Birthday: 1950-10-17
Place of birth: Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
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.
Ragtime
Coalhouse Walker Jr.
7.024
A Soldier's Story
Captain Davenport
6.8
The Legacy of Malthus
Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
0
The Neighborhood
Allen Campbell
0
Drunks
Joseph
3
Remembering Ragtime
Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)
0
The Children of Times Square
Otis Travis
6
My Old Man
Doctor
3
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers
0
The Member of the Wedding
Honey Brown
5
The House of Dies Drear
Walter Small
0
The Boy King
Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
0
Harambee!
Chimbuko
0
On the Block
Clay Beasley
1
Thornwell
Carson
6
A Doctor's Story
Dr. Zack Williams
5
With Murder in Mind
Samuel Carver
6
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
T.C. Russell
5
He's Fired, She's Hired
Raoul
6
The Trial of the Moke
James Smith
5.5
The House of God
Chuck Johnston
2.667