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