Howard Rollins

Actor

Born: October 17, 1950
Died: December 8, 1996 (age 46)
From: 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 (22)

Remembering Ragtime (2004)
Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)
Drunks (1997)
Joseph
Harambee! (1996)
Chimbuko
The Legacy of Malthus (1994)
Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
With Murder in Mind (1992)
Samuel Carver
On the Block (1990)
Clay Beasley
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI (1986)
T.C. Russell
The Children of Times Square (1986)
Otis Travis
The Boy King (1986)
Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
He's Fired, She's Hired (1984)
Raoul
A Soldier's Story (1984)
Captain Davenport
The House of Dies Drear (1984)
Walter Small
A Doctor's Story (1984)
Dr. Zack Williams
The House of God (1984)
Chuck Johnston
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers (1983)
Medgar Evers
The Member of the Wedding (1982)
Honey Brown
The Neighborhood (1982)
Allen Campbell
Ragtime (1981)
Coalhouse Walker Jr.
Thornwell (1981)
Carson
Chytilová Versus Forman (1981)
Self
My Old Man (1979)
Doctor
The Trial of the Moke (1978)
James Smith