Howard Rollins
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday17 October 1950
Died8 December 1996 (age 46)
Place of birthBaltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Known credits32
Biography
Howard Rollins (October 17, 1950 – December 8, 1996) was an American television, film, and stage actor. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Coalhouse Walker Jr. in Ragtime and Virgil Tibbs on In the Heat of the Night.
Remembering Ragtime
2004 · Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)
Drunks
1997 · Joseph
Harambee!
1996 · Chimbuko
Remember WENN
1996 · George Smith
New York Undercover
1994 · Reverend Hundley
The Legacy of Malthus
1994 · Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
With Murder in Mind
1992 · Samuel Carver
On the Block
1990 · Clay Beasley
In the Heat of the Night
1988 · Virgil Tibbs
En el calor de la noche
1988 · Chief of Detectives Virgil Tibbs
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
1986 · T.C. Russell
The Children of Times Square
1986 · Otis Travis
The Boy King
1986 · Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
Wildside
1985
He's Fired, She's Hired
1984 · Raoul
A Soldier's Story
1984 · Captain Davenport
The House of Dies Drear
1984 · Walter Small
A Doctor's Story
1984 · Dr. Zack Williams
The House of God
1984 · Chuck Johnston
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
1983 · Medgar Evers
The Member of the Wedding
1982 · Honey Brown
The Neighborhood
1982 · Allen Campbell
American Playhouse
1982 · Medgar Evers
Ragtime
1981 · Coalhouse Walker Jr.
Thornwell
1981 · Carson
Chytilová Versus Forman
1981 · Self
Fridays
1980 · Self
My Old Man
1979 · Doctor
Roots: The Next Generations
1979 · George Haley
The Trial of the Moke
1978 · James Smith
King
1978 · Andrew Young
Another World
1964
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