| OCONNOR | Played police chief Bill Gillespie in In the Heat of the Night (Carroll -------) |
| RODSTEIGER | Best Actor Oscar-winner for his portrayal of Chief of Police Bill Gillespie in In the Heat of the Night |
| TIBBS | Virgil, character played by Sidney Poitier in In the Heat of the Night (5) |
| SLAP | Sidney Poitier would do it to a white man in, In The Heat of the Night. |
| STEIGER | Rod ___ , U.S. actor who played the police chief in the 1967 film In the Heat Of The Night (7) |
| ROYSCHEIDER | All That Jazz actor who played police chief Martin Brody in the movie Jaws: 2 wds. |
| JK | Played police chief Will Pope in The Closer (-- Simmons) |
| SPARTA | Mississippi town in "In the Heat of the Night" |
| SIDNEY | Virgil in "In the Heat of the Night" |
| HARBOUR | David ___, actor who played police chief Jim Hopper in Stranger Things (7) |
| QUINCY | Film-score composer of The Color Purple and In The Heat Of The Night, ... Jones |
| PETE | First name of the actor who played Giuseppe Conlon in In The Name of the Father. (4) |
| POITIER | Sidney ___, star of In the Heat of the Night (7) |
| THEDARKKNIGHT | 2008 superhero film in which Gary Oldman played police lieutenant Jim Gordon: 3 wds. |
| RUSSELLCROWE | "Gladiator" actor who played police officer Bud White in "L.A. Confidential": 2 wds. |
| NORMANJEWISON | Film director who won Oscars for In the Heat of the Night, Fiddler on the Roof, and Moonstruck |
| ROD | Steiger of "In the Heat of the Night" |
| NORMAN | Canadian director whose films include In the Heat of the Night, Fiddler on the Roof and Moonstruck (6,7) |
| JEWISON | Canadian director whose films include In the Heat of the Night, Fiddler on the Roof and Moonstruck (6,7) |
| BUBBA | Alan Autry's role on "In the Heat of the Night" |
