
Howard Rollins
Acting
Born 1950-10-17 · Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. · Died 1996-12-08
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.
Acting

Remembering Ragtime
Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)

Drunks
Joseph

Harambee!
Chimbuko

Remember WENN
George Smith

New York Undercover
Reverend Hundley

The Legacy of Malthus
Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)

With Murder in Mind
Samuel Carver

On the Block
Clay Beasley

In the Heat of the Night
Virgil Tibbs

Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
T.C. Russell

The Children of Times Square
Otis Travis

The Boy King
Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.

Wildside

He's Fired, She's Hired
Raoul

A Soldier's Story
Captain Davenport

The House of Dies Drear
Walter Small

A Doctor's Story
Dr. Zack Williams

The House of God
Chuck Johnston

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers

The Member of the Wedding
Honey Brown

The Neighborhood
Allen Campbell

Ragtime
Coalhouse Walker Jr.

Thornwell
Carson

Chytilová Versus Forman
Self

Fridays
Self

My Old Man
Doctor

Roots: The Next Generations
George Haley

The Trial of the Moke
James Smith

King
Andrew Young

Another World