You Know Their Voices, But Do You Know Their Faces?

Pat Hingle had one of those faces you recognized from countless movies and TV shows, a reliable character actor. But for a certain generation, his voice is tied to one specific role. He played Commissioner James Gordon in the four Batman movies that began with Tim Burton’s Batman (1989). While his face was there on screen, it was his weary, gravelly voice that conveyed the weight of policing a city like Gotham. He was the grounded, honest cop talking to a masked vigilante, and his voice gave the wild stories a sense of real-world gravity.