John Ball

John Ball was born on Jul 08, 1911 in USA. John Ball's big-screen debut came with In the Heat of the Night directed by Norman Jewison in 1967. John Ball is known for In the Heat of the Night directed by Norman Jewison, Sidney Poitier stars as Det. Virgil Tibbs and Rod Steiger as Chief Bill Gillespie. The upcoming new movie John Ball plays is The Organization which will be released on Oct 19, 1971.

Novelist John Dudley Ball was born in Schenectady, NY, in 1911, the son of a scientist. He grew up in Milwaukee, WI, and attended Wisconsin's Carroll College. After graduation he worked as a staff writer specializing in science for "Fortune" magazine, then went to work for the "Brooklyn Eagle" newspaper as a feature writer and music critic, and held a variety of jobs in the publishing and broadcasting industries. A prolific novelist, his best-known work would have to be "In the Heat of the Night" (1965), which was turned into both a successful film (Dans la chaleur de la nuit (1967)) and a successful TV series (In the Heat of the Night (1988).He died in Encino, CA, in October of 1988.