🎭 Actor

Howard Rollins

🎂 Born 17 October 1950 (age 46)✝ 8 December 1996📍 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.

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Acting Credits

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

The Legacy of Malthus

1994

Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)

Full Filmography(22 films)

YearTitleCharacterRating

1981RagtimeCoalhouse Walker Jr.★ 7.0 1994The Legacy of MalthusSelf (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)★ 9.0 1984A Soldier's StoryCaptain Davenport★ 6.8 1979My Old ManDoctor★ 5.3 1984The House of GodChuck Johnston★ 3.2 1997DrunksJoseph★ 3.2 1982The NeighborhoodAllen Campbell★ 7.0 1984A Doctor's StoryDr. Zack Williams★ 6.7 1986The Children of Times SquareOtis Travis★ 6.3 1981ThornwellCarson★ 7.3 1983For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar EversMedgar Evers★ 7.0 1992With Murder in MindSamuel Carver★ 6.2 2004Remembering RagtimeCoalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)—1984The House of Dies DrearWalter Small★ 8.0 1984He's Fired, She's HiredRaoul★ 6.5 1978The Trial of the MokeJames Smith★ 6.0 1982The Member of the WeddingHoney Brown★ 5.0 1986Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBIT.C. Russell★ 6.5 1996Harambee!Chimbuko★ 7.0 1981Chytilová Versus FormanSelf★ 8.0 1986The Boy KingRev. Martin Luther King Sr.★ 7.0 1990On the BlockClay Beasley★ 2.8

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