27 Facts About Pat Hingle

Martin Patterson Hingle was an American character actor who appeared in stage productions and in hundreds of television shows and feature films.

Pat Hingle portrayed Jim Gordon in the Batman film franchise from 1989 to 1997.

Pat Hingle attended Weslaco High School, where he played tuba in the band.

Pat Hingle enlisted in the United States Navy in December 1941, dropping out of the University of Texas.

Pat Hingle served on the destroyer USS Marshall during World War II.

Pat Hingle returned to the University of Texas after the war and earned a degree in radio broadcasting in 1949.

Pat Hingle began acting in college, and after graduating, he moved to New York and studied at HB Studio and the American Theatre Wing.

On Broadway, Pat Hingle originated the role of Gooper in the original Broadway production of Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Pat Hingle was trapped in the elevator of his West End Avenue apartment building when it stalled between the second and third floors.

The elevator stopped four feet above the landing, within reach, and Pat Hingle tried to jump to the second floor.

Pat Hingle missed and fell back down the elevator shaft, plunging 30 feet to the bottom.

Pat Hingle broke his left leg in three places and lost the little finger on his left hand.

Pat Hingle's recovery took months, and at first he could not walk without a cane.

Pat Hingle appeared in the 1963 Actors Studio production of Strange Interlude, directed by Jose Quintero, and That Championship Season.

Pat Hingle earned a Tony Award nomination for his performance in Dark at the Top of the Stairs.

Pat Hingle's first film role was an uncredited part as bartender Jock in On the Waterfront.

Pat Hingle 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.

Pat Hingle was widely known for portraying the father of Sally Field's title character Norma Rae.

Pat Hingle played manager Colonel Tom Parker in John Carpenter's TV movie Elvis.

Pat Hingle had a long list of television and film credits to his name dating to 1948.

Pat Hingle played Dr Chapman in seven episodes of the TV series Gunsmoke, and Col.

In 1963, Pat Hingle guest-starred in an episode of The Twilight Zone, "The Incredible World of Horace Ford", as the title character.

Pat Hingle guest-starred in the TV series Matlock, In the Heat of the Night, and Murder, She Wrote.

Pat Hingle played Commissioner Gordon in the 1989 film Batman and its three sequels.

Pat Hingle is one of only two actors to appear in the four Batman films from 1989 to 1997; the other is Michael Gough.

Pat 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.

Pat Hingle was cremated and his ashes were scattered in the Atlantic Ocean.