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Howard Rollins
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🎂 October 17, 1950📍 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.🕯️ December 8, 1996 · Age 46
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.
BODY OF WORK
Howard Rollins's Filmography
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Remembering Ragtime
2004
as Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)
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Drunks
1997⭐ 3.2
as Joseph
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Harambee!
1996⭐ 7.0
as Chimbuko
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The Legacy of Malthus
1994⭐ 9.0
as Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
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With Murder in Mind
1992⭐ 6.2
as Samuel Carver
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On the Block
1990⭐ 2.8
as Clay Beasley
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Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
1986⭐ 6.5
as T.C. Russell
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The Children of Times Square
1986⭐ 6.3
as Otis Travis
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The Boy King
1986⭐ 7.0
as Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
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He's Fired, She's Hired
1984⭐ 6.5
as Raoul
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A Soldier's Story
1984⭐ 6.8
as Captain Davenport
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The House of Dies Drear
1984⭐ 8.0
as Walter Small
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A Doctor's Story
1984⭐ 6.7
as Dr. Zack Williams
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The House of God
1984⭐ 3.2
as Chuck Johnston
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For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
1983⭐ 7.0
as Medgar Evers
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The Member of the Wedding
1982⭐ 5.0
as Honey Brown
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The Neighborhood
1982⭐ 7.0
as Allen Campbell
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Ragtime
1981⭐ 7.0
as Coalhouse Walker Jr.
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Thornwell
1981⭐ 7.3
as Carson
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Chytilová Versus Forman
1981⭐ 8.0
as Self
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My Old Man
1979⭐ 5.3
as Doctor
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The Trial of the Moke
1978⭐ 6.0
as James Smith