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