Howard Rollins
Acting
Born: 1950-10-17 in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
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.
Known For
American Playhouse
Medgar Evers
New York Undercover
Reverend Hundley
In the Heat of the Night
Virgil Tibbs
Fridays
Self
Remember WENN
George Smith
Roots: The Next Generations
George Haley
Another World
A Soldier's Story
Captain Davenport
Wildside
King
Andrew Young
Ragtime
Coalhouse Walker Jr.
Drunks
Joseph
En el calor de la noche
Chief of Detectives Virgil Tibbs
My Old Man
Doctor
A Doctor's Story
Dr. Zack Williams
The Children of Times Square
Otis Travis
The House of God
Chuck Johnston
Chytilová Versus Forman
Self
With Murder in Mind
Samuel Carver
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers
The House of Dies Drear
Walter Small
The Member of the Wedding
Honey Brown
The Neighborhood
Allen Campbell
Remembering Ragtime
Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)
Thornwell
Carson
The Trial of the Moke
James Smith
He's Fired, She's Hired
Raoul
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
T.C. Russell
The Legacy of Malthus
Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
Harambee!
Chimbuko
On the Block
Clay Beasley
The Boy King
Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.