Howard Rollins

Known for: Acting

Born: 1950-10-17 – 1996-12-08 (aged 46)

From: 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.

Filmography (31)

MOVIE
Remembering Ragtime
2004
as Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 3.2
Drunks
1997
as Joseph
MOVIE★ 7.0
Harambee!
1996
as Chimbuko
TV★ 7.8
Remember WENN
1996
as George Smith
TV★ 7.3
New York Undercover
1994
as Reverend Hundley
MOVIE★ 9.0
The Legacy of Malthus
1994
as Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 6.2
With Murder in Mind
1992
as Samuel Carver
MOVIE★ 2.8
On the Block
1990
as Clay Beasley
TV★ 7.6
In the Heat of the Night
1988
as Virgil Tibbs
MOVIE★ 6.5
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
1986
as T.C. Russell
MOVIE★ 6.3
The Children of Times Square
1986
as Otis Travis
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Boy King
1986
as Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
TV★ 6.8
Wildside
1985
MOVIE★ 6.5
He's Fired, She's Hired
1984
as Raoul
MOVIE★ 6.8
A Soldier's Story
1984
as Captain Davenport
MOVIE★ 8.0
The House of Dies Drear
1984
as Walter Small
MOVIE★ 6.7
A Doctor's Story
1984
as Dr. Zack Williams
MOVIE★ 3.2
The House of God
1984
as Chuck Johnston
MOVIE★ 7.0
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
1983
as Medgar Evers
MOVIE★ 5.0
The Member of the Wedding
1982
as Honey Brown
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Neighborhood
1982
as Allen Campbell
TV★ 6.6
American Playhouse
1982
as Medgar Evers
MOVIE★ 7.0
Ragtime
1981
as Coalhouse Walker Jr.
MOVIE★ 7.3
Thornwell
1981
as Carson
MOVIE★ 8.0
Chytilová Versus Forman
1981
as Self
TV★ 6.0
Fridays
1980
as Self
MOVIE★ 5.3
My Old Man
1979
as Doctor
TV★ 7.4
Roots: The Next Generations
1979
as George Haley
MOVIE★ 6.0
The Trial of the Moke
1978
as James Smith
TV★ 6.6
King
1978
as Andrew Young
TV★ 5.5
Another World
1964