Personal Info
Howard Rollins Jr.
Howard E. Rollins Jr.
Howard E. Rollins
Howard Rollins
Acting
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.
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Remembering Ragtime
as Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)
Drunks
as Joseph
Harambee!
as Chimbuko
The Legacy of Malthus
as Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
With Murder in Mind
as Samuel Carver
On the Block
as Clay Beasley
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
as T.C. Russell
The Children of Times Square
as Otis Travis
The Boy King
as Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
A Soldier's Story
as Captain Davenport
TV Shows
Remember WENN
as George Smith · 1 ep.
New York Undercover
as Reverend Hundley · 1 ep.
In the Heat of the Night
as Virgil Tibbs · 119 ep.
Wildside
6 ep.
Fridays
as Self · 1 ep.
Roots: The Next Generations
as George Haley · 1 ep.
King
as Andrew Young · 3 ep.
Another World
1547 ep.