Howard Rollins
Birthday
1950/10/17
Day of death
1996/12/08 (46 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Also know as
Howard Rollins Jr., Howard E. Rollins Jr., Howard E. Rollins
Biography
Howard Rollins (1950–1996) 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.
Acting
(1981) Ragtime
as Coalhouse Walker Jr.
(1984) A Soldier's Story
as Captain Davenport
(1994) The Legacy of Malthus
as Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
(1982) The Neighborhood
as Allen Campbell
(1997) Drunks
as Joseph
(2004) Remembering Ragtime
as Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)
(1986) The Children of Times Square
as Otis Travis
(1982) The Member of the Wedding
as Honey Brown
(1983) For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
as Medgar Evers
(1979) My Old Man
as Doctor
(1984) The House of Dies Drear
as Walter Small
(1986) The Boy King
as Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
(1990) On the Block
as Clay Beasley
(1996) Harambee!
as Chimbuko
(1981) Thornwell
as Carson
(1984) A Doctor's Story
as Dr. Zack Williams
(1992) With Murder in Mind
as Samuel Carver
(1986) Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
as T.C. Russell
(1984) He's Fired, She's Hired
as Raoul
(1978) The Trial of the Moke
as James Smith
(1984) The House of God
as Chuck Johnston
(1988) In the Heat of the Night
as Virgil Tibbs
(1978) King
as Andrew Young
(1994) New York Undercover
as Reverend Hundley
(1964) Another World
as ---
(1980) Fridays
as ---
(1985) Wildside
as ---
(1979) Roots: The Next Generations
as George Haley