Howard Rollins

Acting

October 17, 1950

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.

Howard Rollins

Biography

Movies

The Children of Times Square

The Legacy of Malthus

With Murder in Mind

Ragtime

The Neighborhood

Remembering Ragtime

The Member of the Wedding

Drunks

Thornwell

My Old Man

Harambee!

A Soldier's Story

He's Fired, She's Hired

On the Block

The House of God

The Boy King

Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI

The House of Dies Drear

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

A Doctor's Story

TV Shows

In the Heat of the Night

New York Undercover

Remember WENN

Fridays

Roots: The Next Generations

King

Wildside

Another World