Acting credits
29
Active
Consistent number of acting credits.
Actor
Howard Rollins
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 21Series: 8
TMDB ID: 95621
IMDb ID: nm0738415
Known for: Acting
Born: October 17, 1950
Died: December 8, 1996
Age: 46
Place of birth: Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1964 - 2004
Years active: 41
Average TMDB rating: 7.19
Wikidata: Q967653
Also known as
Howard Rollins Jr. • Howard E. Rollins Jr. • Howard E. Rollins
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.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Howard Rollins.
Remembering Ragtime
as Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)
2004 Movie
2.7
Drunks
as Joseph
1997 Movie
Harambee!
as Chimbuko
1996 Movie
The Legacy of Malthus
as Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
1994 Movie
6.0
With Murder in Mind
as Samuel Carver
1992 Movie
1.0
On the Block
as Clay Beasley
1990 Movie
5.0
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
as T.C. Russell
1986 Movie
6.0
The Children of Times Square
as Otis Travis
1986 Movie
The Boy King
as Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
1986 Movie
6.0
He's Fired, She's Hired
as Raoul
1984 Movie
6.8
A Soldier's Story
as Captain Davenport
1984 Movie
The House of Dies Drear
as Walter Small
1984 Movie
6.0
A Doctor's Story
as Dr. Zack Williams
1984 Movie
2.3
The House of God
as Chuck Johnston
1984 Movie
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
as Medgar Evers
1983 Movie
5.0
The Member of the Wedding
as Honey Brown
1982 Movie
6.0
The Neighborhood
as Allen Campbell
1982 Movie
7.0
Ragtime
as Coalhouse Walker Jr.
1981 Movie
6.0
Thornwell
as Carson
1981 Movie
3.0
My Old Man
as Doctor
1979 Movie
5.5
The Trial of the Moke
as James Smith
1978 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Howard Rollins.
8.0
Remember WENN
as George Smith • 1 eps
1996 Series
7.1
New York Undercover
as Reverend Hundley • 1 eps
1994 Series
7.5
In the Heat of the Night
as Virgil Tibbs • 119 eps
1988 Series
5.7
Wildside
6 eps
1985 Series
5.4
Fridays
as Self • 1 eps
1980 Series
7.5
Roots: The Next Generations
as George Haley • 1 eps
1979 Series
6.4
King
as Andrew Young • 3 eps
1978 Series
5.2
Another World
1547 eps
1964 Series