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Box office. $24.4 million [3] In the Heat of the Night is a 1967 American mystery drama film directed by Norman Jewison, produced by Walter Mirisch, and starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger. It tells the story of Virgil Tibbs (Poitier), a Black police detective from Philadelphia, who becomes embroiled in a murder investigation in a small ...
Rodney Stephen Steiger ( / ˈstaɪɡər / STY-gər; April 14, 1925 – July 9, 2002) was an American actor, noted for his portrayal of offbeat, often volatile and crazed characters. Ranked as "one of Hollywood's most charismatic and dynamic stars", [1] he is closely associated with the art of method acting, embodying the characters he played ...
Rod Steiger (April 14, 1925 – July 9, 2002) was an American actor, noted for his portrayal of offbeat, often volatile, and crazed characters. Over his distinguished career he received three Academy Award nominations for his performances as Marlon Brando's mobster brother Charley in On the Waterfront (1954), the title character Sol Nazerman in The Pawnbroker (1964), and as police chief Bill ...
Rod Steiger in Al Capone (1959) Rod Steiger was an American actor who had an extensive career in film, television, and stage. [1] He made his stage debut in 1946 with Civic Repertory Theatre's production of the melodrama Curse you, Jack Dalton!. [2] Four years later, he played onstage in a production of An Enemy of the People at the Music Box ...
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."
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 ...
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 ...
Oscar-nominated film director and producer Norman Jewison, who steered the 1967 racial drama “In the Heat of the Night” to a best picture Oscar and also helmed such popular films as ...