Howard Rollins
Acting
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.
Filmography 32
Movies (22)
Remembering Ragtime2004Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)
Drunks1997Joseph
Harambee!1996Chimbuko
The Legacy of Malthus1994Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
With Murder in Mind1992Samuel Carver
On the Block1990Clay Beasley
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI1986T.C. Russell
The Children of Times Square1986Otis Travis
The Boy King1986Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
He's Fired, She's Hired1984Raoul
A Soldier's Story1984Captain Davenport
The House of Dies Drear1984Walter Small
A Doctor's Story1984Dr. Zack Williams
The House of God1984Chuck Johnston
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers1983Medgar Evers
The Member of the Wedding1982Honey Brown
The Neighborhood1982Allen Campbell
Ragtime1981Coalhouse Walker Jr.
Thornwell1981Carson
Chytilová Versus Forman1981Self
My Old Man1979Doctor
The Trial of the Moke1978James Smith
Shows (10)
Remember WENN1996George Smith
New York Undercover1994Reverend Hundley
In the Heat of the Night1988Virgil Tibbs
En el calor de la noche1988Chief of Detectives Virgil Tibbs
Wildside1985
American Playhouse1982Medgar Evers
Fridays1980Self
Roots: The Next Generations1979George Haley
King1978Andrew Young
Another World1964