Howard Rollins
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.
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Known For
Acting History
2004
Remembering Ragtime as Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)
1997Drunks as Joseph
1996Harambee! as Chimbuko
1996Remember WENN as George Smith
1994New York Undercover as Reverend Hundley
1994The Legacy of Malthus as Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
1992With Murder in Mind as Samuel Carver
1990On the Block as Clay Beasley
1988In the Heat of the Night as Virgil Tibbs
1986Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI as T.C. Russell
1986The Children of Times Square as Otis Travis
1986The Boy King as Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
1985Wildside
1984He's Fired, She's Hired as Raoul
1984A Soldier's Story as Captain Davenport
1984The House of Dies Drear as Walter Small
1984A Doctor's Story as Dr. Zack Williams
1984The House of God as Chuck Johnston
1983For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers as Medgar Evers
1982The Member of the Wedding as Honey Brown
1982The Neighborhood as Allen Campbell
1981Ragtime as Coalhouse Walker Jr.
1981Thornwell as Carson
1980Fridays as Self
1979My Old Man as Doctor
1979Roots: The Next Generations as George Haley
1978The Trial of the Moke as James Smith
1978King as Andrew Young
1964Another World