Howard Rollins
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
In the Heat of the Night
Virgil Tibbs
New York Undercover
Reverend Hundley
Another World
Remember WENN
George Smith
Ragtime
Coalhouse Walker Jr.
Roots: The Next Generations
George Haley
Fridays
A Soldier's Story
Captain Davenport
The House of God
Chuck Johnston
Drunks
Joseph
With Murder in Mind
Samuel Carver
Thornwell
Carson
He's Fired, She's Hired
Raoul
A Doctor's Story
Dr. Zack Williams
My Old Man
Doctor
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
T.C. Russell
The House of Dies Drear
Walter Small
The Children of Times Square
Otis Travis
The Neighborhood
Allen Campbell
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers
King
Andrew Young
The Trial of the Moke
James Smith
Wildside
The Member of the Wedding
Honey Brown
Remembering Ragtime
Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)
Harambee!
Chimbuko
The Legacy of Malthus
Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
The Boy King
Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
On the Block
Clay Beasley