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