John Nichols(1917-1998)
- Actor
A career law enforcement officer, John Nichols served as chief of
police in Detroit and later Farmington Hills, Michigan. He ended his
career as sheriff of Oakland County, Mich., the suburb just north of
Detroit. While serving as chief, he played himself in the
blaxsploitation film Detroit 9000, no doubt hoping that the film would
help his 1973 campaign for mayor against Coleman Young. It didn't, and
Nichols soon left Detroit.