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Known for Acting
Born 1950-10-17 · Died 1996-12-08 in 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.
Remembering Ragtime (2004) — Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)
Drunks (1997) — Joseph
Harambee! (1996) — Chimbuko
Remember WENN (1996) — George Smith · 1 episode
The Legacy of Malthus (1994) — Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
New York Undercover (1994) — Reverend Hundley · 1 episode
With Murder in Mind (1992) — Samuel Carver
On the Block (1990) — Clay Beasley
In the Heat of the Night (1988) — Virgil Tibbs · 119 episodes
En el calor de la noche (1988) — Chief of Detectives Virgil Tibbs · 1 episode
The Children of Times Square (1986) — Otis Travis
The Boy King (1986) — Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI (1986) — T.C. Russell
Wildside (1985) · 6 episodes
A Soldier's Story (1984) — Captain Davenport
The House of Dies Drear (1984) — Walter Small
A Doctor's Story (1984) — Dr. Zack Williams
He's Fired, She's Hired (1984) — Raoul
The House of God (1984) — Chuck Johnston
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers (1983) — Medgar Evers
The Neighborhood (1982) — Allen Campbell
The Member of the Wedding (1982) — Honey Brown
American Playhouse (1982) — Medgar Evers · 1 episode
Ragtime (1981) — Coalhouse Walker Jr.
Thornwell (1981) — Carson
Chytilová Versus Forman (1981) — Self
Fridays (1980) — Self · 1 episode
My Old Man (1979) — Doctor
Roots: The Next Generations (1979) — George Haley · 1 episode
The Trial of the Moke (1978) — James Smith
King (1978) — Andrew Young · 3 episodes
Another World (1964) · 1547 episodes