Howard Rollins | ALEFAST

Howard Rollins

Howard Rollins (1950–1996) 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: Acting

Born: Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., 1950-10-17

Died: 1996-12-08

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1978	The Trial of the Moke	James Smith	55
2	1979	My Old Man	Doctor	30
3	1981	Thornwell	Carson	60
4	1981	Ragtime	Coalhouse Walker Jr.	70
5	1982	The Neighborhood	Allen Campbell	0
6	1982	The Member of the Wedding	Honey Brown	50
7	1983	For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers	Medgar Evers	0
8	1984	The House of God	Chuck Johnston	27
9	1984	A Doctor's Story	Dr. Zack Williams	50
10	1984	The House of Dies Drear	Walter Small	0
11	1984	A Soldier's Story	Captain Davenport	68
12	1984	He's Fired, She's Hired	Raoul	60
13	1986	The Boy King	Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.	0
14	1986	The Children of Times Square	Otis Travis	60
15	1986	Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI	T.C. Russell	50
16	1990	On the Block	Clay Beasley	10
17	1992	With Murder in Mind	Samuel Carver	60
18	1994	The Legacy of Malthus	Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)	0
19	1996	Harambee!	Chimbuko	0
20	1997	Drunks	Joseph	30
21	2004	Remembering Ragtime	Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1964	Another World		56
2	1978	King	Andrew Young	69
3	1979	Roots: The Next Generations	George Haley	75
4	1980	Fridays		50
5	1985	Wildside		57
6	1988	In the Heat of the Night	Virgil Tibbs	74
7	1994	New York Undercover	Reverend Hundley	71
8	1996	Remember WENN	George Smith	80