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In 1970, Sidney Poitier returned as Tibbs for a follow-up film. They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! gets its title from Virgil’s most iconic line (which he actually says in the first movie). Tibbs is now a San Francisco cop with a wife (Barbara McNair), daughter (Wanda Spell), and son (George Spell).
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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...
In the Heat of the Night is a 1965 mystery novel by John Ball set in the community of Wells, South Carolina. The main character is a black police detective named Virgil Tibbs passing through the small town during a time of bigotry and the civil rights movement.
The characters in In the Heat of the Night by John Ball include the protagonist, Virgil Tibbs, and the local police officers in the small Southern town of Wells that Virgil is visiting....
Virgil Tibbs: Attorney at Law: Directed by Charles Mills. With Carroll O'Connor, Carl Weathers, Alan Autry, David Hart. Virgil Tibbs returns to Sparta with a law degree, news of his failed marriage and a murder suspect to defend.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Charles Mills
- 1993-11-04
In 1984, Rollins starred in director Norman Jewison's film A Soldier's Story, which led to his role as Virgil Tibbs on In the Heat of the Night, the television series based on Jewison's acclaimed 1967 film of the same name.
Virgil Tibbs, an African-American homicide detective from California, arrives in a 1960s Southern town to conduct an unpopular investigation into a local murder, after being picked up by the local police as the prime suspect in the crime. Reprint.
