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name: "Gene Pingatore"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/gene-pingatore"
fi1m_id: "gene-pingatore"
imdb_id: "nm0684161"
tmdb_id: 3954832
wikidata_id: "Q93754034"
roles: []
born: "25 October 1936"
died: "26 June 2019"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:58:58.508629+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Gene Pingatore

## Identity

Gene Pingatore

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gene-pingatore
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** gene-pingatore
- **IMDb ID:** nm0684161
- **TMDB ID:** 3954832
- **Wikidata ID:** Q93754034
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Pingatore, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93754034, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0684161/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3954832

Actor. Born 25 October 1936 in Cicero, Illiniois, USA. Died 26 June 2019.

## Details

- **Born:** 25 October 1936, Cicero, Illiniois, USA
- **Died:** 26 June 2019
- **Also known as:** Eugene Pingatore
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Pingatore, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93754034, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0684161/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3954832

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Hoop Dreams*](https://film.one/film/hoop-dreams.md) (92)

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## Biography

Gene Pingatore, also credited as Eugene Pingatore, was an American basketball coach and the head boys' basketball coach at St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Illinois, for 50 seasons from 1969 until his death. He appeared as himself in the 1994 documentary film *Hoop Dreams*, which followed two players on his team.

Pingatore compiled a record of 1,035 wins and 383 losses, the highest win total for any Illinois high school boys' basketball coach. His teams won two Illinois state championships, in 1999 and 2015. He coached future Basketball Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas in the late 1970s and was also featured in an episode of the ESPN series *SportsCentury* in 2001.

Born in Cicero, Illinois, Pingatore played college basketball at Loyola University of Los Angeles before beginning his coaching career at St. Joseph.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, nytimes.com, chicagotribune.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Hoop Dreams* (1994), Fi1m 92, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/hoop-dreams.md)

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