Der Charakter:Wilson Sweet ist neben Virgil Tibbs der zweite Schwarze im Revier, was nicht einfach für ihn ist. Sweet ist ein lebenslustiger und eifriger Cop, der allen mit seiner Art schnell positiv auf sich aufmerksam macht. Im Verlauf der Serie wird er vom Officer zum Sergeant befördert. Ende Staffel 6 verliess er das Revier, und wechselte in die Großstadt, weil er dort einen guten Posten angeboten wurde.
Der Schauspieler:Geoffrey Thorne {b.January 20, 1970} is an American screenwriter, novelist and actor.
Thorne was born in the United States. After a successful career as a television actor portraying police officer Wilson Sweet in the television series In the Heat of the Night from 1989 to 1994, Thorne began writing professionally, winning Second Prize in Simon & Schuster's sixth annual Strange New Worlds anthology with his story "The Soft Room." He went on to publish more stories in several media tie-in anthologies as well as the Star Trek: Titan novel Sword of Damocles.
Other stories he has written include contributions to Flying Pen Press's anthology Space Grunts, MV Media's Steamfunk anthology, and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
As a screenwriter, Thorne has worked with Kickstart Entertainment to develop two of their properties, Of Bitter Souls and Sword of Dracula, for television. He was a writer for season 9 of the United States network's Law & Order: Criminal Intent, season 2 of Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, seasons 3,4 and 5 of TNT's Leverage. In 2014 Lion Forge Entertainment and NBC-Universal tapped Thorne to reboot the global fan favorite TV series, KNIGHT RIDER in comic book form. Thorne is also the co-creator of Phantom Canyon, an audio drama from Pendant Productions.
Thorne is also a co-founder and writing partner of GENRE 19, a studio he formed with artist Todd Harris in 2008.
WorksStar Trek Strange New Worlds VI (June 2003)
"The Soft Room"
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Prophecy and Change (September 2003)
"Chiaroscuro"
Strange New Worlds 8 (July 2005)
"Concurrence"
Star Trek: Voyager: Distant Shores (November 2005)
"Or the Tiger"
Novels Star Trek: Titan: Sword of Damocles (November 2007)
Winter of the Wild Hunt (October 2010)
Better Angels (February 2012)
Galatea's Cross (December 2012)
Comics The Red Line (comic book miniseries, Ludovico Technique)
Caffeine Dreams #2 (fantasy story, DWAP Productions)
Honor Brigade (Spinner Rack Comics, 2009)
Antala (EZD Productions, 2009)
Prodigal: Egg of First Light (Ape Entertainment, 2010)
Dark Horse Presents: Journeymen (Dark Horse Comics, 2013)
Prodigal: Remastered (Trillbent.com, 2013)
Knight Rider (Lion Forge Comics, 2013)
Anthologies The Adventures of Vale & Mist Phobos Books)
Free Men on a Dyson Sphere
Writers of the Future XXII (finalist, Galaxy Press)
Red/Shift
The Adventures of Vale & Mist Phobos Books)
Baal Breakers
Triangulation: End of Time (Parsec Ink)
Eshu & The Anthropic Principle
Astonishing Adventures Magazine #1 (AAM Publishing, 2008)
The 3rd Option
Barren Worlds (Hadley Rille Books, 2008)
Antiope in Black
Astonishing Adventures Magazine #3 (AAM Publishing, 2008)
The Dame Wore a Tesseract
POW!erful Tales (Peryton Publishing, 2009)
The Lingering Grief of Twilight
Full Throttle Space Tales: Space Grunts (Flying Pen Press, 2009)
Truth Metric
Words to Music (Michael Wells, 2011)
Thanks to Captain Go
Griots: A Sword & Soul Anthology (MVmedia, LLC, 2011)
Sekadi's Koan
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (Dell Publishing, 2013)
The Playlist
Steamfunk (MVMedia LLC, 2013)
The Tunnel @ the End of the Light
Collections Geoffrey Thorne's Dreamnasium The Winterman Project, 2010)
The Grim Arcana The Winterman Project, 2010)
The Price of Salt
The Cost of Opening
Fixing Mr. Styx
Fringe Space The Winterman Project, 2013)
Truth Metric
Thanks to Captain Go"
Fina Silento
Audio Dramas Phantom Canyon (Pendant Productions, 2014)
Quelle: wikipedia
Filmographie:http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0861382/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
