Howard Rollins
Acting • AGE 46
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 ...
Acting
Remembering Ragtime
Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)
2004
Drunks
Joseph
1997
Harambee!
Chimbuko
1996
Remember WENN
George Smith
1996
New York Undercover
Reverend Hundley
1994
The Legacy of Malthus
Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
1994
With Murder in Mind
Samuel Carver
1992
On the Block
Clay Beasley
1990
In the Heat of the Night
Virgil Tibbs
1988
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
T.C. Russell
1986
The Children of Times Square
Otis Travis
1986
The Boy King
Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
1986
Wildside
1985
He's Fired, She's Hired
Raoul
1984
A Soldier's Story
Captain Davenport
1984
The House of Dies Drear
Walter Small
1984
A Doctor's Story
Dr. Zack Williams
1984
The House of God
Chuck Johnston
1984
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers
1983
The Member of the Wedding
Honey Brown
1982
The Neighborhood
Allen Campbell
1982
American Playhouse
Medgar Evers
1982
Ragtime
Coalhouse Walker Jr.
1981
Thornwell
Carson
1981
Chytilová Versus Forman
Self
1981
Fridays
Self
1980
My Old Man
Doctor
1979
Roots: The Next Generations
George Haley
1979
The Trial of the Moke
James Smith
1978
King
Andrew Young
1978
Another World
1964