- His son, Michael R. Hastings, was the Mayor of Burbank, CA.
- Best known to TV audiences as Lt. Elroy Carpenter, the obsequious toady to the scheming Capt. Binghampton, in McHale's Navy (1962) and Kelsey, the owner of Kelsey's Bar, in All in the Family (1971).
- He played the same character (Commissioner James Gordon) on four different series: Batman: The Animated Series (1992), Superman: The Animated Series (1996), The New Batman Adventures (1997) and Static Shock (2000).
- Older brother of Don Hastings.
- Played Archie Andrews on radio.
- Along with Adam West, Roddy McDowall, Barry Dennen, Steve Franken, Michael Pataki and Judy Strangis, is one of seven actors to appear in both Batman (1966) and Batman: The Animated Series (1992).
- Makes an uncredited cameo appearance in The Rutles TV movie in 1978. He is the man who takes the microphone from George Harrison, who is also making a cameo appearance as a TV reporter.
- Uncle of Jennifer Hastings, Julie Hastings, Matthew Hastings and Katharine Scott Hastings.
- Brother-in-law of Leslie Denniston.
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