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