or a bad guy., Pat Hingle, Versatile Actor With Recurring Role in Batman Movies, Dies at 84, https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/arts/05hingle.html. He entered the Navy and served as an enlisted man on a destroyer in the Pacific. He earned rave reviews in J.B. and was offered the title role in the film Elmer Gantry, but then tragedy struck. There were the Gary Coopers and the Clark Gables, but they didnt really appeal to me, he told the Washington Post some years ago. He is so busy with screen and stage work that he hardly has time to think about what might have been--even though it is fascinating to speculate. Caught in an elevator in his West End Avenue apartment building that was stalled . His father, a building contractor, abandoned the family when Hingle was six, and for the next seven years he and his sister lived in more than a dozen cities, wherever their mother could find work. got involved with the drama department as a way to meet girls. His parents divorced when The elevator stopped four feet above the landing, within reach, and Hingle tried to jump to the second floor. Florida, the son of a building contractor. He was caught in a lift in his apartment building that was stalled between the second and third floors. [6], Hingle married Alyce Faye Dorsey on June 3, 1947. "I know that if I had played Elmer Gantry, I would have been more of a movie name," Hingle declared. The story comes through them. Burt Lancaster played it instead because six weeks after the play opened, Hingle had a nearly fatal accident. ", he recalled). It was severed in the fall as abruptly as Hingle`s career was halted by agonizing months of rehabilitation and second guesses about the direction his life as an actor might have taken. His break came in 1955 when Elia Kazan, one of the co-founders of the Actors Studio, cast him as the scheming son Gooper in the original Broadway production of Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.. The director can pull his hair in the back of the house and the producer and the playwright can cry on each others shoulders. Hingle worked from 1954 through 2006. In 1960, he was offered the title role in Elmer Gantry, but Burt Lancaster filled the part, because Hingle had a nearly fatal accident. Among the memorable parts were his shady mayor in Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964); his "hanging" judge in Hang 'em High (1968), starring Clint Eastwood; a kidnapped wealthy businessman in Roger Corman's Bloody Mama (1970); the power-mad owner of a neo-fascist radio station in WUSA (1970); and Sally Field's factory-worker father whose death spurs his daughter on to union activity in Norma Rae (1979). As a Navy Reservist, he was recalled to the service during the Korean War and served on the escort destroyer USS Damato. He came to New York in 1952, joined the Actors Studio and began to get parts both onstage and in films. His TV credits include Twilight Zone, The Untouchables, Route 66, Gunsmoke, The Fugitive, Mission Impossible and Hallmark Hall of Fame. On television hes played J. Edgar Hoover, former House Speaker Sam Rayburn, Col. Tom Parker (Elvis Presleys manager) and, in the miniseries War and Remembrance, Adm. William F. Bull Halsey. 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Mr. Hingle first attracted the attention of critics in 1953 when he appeared on Broadway in End as a Man as a genial but loutish football player caught up in murky doings at a military academy in the South. On the big screen, his films include Hang Em High, Sudden Impact and The Gauntlet with Eastwood, as well as Muppets From Space. He and Michael Gough, who played Alfred Pennyworth, were the only two actors to appear in the first four Batman films. Hingle was married two times; first to Alyce Faye Dorsey in 1947 until they divorced in 1972. ''There were all these actors I knew and I could only choose seven or eight,'' he said. [2], Hingle died at his home in Carolina Beach, North Carolina, of myelodysplasia on January 3, 2009; he had been diagnosed with the disease in November 2008. He later appeared in Batman Returns (1992), Batman Forever (1995) and Batman and Robin (1997). She then began to travel (with her son in tow) in search of more lucrative work; by age 13 Hingle had lived in a dozen cities. Over the next 50 years, Hingle fashioned a career as a top supporting actor in film, television and theater. "But I'm sure I would not have done as many plays as I've done. In 1960, he had been offered the title role in Elmer Gantry, but Burt Lancaster filled the part because Hingle had been in a near fatal accident. He was trapped in the elevator of his West End Avenue apartment building in Manhattan, when it stalled between the second and third floors. He was the most authentic man Ive ever met.. He lost his balance while trying to crawl out and fell 54 feet down the shaft. Martin Patterson "Pat" Hingle (July 19, 1924 January 3, 2009)[1] was an American actor. In 1953, Hingle got his first break on Broadway in End As a Man, Calder Willingham's play depicting the dehumanisation of young men at a southern military school. . Besides nearly killing him, the accident cost him the title role in the 1960 film Elmer Gantry. "The roles those actors played were the same all the time. Hingle is survived by his second wife, Julia, and three children of his first marriage. He wasnt a household name, but his solid, broad, hang-dog screen face became a household image. In February 1959, while playing J.B. on Broadway, Hingle was seriously injured in an accident. After high school, he entered the University of Texas to study advertising but when America entered the second world war he joined the navy. intended me to be. Pat Hingle, a versatile character actor of stage and screen who became accustomed to winning critical praise in a career that spanned five decades, died on Saturday at his home in Carolina Beach, N.C. pretty girl I'd say, "Who the hell is that?" October 25, 1979 - January 3, 2009 (his death), Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. Hingle was also in Arthur Millers The Price in 1968. 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