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- African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi.
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Dec 10, 1996 · ''In The Heat of the Night,'' in which Mr. Rollins played a black chief of detectives, Virgil Tibbs, working with a white Southern sheriff, played by Carroll O'Connor, was based on the 1967...
Late one night, police officer Sam Wood discovers Colbert's murdered body lying in the street. Wood finds Virgil Tibbs, a black man with a fat wallet, at the train station and arrests him.
Jun 9, 2024 · Fran Bennett as Ruda Gibson: Fran Bennett died on September 12, 2021, at the age of 84, and played Virgil's maternal aunt, Ruda Gibson . Other television performances include Head Nurse Lenore Ritt in Nightingales and Chief Harris in Sunset Beach .
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Howard Rollins was known for his role as Andrew Young in 1978's King, George Haley in the 1979 miniseries Roots: The Next Generations, Coalhouse Walker Jr. in the 1981 film Ragtime, Captain Davenport in the 1984 film A Soldier's Story, and as Virgil Tibbs on the NBC/CBS television crime drama In the Heat of the Night (1988–1994).
Gillespie questions the man, who identifies himself as Virgil Tibbs, a homicide investigator in Pasadena, California. The body is soon brought to the morgue, and Gillespie invites Virgil to accompany him.
Dec 10, 1996 · Rollins, who had a history of drug and alcohol abuse problems, had appeared opposite O’Connor as Virgil Tibbs, a black detective from Philadelphia working in a racially volatile Southern town.
Dec 10, 1996 · For five seasons, Mr. Rollins starred as a black detective from Philadelphia, Virgil Tibbs, opposite Carroll O'Connor as the white southern officer in the series.
