Howard Rollins
Acting
Born: 1950-10-17 in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
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.
Known For
A Soldier's Story
Captain Davenport
Ragtime
Coalhouse Walker Jr.
In the Heat of the Night
Virgil Tibbs
New York Undercover
Reverend Hundley
Roots: The Next Generations
George Haley
The Children of Times Square
Otis Travis
King
Andrew Young
Another World
Drunks
Joseph
Fridays
Self
American Playhouse
Medgar Evers
Remember WENN
George Smith
With Murder in Mind
Samuel Carver
The House of God
Chuck Johnston
On the Block
Clay Beasley
Wildside
My Old Man
Doctor
Thornwell
Carson
A Doctor's Story
Dr. Zack Williams
The Trial of the Moke
James Smith
The Neighborhood
Allen Campbell
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
T.C. Russell
He's Fired, She's Hired
Raoul
The Legacy of Malthus
Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
The Member of the Wedding
Honey Brown
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers
The House of Dies Drear
Walter Small
The Boy King
Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
Harambee!
Chimbuko
Chytilová Versus Forman
Self
Remembering Ragtime
Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)
En el calor de la noche
Chief of Detectives Virgil Tibbs