Howard Rollins
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 17, 1950
- Died
- Dec 8, 1996 (aged 46)
- Place of birth
- Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
- Credits
- 32
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
A Soldier's Story
1984Movie
Captain Davenport
Ragtime
1981Movie
Coalhouse Walker Jr.
In the Heat of the Night
1988TV
Virgil Tibbs
New York Undercover
1994TV
Reverend Hundley
Roots: The Next Generations
1979TV
George Haley
The Children of Times Square
1986Movie
Otis Travis
Filmography
Remembering Ragtime
2004Movie
Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)
Drunks
1997Movie
Joseph
Harambee!
1996Movie
Chimbuko
Remember WENN
1996TV
George Smith
New York Undercover
1994TV
Reverend Hundley
The Legacy of Malthus
1994Movie
Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
With Murder in Mind
1992Movie
Samuel Carver
On the Block
1990Movie
Clay Beasley
In the Heat of the Night
1988TV
Virgil Tibbs
En el calor de la noche
1988TV
Chief of Detectives Virgil Tibbs
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
1986Movie
T.C. Russell
The Children of Times Square
1986Movie
Otis Travis
The Boy King
1986Movie
Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
Wildside
1985TV
He's Fired, She's Hired
1984Movie
Raoul
A Soldier's Story
1984Movie
Captain Davenport
The House of Dies Drear
1984Movie
Walter Small
A Doctor's Story
1984Movie
Dr. Zack Williams
The House of God
1984Movie
Chuck Johnston
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
1983Movie
Medgar Evers
The Member of the Wedding
1982Movie
Honey Brown
The Neighborhood
1982Movie
Allen Campbell
American Playhouse
1982TV
Medgar Evers
Ragtime
1981Movie
Coalhouse Walker Jr.
Thornwell
1981Movie
Carson
Chytilová Versus Forman
1981Movie
Self
Fridays
1980TV
Self
My Old Man
1979Movie
Doctor
Roots: The Next Generations
1979TV
George Haley
The Trial of the Moke
1978Movie
James Smith
King
1978TV
Andrew Young
Another World
1964TV