Howard Rollins

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Acting

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.

Filmography

• Remembering Ragtime (2004)
• Drunks (1997)
• Harambee! (1996)
• The Legacy of Malthus (1994)
• With Murder in Mind (1992)
• On the Block (1990)
• Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI (1986)
• The Children of Times Square (1986)
• The Boy King (1986)
• He's Fired, She's Hired (1984)
• A Soldier's Story (1984)
• The House of Dies Drear (1984)
• A Doctor's Story (1984)
• The House of God (1984)
• For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers (1983)
• The Member of the Wedding (1982)
• The Neighborhood (1982)
• Ragtime (1981)
• Thornwell (1981)
• Chytilová Versus Forman (1981)
• My Old Man (1979)
• The Trial of the Moke (1978)