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William O. "Bill" Gillespie is the main protagonist of the television series In the Heat of the Night. Gillespie was an honorable and decent man in a time and place when many of his fellow law enforcement officers were less so. Serving in World War II he married a young Italian woman named Anna...
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.
21 years after Rod Steiger won an Academy Award as gum chewing police chief Bill Gillespie of Sparta Mississippi and Sidney Poitier told the world that in his city, THEY CALL ME MISTER TIBBS, the film was adapted into a successful television series about the new American South.
Sheriff Bill Gillespie (Caroll O'Connor) is finally getting married, but a case of mistaken identity may put a stop to the wedding.
Police chief Bill Gillespie accuses him of murder and robbery, but soon learns Tibbs is a top homicide detective from Philadelphia, who was passing through town after visiting his mother. Tibbs wants to leave town on the next train, but his Chief in Philadelphia suggests he stay in Sparta to help Gillespie with the murder investigation.
A Small War: Part 1: Directed by Harry Harris. With Carroll O'Connor, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Alan Autry, Anne-Marie Johnson. While Sparta's police chief William O. 'Bill' Gillespie celebrates a mis-trial with Harriet DeLong, they worry about her son Eugene Glendon, who is out on probation.
4 paź 2024 · John Ball portrays Bill Gillespie, chief of police in his novel In The Heat of the Night, as both a skilled law enforcement professional and an abrasive, overconfident bully. Gillespie is ...
