Howard Rollins
Born
October 17, 1950
Died
December 8, 1996 (46 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Howard Rollins (1950–1996) 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
Remembering Ragtime
Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)
2004
Drunks
Joseph
1997
Harambee!
Chimbuko
1996
Remember WENN
George Smith · (1 episode)
1996
New York Undercover
Reverend Hundley · (1 episode)
1994
The Legacy of Malthus
Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
1994
With Murder in Mind
Samuel Carver
1992
On the Block
Clay Beasley
1990
In the Heat of the Night
Virgil Tibbs · (119 episodes)
1988
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
T.C. Russell
1986
The Children of Times Square
Otis Travis
1986
The Boy King
Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
1986
Wildside
(6 episodes)
1985
He's Fired, She's Hired
Raoul
1984
A Soldier's Story
Captain Davenport
1984
The House of Dies Drear
Walter Small
1984
A Doctor's Story
Dr. Zack Williams
1984
The House of God
Chuck Johnston
1984
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers
1983
The Member of the Wedding
Honey Brown
1982
The Neighborhood
Allen Campbell
1982
Ragtime
Coalhouse Walker Jr.
1981
Thornwell
Carson
1981
Fridays
(1 episode)
1980
My Old Man
Doctor
1979
Roots: The Next Generations
George Haley · (7 episodes)
1979
The Trial of the Moke
James Smith
1978
King
Andrew Young · (3 episodes)
1978
Another World
(1547 episodes)
1964