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Howard Rollins

Howard Rollins

ActingOctober 17, 1950(died age 46)Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.

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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.

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Filmography (29)

Remembering Ragtime

2004·Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)

1996·George Smith

The Legacy of Malthus

1994·Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)

New York Undercover

1994·Reverend Hundley

With Murder in Mind

1992·Samuel Carver

1990·Clay Beasley

In the Heat of the Night

1988·Virgil Tibbs

The Children of Times Square

1986·Otis Travis

1986·Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.

Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI

1986·T.C. Russell

A Soldier's Story

1984·Captain Davenport

The House of Dies Drear

1984·Walter Small

A Doctor's Story

1984·Dr. Zack Williams

He's Fired, She's Hired

The House of God

1984·Chuck Johnston

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

1983·Medgar Evers

The Neighborhood

1982·Allen Campbell

The Member of the Wedding

1982·Honey Brown

1981·Coalhouse Walker Jr.

Roots: The Next Generations

1979·George Haley

The Trial of the Moke

1978·James Smith

1978·Andrew Young