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