Veteran Actor Pat Hingle Dies Of Leukemia

January 5, 2009 10:47 a.m. EST

Carolina Beach, NC (CNS) - Veteran actor Pat Hingle, whose vast acting roles include playing Commissioner Gordon in several Batman films, has succumbed to leukemia on Saturday. He was 64.

Martin Patterson "Pat" Hingle was diagnosed with myelodysplasia in November 2006. He was survived by his wife Julia, five children, and eleven grandchildren.

He had been known to play authoritative figures such as judges and police officers. He had played a judge on Clint Eastwood's 1968 movie "Hang 'em High," the town's saloon proprietor and manager of the gunfighter tournament in the 1996 Western film "The Quick and the Dead," and was a regular cast member of the ABC series "The Court."

His career spanned stage, TV, and film. He earned an acting Tony nomination for the 1958's "Dark at the Top of the Stairs."

Hingle's last film was in 2006's "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," as the original owner of Dennit Racing.