Oct 17, 1950 - 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.
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| Movie | 1981 | Ragtime | Coalhouse Walker Jr. | |
| Movie | 1984 | A Soldier's Story | Captain Davenport | |
| Movie | 1994 | The Legacy of Malthus | Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 1982 | The Neighborhood | Allen Campbell | |
| Movie | 1997 | Drunks | Joseph | |
| Movie | 2004 | Remembering Ragtime | Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 1986 | The Children of Times Square | Otis Travis | |
| Movie | 1983 | For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers | Medgar Evers | |
| Movie | 1982 | The Member of the Wedding | Honey Brown | |
| Movie | 1979 | My Old Man | Doctor | |
| Movie | 1984 | The House of Dies Drear | Walter Small | |
| Movie | 1986 | The Boy King | Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. | |
| Movie | 1990 | On the Block | Clay Beasley | |
| Movie | 1996 | Harambee! | Chimbuko | |
| Movie | 1981 | Thornwell | Carson | |
| Movie | 1984 | A Doctor's Story | Dr. Zack Williams | |
| Movie | 1992 | With Murder in Mind | Samuel Carver | |
| Movie | 1986 | Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI | T.C. Russell | |
| Movie | 1984 | He's Fired, She's Hired | Raoul | |
| Movie | 1978 | The Trial of the Moke | James Smith | |
| Movie | 1984 | The House of God | Chuck Johnston | |
| TV Show | 1988 | In the Heat of the Night | Virgil Tibbs | 119 |
| TV Show | 1978 | King | Andrew Young | 3 |
| TV Show | 1994 | New York Undercover | Reverend Hundley | 1 |
| TV Show | 1964 | Another World | 1547 | |
| TV Show | 1980 | Fridays | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1985 | Wildside | 6 | |
| TV Show | 1979 | Roots: The Next Generations | George Haley | 7 |
| TV Show | 1996 | Remember WENN | George Smith | 1 |
No crew credits available.
