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Actor. Years active. 1970–1996. Known for. Virgil Tibbs – In the Heat of the Night. Howard Ellsworth Rollins Jr. (October 17, 1950 – December 8, 1996) was an American stage, film, and television actor. Howard Rollins was known for his role as Andrew Young in 1978's King, George Haley in the 1979 miniseries Roots: The Next Generations ...
Heavenly Wilson. . ( m. 1977) . Scott Wilson (born William Delano Wilson; March 29, 1942 – October 6, 2018) was an American actor. He had more than 50 film credits, including In the Heat of the Night, In Cold Blood, The Great Gatsby, Dead Man Walking, Pearl Harbor, and Junebug. [2] In 1980, Wilson received a Golden Globe nomination for Best ...
Hugh Edward Ralph O'Connor (April 7, 1962 – March 28, 1995) was an American actor known for his role as James Flynn in the 1984 film Brass and his portrayal of Lonnie Jamison on In the Heat of the Night [ 1] until his death in 1995. He was the son of American actor Carroll O'Connor. [ 1]
In the Heat of the Night. (TV series) In the Heat of the Night is an American police procedural crime drama television series loosely based on the 1967 film and 1965 novel of the same title that starred Carroll O'Connor as police chief Bill Gillespie and Howard Rollins as police detective Virgil Tibbs. The series was broadcast on NBC from March ...
Anthony James, an instantly recognizable character actor who often played the creepy guy including in Best Picture Oscar winners In the Heat of the Night and Unforgiven, died May 26 of cancer. He ...
Alan Autry. Carlos Alan Autry Jr. (also known for a time as Carlos Brown; born July 31, 1952), is an American actor, politician, and former National Football League (NFL) player. During his brief football career, he was known as Carlos Brown. Autry played the role of Captain Bubba Skinner on the NBC, and later CBS, television drama series In ...
The Oscar-winning actress reflects on the classic 1967 thriller on its 55th anniversary, and condemns the architect of the blacklist, Joseph McCarthy. "He was a terrible man."
Walter Mirisch, former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Oscar-winning producer for In the Heat of the Night, died Friday in Los Angeles of natural causes. was 101.