Acting

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.

Signature work

1984

1981

1988

1994

1979

1986

1978

1964

1997

1982

1996

1992

1984

1990

1985

1979

1981

1984

Year	Title	Role
2004	Remembering Ragtime Film	Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)
1997	Drunks Film	Joseph
1996	Harambee! Film	Chimbuko
1996	Remember WENN TV	George Smith (1 ep)
1994	New York Undercover TV	Reverend Hundley (1 ep)
1994	The Legacy of Malthus Film	Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
1992	With Murder in Mind Film	Samuel Carver
1990	On the Block Film	Clay Beasley
1988	In the Heat of the Night TV	Virgil Tibbs (119 ep)
1988	En el calor de la noche TV	Chief of Detectives Virgil Tibbs (1 ep)
1986	Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI Film	T.C. Russell
1986	The Children of Times Square Film	Otis Travis
1986	The Boy King Film	Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
1985	Wildside TV	(6 ep)
1984	He's Fired, She's Hired Film	Raoul
1984	A Soldier's Story Film	Captain Davenport
1984	The House of Dies Drear Film	Walter Small
1984	A Doctor's Story Film	Dr. Zack Williams
1984	The House of God Film	Chuck Johnston
1983	For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers Film	Medgar Evers
1982	The Member of the Wedding Film	Honey Brown
1982	The Neighborhood Film	Allen Campbell
1982	American Playhouse TV	Medgar Evers (1 ep)
1981	Ragtime Film	Coalhouse Walker Jr.
1981	Thornwell Film	Carson
1981	Chytilová Versus Forman Film	Self
1980	Fridays TV	Self (1 ep)
1979	My Old Man Film	Doctor
1979	Roots: The Next Generations TV	George Haley (1 ep)
1978	The Trial of the Moke Film	James Smith
1978	King TV	Andrew Young (3 ep)
1964	Another World TV	(1547 ep)