Howard Rollins
Actor
Born October 17, 1950 in 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
Remembering Ragtime
Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)
Drunks
Joseph
Harambee!
Chimbuko
Remember WENN
George Smith
New York Undercover
Reverend Hundley
The Legacy of Malthus
Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
With Murder in Mind
Samuel Carver
On the Block
Clay Beasley
In the Heat of the Night
Virgil Tibbs
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
T.C. Russell
The Children of Times Square
Otis Travis
The Boy King
Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
Wildside
He's Fired, She's Hired
Raoul
A Soldier's Story
Captain Davenport
The House of Dies Drear
Walter Small
A Doctor's Story
Dr. Zack Williams
The House of God
Chuck Johnston
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers
The Member of the Wedding
Honey Brown
The Neighborhood
Allen Campbell
American Playhouse
Medgar Evers
Ragtime
Coalhouse Walker Jr.
Thornwell
Carson
Chytilová Versus Forman
Self
Fridays
Self
My Old Man
Doctor
Roots: The Next Generations
George Haley
The Trial of the Moke
James Smith
King
Andrew Young
Another World