WHAT A CHARACTER: PAT HINGLE

Pat Hingle made his "acting debut" in the third grade, playing a carrot in a school play ("At that time it didn't seem like much of a way to make a living!" he recalled). Hingle attended high school in Texas and entered the University of Texas, majoring in advertising. "After one [college] semester I went into the Navy for four years in the Pacific on a destroyer. I went back to school and every…