Howard Rollins

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.

Credits

actors (23 credits)
- Remembering Ragtime
  Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2004
- Drunks
  Joseph
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1997
- Harambee!
  Chimbuko
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1996
- The Legacy of Malthus
  Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1994
- With Murder in Mind
  Samuel Carver
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1992
- On the Block
  Clay Beasley
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1990
- Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
  T.C. Russell
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1986
- The Children of Times Square
  Otis Travis
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1986
- The Boy King
  Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1986
- He's Fired, She's Hired
  Raoul
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1984
- A Soldier's Story
  Captain Davenport
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1984
- The House of Dies Drear
  Walter Small
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1984
- A Doctor's Story
  Dr. Zack Williams
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1984
- The House of God
  Chuck Johnston
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1984
- For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
  Medgar Evers
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1983
- The Member of the Wedding
  Honey Brown
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1982
- The Neighborhood
  Allen Campbell
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1982
- Ragtime
  Coalhouse Walker Jr.
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1981
- Thornwell
  Carson
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1981
- Chytilová Versus Forman
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1981
- My Old Man
  Doctor
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1979
- Roots: The Next Generations
  
  - Part 7 (1979) ... George Haley actor actors
  
  1979
- The Trial of the Moke
  James Smith
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1978

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actors (23 credits)