Howard Rollins
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 17, 1950, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
- Died
- December 8, 1996
- Movies
- 22
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2004 | Remembering Ragtime | Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage) |
| 1997 | Drunks | Joseph |
| 1996 | Harambee! | Chimbuko |
| 1994 | The Legacy of Malthus | Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage) |
| 1992 | With Murder in Mind | Samuel Carver |
| 1990 | On the Block | Clay Beasley |
| 1986 | Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI | T.C. Russell |
| 1986 | The Children of Times Square | Otis Travis |
| 1986 | The Boy King | Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. |
| 1984 | 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 |
| 1983 | For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers | Medgar Evers |
| 1982 | The Member of the Wedding | Honey Brown |
| 1982 | The Neighborhood | Allen Campbell |
| 1981 | Ragtime | Coalhouse Walker Jr. |
| 1981 | Thornwell | Carson |
| 1981 | Chytilová Versus Forman | Self |
| 1979 | My Old Man | Doctor |
| 1978 | The Trial of the Moke | James Smith |
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