Biography
Martin Patterson "Pat" Hingle (July 19, 1924 – January 3, 2009) was an American actor.Hingle was traditionally known for playing judges, police officers, and other authority figures. He was a guest star on the early NBC legal drama Justice, based on case histories of the Legal Aid Society of New York. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pat Hingle, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight
2008
as Self
A 6 part documentary of making of Batman franchise.

The List
2007
as Gus Eicholtz
A sudden death tied to a list from the past leads to unimaginable evil. Fresh out of law school and full of hope for the future, Renny Jacobson is stu...

Waltzing Anna
2006
as Mo Kegley
Dr. Charlie Keegan is ordered to serve 6 months as the staff doctor at a second rate retirement home or lose his medical licence after accusations of ...

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
2006
as Mr. Dennit, Sr.
The fastest man on four wheels, Ricky Bobby is one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history. A big, hairy American winning machine, Ricky has everyth...

Two Tickets to Paradise
2006
as Mr. Hewson
Three guys on the verge of forty begin to realize all the best things in their lives happened before they were twenty. A spontaneous road trip adventu...

The Angel Doll
2002
as Noah Roudabush
The story of two small town boys from different sides of the tracks: 1950's childhood and self-redemption. Young "Whitey" Black (so called because of ...

Road to Redemption
2001
as Grandpa Nathan Tucker
A couple come into contact with stolen mob money, gamble it away, and end up on the run from gangsters

The Runaway
2000
as Avery
At the birth of two boys, one white and one black, a mysterious and powerful Conjure Woman (Maya Angelou) prophesies that they will start the change. ...

Shaft
2000
as Judge Dennis Bradford
New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail...

The Hunter's Moon
1999
as Judge Tully
A violent and dangerous tyrant who dominates the inhabitants of a mountain sees his authority threatened by the arrival of a World War I veteran and d...

Muppets from Space
1999
as General Luft
When Gonzo's breakfast cereal tells him that he's the descendant of aliens from another planet, his attempts at extraterrestrial communication get him...

The Horror Story
1997

A Thousand Acres
1997
as Harold Clark
The lives of an Iowa farmer's three daughters are shattered when he suddenly decides to bequeath them the family's fertile farm.

Batman & Robin
1997
as Commissioner James Gordon
Batman and Robin deal with relationship issues while preventing Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy from attacking Gotham City.

Horror Story
1997
as Judge Caldwell
Moved to another town, Jamin is now in eleventh grade, living with his alcoholic mother, and the beneficiary of court-ordered protection from his abus...
The Member of the Wedding
1997
as Wylie
In the last days leading up to her older brother's marriage, a young girl is forced to face realities and grow up quickly. A tender adaptation of Cars...

Bastard Out of Carolina
1996
as Mr. Waddell
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her ti...

Larger Than Life
1996
as Vernon
Motivational Speaker Jack Corcoran is determined to get his career off the ground, but the biggest gigs he can get are the ones nobody wants. One day,...

Truman
1995
as Boss Tom Pendergast
Biographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise from small-town nobody to leader of the USA, his decision...

Batman Forever
1995
as Commissioner James Gordon
In the looming shadows of Gotham City, two villainous souls devise twin schemes of revenge against the city's dark guardian. Two-Face, disfigured by c...

The Quick and the Dead
1995
as Horace the Bartender
A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman.

One Christmas
1994
as Bus Driver
Based on Truman Capote's bittersweet tale of a young boy's adventures with the father he's never known in New Orleans in the 1930s..

Against Her Will: The Carrie Buck Story
1994
as Arthur Kent
Carrie Buck is a young intellectually disabled woman who is persuaded to fight against the courts for custody of her newborn daughter after it's taken...

Lightning Jack
1994
as U.S. Marshal Dan Kurtz
Lightning Jack Kane is an Australian outlaw in the wild west. During a bungled bank robbery he picks up mute Ben Doyle as a hostage. The two become go...

The Habitation of Dragons
1992
as Virgil Tolliver
Two brothers of totally different natures live in a small town in Texas. Since the death of their father they confront one another all the time for al...

Citizen Cohn
1992
as J. Edgar Hoover
As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his past visit him as he reflects on his life and loves...

Batman Returns
1992
as Commissioner James Gordon
Batman must face The Penguin, a sewer-dwelling gangleader intent on being accepted into Gotham society. Meanwhile, another Gotham resident finds hers...

Gunsmoke: To the Last Man
1992
as Col. Tucker
Retired marshal Matt Dillon tracks Arizona rustlers and lands in the middle of the 1880s Pleasant Valley War.

Not of This World
1991
as Doc Avery
An alien life form lands on earth and begins to feed off electricity, making it grow to enormous size. The authorities must stop it as it slithers cro...

The Grifters
1990
as Bobo Justus
A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own a...

Batman
1989
as Commissioner James Gordon
Batman must face his most ruthless nemesis when a deformed madman calling himself "The Joker" seizes control of Gotham's criminal underworld.

Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure
1989
as Fire Chief James Roberts
Based on the true story of baby Jessica McClure who fell into a drain pipe in her back yard while playing. She was stuck in the pipe about 20 to 30 fe...

The Land Before Time
1988
as Narrator / Rooter (voice)
An orphaned brontosaurus named Littlefoot sets off in search of the legendary Great Valley. A land of lush vegetation where the dinosaurs can thrive a...

The Town Bully
1988
When one man terrorizes a town and its citizens, they join together to take 'care' of him. A special prosecutor is brought in to find the guilty perso...

Stranger on My Land
1988
as Judge Munson
A Vietnam veteran has to fight peacefully with words once more when the Air Force wants to expropriate his ranch for the construction of an air base.

Baby Boom
1987
as Hughes Larrabee
J.C. Wiatt is a talented and ambitious New York City career woman who is married to her job and working towards partner at her firm. She has a live-in...

Kojak: The Price of Justice
1987
as George
When the bodies of two young boys are discovered in the Harlem River, their mother is the obvious suspect, particularly with her scandalous past. But ...

LBJ: The Early Years
1987
as Sam Rayburn
LBJ: The Early Years was a television movie that appeared on the NBC network in February 1987, depicting the life of former President of the United St...

Manhunt for Claude Dallas
1986
as George Nielsen
This is the story is based on an actual incident. Claude Dallas is a man who loves to be free, so he lives in the mountains where he hunts for his foo...

Maximum Overdrive
1986
as Hendershot
When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck sto...

Casebusters
1986
as Sam Donahue
Jamie and Allie are amateur sleuths whose grandfather runs a small security business. One afternoon, while digging around on their own, they accidenta...

The Rape of Richard Beck
1985
as Chappy Beck
The tables turn for cynical police officer Richard Beck when he's viciously attacked by two homicidal crooks. Having never been empathetic toward the ...

Brewster's Millions
1985
as Edward Roundfield
Monty Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit $300 million if he can successfully spend $30 million in 30 days without anyt...

The Lady from Yesterday
1985
as Jim Bartlett
A man with a wife, two daughters, and a flourishing career is visited by a woman whom he had an affair with when he was in Vietnam.

The Falcon and the Snowman
1985
as Mr. Charlie Boyce
The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.

Noon Wine
1985
as Homer T. Hatch
The drama, adapted from a story by Katherine Anne Porter, tells of a Swedish immigrant who arrives on a small Texas farm at the turn of the century fo...

In 'N Out
1984
A man goes to Mexico to attend his father's funeral, 30 years after his father supposedly died.

The Act
1984
as Frank Boda
Blackmail, a complex heist, and political snakery collide into a complicated caper full of disguises and surprises, where it's never clear who's reall...

Sudden Impact
1983
as Chief Jannings
When a young rape victim takes justice into her own hands and becomes a serial killer, it's up to Dirty Harry Callahan, on suspension from the SFPD, t...

Running Brave
1983
as Coach Bill Easton
The story of Billy Mills the American Indian that came from obscurity, to win the 10,000 meter long distance foot race in the Tokyo Olympics.

Going Berserk
1983
as Ed Reese
John Bourgignon, a drummer-chauffeur engaged to the daughter of a United States senator, encounters a sleazy film director, the leader of an aerobics ...

The Fighter
1983
as Henry Banks
Vietnam war veteran Merle is working as concierge. His small salary and the one of his wife Rindy are just enough to survive. Thus when Merle hears th...

Bus Stop
1982
as Dr. Gerald Lyman
The story is set in a diner in rural Kansas, about 25 miles west of Kansas City, Missouri during a snowstorm from which bus passengers must take shelt...

Washington Mistress
1982
as Sen. Ross Clayton
Maggie Parker, a U.S. Senator's ambitious aide, falls head over heels for her boss' chief adversary, Michael Reynolds, a high-powered lobbyist who hap...

Of Mice and Men
1981
as Jackson
George and Lenny travel through the Depression-era west working at odd jobs, hoping to make enough money to buy their own farm. George must always wat...

The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
1981
as Col. Ralls
Mark Twain tale of cowardly Confederate soldiers.

America Lost and Found
1981
as Narrator (voice)
Composed entirely of archival material and narrated by actor Pat Hingle, this hour-long film documents the run-up to the Stock Market Crash of 1929 an...

Running Scared
1980
as McClain
It's 1961. Two servicemen smuggle a box of military gear to USA. Leroy tries out a military camera and accidentally takes a picture of some military f...

Disaster on the Coastliner
1979
as John Marsh
A deranged engineer, bent on revenge for the deaths of his wife and daughter, sets two passenger trains on a collision course, and con-man William Sha...

Stone
1979
as Deputy Chief Gene Paulton
Dennis Weaver is a Joseph Wambaugh-type novelist cop and Pat Hingle is his hard-nosed superior who wants him to stick to police work or get off the fo...

Norma Rae
1979
as Vernon
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumpt...

Elvis
1979
as Colonel Tom Parker
This biopic traces Elvis Presley’s life from his impoverished childhood to his meteoric rise to stardom to his triumphant conquering of Las Vegas.

When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?
1979
as Lyle Striker
A drug dealer's car breaks down in a small U.S. town. In turn, the town's people become victim to his unique brand of physical and mental torture.

Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo
1977
as Doc Hodgins
An airplane carring coffee beans from South America has some unpleasant stowaways: a hoard of tarantulas which overcome the pilots as the airplane is ...

The Gauntlet
1977
as Josephson
Phoenix cop Ben Shockley is well on his way to becoming a derelict when he is assigned to transport a witness from Las Vegas. The witness turns out to...

Sunshine Christmas
1977
as Joe Hayden
A musician, brooding over the marriage of his sometime girlfriend, decides to take his adopted daughter to his home in Texas to celebrate Christmas wi...

Escape from Bogen County
1977
as Judge Henry Martin
A political despot controls his town and his wife Maggie. When Maggie tries to escape his control, he swears a warrant out for her arrest and sends th...

The Secret Life of John Chapman
1976
as Gus Reed
The true story of John Chapman, a college president who took a sabbatical and went out and got a job as a general laborer, to try to experience life o...

Independence
1976
as John Adams
John Huston directs this film giving relevance and life to the hallowed buildings and ground making up Independence National Historical Park. Through ...

Twigs
1975
as Lou
Three middle-aged sisters and their grouchy mother confront issues with men in their lives.

Nightmare Honeymoon
1974
as Mr. Binghamton
A newlywed couple seek revenge after narrowly surviving a savage attack in rural Louisiana.

The Last Angry Man
1974
as Dr. Sam Abelman
In the midst of the Depression, a crotchety doctor, whose practice is in the Brooklyn slums, takes an interest in a local teenager, whose hostility an...

The Super Cops
1974
as Insp. Novick
The true story of two New York City cops. Greenberg & Hantz fought the system, became detectives and were known on the streets as "Batman & Ro...

Running Wild
1973
as Quentin Hogue
A photographer travels to the stunning vistas of Colorado and becomes involved in an effort to save a herd of wild horses.

One Little Indian
1973
as Capt. Stewart
An Army deserter flees by camel across the desert with a caucasian boy raised by Indians.
Hazel's People
1973
as Eli
An NYU student visits a Mennonite friend in Lancaster, Pennsylvania after a fellow Mennonite is killed while protesting the Vietnam War.
Trouble Comes to Town
1973
as Cecil Tabor
A Southern sheriff brings into his home a black juvenile delinquent, who is the son of the man who saved his life during the Korean War.

The Carey Treatment
1972
as Capt. Pearson
A doctor uncovers a hotbed of corruption when he tries to clear a colleague of a murder charge.

If Tomorrow Comes
1971
as Sheriff
In California, a young Caucasian girl and a Japanese-American boy defy local prejudices and secretly marry on Dec. 7, 1941, minutes before Pearl Harbo...

All the Way Home
1971
as Ralph Follet
Jay Follet is suffering a mid-life crisis while his wife, Mary, is expecting their second child. When Jay takes his family to visit his 103-year-old g...

Sweet, Sweet Rachel
1971
as Arthur Piper
An ESP expert uses his powers to try to track down a psychic who uses telepathy to commit murder.

The City
1971
as Ira Groom
The trials and tribulations of the first Hispanic mayor of a major Southwestern city.

Norwood
1970
as Grady Fring
A Vietnam veteran returns to his Texas home but feels restless and decides to become a radio singer.

WUSA
1970
as Bingamon
Rheinhardt, a cynical drifter, gets a job as an announcer for right-wing radio station WUSA in New Orleans. Rheinhardt is content to parrot WUSA's rea...

Bloody Mama
1970
as Sam Adams Pendlebury
Sexually abused as a young girl, Kate "Ma" Barker grows into a violent and powerful woman by the 1930s. She lovingly dominates her grown sons and groo...

A Clear and Present Danger
1970
as Salem Chase
The son of a U.S. Senator takes on the cause of clean air when a friend dies of emphysema.

The Ballad of Andy Crocker
1969
as Earl Crocker
Returning Vietnam veteran Andy Crocker arrives in his small hometown to discover his best friend and business partner has mismanaged their business in...

Certain Honorable Men
1968
as Counsel for the Defense
The protégé of a powerful congressman discovers his boss's corruption.

Jigsaw
1968
as Lew Haley
After inadvertently ingesting some sugar laced with LSD, a man wakes up with amnesia and in the middle of a murder plot.

Hang 'em High
1968
as Judge Adam Fenton
Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his...

Sol Madrid
1968
as Harry Mitchell
Government agent Sol Madrid travels to Mexico with hooker Stacey to bring mobster Villanova and drug kingpin Dietrich to justice.

The Glass Menagerie
1966
as Jim O'Connor
An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be.

Nevada Smith
1966
as Big Foot
Nevada Smith is the young son of an Indian mother and white father. When his father is killed by three men over gold, Nevada sets out to find them and...

Carol for Another Christmas
1964
as Ghost of Christmas Present
Daniel Grudge, a wealthy industrialist and fierce isolationist long embittered by the loss of his son in World War II, is visited by three ghosts on C...

Invitation to a Gunfighter
1964
as Sam Brewster
In New Mexico, a Confederate veteran returns home to find his fiancée married to a Union soldier, his Yankee neighbors rallied against him and his pro...

A Texas Romance, 1909
1964
as Narrator
The film recreates the world of a small Texas town in 1909, based on photos and letters. It tells the story of a local mailman who falls in love, marr...

All the Way Home
1963
as Ralph Follet
In the early 1900's Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father's sudden, accidental death. The widow and her young son must endure t...

The Ugly American
1963
as Homer Atkins
An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become ambassad...

Splendor in the Grass
1961
as Ace Stamper
A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madne...

No Down Payment
1957
as Herman Kreitzer
The marital difficulties of four couples living in a southern California housing development become intertwined. Among the unhappy couples are ne'er-d...

The Strange One
1957
as Harold Koble
A military school student develops a destructive power over his fellow cadets.

On the Waterfront
1954
as Jocko (uncredited)
Terry Malloy is a kindhearted dockworker, and former boxer, who is tricked by his corrupt bosses into leading his friend to death. After falling in lo...

Amazing Stories: The Movie II
N/A
as Sheriff (archive footage)
This anthology gathers four episodes of the 1985-87 television series "Amazing Stories." Santa Claus (Douglas Seale) gets arrested when a burglar alar...