He was caught in his West End Avenue apartment building in an elevator that had stalled between the second and third floors. In 1979 Hingle married Julia Wright. [8], On the strength of his performance in J.B., Hingle had had been offered the title role of the 1960 film Elmer Gantry, but he lost it to Burt Lancaster because of his injuries. He missed and fell back down the elevator shaft, plunging 30 feet to the bottom. Boyce is a former FBI man who has to cope with an alienated son (Tim Hutton) who eventually betrays the United States by selling CIA secrets. He later was accepted into the prestigious Actors Studio. 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. Hingle was also in Arthur Millers The Price in 1968. 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. The reason he stands out is that he had the humility and ease that made acting look easy.. 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. 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. ''I would probably have had a much different career. [6] Hingle was cremated and his ashes were scattered into the Atlantic Ocean. 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. Martin Patterson "Pat" Hingle (July 19, 1924 January 3, 2009)[1] was an American actor. '', ''I think that probably most good actors are character actors,'' he suggested in his familiar baritone during a recent interview. 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,. . stage career was "J.B." by poet. Ive had exactly the kind of career I hoped for.. Burt Lancaster played it instead because six weeks after the play opened, Hingle had a nearly fatal accident. They had three children. After graduating in 1949, Hingle moved to New York and studied acting with Uta Hagen at Herbert Berghof Studios. He was 84. This page was last changed on 16 December 2022, at 22:23. 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. 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. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Ive had exactly the kind of career I hoped for.. 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. On film, he worked with stars ranging from Clint Eastwood to the Muppets. (He played the same part in the 1957 film version.). He crawled out and sought to reach the second floor corridor but lost his balance and fell fifty-four feet down the shaft. And few people could have made more of a second lease on life. 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. Hingle graduated from Weslaco High School in Weslaco, Texas in 1942. In 1960, he was offered the title role in Elmer Gantry, but Burt Lancaster filled the part, because Hingle had a nearly fatal accident. The entire cast, directed by Kazan's protege Jack Garfein, was made up of Studio alumni. [7], In February 1959, while playing J.B. on Broadway, Hingle was seriously injured in an accident. Several weeks into the plays run, Hingle became caught in a stalled elevator in his apartment building. He wasnt a household name, but his solid, broad, hang-dog screen face became a household image. 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. Florida, the son of a building contractor. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. 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. [10], Hingle had a long list of television and film credits to his name dating to 1948. But in three weeks time, I saw Walter Huston (Anjelica Hustons grandfather) and Hume Cronyn in about 10 movies and I saw that it was possible to play a wide variety of roles where there was no connections between one or the other; they werent put in a slot . A freak accident‐a 5-story fall down an elevator shaft‐sidelined his shot at Gantry. Pat Hingle, who plays the title role in the Broadway hit "J. nominee made his "acting debut" in the third grade, playing a carrot in Actor Pat Hingle died Saturday night after a battle with blood cancer. 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). ''I couldn`t say no, but I had to. 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. A year later, Kazan once again helped him land a role as the title character in J.B., the Archibald MacLeish play about the life of Job that won both a Tony and a Pulitzer Prize in 1958. In "The roles those actors played were the same all the time. Its a blessing and Im aware of it.. Martin Patterson "Pat" Hingle was an American actor. Then he managed to crawl out, but he fell down the shaft and was severely injured. I saw what was possible.. [6], "Hingle" redirects here. From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, "Pat Hingle dies at 84; veteran actor was perhaps best known for 'Batman' role", https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pat_Hingle&oldid=8589963, Internet Broadway Database person ID same as Wikidata, Find a Grave template with ID same as Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. 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. When the need is for a stern father figure and man of traditional values, it is almost a Hollywood reflex to call Hingle`s agent. . 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! I know that if I had done Elmer Gantry, I would have been more of a movie name. by age 13 Hingle had lived in a dozen cities. He was present, right there, in his life and in his work. I`m too much of an actor to be a director. . There were the Gary Coopers and the Clark Gables, but they didnt really appeal to me, he told the Washington Post some years ago. Their three children, Bill Hingle, Jody Smith and Molly Mantione survive him, as do his wife, Julia; two stepchildren, Katherine Joy and Gregory Swanson; two sisters, Jamie Petty and Joyce France; and 11 grandchildren. As a Navy Reservist, he was recalled to the service during the Korean War and served on the escort destroyer USS Damato. but Burt Lancaster filled the part because Hingle had been in a near fatal accident. A year later, Kazan once again helped him land a role as the title character in J.B., the Archibald MacLeish play about the life of Job that won both a Tony and a Pulitzer Prize in 1958. Hingle, who starred last month in the PBS adaptation of Katherine Anne Porter`s ''Noon Wine,'' has a craggy face so familiar that he is accosted for autographs in restaurants as much as any movie star. He also realised that his looks - bull-necked and burly - were not conventional star material, but they helped him play a variety of parts. I always feel that way. 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. Hingle worked from 1954 through 2006. 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. 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. I know you from somewhere.` ''. 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. 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.. Pacific on a destroyer. The couple moved to New York in search of acting jobs. For the whole 20 years the series was on the air from 1955 until 1975, he appeared in an impressive 605 of 635 episodes, according to IMBD . Not that he ever aspired to be a star. But Im sure I would not have done as many plays as Ive done, he later told the New York Times. 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. Well, they were all headed But in three weeks time, I saw Walter Huston (Anjelica Hustons grandfather) and Hume Cronyn in about 10 movies and I saw that it was possible to play a wide variety of roles where there was no connections between one or the other; they werent put in a slot . His father was a building contractor who died when his son was an infant; his widow took her three children all over the country as she worked at menial jobs. [7], Hingle appeared in the 1963 Actors Studio production of Strange Interlude, directed by Jose Quintero, and That Championship Season (1972). He was trapped in the elevator of his West End Avenue apartment building in Manhattan, when it stalled between the second and third floors. intended me to be. He was caught in his West End Avenue apartment building in an elevator that had stalled between the second and third floors. Hingle suffered a fractured skull, wrist, hip and legs. The elevator stopped four feet above the landing, within reach, and Hingle tried to jump to the second floor. The future Tony Award 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. He tried to crawl out, lost his balance and fell 54ft down the shaft. In Batman and Robin, Hingle is made to fall in love with Poison Ivy (Uma Thurman), who wants to get the keys to police headquarters, and who almost kills him with her toxic kiss. 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. In 1952, he became a member of the Actors Studio. 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). 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.. Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine. He was the most authentic man Ive ever met.. Anonymity and the fall that changed everything are now far behind him, and you will not find a more contented actor than Pat Hingle. He played the title role in Archibald MacLeish's award-winning Broadway play J.B. (1958), receiving rave reviews. [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. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. He came to New York in 1952, joined the Actors Studio and began to get parts both onstage and in films. Over the next 50 years, Hingle fashioned a career as a top supporting actor in film, television and theater. I went back to school and every time I saw a He was near death for two weeks (and lost the little finger of his left hand); his recovery took more than a year. York and began to get jobs on the stage and on TV. 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[6], Hingle married Alyce Faye Dorsey on June 3, 1947. The elevator stopped four feet above the landing, within reach, and Hingle tried to jump to the second floor. . pretty girl I'd say, "Who the hell is that?" He was caught in his West End Avenue apartment building in an elevator that had stalled between the second and third floors. Send any friend a story. With his The little finger of that hand is missing. Hingle was born Martin Patterson Hingle in Miami on July 19, 1924. Only a chosen few had the body of work that he had, Morrison told The Times on Sunday. 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. He was near death for two weeks (and lost the little finger of his left hand); his recovery took more than a year. In the 1960s, he played both Hector in Troilus and Cressida and Macbeth at the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Conn. After He and his second wife had two children. B.,' Hurt In 30-Foot Fall From Elevator; Actor Is in Critical Condition After Plunge Down Shaft From Stalled Car, https://www.nytimes.com/1959/02/21/archives/pat-hingle-star-of-j-b-hurt-in-30foot-fall-from-elevator-actor-is.html. Martin Patterson "Pat" Hingle (July 19, 1924 - January 3, . Hingle attended high school in Texas and in 1941 entered the University of Texas, majoring in advertising. [11] He guest-starred in the TV series Matlock, In the Heat of the Night, and Murder, She Wrote. ''To me, Laurence Olivier is a character actor and always was. Over the next three years, he did 35 plays and found himself more comfortable in the theater than anywhere else. Anyone can read what you share. He broke his left leg in three places and lost the little finger on his left hand. . towards the theater department so I joined the campus Curtain Club. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. In 1959 while playing J.B. on Broadway, he was offered the title role for the 1960 film Elmer Gantry but lost it to Burt Lancaster because Hingle had a nearly fatal accident. Hingle died on January 3, 2009 in Carolina Beach, North Carolina from Myelodysplastic syndrome, he was 84 years old. ''I`m very content with the way things have gone. It tells of the star of a Broadway hit who went home to his apartment after the show and fell down an elevator shaft. After high school, he entered the University of Texas to study advertising but when America entered the second world war he joined the navy. ''You`d go to a restaurant and they couldn`t place you. He returned to the University of Texas after the war ended and earned a degree in radio broadcasting. Hingle was born on July 19, 1924 in Miami, Florida. He was near death for two weeks (and lost the little finger of his left hand); his recovery took more than a year. 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. In 1959 while playing J.B. on Broadway, he was offered the title role for the 1960 film Elmer Gantry but lost it to Burt Lancaster because Hingle had a nearly fatal accident. He said two actors were responsible for his deciding to become a professional actor. Hingle was also in Arthur Millers The Price in 1968. He entered the Navy and served as an enlisted man on a destroyer in the Pacific. 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. He said he took the job of Commissioner James Gordon in Tim Burton's Batman in 1989 so his second wife could see London. Several weeks into the plays run, Hingle became caught in a stalled elevator in his apartment building. (1979), Brewster's Millions (1985), Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive (1986), The Grifters (1990), Citizen Cohn (1992), Cheers (1993), The Land Before Time (1988), Wings (1996), and Shaft (2000). Who knows?'' The director can pull his hair in the back of the house and the producer and the playwright can cry on each others shoulders. 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. . Hingle was born Martin Patterson Hingle in Miami on July 19, 1924. He crawled out and sought to reach the second floor corridor but lost . 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. But Im sure I would not have done as many plays as Ive done, he later told the New York Times. You were the most important thing when you worked opposite him. He was the star of ''JB,'' a successful Archibald MacLeish verse play, and director Richard Brooks was eager to cast him in the lead as the evangelist in ''Elmer Gantry'' (1960). Hed had one semester at the University of Texas when World War II broke out. Hingle played a none-too-bright cadet cajoled into Ben Gazzara's bullying schemes, and gradually becoming shocked by the excesses. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered in the Atlantic Ocean. Hingle was married two times; first to Alyce Faye Dorsey in 1947 until they divorced in 1972. Stage: Appeard in "1776" on Broadway. It was there that he met Elia Kazan, co-founder of the Studio and the director most identified with "the method". 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.. Besides nearly killing him, the accident cost him the title role in the 1960 film Elmer Gantry. He is one of only two actors to appear in the four Batman films from 1989 to 1997; the other is Michael Gough. His parents divorced when 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. Among them were two episodes of The Fugitive (1964), Carol for Another Christmas (1964), Nevada Smith (1966), Mission: Impossible (1967), The Invaders (1967), Hang 'Em High (1968), The Gauntlet (1977), Sudden Impact (1983), Road To Redemption (2001), When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? I`ve been given a blessing that is not given to many men.''. Caught in an elevator in his West End Avenue apartment building that was stalled . After studying with Uta Hagen, Hingle joined the famed Actors Studio, run by Lee Strasberg, in 1952. Hingle attended high school in Texas and in Burt Lancaster replaced him in Elmer Gantry and went on to win the best actor Oscar. He was trapped in the elevator of his West End Avenue apartment building when it stalled between the second and third floors. 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. ''I think that kind of thing is helpful if a character is doing a certain kind of work. Caught in an elevator in his West End Avenue apartment building that was stalled . October 25, 1979 - January 3, 2009 (his death), Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. In 1963, Hingle guest-starred in an episode of The Twilight Zone, "The Incredible World of Horace Ford", as the title character. When the curtain goes up, there are those crazy actors. Walter Kerr, reviewing the play for The New York Herald Tribune called Mr. Hingles performance first rate. When the play, by Calder Willingham, was made into a film called The Strange One in 1957, Mr. Hingle got the same role and similar notices. When the war in Korea began he was recalled by the Navy, serving as a boilerman technician. Hingle, who can do more with a single silent and exasperated stare than another actor could manage in several pages of dialogue, is not a man who resents the term ''character actor. ''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). He broke his left leg in three places and lost the little finger on his left hand. a living! Hingle spent much of the next year relearning how to walk, and the Gantry role went to Burt Lancaster. Hingle is survived by Julia, his wife of 29 years; five children; 11 grandchildren; and two sisters. He was the most authentic man Ive ever met.. Incredibly, he was back at work almost immediately, albeit with a limp, which he had for the rest of his life. 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. He and his second wife had two children. I know how deflating it is. Hingle enlisted in the U.S. Navy in December 1941, dropping out of the University of Texas. [6] He also played manager Colonel Tom Parker in John Carpenter's TV movie Elvis (1979). Burt Lancaster played it instead because six weeks after the play opened, Mr. Hingle had a nearly fatal accident. Hingle and Michael Gough are the only two actors to appear in all 4 Batman movies. He guest-starred in the TV series Matlock, In the Heat of the Night, and Murder, She Wrote. 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 was Sally Fields father in Norma Rae and Warren Beattys in Splendor in the Grass. He played the bartender who needles Marlon Brando about his former prize-fight style in On the Waterfront, and he was the sadistic crime boss who terrorizes Anjelica Huston with a bag of oranges in The Grifters., Hingle had an illustrious Broadway career and was in the original casts of some of the great plays in American theater, including Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and J.B.. He found himself auditioning friends, and it was excruciating. It was at university that he joined the drama department - "in order to meet girls". 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. He spent a year convalescing. He served on the destroyer USS Marshall during World War II. He also played the gruff and messy Oscar in The Odd Couple on Broadway. He learned to act at the Actors Studio. Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive article. Pat" Hingle died he was 84. three years I did 35 plays and in one of those plays I finally realized He attended the University of Texas, but dropped out during World War II to enlist in the Navy. Today, Hingle is everyone`s favorite character actor. He. Martin Patterson Hingle (July 19, 1924 January 3, 2009) was an American character actor who appeared in stage productions and in hundreds of television shows and feature films. He was trapped in the elevator of his West End Avenue apartment building in Manhattan, when it stalled between the second and third floors. Also in cast: After one [college] semester I went into the Navy for four years in the [6], On Broadway, Hingle originated the role of Gooper in the original Broadway production of Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955). [6] In 1997, he played Benjamin Franklin in the Roundabout Theatre revival of the musical 1776, with Brent Spiner and Gregg Edelman. 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