Howard Rollins

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1950-10-17 (46 years old)

Deathday

1996-12-08

Place of Birth

Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.

Howard Rollins

Biography

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.

Acting

1981

Ragtime

as Coalhouse Walker Jr.

1984

A Soldier's Story

as Captain Davenport

1994

The Legacy of Malthus

as Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)

1982

The Neighborhood

as Allen Campbell

1997

Drunks

as Joseph

2004

Remembering Ragtime

as Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)

1979

My Old Man

as Doctor

1982

1984

1986

The Boy King

as Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.

1996

Harambee!

as Chimbuko

1990

On the Block

as Clay Beasley

1981

Thornwell

as Carson

1984

A Doctor's Story

as Dr. Zack Williams

1992

With Murder in Mind

as Samuel Carver

1986

1978

The Trial of the Moke

as James Smith

1984

The House of God

as Chuck Johnston

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