RIP Pat Hingle

[CapnHook]

RIP Pat Hingle#1

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

[Usnavi]

re: RIP Pat Hingle#2

Posted: 1/5/09 at 10:40am

Great character actor. I remember him as Warren Beatty's over bearing father in SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS (1961).

[sparrman]

re: RIP Pat Hingle#2

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]

re: RIP Pat Hingle#3

Posted: 1/5/09 at 12:16pm

I saw Mr. Hingle play the coach in THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON. He was terrific. Great character actor.

[Ed_Mottershead]

re: RIP Pat Hingle#4

Posted: 1/5/09 at 12:27pm

I 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

[broadwayfan7]

re: RIP Pat Hingle#5

Posted: 1/5/09 at 1:17pm

RIP Pat.

"Everytime you step on that stage it is somebody's first Broadway show and somebody's last Broadway show. Make it count."

[StageManager2]

re: RIP Pat Hingle#6

Posted: 1/5/09 at 1:50pm

Growing 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

[allofmylife]

re: RIP Pat Hingle#7

Posted: 1/5/09 at 2:15pm

The thought of BoBo and his bag of oranges still creeps me out.

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[broadwayrob]

re: RIP Pat Hingle#8

Posted: 1/5/09 at 2:27pm

I, 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]

re: RIP Pat Hingle#9

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]

re: RIP Pat Hingle#10

Posted: 1/5/09 at 11:29pm

To 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.