Martin Patterson Hingle (July 19, 1924 January 3, 2009) was an American character actor who appeared in stage productions and in hundreds of television shows and feature films. Anonymity and the fall that changed everything are now far behind him, and you will not find a more contented actor than Pat Hingle. serving in the Navy during WW II, he went back to the university and Select Page. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. The story comes through them. . by age 13 Hingle had lived in a dozen cities. He said two actors were responsible for his deciding to become a professional actor. 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 lost his balance while trying to crawl out and fell 54 feet down the shaft. In 1959 Hingle fell down a Manhattan elevator shaft, cracking his skull, leg, hip and wrist and severing the finger. The couple later divorced. Hingle attended high school in Texas and in [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. I saw what was possible.. . 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. Hingle attended high school in Texas and in 1941 entered the University of Texas, majoring in advertising. He was a guest star on the early NBC legal drama Justice, based on case histories of the Legal Aid Society of New York, which aired in the 1950s. 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 also played the gruff and messy Oscar in The Odd Couple on Broadway. He was trapped in the elevator of his West End Avenue apartment building when it stalled between the second and third floors. but Burt Lancaster filled the part because Hingle had been in a near fatal accident. Hingle had a near death experience, as he was in an elevator that was trapped between the second and third floor in his apartment building. . Burt Lancaster replaced him in Elmer Gantry and went on to win the best actor Oscar. 1941 entered the University of Texas, majoring in advertising. Every morning I wake up and my first thought is that I`m alive. 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. To the end, Hingle preferred being in the theater. Martin Patterson Hingle, actor, born 19 July 1924; died 3 January 2009, US character actor with a distinguished career on stage and screen, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Pat Hingle (r) in The Ugly American with Marlon Brando Photograph: The Ronald Grant Archive. 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.. that I felt more comfortable than I did anywhere and I was where God With Wright, he had two children. He played Dr. Chapman in seven episodes of the TV series Gunsmoke (1971), and Col. Tucker in the movie Gunsmoke: To the Last Man (1992). Hingle was still in his infancy (he never knew his father) and his The apex of his stage career was "J.B." by poet Archibald Macleish, with Hingle in the title role as a 20th-century Job. He was the star of ''JB,'' a successful Archibald MacLeish verse play, and director Richard Brooks was eager to cast him in the lead as the evangelist in ''Elmer Gantry'' (1960). [6], Hingle married Alyce Faye Dorsey on June 3, 1947. [9], Another notable role was as the father of Warren Beatty's character in Splendor in the Grass (1961). She then The director can pull his hair in the back of the house and the producer and the playwright can cry on each others shoulders. In For the whole 20 years the series was on the air from 1955 until 1975, he appeared in an impressive 605 of 635 episodes, according to IMBD . 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. 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. His parents divorced when He and his second wife had two children. He entered the Navy and served as an enlisted man on a destroyer in the Pacific. Pat Hingle (real name: Martin Patterson Hingle) was born in Miami, He liked the ship, later telling interviewers that it was his first real home anywhere.. Another successful Kazan production on Broadway was William Inge's The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957-59), with Hingle as a failed salesman. Hingle, who starred last month in the PBS adaptation of Katherine Anne Porter`s ''Noon Wine,'' has a craggy face so familiar that he is accosted for autographs in restaurants as much as any movie star. Caught in an elevator in his West End Avenue apartment building that was stalled . 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. (He played the same part in the 1957 film version.). 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. For the fictional character Patricia Hingle, see, Last edited on 17 December 2022, at 11:05, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, "Pat Hingle, Versatile Actor With Recurring Role in Batman Movies, Dies at 84", "Weslaco grad, veteran actor Pat Hingle dies", "HB Studio - Notable Alumni | One of the Original Acting Studios in NYC", "A Broadway Elder With the Spirit of '76", "Pat Hingle dies at 84; veteran actor was perhaps best known for 'Batman' role", "HINGLE NO STRANGER TO PATRIARCHAL ROLES", "Pat Hingle: Commissioner Gordon in four of the Batman films", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pat_Hingle&oldid=1127917989, This page was last edited on 17 December 2022, at 11:05. He served as a fireman aboard a destroyer that saw action in the South Pacific. He was near death for two weeks (and lost the little finger of his left hand); his recovery took more than a year. mother supported the family by teaching school in Denver. After studying with Uta Hagen, Hingle joined the famed Actors Studio, run by Lee Strasberg, in 1952. Hingle was born on July 19, 1924 in Miami, Florida. 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 . However, in 1971, he was forced to temporarily leave the show for just a handful of episodes because he had to undergo heart surgery after suffering a heart attack. 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. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Hingle was born in Miami, Florida (some sources say Denver, Colorado), the son of Marvin Louise (ne Patterson), a schoolteacher and musician, and Clarence Martin Hingle, a building contractor. "I didn't want to be Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart or Spencer Tracy," he explained. Hingle has refined the latter to an art in three dozen films and 22 Broadway plays. Several weeks into the plays run, Hingle became caught in a stalled elevator in his apartment building. ''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. "The roles those actors played were the same all the time. It tells of the star of a Broadway hit who went home to his apartment after the show and fell down an elevator shaft. He was caught in his West End Avenue apartment building in an elevator that had stalled between the second and third floors. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, A French nun believed to be the worlds oldest person dies at 118, American Idol singer C.J. Mr. Hingle was a self-described workaholic, and over the years he took so many roles that he said he forgot details about some of the characters. . He was present, right there, in his life and in his work. He said he took the job of Commissioner James Gordon in Tim Burton's Batman in 1989 so his second wife could see London. He was near death for two weeks (and lost the little finger of his left hand); his recovery took more than a year. He returned to the University of Texas after the war ended and earned a degree in radio broadcasting. ''I would probably have had a much different career. He wasnt a household name, but his solid, broad, hang-dog screen face became a household image. Hingle died Saturday night of myelodysplasia, a type of blood cancer, at his home in Carolina Beach, N.C., according to Lynn Heritage, a cousin who was acting as a spokesperson for the family. He missed and fell back down the elevator shaft, plunging 30 feet to the bottom. He crawled out and sought to reach the second floor corridor but lost his balance and fell fifty-four feet down the shaft. He is one of only two actors to appear in the four Batman films from 1989 to 1997; the other is Michael Gough. It was at university that he joined the drama department - "in order to meet girls". They had children Jody, Billy and Molly. . Pat Hingle, who plays the title role in the Broadway hit "J. Over the years, he took on a dizzying mix of roles and seemed to do them all with ease and considerable skill. Even your own mother couldn`t see your name,'' he recalled with a booming laugh. [7], In February 1959, while playing J.B. on Broadway, Hingle was seriously injured in an accident. PAT HINGLE ON STAGE; Appears For First Time Since His Accident Last Year, https://www.nytimes.com/1960/01/21/archives/pat-hingle-on-stage-appears-for-first-time-since-his-accident-last.html. Who knows?'' Hingle graduated from Weslaco High School in Weslaco, Texas in 1942. It amused Hingle that, after a long and distinguished career on stage, screen and television spanning almost 50 years, he finally gained wide popular recognition in four blockbuster Batman movies. He played the title role in Archibald MacLeish's award-winning Broadway play J.B. (1958), receiving rave reviews. Actor Pat Hingle died Saturday night after a battle with blood cancer. 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. You were the most important thing when you worked opposite him. [7], Hingle appeared in the 1963 Actors Studio production of Strange Interlude, directed by Jose Quintero, and That Championship Season (1972). I know that if I had done Elmer Gantry, I would have been more of a movie name. Returns to stage after '59 accident. In the 1960s, he played both Hector in Troilus and Cressida and Macbeth at the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Conn. He earned a Tony Award nomination for his performance in Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957). He was Sally Fields father in Norma Rae and Warren Beattys in Splendor in the Grass. He played the bartender who needles Marlon Brando about his former prize-fight style in On the Waterfront, and he was the sadistic crime boss who terrorizes Anjelica Huston with a bag of oranges in The Grifters., Hingle had an illustrious Broadway career and was in the original casts of some of the great plays in American theater, including Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and J.B.. Hed had one semester at the University of Texas when World War II broke out. Anyone can read what you share. Pat Hingle, Star of 'J. Pacific on a destroyer. [11] He guest-starred in the TV series Matlock, In the Heat of the Night, and Murder, She Wrote. He fractured his skull, wrist, hip and most of his ribs on his left side, broke his left leg in three places and lost the little finger of his left hand. Hingle, who can do more with a single silent and exasperated stare than another actor could manage in several pages of dialogue, is not a man who resents the term ''character actor. a living! On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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 widely known for portraying the father of Sally Field's title character Norma Rae (1979). But Im sure I would not have done as many plays as Ive done, he later told the New York Times. The entire cast, directed by Kazan's protege Jack Garfein, was made up of Studio alumni. Over the next three years, he did 35 plays and found himself more comfortable in the theater than anywhere else. He fractured his left hip and a finger had to be amputated. The couple moved to New York in search of acting jobs. He said two actors were responsible for his deciding to become a professional actor. I know you from somewhere.` ''. In 1963, Hingle guest-starred in an episode of The Twilight Zone, "The Incredible World of Horace Ford", as the title character. Obituaries Pat Hingle, Veteran Character Actor, Dies at 84 Pat Hingle, the character actor whose career stretched back to the 1940s and whose credits encompassed copious roles in theatre,. After graduating in 1949, Hingle moved to New York and studied acting with Uta Hagen at Herbert Berghof Studios. 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. Hingle was born Martin Patterson Hingle in Miami on July 19, 1924. 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. The director can pull his hair in the back of the house and the producer and the playwright can cry on each others shoulders. He learned to act at the Actors Studio. He entered the Navy and served as an enlisted man on a destroyer in the Pacific. He sustained massive injuries, including a fractured skull, wrist, hip and leg, and several broken ribs. pretty girl I'd say, "Who the hell is that?" As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. I`ve been given a blessing that is not given to many men.''. [6] Hingle was cremated and his ashes were scattered into the Atlantic Ocean. In exemplary films such as ''Norma Rae'' (1979), in which he portrayed Sally Field`s father, Hingle`s presence makes a measurable contribution to the movie`s impact. Anyone can read what you share. Hed had one semester at the University of Texas when World War II broke out. After serving in the Navy during WW II, he went back to the university and got involved with the drama department as a way to meet girls. After He broke his left leg in three places and lost the little finger on his left hand. In the meantime, he was carrying on a parallel career with bigger and better roles in the theatre. . B.," was critically injured yesterday morning when he fell thirty feet down an elevator shaft. [6] He also played manager Colonel Tom Parker in John Carpenter's TV movie Elvis (1979). The apex of his Today, Hingle is everyone`s favorite character actor. In 1963, Hingle guest-starred in an episode of The Twilight Zone,"The Incredible World of Horace Ford", as the title character. On film, he worked with stars ranging from Clint Eastwood to the Muppets. 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 1952, he became a member of the Actors Studio. He also portrayed Jim Gordon in the Batman film franchise from 1989 to 1997. This page was last changed on 16 December 2022, at 22:23. He received a bachelors degree in 1949. Hingle was also in Arthur Millers The Price in 1968. 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 Bud (Warren Beatty, in his screen debut) to succeed him in the oil business. Hingle was also in Arthur Millers The Price in 1968. To the end, Hingle preferred being in the theater. Without taking over a scene, Hingle has a way of registering his character`s presence in a movie even when his screen time is limited. I had exactly the kind of career I had hoped for.". His parents divorced when Hingle was still in his infancy (he never knew his father) and his mother supported the family by teaching school in Denver. "I know that if I had played Elmer Gantry, I would have been more of a movie name," Hingle declared. Hingle went on to appear in scores of television series, from Rawhide in 1965 to Dawson's Creek in 2001, while continuing to make an impact in films. The cause was myelodysplasia, a blood disorder, his wife, Julia, said. See the article in its original context from. Though not as egregious as the Daily Sport headline "Butler in Dudley Moore Film Dies", referring to the death of Sir John Gielgud, it was inevitable that headlines announcing the death of Pat Hingle, aged 84, would read "Batman's Commissioner Gordon Dies". Florida, the son of a building contractor. He was the most authentic man Ive ever met.. intended me to be. And looking like I do has allowed me to make a good living in all kinds of media. The little finger of that hand is missing. With his wife Alyce (whom he first met at the university), Hingle moved to New York and began to get jobs on the stage and on TV. When the need is for a stern father figure and man of traditional values, it is almost a Hollywood reflex to call Hingle`s agent. 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. 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. 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. 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. Boyce is a former FBI man who has to cope with an alienated son (Tim Hutton) who eventually betrays the United States by selling CIA secrets. A year later, Kazan once again helped him land a role as the title character in J.B., the Archibald MacLeish play about the life of Job that won both a Tony and a Pulitzer Prize in 1958. He was trapped in the elevator of his West End Avenue apartment building when it stalled between the second and third floors. [6] In 1997, he played Benjamin Franklin in the Roundabout Theatre revival of the musical 1776, with Brent Spiner and Gregg Edelman. He fractured his skull, wrist, hip and most of the ribs on his left side. ''You`d go to a restaurant and they couldn`t place you. Hingle was born Martin Patterson Hingle in Miami on July 19, 1924. Pat" Hingle died he was 84. He lost his balance while trying to crawl out and fell 54 feet down the shaft. He served on the destroyer USS Marshall during World War II. ''I think that kind of thing is helpful if a character is doing a certain kind of work. But Im sure I would not have done as many plays as Ive done, he later told the New York Times. As a Navy Reservist, he was recalled to the service during the Korean War and served on the escort destroyer USS Damato. Ive had exactly the kind of career I hoped for.. Hingle spent much of the next year relearning how to walk, and the Gantry role went to Burt Lancaster. His recovery took months, and at first he could not walk without a cane. He guest-starred in the TV series Matlock, In the Heat of the Night, and Murder, She Wrote. He was caught in his West End Avenue apartment building in an elevator that had stalled between the second and third floors. I always feel that way. [6], On Broadway, Hingle originated the role of Gooper in the original Broadway production of Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955). Stage: Appeard in "1776" on Broadway. Hingle and Michael Gough are the only two actors to appear in all 4 Batman movies. [7], Hingle's first film role was an uncredited part as bartender Jock in On the Waterfront (1954). The veteran of stage, television and film acting passed away at 10:45 p.m. Saturday at his Carolina Beach home,. Caught in an elevator in his West End Avenue apartment building that was stalled . (1979), Brewster's Millions (1985), Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive (1986), The Grifters (1990), Citizen Cohn (1992), Cheers (1993), The Land Before Time (1988), Wings (1996), and Shaft (2000). After the war, he returned to college but switched majors after observing that every pretty girl he saw was headed toward the universitys theater department. Hingle spent much of the next year relearning how to walk, and the Gantry role went to Burt Lancaster. Among them were two episodes of The Fugitive (1964), Carol for Another Christmas (1964), Nevada Smith (1966), Mission: Impossible (1967), The Invaders (1967), Hang 'Em High (1968), The Gauntlet (1977), Sudden Impact (1983), Road To Redemption (2001), When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? ''To me, Laurence Olivier is a character actor and always was. Well, they were all headed He played Commissioner James Gordon in the Tim Burton/Joel Schumacher Batman films: Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Forever, and Batman & Robin. 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He was cremated and his ashes were scattered in the Atlantic Ocean. Martin Patterson Hingle was born on July 19, 1924, in Miami. Hingle died Saturday night of myelodysplasia, a type of blood cancer, at his home in Carolina Beach, N.C., according to Lynn Heritage, a cousin who was acting as a spokesperson for the family. Hingle worked from 1954 through 2006. He lay near death for two weeks, and his recovery required more than a year.[4][5]. The elevator stopped four feet above the landing, within reach, and Hingle tried to jump to the second floor. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. He fractured his skull, wrist, hip, and most of the ribs on his left side. Hingle died Saturday night of myelodysplasia, a type of blood cancer, at his home in Carolina Beach, N.C., according to Lynn Heritage, a cousin who was acting as a spokesperson for the family. Accident. His electric performance led to United Artists offering Hingle the title role of the fast-talking conman in Elmer Gantry (1960). He crawled out and sought to reach the second floor corridor but lost his balance and fell fifty-four feet down the shaft. Burt Lancaster played it instead because six weeks after the play opened, Hingle had a nearly fatal accident. pat hingle elevator accidentcindy jessup now Non ci sono articoli nel carrello. Then he managed to crawl out, but he fell down the shaft and was severely injured. He was caught in his West End Avenue apartment building in an elevator that had stalled between the second and third floors. The future Tony Award nominee made his "acting debut" in the third grade, playing a carrot in a school play ("At that time it didn't seem like much of a way to make a living! [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 broke his left leg in three places and lost the little finger on his left hand. He was married to Julie Wright from 1979 until his death in 2009. Martin Patterson "Pat" Hingle was an American actor. After graduating in 1949, Hingle moved to New York and studied acting with Uta Hagen at Herbert Berghof Studios. He was 84. three years I did 35 plays and in one of those plays I finally realized Not that he ever aspired to be a star. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Besides nearly killing him, the accident cost him the title role in the 1960 film Elmer Gantry. He fractured his skull, wrist, hip, and most of the ribs on his left side. Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive article. He was caught in a lift in his apartment building that was stalled between the second and third floors. Hingle, who signed on when Hutton was already steeped in research into Christopher Boyce, doesn`t think such preparation is a great idea. Hingle was still recovering when Burt Lancaster won an Oscar for his performance in the role. There were the Gary Coopers and the Clark Gables, but they didnt really appeal to me, he told the Washington Post some years ago. However, six weeks into the run of Kazan's Broadway production of Archibald MacLeish's verse drama JB, he had a near-fatal accident. During the 1954-55 Broadway season, he played Gooper in Tennessee Williamss Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. When he appeared in The Dark at the Top of the Stairs in 1957, Richard Watts wrote in The New York Post that Mr. Hingle possesses a dynamic quality that brings everything to life., He got the title role of a morally aware businessman in the Archibald MacLeish play J.B. in 1958, and Brooks Atkinson in The New York Times said the actor gave an almost unbearably moving performance of a man of fortitude who is almost overwhelmed but never yields to the evil of his time.. He was 84. ''I`m very content with the way things have gone. He and his second wife had two children. View Full Article in Timesmachine , See the article in its original context from. Mr. Hingle, a husky six-footer, did have an imposing physical presence, but his abilities were probably enhanced by the jobs he had while trying to break into show business shoe salesman, playground attendant, rather unsuccessful purveyor of Bibles, farmhand, usher, waiter and even file clerk at Bloomingdales. began to travel (with her son in tow) in search of more lucrative work; Mister Hingle served in the United States Navy during both World War II and the Korean War. He spent a year convalescing. 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. Walter Kerr, reviewing the play for The New York Herald Tribune called Mr. Hingles performance first rate. 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