PAT HINGLE
Name: Martin Patterson Hingle
Born: 19 July 1924 Denver, Colorado
Martin Patterson "Pat" Hingle (born July 19, 1924) is an American actor.
Hingle was born Martin Patterson Hingle in Denver, Colorado, the son of Marvin
Louise (nee Patterson), a schoolteacher and musician, and Clarence Martin Hingle,
a building contractor. Hingle enlisted in the U.S. Navy in December 1941,
dropping out of the University of Texas. He served on the destroyer USS Marshall
during WWII. He returned to the University of Texas after the war and earned a
degree in radio broadcasting.
In 1960, he had been offered the title role in Elmer Gantry, but could not do it
due to a near fatal accident; caught in an elevator in his West End Avenue
apartment building that had stalled between the second and third floors, he
crawled out, trying to reach the second floor corridor, lost his balance and
fell 54 feet down the shaft, fracturing his skull, wrist, hip and most of the
ribs on his left side, breaking his left leg in three places and losing the
little finger on his left hand. He lay near death for two weeks and his recovery
took more than a year.
Hingle is traditionally known for playing judges, police officers, and other
authority figures. While he is probably best known in recent times for playing
Commissioner Gordon in the 1989 film Batman and its three sequels, Hingle has a
long list of television and movie credits to his name, going back to 1948. Among
them are Hang 'Em High (1968), Sudden Impact (1983), Road To Redemption (2001),
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? (1979), Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive (1986),
The Grifters (1990), Citizen Cohn (1992), Muppets from Space, and Shaft (2000).
Along with Michael Gough, who played Alfred Pennyworth, he is one of only two
actors to appear in all of the first four Batman films.
In the 1997 revival of the musical 1776, Hingle played Benjamin Franklin, with
Brent Spiner as John Adams. In 2002, he was a regular cast member of ABC's
series The Court.
Recently, he appeared in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, as the
original owner of Dennit Racing.
Name: Martin Patterson Hingle
Born: 19 July 1924 Denver, Colorado
Martin Patterson "Pat" Hingle (born July 19, 1924) is an American actor.
Hingle was born Martin Patterson Hingle in Denver, Colorado, the son of Marvin
Louise (nee Patterson), a schoolteacher and musician, and Clarence Martin Hingle,
a building contractor. Hingle enlisted in the U.S. Navy in December 1941,
dropping out of the University of Texas. He served on the destroyer USS Marshall
during WWII. He returned to the University of Texas after the war and earned a
degree in radio broadcasting.
In 1960, he had been offered the title role in Elmer Gantry, but could not do it
due to a near fatal accident; caught in an elevator in his West End Avenue
apartment building that had stalled between the second and third floors, he
crawled out, trying to reach the second floor corridor, lost his balance and
fell 54 feet down the shaft, fracturing his skull, wrist, hip and most of the
ribs on his left side, breaking his left leg in three places and losing the
little finger on his left hand. He lay near death for two weeks and his recovery
took more than a year.
Hingle is traditionally known for playing judges, police officers, and other
authority figures. While he is probably best known in recent times for playing
Commissioner Gordon in the 1989 film Batman and its three sequels, Hingle has a
long list of television and movie credits to his name, going back to 1948. Among
them are Hang 'Em High (1968), Sudden Impact (1983), Road To Redemption (2001),
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? (1979), Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive (1986),
The Grifters (1990), Citizen Cohn (1992), Muppets from Space, and Shaft (2000).
Along with Michael Gough, who played Alfred Pennyworth, he is one of only two
actors to appear in all of the first four Batman films.
In the 1997 revival of the musical 1776, Hingle played Benjamin Franklin, with
Brent Spiner as John Adams. In 2002, he was a regular cast member of ABC's
series The Court.
Recently, he appeared in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, as the
original owner of Dennit Racing.