![]() ![]() He also played manager Colonel Tom Parker in John Carpenter's TV movie Elvis (1979). Hingle was widely known for portraying the father of Sally Field's title character Norma Rae (1979). Īnother notable role was as the father of Warren Beatty's character in Splendor in the Grass ( 1961). 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. Later in his career, he was known for playing judges, police officers and other authority figures. Hingle's first film role was an uncredited part as bartender Jock in On the Waterfront (1954). In 1997, he played Benjamin Franklin in the Roundabout Theatre revival of the musical 1776, with Brent Spiner and Gregg Edelman. ![]() He earned a Tony Award nomination for his performance in Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957). Hingle appeared in the 1963 Actors Studio production of Strange Interlude, directed by Jose Quintero, and That Championship Season (1972). His recovery took months, and at first he could not walk without a cane. 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 broke his left leg in three places and lost the little finger on his left hand. He fractured his skull, wrist, hip and most of the ribs on his left side. He missed and fell back down the elevator shaft, plunging 30 feet to the bottom. The elevator stopped four feet above the landing, within reach, and Hingle tried to jump to the second floor. He was trapped in the elevator of his West End Avenue apartment building when it stalled between the second and third floors. on Broadway, Hingle was seriously injured in an accident. He played the title role in Archibald MacLeish's award-winning Broadway play J.B. On Broadway, Hingle originated the role of Gooper in the original Broadway production of Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955). This led to his first Broadway show, End as a Man. In 1952, he became a member of the Actors Studio. Hingle began acting in college, and after graduating, he moved to New York and studied at HB Studio and the American Theatre Wing. As a Navy Reservist, he was recalled to the service during the Korean War and served on the escort destroyer USS Damato. He returned to the University of Texas after the war and earned a degree in radio broadcasting in 1949. ![]() He served on the destroyer USS Marshall during World War II. Hingle enlisted in the United States Navy in December 1941, dropping out of the University of Texas. He attended Weslaco High School, where he played tuba in the band. Hingle was born in Miami, Florida (some sources say Denver, Colorado), the son of Marvin Louise (née Patterson), a schoolteacher and musician, and Clarence Martin Hingle, a building contractor. He also portrayed Jim Gordon in the Batman film franchise from 1989 to 1997. Hingle was a close friend of Clint Eastwood and appeared in the Eastwood films Hang 'em High, The Gauntlet, and Sudden Impact. His first film was On the Waterfront in 1954. Martin Patterson Hingle (J– January 3, 2009) was an American character actor who appeared in stage productions and in hundreds of television shows and feature films. Pat Hingle and Nan Martin in " The Incredible World of Horace Ford", a 1963 episode of The Twilight Zone. ![]()
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