From moviehole, Pat Hingle, known to film audiences as Commissioner Gordon in the "Batman" movies, has died at the age of 84.
Family friend Michele Seidman says Hingle died at his home in Carolina Beach shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday.
Seidman says he decided to settle in the coastal town after shooting the movie "Maximum Overdrive" in the area in 1986. He lived there for more than 15 years.
Hingle's many film credits include "Brewster's Millions" (1983), "Baby Boom" (1987), "The Grifters" (1990) and "The Quick and the Dead" (1995). He played the role of Commissioner Gordon in Tim Burton's "Batman" and "Batman Returns" and again for Joel Schumacher in "Batman Forever" and "Batman and Robin".
2 comments:
I think the first of Burton's Batman movies holds up pretty well (despite the key problem of really lame fight scenes).
Returns was bad though, and then I lose track--Val Kilmer was in a lame one, right?...I know I never saw the last one out of respect for octo, who made it his mission in life to keep people from seeing. Every once in a while I flip past it, and it looks like an unbelievable suckfest.
It not only sucks, it's also completely incoherent.
I agree about the first Burton, and there are even things about Returns that work, but all those movies are coming from an ideology that treats comic books as "funny books" and just really, really doesn't get it.
Which is a shame, since comics were undergoing a renaissance at the time, but it's not surprising that it took Hollywood longer to catch up.
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