David Hart

David Hart is an American actor and singer who became known to television viewers as Sgt. Parker Williams on In the Heat of the Night, a role he played from 1988 to 1995. Born in Marianna, Florida, and raised in Panama City, he attended local schools and won an acting scholarship to Chipola Junior College after his father saw him perform in a high school production of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Alongside his television work he has appeared in numerous films and in commercials for brands such as IHOP, Maxwell House Coffee, Coors Light, John Deere, Pillsbury and GE. He has also performed in theaters around the country as Charlemagne in Pippin and Oscar in The Odd Couple, and he recorded Let It Snow for the 1991 In the Heat of the Night Christmas album Christmas Time's A Comin'.