Dig A Hole: Pat Hingle
January 5th, 2009 by Scott Marks
Clint Eastwood and Pat Hingle in “Hang ‘em High.”
Pat Hingle, a prolific character actor who had almost 200 film and television roles to his credit, has died after battling blood cancer. A family friend says Hingle was diagnosed with myelodysplasia in November 2006. He died at his home in Carolina Beach shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday. He was 84.
Martin Patterson Hingle was born in Denver, Colorado on July 19, 1924. He never knew his father who divorced his mother when Hingle was still an infant. His mother supported the family by teaching school and by age 13, Hingle had lived in a dozen cities. Hingle made his stage debut playing a carrot in a third grade school play. He later recalled, “At that time it didn’t seem like much of a way to make a living!”
Hingle, an advertising major, dropped out of the University of Texas in December of 1941 to enlist in the navy. During WWII, he served on the destroyer the USS Marshall. After the war he returned to the University where he became involved with the drama department in order to meet women. It worked. Hingle met and married Alyce Dorsey in 1947 and the couple moved to New York where Pat pursued stage and television work.
Hingle’s breakthrough came in Archibald Macleish’s J.B. where, according to IMDB, he played the title role of a 20th-century Job. He was nominated for a Tony Award in 1958 as best supporting or featured actor (dramatic) for The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. In 1960, Hingle was forced to turn down the plum part of Bible-thumping evangelist Elmer Gantry, a role that eventually won Burt Lancaster a best actor Oscar. The elevator in Hingle’s apartment building stalled between the second and third floors. While attempting to free himself, Hingle lost his footing and tumbled 54 feet down the shaft. He fractured his skull, wrist, hip and most of the ribs on his left side, broke his left leg in three places and lost the little finger on his left hand. For two weeks, doctors were unsure whether Hingle would survive and it took almost a year before he fully recovered.
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