Howard Rollins
ActingAlso Known As
Howard Rollins Jr., Howard E. Rollins Jr., Howard E. Rollins
Biography
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.
Movies
(21 total)
A Soldier's Story
as Captain Davenport
Ragtime
as Coalhouse Walker Jr.
The Children of Times Square
as Otis Travis
Drunks
as Joseph
With Murder in Mind
as Samuel Carver
The House of God
as Chuck Johnston
On the Block
as Clay Beasley
My Old Man
as Doctor
Thornwell
as Carson
A Doctor's Story
as Dr. Zack Williams
The Trial of the Moke
as James Smith
The Neighborhood
as Allen Campbell
The Member of the Wedding
as Honey Brown
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
as T.C. Russell
He's Fired, She's Hired
as Raoul
The Legacy of Malthus
as Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
Remembering Ragtime
as Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
as Medgar Evers
The House of Dies Drear
as Walter Small
The Boy King
as Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
TV Shows
(8 total)
In the Heat of the Night
as Virgil Tibbs
New York Undercover
as Reverend Hundley
Roots: The Next Generations
as George Haley
King
as Andrew Young
Fridays
as Self
Remember WENN
as George Smith
