Cast
- Sidney Poitier as Detective Virgil Tibbs
- Rod Steiger as Police Chief Bill Gillespie
- Warren Oates as Sergeant (Patrolman) Sam Wood
- Lee Grant as Mrs. Leslie Colbert
- Larry Gates as Eric Endicott
- James Patterson as Lloyd Purdy (Delores' brother)
- William Schallert as Mayor Webb Schubert
- Beah Richards as Mama Caleba (aka Mrs. Bellamy)
- Peter Whitney as CPL. George Courtney
- Kermit Murdock as H.E. Henderson (banker)
- Larry D. Mann as Watkins
- Quentin Dean as Delores Purdy
- Anthony James as Ralph Henshaw (diner counterman)
- Arthur Malet as Ted Ulam (mortician)
- Scott Wilson as Harvey Oberst (murder suspect)
- Matt Clark as Packy Harrison
- Eldon Quick as Charlie Hawthorne (photographer)
- Jester Hairston as Henry (Endicott's butler)
Read more about this topic: In The Heat Of The Night (film)
Famous quotes containing the word cast:
“We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“Has he all that the world loves and admires and covets?—he must cast behind him their admiration, and afflict them by faithfulness to his truth, and become a byword and a hissing.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.”
—Bible: Hebrew (KJ)