RIP Pat Hingle
RIP Pat Hingle
#1RIP Pat Hingle
Posted: 1/5/09 at 10:38am
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/124842.html
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
Usnavi
Stand-by Joined: 12/3/08
#2re: RIP Pat Hingle
Posted: 1/5/09 at 10:40amGreat character actor. I remember him as Warren Beatty's over bearing father in SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS (1961).
sparrman
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/07
#2re: RIP Pat Hingle
Posted: 1/5/09 at 11:33am
This would be a bad time to mention how terrible he was in 1776, so I won't.
Seriously, that's all I know him from, but you don't get to have a career like that without turning in some terrific performances along the line, so kudos to him. He must have been past his prime in 1776.
Updated On: 1/5/09 at 11:33 AM
Hiram
Featured Actor Joined: 12/16/06
#3re: RIP Pat Hingle
Posted: 1/5/09 at 12:16pmI saw Mr. Hingle play the coach in THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON. He was terrific. Great character actor.
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#4re: RIP Pat Hingle
Posted: 1/5/09 at 12:27pmI saw Pat Hingle in one of my first Broadway shows -- The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and saw him many times thereafter. He certainly made a fine contribution to the NY stage and will be missed.
BroadwayEd
#5re: RIP Pat Hingle
Posted: 1/5/09 at 1:17pmRIP Pat.
"Everytime you step on that stage it is somebody's first Broadway show and somebody's last Broadway show. Make it count."
#6re: RIP Pat Hingle
Posted: 1/5/09 at 1:50pmGrowing up, I knew him from BATMAN and BATMAN RETURNS as Commissioner Gordon.
Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
#7re: RIP Pat Hingle
Posted: 1/5/09 at 2:15pmThe thought of BoBo and his bag of oranges still creeps me out.
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=972787#3631451
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=963561#3533883
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955158#3440952
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954269#3427915
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955012#3441622
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954344#3428699
broadwayrob
Featured Actor Joined: 4/14/08
#8re: RIP Pat Hingle
Posted: 1/5/09 at 2:27pmI, on the other hand, throughly enjoyed him in 1776. He will be missed. RIP, sir.
anything you do let it come from you and it will be new.
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#9re: RIP Pat Hingle
Posted: 1/5/09 at 11:14pm
I enjoyed him in "1776" as well. There was a moment when I saw it, as Ben Franklin, he was in a scene with Mrs. Jefferson. He was apparently standing on her costume because she said "You're standing on my dress,' and he took a step back in the middle of a number.
Rest In Peace.
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
sparrman
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/07
#10re: RIP Pat Hingle
Posted: 1/5/09 at 11:29pmTo each his own! I thought he mumbled his way through the role, and thus blew countless of Franklin's laugh lines. Glad it was working for you guys, though.
