Howard Rollins

ActingBorn: 1950-10-17Baltimore, 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

A Soldier's Story

The House of God

With Murder in Mind

Ragtime

Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI

The House of Dies Drear

He's Fired, She's Hired

The Trial of the Moke

The Children of Times Square

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

Drunks

My Old Man

A Doctor's Story

The Member of the Wedding

Remembering Ragtime

The Legacy of Malthus

American Playhouse

New York Undercover

In the Heat of the Night

Another World

Fridays

Roots: The Next Generations

Remember WENN

Wildside