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Serving in World War II he married a young Italian woman named Anna, unfortunately both she and their son died in childbirth. Gillespie would later have a daughter named Lana by Georgia Farren. By the late 1980s Gillespie had been chief of the Sparta, Mississippi police department for over two decades.
Sheriff Bill Gillespie (Caroll O'Connor) is finally getting married, but a case of mistaken identity may put a stop to the wedding.
Gillespie was married to Anna, his Italian war bride whom he brought home from his WWII service in Italy; both she and their son would die in childbirth. He has an older daughter, Lana, played by Christine Elise. Gillespie eventually falls in love with and marries Harriet DeLong, the much younger black city Councilwoman. Howard Rollins
While there was no finale, season seven concludes with Gillespie marrying girlfriend Harriet DeLong (Denise Nicholas). That DeLong was an African American woman gives Gillespie’s story a touchingly redemptive ending.
Bill and Harriet are married in a beautiful, simple ceremony with Chief Forbes serving as best man. A newspaper misprint makes Bill Gillespie the target of an escaped killer in the days leading up to he and Harriet's wedding.
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.
In a continuation of the film of the same name, Virgil Tibbs returns home from Philadelphia to Sparta, Mississippi with his wife Althea for the funeral of his mother when he is offered the position of Chief of Detectives for the town's mostly Caucasian police force.
