Howard Rollins
Acting Born Oct 17, 1950 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. 24 credits
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.
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Full filmography
- New York Undercover (1994) as Reverend Hundley
- In the Heat of the Night (1988) as Virgil Tibbs
- Fridays (1980) as Self
- Remember WENN (1996) as George Smith
- Roots: The Next Generations (1979) as George Haley
- Another World (1964)
- King (1978) as Andrew Young
- Wildside (1985)
- Ragtime (1981) as Coalhouse Walker Jr.
- A Soldier's Story (1984) as Captain Davenport
- The Legacy of Malthus (1994) as Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
- My Old Man (1979) as Doctor
- Drunks (1997) as Joseph
- The House of God (1984) as Chuck Johnston
- With Murder in Mind (1992) as Samuel Carver
- The Children of Times Square (1986) as Otis Travis
- The House of Dies Drear (1984) as Walter Small
- A Doctor's Story (1984) as Dr. Zack Williams
- Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI (1986) as T.C. Russell
- The Neighborhood (1982) as Allen Campbell
- Thornwell (1981) as Carson
- The Trial of the Moke (1978) as James Smith
- For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers (1983) as Medgar Evers
- He's Fired, She's Hired (1984) as Raoul