Howard Rollins: movies and TV shows

Howard Rollins has 32 credits in the archive: 22 films and 10 TV series, from 1964 to 2004. Highest rated: Remember WENN (7.8/10).

Career timeline

1964 – 2004 · busiest year: 1984 (5 credits)

Year	Title	Role	Type	Rating	Age then
2004	Remembering Ragtime	Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)	Film	—	53
1997	Drunks	Joseph	Film	3.2	46
1996	Remember WENN	George Smith	TV	7.8	45
1996	Harambee!	Chimbuko	Film	7.0	45
1994	New York Undercover	Reverend Hundley	TV	7.3	43
1994	The Legacy of Malthus	Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)	Film	9.0	43
1992	With Murder in Mind	Samuel Carver	Film	6.2	41
1990	On the Block	Clay Beasley	Film	2.8	39
1988	In the Heat of the Night	Virgil Tibbs	TV	7.6	37
1988	En el calor de la noche	Chief of Detectives Virgil Tibbs	TV	—	37
1986	Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI	T.C. Russell	Film	6.5	35
1986	The Children of Times Square	Otis Travis	Film	6.3	35
1986	The Boy King	Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.	Film	7.0	35
1985	Wildside		TV	6.8	34
1984	A Soldier's Story	Captain Davenport	Film	6.8	33
1984	The House of God	Chuck Johnston	Film	3.2	33
1984	The House of Dies Drear	Walter Small	Film	8.0	33
1984	He's Fired, She's Hired	Raoul	Film	6.5	33
1984	A Doctor's Story	Dr. Zack Williams	Film	6.7	33
1983	For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers	Medgar Evers	Film	7.0	32
1982	American Playhouse	Medgar Evers	TV	6.6	31
1982	The Neighborhood	Allen Campbell	Film	7.0	31
1982	The Member of the Wedding	Honey Brown	Film	5.0	31
1981	Ragtime	Coalhouse Walker Jr.	Film	7.0	30
1981	Chytilová Versus Forman	Self	Film	8.0	30
1981	Thornwell	Carson	Film	7.3	30
1980	Fridays	Self	TV	6.0	29
1979	Roots: The Next Generations	George Haley	TV	7.5	28
1979	My Old Man	Doctor	Film	5.3	28
1978	King	Andrew Young	TV	6.6	27
1978	The Trial of the Moke	James Smith	Film	6.0	27
1964	Another World		TV	5.5	13