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