Acting
Howard Rollins
Acting · Born 1950-10-17 · Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
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.
Credits · 31
FilmDrunks
1997 · Joseph
FilmHarambee!
1996 · Chimbuko
Remember WENN
1996 · George Smith
New York Undercover
1994 · Reverend Hundley
FilmThe Legacy of Malthus
1994 · Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
FilmWith Murder in Mind
1992 · Samuel Carver
FilmOn 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
FilmJohnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
1986 · T.C. Russell
FilmThe Children of Times Square
1986 · Otis Travis
FilmThe Boy King
1986 · Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
Wildside
1985
FilmHe's Fired, She's Hired
1984 · Raoul
FilmA Soldier's Story
1984 · Captain Davenport
FilmThe House of Dies Drear
1984 · Walter Small
FilmA Doctor's Story
1984 · Dr. Zack Williams
FilmThe House of God
1984 · Chuck Johnston
FilmFor Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
1983 · Medgar Evers
FilmThe Member of the Wedding
1982 · Honey Brown
FilmThe Neighborhood
1982 · Allen Campbell
American Playhouse
1982 · Medgar Evers
FilmRagtime
1981 · Coalhouse Walker Jr.
FilmThornwell
1981 · Carson
FilmChytilová Versus Forman
1981 · Self
Fridays
1980 · Self
FilmMy Old Man
1979 · Doctor
Roots: The Next Generations
1979 · George Haley
FilmThe Trial of the Moke
1978 · James Smith
King
1978 · Andrew Young
Another World
1964