Acting

Howard Rollins

Born 1950-10-17 · Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.

Died 1996-12-08

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

Newest first

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