Howard Rollins

Acting

October 17, 1950

— December 8, 1996(46 years old)

Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.

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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.

Also Known As

Howard Rollins Jr. • Howard E. Rollins Jr. • Howard E. Rollins

Known For

7.3

New York Undercover

Reverend Hundley

7.6

In the Heat of the Night

Virgil Tibbs

7.4

Roots: The Next Generations

George Haley

7.8

Remember WENN

George Smith

5.5

Another World

7.0

Ragtime

Coalhouse Walker Jr.

6.8

A Soldier's Story

Captain Davenport

6.6

King

Andrew Young

6.8

Wildside

3.2

Drunks

Joseph

6.3

The Children of Times Square

Otis Travis

7.3

Thornwell

Carson

Filmography

2000s

Remembering Ragtime

Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)

1990s

3.2

Drunks

Joseph

7.0

Harambee!

Chimbuko

9.0

The Legacy of Malthus

Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)

6.2

With Murder in Mind

Samuel Carver

2.8

On the Block

Clay Beasley

1980s

6.3

The Children of Times Square

Otis Travis

6.5

Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI

T.C. Russell

7.0

The Boy King

Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.

6.8

A Soldier's Story

Captain Davenport

3.2

The House of God

Chuck Johnston

8.0

The House of Dies Drear

Walter Small

6.5

He's Fired, She's Hired

Raoul

6.7

A Doctor's Story

Dr. Zack Williams

7.0

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

Medgar Evers

5.0

The Member of the Wedding

Honey Brown

7.0

The Neighborhood

Allen Campbell

7.0

Ragtime

Coalhouse Walker Jr.

7.3

Thornwell

Carson

8.0

Chytilová Versus Forman

Self

1970s

5.3

My Old Man

Doctor

6.0

The Trial of the Moke

James Smith