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Pat Hingle
Age: 84 (passed away Jan. 3rd, 2009)
Height: 5' 10"
Birth Place: Miami, Florida, USA
Born: Jul. 19th, 1924
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BIOGRAPHY: Pat Hingle (real name: Martin Patterson Hingle) was born in Miami, Florida, the son of a building contractor. 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. 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. 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!", he recalled). Hingle attended high school in Texas and in 1941 entered the University of Texas, majoring in advertising. 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. 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. The apex of his stage career was "J.B." by poet Archibald Macleish, with Hingle in the title role as a 20th-century Job. 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 lay near death for two weeks (and lost the little finger of his left hand); his recovery took more than a year. In more recent years, Hingle has played Commissioner Gordon in the "Batman" movies.
Prior to his death, he resided in Kure Beach, North Carolina with his wife, Julia.
TRIVIA:
- One of only two actors to appear in all of the first four Batman movies. The other was actor 'Michael Gough (I)' (qv) who played Alfred.
- He lost the lead role in the film _Elmer Gantry (1960)_ (qv), which could have been a turning point in his screen career, when he, trying to escape a stalled elevator in his apartment building on the West Side, fell more than 50 feet down the shaft. He fractured his skull, hip, wrist, and most of the ribs on his left side, also breaking his left leg in three places. A finger had to be amputated. Near death for two weeks, he spent a year relearning to walk. 'Burt Lancaster' (qv) inherited the role and won an Oscar.
- Had three children, Bill, Jody and Molly, by first wife Alyce.
- Diagnosed in November 2006 with a blood disorder, myelodysplasia. He died over two years later.
- Serving on the destroyer USS Marshall during World War II, he later returned to the military during the Korean War as a boilerman technician in the Navy.
- Studying acting with 'Uta Hagen' (qv) at the Herbert Berghof Studios, he later was a strong disciple of the Actors Studio in New York. It was 'Elia Kazan' (qv), who gave Hingle his big screen break by casting him in the unbilled role of a bartender in _On the Waterfront (1954)_ (qv). Later he played 'Warren Beatty' (qv)'s browbeating father in Kazan's _Splendor in the Grass (1961)_ (qv). Kazan also cast him as the original Goober on Broadway in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof".
- Went to the University of Texas in 1942 on a tuba scholarship.
- In his last appearance as Commissioner Gordon in the Batman series, he worked with 'Uma Thurman' (qv), whose first husband, 'Gary Oldman' (qv), succeeded him in the role in _Batman Begins (2005)_ (qv).
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