Actor
Howard Rollins
76 years · Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. · 22 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 22
Remembering Ragtime
2004 · Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)
Drunks
1997 · Joseph
On Kanopy
Harambee!
1996 · Chimbuko
The Legacy of Malthus
1994 · Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
With Murder in Mind
1992 · Samuel Carver
On Hoopla
On the Block
1990 · Clay Beasley
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
1986 · T.C. Russell
The Children of Times Square
1986 · Otis Travis
On Tubi TV
The Boy King
1986 · Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
He's Fired, She's Hired
1984 · Raoul
A Soldier's Story
1984 · Captain Davenport
On Tubi TV
The House of Dies Drear
1984 · Walter Small
On Hoopla
A Doctor's Story
1984 · Dr. Zack Williams
The House of God
1984 · Chuck Johnston
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
1983 · Medgar Evers
The Member of the Wedding
1982 · Honey Brown
The Neighborhood
1982 · Allen Campbell
Ragtime
1981 · Coalhouse Walker Jr.
Thornwell
1981 · Carson
Chytilová Versus Forman
1981 · Self
My Old Man
1979 · Doctor
On fuboTV
The Trial of the Moke
1978 · James Smith