Howard Rollins
Actor
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.
Filmography
Ragtime
as Coalhouse Walker Jr. 1981
The Children of Times Square
as Otis Travis 1986
Drunks
as Joseph 1997
With Murder in Mind
as Samuel Carver 1992
The House of God
as Chuck Johnston 1984
On the Block
as Clay Beasley 1990
My Old Man
as Doctor 1979
Thornwell
as Carson 1981
A Doctor's Story
as Dr. Zack Williams 1984
The Trial of the Moke
as James Smith 1978
The Neighborhood
as Allen Campbell 1982
The Member of the Wedding
as Honey Brown 1982
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
as T.C. Russell 1986
He's Fired, She's Hired
as Raoul 1984
The Legacy of Malthus
as Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage) 1994
Remembering Ragtime
as Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage) 2004