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Howard Rollins

Howard Rollins

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.

  • Remembering Ragtime
  • Drunks
  • Harambee!
  • The Legacy of Malthus
  • With Murder in Mind
  • On the Block
  • The Children of Times Square
  • The Boy King
  • Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
  • A Soldier's Story
  • The House of Dies Drear
  • A Doctor's Story
  • He's Fired, She's Hired
  • The House of God
  • For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
  • The Neighborhood
  • The Member of the Wedding
  • Ragtime
  • Thornwell
  • Chytilová Versus Forman
  • My Old Man
  • The Trial of the Moke

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