Howard Rollins
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. — Oct 17 1950• Died Dec 08 1996
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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.
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Howard Rollins's Credits
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New York Undercover
Reverend Hundley
In the Heat of the Night
Virgil Tibbs
Remember WENN
George Smith
Fridays
Self
Roots: The Next Generations
George Haley
Another World
Ragtime
Coalhouse Walker Jr.
Wildside
King
Andrew Young
A Soldier's Story
Captain Davenport
Thornwell
Carson
Drunks
Joseph
The Children of Times Square
Otis Travis
With Murder in Mind
Samuel Carver
My Old Man
Doctor
A Doctor's Story
Dr. Zack Williams
The House of God
Chuck Johnston
He's Fired, She's Hired
Raoul
The Neighborhood
Allen Campbell
Remembering Ragtime
Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
T.C. Russell
The House of Dies Drear
Walter Small
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers
The Trial of the Moke
James Smith
The Boy King
Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
The Member of the Wedding
Honey Brown
Harambee!
Chimbuko
The Legacy of Malthus
Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
On the Block
Clay Beasley