Pat Hingle, Star of 'J. B.,' Hurt In 30-Foot Fall From Elevator; Actor Is in Critical Condition After Plunge Down Shaft From Stalled Car Feb. 21, 1959 The New York Times Archives See the. I know how deflating it is. Actor Pat Hingle died Saturday night after a battle with blood cancer. Pat Hingle, Star of 'J. 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 Hingle fell in 1959 (''It was 53 feet, not 30 feet like it says here,'' he noted with the rueful smile of a man who has a painful acquaintance with the difference), he seemed destined for the heights of his profession. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Im afraid for her life: Riverside CC womens coach harassed after Title IX suit, Six people, including mother and baby, killed in Tulare County; drug cartel suspected, Want to solve climate change? He was 84. 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. 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. Martin Patterson "Pat" Hingle was an American actor. He was present, right there, in his life and in his work. Pat Hingle (real name: Martin Patterson Hingle) was born in Miami, Florida, the son of a building contractor. Mr. Hingle went to high school in Weslaco, Tex., where he played tuba in the band. intended me to be. He played Commissioner James Gordon in the Tim Burton/Joel Schumacher Batman films: Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Forever, and Batman & Robin. He also portrayed Jim Gordon in the Batman film franchise from 1989 to 1997. Over the years, he took on a dizzying mix of roles and seemed to do them all with ease and considerable skill. 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. He later was accepted into the prestigious Actors Studio. 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. He served as a fireman aboard a destroyer that saw action in the South Pacific. serving in the Navy during WW II, he went back to the university and 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! 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. 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. Hingle was born on July 19, 1924 in Miami, Florida. ''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). Only a chosen few had the body of work that he had, Morrison told The Times on Sunday. I know you from somewhere.` ''. Hingle was born in Miami. (July 19, 1924 - January 3, 2009) Hingle was born Martin Patterson Hingle in Denver, Colorado, the son of Marvin Louise (ne Patterson), a schoolteacher and musician, and Clarence Martin Hingle, a building contractor. 1941 entered the University of Texas, majoring in advertising. Hingle was a close friend of Clint Eastwood and appeared in the Eastwood films Hang 'em High, The Gauntlet, and Sudden Impact. The newspaper has long since ceased publication, and the clipping is cracked and yellow with age. 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. [12], Hingle played Commissioner Gordon in the 1989 film Batman and its three sequels. 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. Hingle had 3 children with Dorsey; Jody, Billy, and Molly. And few people could have made more of a second lease on life. It tells of the star of a Broadway hit who went home to his apartment after the show and fell down an elevator shaft. Pat Hingle holds the worn piece of paper in his left hand, but he really needs no reminder. He and his second wife had two children. 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). Pat" Hingle died he was 84. 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Hingle spent much of the next year relearning how to walk, and the Gantry role went to Burt Lancaster. 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. On film, he worked with stars ranging from Clint Eastwood to the Muppets. James Morrison, the actor who is best known now for his role as Bill Buchanan in the television series 24, was a friend of Hingles and worked with him in a 1983 production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at L.A.'s Mark Taper Forum. It was the most important meeting of Hingle's career. In 1980, he appeared in the short-lived police series Stonewith Dennis Weaver. He broke his left leg in three places and lost the little finger on his left hand. Hingle spent much of the next year relearning how to walk, and the Gantry role went to Burt Lancaster. 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. He and his second wife had two children. He was caught in his West End Avenue apartment building in an elevator that had stalled between the second and third floors. He fell ten stories down a deserted elevator shaft and survived. Florida, the son of a building contractor. B.," was critically injured yesterday morning when he fell thirty feet down an elevator shaft. Pat Hingle (real name: Martin Patterson Hingle) was born in Miami, 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. Accident [] 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. ''. In February 1959, while playing J.B. on Broadway, Hingle was seriously injured in an accident. He also realised that his looks - bull-necked and burly - were not conventional star material, but they helped him play a variety of parts. But character actors like Walter Huston and Hume Cronyn did such a variety!" 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. The director can pull his hair in the back of the house and the producer and the playwright can cry on each others shoulders. Two years later, Kazan cast him in William Inges The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, which became a major Broadway hit and earned Hingle a Tony Award nomination. In 1980, he appeared in the short-lived police series Stone with Dennis Weaver. He fractured his skull, wrist, hip, and most of the ribs on his left side. I`m too much of an actor to be a director. He returned to the University of Texas after the war ended and earned a degree in radio broadcasting. ''I couldn`t say no, but I had to. Hingle's first film appearance was in Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954) as the barman who tells Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) to ease up on the drinking. Hingle said with no apparent regrets. After the war, he married Alyce F. Dorsey; the marriage ended in divorce. I had exactly the kind of career I had hoped for.". This California farm kingdom holds a key, These are the 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles, New Bay Area maps show hidden flood risk from sea level rise and groundwater. In 1979 Hingle married Julia Wright. ''There were all these actors I knew and I could only choose seven or eight,'' he said. After the war, he returned to Texas, graduating in 1949 with a degree in radio broadcasting. 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. 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. With his Hingle and Michael Gough are the only two actors to appear in all 4 Batman movies. 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. He is one of only two actors to appear in the four Batman films from 1989 to 1997; the other is Michael Gough. He also lost his little finger on his left hand. He was caught in his West End Avenue apartment building in an elevator that had stalled between the second and third floors. 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. by | Oct 31, 2020 | Uncategorized | 0 comments | Oct 31, 2020 | Uncategorized | 0 comments Ive had exactly the kind of career I hoped for.. The apex of his 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 played a sprightly Benjamin Franklin in the 1997 Broadway revival of 1776; a gay J. Edgar Hoover in the 1992 HBO movie Citizen Cohn; and Warren Beattys father in the 1961 film Splendor in the Grass.. He fractured his skull, wrist, hip and most of the ribs on his left side. He was near death for two weeks (and lost the little finger of his left hand); his recovery took more than a year. He was trapped in the elevator of his West End Avenue apartment building in Manhattan, when it stalled between the second and third floors. 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 did meet one in particular, Alyce Dorsey, the stage manager of his first show, whom he married while at college. [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. [10], Hingle had a long list of television and film credits to his name dating to 1948. His recovery took months, and at first he could not walk without a cane. three years I did 35 plays and in one of those plays I finally realized He was 84. that I felt more comfortable than I did anywhere and I was where God by age 13 Hingle had lived in a dozen cities. mother supported the family by teaching school in Denver. Every morning I wake up and my first thought is that I`m alive. 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 crawled out and sought to reach the second floor corridor but lost his balance and fell fifty-four feet down the shaft. He also lost his little finger on his left hand. The little finger of that hand is missing. 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. 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 was caught in his West End Avenue apartment building in an elevator that had stalled between the second and third floors. . He entered the Navy and served as an enlisted man on a destroyer in the Pacific. 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.. Burt Lancaster played it instead because six weeks after the play opened, Hingle had a nearly fatal accident. He found himself auditioning friends, and it was excruciating. The reason he stands out is that he had the humility and ease that made acting look easy.. Burt Lancaster replaced him in Elmer Gantry and went on to win the best actor Oscar. Over the next three years, he did 35 plays and found himself more comfortable in the theater than anywhere else. He was trapped in the elevator of his West End Avenue apartment building when it stalled between the second and third floors. On film, he worked with stars ranging from Clint Eastwood to the Muppets. The stage is an actors medium, he told The Times some years ago. His early movies included On the Waterfront (1954) and No Down Payment (1957). The play, which was directed by Elia Kazan, was still running in 1959 when Mr. Hingle, 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 left hip and a finger had to be amputated. He needed over a year to recover. When the war in Korea began he was recalled by the Navy, serving as a boilerman technician. Also in cast: After one [college] semester I went into the Navy for four years in the He was the most authentic man Ive ever met.. The couple later divorced. 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. [6] In 1997, he played Benjamin Franklin in the Roundabout Theatre revival of the musical 1776, with Brent Spiner and Gregg Edelman. Mr. Hingle said he preferred theater because movies are not the actors medium. . To the end, Hingle preferred being in the theater. 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 often played tough authority figures. I know that if I had done Elmer Gantry, I would have been more of a movie name. He wasnt a household name, but his solid, broad, hang-dog screen face became a household image. Hingle attended high school in Texas and in 1941 entered the University of Texas, majoring in advertising. You were the most important thing when you worked opposite him. 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). He lost his balance while trying to crawl out and fell 54 feet down the shaft. 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. 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. Hingle has refined the latter to an art in three dozen films and 22 Broadway plays. [2] His parents were Marvin Louise (ne Patterson), a schoolteacher and musician, and Clarence Martin Hingle, a building contractor. 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. October 25, 1979 - January 3, 2009 (his death), Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. He lost his balance while trying to crawl out and fell 54 feet down the shaft. Pat Hingle, who plays the title role in the Broadway hit "J. 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. And looking like I do has allowed me to make a good living in all kinds of media. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. 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. 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. 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 fractured his skull, wrist, hip, and most of the ribs on his left side. 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,. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. . 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. He crawled out and sought to reach the second floor corridor but lost . ", he recalled). 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. 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. In 1946, following his discharge, he returned to the University of Texas and joined a drama club because, he said, thats where the prettiest girls were. 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.. [6] He also played manager Colonel Tom Parker in John Carpenter's TV movie Elvis (1979). got involved with the drama department as a way to meet girls. ''I would probably have had a much different career. Hed had one semester at the University of Texas when World War II broke out. 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 played the same part in the 1957 film version.). 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). He was in the starry Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude (1963), with Gazzara again, Jane Fonda, Geraldine Page and Franchot Tone; in James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie (1964), and he created the role of Victor Franz in Arthur Miller's The Price (1968-69), and was Benjamin Franklin in the American centenary musical 1776 (1997). Hingle was originally to play Burt Lancaster's role in the 1960 film Elmer Gentry (which would win Lancaster an Oscar), but shortly before filming began he suffered a horrible accident. Actor PAT HINGLE carved out a long career on stage and screen despite a missing left pinky. 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. 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. . Returns to stage after '59 accident. He was near death for two weeks (and lost the little finger of his left hand); his recovery took more than a year. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. [13], In November 2007, he created the Pat Hingle Guest Artist Endowment to enable students to work with visiting professional actors at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. The couple later divorced. . In 1979 Hingle married Julia Wright. pat hingle elevator accident. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered in the Atlantic Ocean. Martin Patterson "Pat" Hingle (July 19, 1924 - January 3, . With Wright, he had two children. 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. Pacific on a destroyer. Caught in an elevator in his West End Avenue apartment building that was stalled . 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