Pat Hingle

**Martin Patterson "Pat" Hingle** (July 19, 1924  January 3, 2009) was an American actor. He played Commissioner James Gordon in the Tim Burton/Joel Schumacher Batman films: _Batman_, _Batman Returns_, _Batman Forever_, and _Batman & Robin_. Hingle and Michael Gough are the only two actors to appear in all 4 Batman movies. Hingle worked from 1954 through 2006.

## Personal life

Hingle was born on July 19, 1924 in Miami, Florida. His parents were Marvin Louise (née 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 World War II. He returned to the University of Texas after the war ended and earned a degree in radio broadcasting. He learned to act at the Actors Studio.

Hingle was married two times; first to Alyce Faye Dorsey in 1947 until they divorced in 1972. He was married to Julie Wright from 1979 until his death in 2009. Hingle had 3 children with Dorsey; Jody, Billy, and Molly. With Wright, he had two children. Hingle graduated from Weslaco High School in Weslaco, Texas in 1942.

### Near death experience

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. He was caught in his West End Avenue apartment building in an elevator that had stalled between the second and third floors. He crawled out and sought to reach the second floor corridor but lost his balance and fell fifty-four feet down the shaft. He fractured his skull, wrist, hip, and most of the ribs on his left side. He broke his left leg in three places and lost the little finger on his left hand. He lay near death for two weeks, and his recovery required more than a year.

## Death

Hingle died on January 3, 2009 in Carolina Beach, North Carolina from Myelodysplastic syndrome, he was 84 years old. Hingle was cremated and his ashes were scattered into the Atlantic Ocean.

## Movies

|Year|Film|Role|Notes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1961|_Splendor in the Grass_|Ace Stamper|||
|1963|_The Twilight Zone_|Horace Ford|TV Show Episode: "The Incredible World of Horace Ford"||
|1965|_Daniel Boone_|Will Carey|TV Show Episode: "The Returning"||
|1968|_Hang 'Em High_|Judge Adam Fenton|||
|1971|_Gunsmoke_|Dr. Chapman|TV Show||
|rowspan=2|1979|_When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?_|Lyle Stricker||
|_Norma Rae_|Vernon||||
|1980|_Stone_|Chief Gene Paulton|TV Show||
|1983|_Sudden Impact_|Chief Lester Jannings|||
|1985|_Brewster's Millions_|Edward Roundfield|||
|1986|_Maximum Overdrive_|Bubba Hendershot|||
|1987|_Baby Boom_|Hughes Larrabee|||
|1988|_The Land Before Time_|Narrator/Rooter|Voice||
|1989|_Batman_|Commissioner Gordon|||
|1990|_The Grifters_|Bobo Justus|||
|rowspan=3|1992|_Citizen Cohn_|J. Edgar Hoover||
|_Gunsmoke: To the Last Man_|Colonel Tucker||||
|_Batman Returns_|rowspan=2|Commissioner Gordon|||
|rowspan=2|1995|_Batman Forever_|||
|_The Quick and the Dead_|Horace||||
|1997|_Batman & Robin_|Commissioner Gordon|||
|2000|_Shaft_|Judge Dennis Bradford|||
|2001|_Road to Redemption_|Grandpa Nathan Tucker|||
|2006|_Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby_|Mr. Dennit Sr.|Final movie role.||

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Pat Hingle
- **image**: Pat Hingle "The Last Angry Man" (1974 ABC press photo).jpg
- **caption**: Hingle in 1974
- **birth name**: Martin Patterson Hingle
- **birth place**: Miami, Miami, Florida, U.S.
- **death place**: Carolina Beach, North Carolina, U.S.
- **death cause**: Myelodysplastic syndrome
- **resting place**: Cremated, Ashes scattered into the Atlantic Ocean
- **education**: Saluda Elementary School
University of Texas
 <small>Radio Broadcasting</small>
- **alma mater**: Actors Studio
- **height**: 5' 10" (1.78 m)
- **notable works**: Batman (1989 movie), Batman
Hang 'Em High
 Splendor in the Grass
Batman Returns
Batman Forever
Batman & Robin
Shaft (2000 movie), Shaft
- **years active**: 1954–2006
- **occupation**: Actor
- **nationality**: United States, American
- **spouse**: Alyce Faye Dorsey
(1947-1972; divorced),
Julie Wright
(1979-2009; his death)
- **children**: 5
- **parents**: Marvin Louise (née Patterson),
Clarence Martin Hingle