Howard Rollins

Biography

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

New York Undercover

In the Heat of the Night

Remember WENN

Fridays

Roots: The Next Generations

Another World

King

Wildside

All Movies (22)

• Remembering Ragtime2004 · as Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)
• Drunks1997 · as Joseph
• Harambee!1996 · as Chimbuko
• The Legacy of Malthus1994 · as Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
• With Murder in Mind1992 · as Samuel Carver
• On the Block1990 · as Clay Beasley
• Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI1986 · as T.C. Russell
• The Children of Times Square1986 · as Otis Travis
• The Boy King1986 · as Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
• He's Fired, She's Hired1984 · as Raoul
• A Soldier's Story1984 · as Captain Davenport
• The House of Dies Drear1984 · as Walter Small
• A Doctor's Story1984 · as Dr. Zack Williams
• The House of God1984 · as Chuck Johnston
• For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers1983 · as Medgar Evers
• The Member of the Wedding1982 · as Honey Brown
• The Neighborhood1982 · as Allen Campbell
• Ragtime1981 · as Coalhouse Walker Jr.
• Thornwell1981 · as Carson
• Chytilová Versus Forman1981 · as Self
• My Old Man1979 · as Doctor
• The Trial of the Moke1978 · as James Smith

All TV Shows (8)

• Remember WENN1996 · as George Smith
• New York Undercover1994 · as Reverend Hundley
• In the Heat of the Night1988 · as Virgil Tibbs
• Wildside1985
• Fridays1980 · as Self
• Roots: The Next Generations1979 · as George Haley
• King1978 · as Andrew Young
• Another World1964