"You don't take your Ford to the VW mechanic, " says Tibbs' partner Stephen Cagle.

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Mr. POITIER (as Virgil Tibbs): We were just trying to clarify some of the evidence.

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"Specialization is a law of nature, " says Robert Tibbs, a neurosurgeon and part-owner of the Oklahoma Spine Hospital.

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Mr. SIDNEY POITIER (as Virgil Tibbs): To ask you about Mr. Colbert.

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Michael Tibbs, a South African orchid expert who worked at Kew Gardens, said exactly where the plant was found was a closely guarded secret.

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In addition to Lilies of the Field, I suppose the, really the role for which he's often still best known is Virgil Tibbs, the Philadelphia cop who comes down to Mississippi, where the local white police chief, Chief Gillespie is played by Rod Steiger, In the Heat of the Night.

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