Howard Rollins
Born: 1950-10-17 in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Died: 1996-12-08
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2004
- Remembering Ragtime as Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)
1997
- Drunks as Joseph
1996
- Harambee! as Chimbuko
- Remember WENN as George Smith
1994
- New York Undercover as Reverend Hundley
- The Legacy of Malthus as Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
1992
- With Murder in Mind as Samuel Carver
1990
- On the Block as Clay Beasley
1988
- In the Heat of the Night as Virgil Tibbs
1986
- The Children of Times Square as Otis Travis
- Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI as T.C. Russell
- The Boy King as Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
1985
1984
- A Soldier's Story as Captain Davenport
- The House of God as Chuck Johnston
- He's Fired, She's Hired as Raoul
- The House of Dies Drear as Walter Small
- A Doctor's Story as Dr. Zack Williams
1983
- For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers as Medgar Evers
1982
- The Neighborhood as Allen Campbell
- The Member of the Wedding as Honey Brown
1980
- Fridays as Self
1979
- Roots: The Next Generations as George Haley
- My Old Man as Doctor
1978
- The Trial of the Moke as James Smith
- King as Andrew Young