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Martin Patterson "Pat" Hingle (July 19, 1924 – January 3, 2009) was an American actor. Hingle was born Martin Patterson Hingle in Miami, Florida, the son of 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 and earned a degree in radio broadcasting. Hingle was traditionally known for playing judges, police officers, and other authority figures. One of his notable roles was the father of the character played by Warren Beatty in Splendor in the Grass (1961). While he was probably best known in recent times for playing Commissioner Gordon[2] in the 1989 film Batman and its three sequels, Hingle had 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), The Land Before Time (1988), Wings (1996), and Shaft (2000). Hingle married twice. He died at his home in Carolina Beach, North Carolina, of cancer on January 3, 2009, having been diagnosed with myelodysplasia in November 2006. He was cremated. His ashes were scattered into the Atlantic Ocean.
Biography Credit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Hingle
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