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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1950-10-17 (74 years old)

Place of Birth

Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.

Howard Rollins

Biography:

Howard Rollins (1950–1996) 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.

Known For

Acting

2004

Remembering Ragtime as Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)

1997

Drunks as Joseph

1996

Harambee! as Chimbuko
Remember WENN as George Smith

1994

The Legacy of Malthus as Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
New York Undercover as Reverend Hundley

1992

With Murder in Mind as Samuel Carver

1990

On the Block as Clay Beasley

1988

In the Heat of the Night as Virgil Tibbs

1986

The Boy King as Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI as T.C. Russell

1985

1984

A Soldier's Story as Captain Davenport
The House of Dies Drear as Walter Small
A Doctor's Story as Dr. Zack Williams
The House of God as Chuck Johnston

1983

1982

The Neighborhood as Allen Campbell

1981

Ragtime as Coalhouse Walker Jr.
Thornwell as Carson

1980

1979

My Old Man as Doctor

1978

The Trial of the Moke as James Smith
King as Andrew Young

1964